Week 15

I'm having mixed emotions about TAS. In some ways it's cool to have new episodes of TOS. But I think the animated aspect has freed the writers from budget restrictions and the result is some really wacky episodes with ridiculous aliens and premises. It seems that some episodes made use of scripts that were intended for TOS, but then at some point they ran out of those scripts and let the Scooby Doo writers come up with some shows. There were some bad ones this week. One of which was written by Walter Koenig (The Infinite Vulcan). Bad, just really bad. It even ended with Sulu looking into the camera with a smile and winking. Like a goddamn Hana Barbara cartoon.

Another thing is the opening sequence. While Shatner's voice-over is the same, the music is more like something out of The Love Boat than Star Trek.


But there is definitely some good in the series. There was even a holodeck in "The Practical Joker"! And here I always thought TNG had come up with that. Also, after seeing more Romulans in Klingon D7 battlecruisers, I finally looked up why that was so. Apparently, there was a fire at the CBS studios and the only Romulan Bird of Prey model was destroyed, so they had to use Klingon D7's for the Romulan episodes. I guess non-canon sources (books and manuals) explain the phenomenon as a trade between the empires. The Romulans gave the Klingons cloaking devices and Klingons gave Romulans some battlecruisers. Interesting factoid, or so I thought.

85. The Infinite Vulcan •
    
86. The Magicks of Megas-tu ••
    
87. Once Upon a Planet •••
    
88. Mudd's Passion •••
    
89. The Terratin Incident •••
    
90. The Time Trap •••
    
91. The Ambergris Element •••
    
92. The Slaver Weapon ••••
    
93. The Eye of the Beholder •••
    
94. The Jihad •
    
95. The Pirates of Orion ••••
    
96. Bem ••
    
97. The Practical Joker •••
    
    

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