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Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek | 
 enlarge | Director: Bill Reed
Actors: William Shatner, Majel Barrett
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 6618
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 526 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.5
MPN: 031674
UPC: 097360316742
EAN: 0097360316742
ASIN: B000HEWEJ4
Theatrical Release Date: September 8, 1973
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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Product Description
This animated series continues the adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise taking advantage of the visual freedom of animation to present stories with more alien elements.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 097360316742 Manufacturer No: 031674
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Star Trek: The Animated Series is often referred to as Star Trek's "fourth season" because it was created in 1973, four years after the third and final season of the original series, and because most of the original cast provided the voices. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Majel Barrett reprised their characters, and some contributed other voices as well. The only major omission was Walter Koenig's Chekov, who was replaced at the navigation console by Lieutenant Arex, the three-armed alien who most prominently represented the series' freedom to create non-humanoid characters. (Koenig did write an episode.) And while the animation is crude at best, the stories are solid sci-fi (penned by some of Star Trek's veteran writers including DC Fontana and David Gerrold, all of whom received prominent opening credits), explored the Star Trek mythos, and elevated the series above typical Saturday-morning fare. For example, "Yesteryear" goes back to Spock's early years on Vulcan, continuing some explorations from the original series' "Journey to Babel," and offers the familiar voice of Mark Lenard as Sarek. "One of Our Planets Is Missing" raises some interesting philosophical questions about the value of life, and "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Mudd's Passion" revisit favorite characters. Star Trek: The Animated Series lasted just barely over one season, but it won the franchise's only Emmy (for Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series in 1975) and some of its ideas were embraced by future series. Trekkers who know it only by reputation will find it a valuable part of the Star Trek canon. In addition to the series' 22 half-hour episodes, the DVD set includes "Drawn to the Final Frontier: The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series," a 24-minute featurette including interviews with the producers and writers (but not actors) on how the series was created and why it still holds up; "What's the Star Trek Connection?", a glossary of characters and themes common to the animated series and other series; a storyboard gallery; and a brief text history. Writer David Gerrold and producer David Wise contribute audio commentaries on three and one episode, respectively, and the ever-reliable Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda provide text commentary on three other episodes. --David Horiuchi
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 Voyages of the animated Star Trek November 26, 2008
Samuel E. Barker (INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI United States)
Do you like Star Trek? What about cartoons? Well this is both together, with actual voices. I grew up watching these, now I can watch them on DVD. I like the animated version better than original series. This is a must buy item. Don't know what else to say!!!!
dr spock? November 17, 2008
Q (Brisbane, Australia)
Just one sentence, look in the liner notes of this STAS and instead of Mr Spock, it is written as Dr Spock, the child psychiatrist.
I often thought it was Dr Spock when I was a young lad, to find it is Mr Spock.
Enjoy... :)
Fast, ridiculous, animated and not just for hardcore Trekkies October 15, 2008
J. A. Crocker (Los Angeles, CA United States)
I've only seen two episodes of the Star Trek original series, but I gobbled up this Animated Series in a little over a week. What makes it so much fun and so easy to digest is that it is all the original actors, most of the original writers, but animated and half an hour. The animation is...not that good, but that somehow falls right in line with the rest of the series' production value and forces the writers to tell better stories- which they do- faster. The saturday morning humor is there, but this is Star Trek, serious problems befall a serious crew on a serious scientific journey in the serious outer reaches of the galaxy. If you are a fan of all things ridiculous and whimsical, you'll enjoy Star Trek The Animated Series.
One of Filmation's finest! September 25, 2008
Joe Eagleson (Kentucky, USA)
No collection of Filmation cartoons is complete without their version of Star Trek. Like many Filmation projects from the seventies through the early eighties, the emphasis was on creating "realistic" animation focusing on well-drawn characters with live-action sounding voice acting. Of these projects, Star Trek is one of the best, right up there with their version the Adam West-Burt Ward Batman show, the Flash Gordon series from 1978 and their William Conrad Lone Ranger series from 1980 (I also love their classic Superman - the show the company was founded to produce - and Justice League cartoons from the sixties, but Filmation was still not as refined an animation house in those days, and their classic Zorro 'toons were really farmed out to Japan, so they don't count as real Filmation shows).
Of course, Filmation is known for their repeated use of stock animation that was reassembled to tell many different stories. This is something that bugs a certain group of fans, but I prefer to look at the creativity behind manipulating the stock footage into new stories in creative ways, with some doctoring for specific story scenarios. On Star Trek it worked particularly well because they were emulating a TV show that used a set number of stock effects shots repeatedly anyway (Enterprise in orbit, the one long ship-length shot of the Enterprise from it's side, etc). These techniques allowed Filmation to be the last bastion of TV animation in the United States, and I find the feel of old Filmation cartoons to be very endearing.
 A gift for my friend September 9, 2008
Virginia Bonnin (|Arizona)
I got this item as a gift for a friend who Loves Star Trek. He was thrilled to get it!! It added a piece to his collection that he was missing.
If you like Trek, and enjoy the classic stars of the original series, you'll like this series.
The artwork is pretty good too! Not the new animation way of making a cartoon, but old school, that, in my opinion, looks Better!!
Enjoy!
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