# Animated Star Trek **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059 "2002-12-26T23:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/1 "2002-12-26T23:45:17Z")
Anybody know if the animated series is available anywhere? I saw all of them but _BEM_ when they aired. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/2 "2002-12-26T23:58:55Z")
They’re long out of print. However, there’s always [E-bay](http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=star+trek+animated) I got lucky and found a complete set of the laserdiscs. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/3 "2002-12-26T23:59:42Z")
the cable channel _TV Land_ used to air them on Saturday mornings. I thought Lt. M’ress was da bomb. Yes, I am an Anthrofan. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/4 "2002-12-27T05:01:02Z")
Yesteryear was written by DC Fontana and outranked nealy half of TOS episodes. I bought a box of books at a yard sale and most of the Star Trek Log books were in there. ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Lime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Harry\_Lime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry_Lime)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/5 "2002-12-27T05:43:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Roadwalker \* > Yesteryear was written by DC Fontana and outranked nealy half of TOS episodes. Classic epsiode. It’s Canon as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![senor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@senor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senor)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/6 "2002-12-27T08:33:31Z")
Hola! Download either imesh, or morpheus, and then look for Star Trek TAS (The animated series). Somebody stated to look on ebay and pay money. Pay? Hahahaha! P2P forever SENOR ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/7 "2002-12-27T16:01:32Z")
Senor, You’re new, so I figure a brief word to the wise was in order. The management of this place frowns on P2P sharing, it’s one of those things that it’s best not to mention like you just did. Many P2P threads are closed, and instructions to other posters on how to use P2P software and stuff are deleted. Just a little FYI. Other than that, welcome to the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/8 "2002-12-27T16:16:28Z")
I met a woman who has the entire Star Trek animated series on tape, I think it’s two episodes per tape. I remembered watching it as a child and I knew that some rather famous SF authors had a part in writing some of the episodes, but seeing the show as an adult it was really too wretched for any response other than laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/9 "2002-12-27T21:11:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*Senor, > > You’re new, so I figure a brief word to the wise was in order. The management of this place frowns on P2P sharing, it’s one of those things that it’s best not to mention like you just did. Many P2P threads are closed, and instructions to other posters on how to use P2P software and stuff are deleted. Just a little FYI. Other than that, welcome to the SDMB! \*\* I’ll just officially second what Dave said. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/10 "2002-12-29T23:40:48Z")
**Harry Lime** > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## Originally posted by Roadwalker Yesteryear was written by DC Fontana and outranked nealy half of TOS episodes. > > Classic epsiode. It’s Canon as far as I’m concerned. And as far as [the powers that be are concerned too!](http://www.startrek.com/information/faq.asp?ID=1321) ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/11 "2002-12-30T05:06:50Z")
I remember it from Nickelodeon. that three legged dude was freaky! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/12 "2002-12-30T05:14:19Z")
WHA?! “Yesteryear” is canon?! I never knew that… huh. The television show must have come off better than the novel adaptations that I’ve read… with maybe one or two exceptions, every single one of the Animated Series novelizations I read was absolutely horrendous, “Yesteryear” among them. I do love DC Fontana’s Romulan novelizations though. They’re must-reads for any fan of the Rihannsu. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/13 "2002-12-30T06:24:28Z")
I’ve got the whole series. It took some doing; I got them from three places: Amazon, half dot com, and Movies Unlimited. I used to think the holodeck was a Next Gen invention until I saw an animated episode called “Practical Joke” (if memory serves). And by God, Sulu, McCoy, and Uhura were spending time in one! ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/14 "2002-12-30T14:40:18Z")
Complete hijack, but I wish I still had my Colorforms set for TAS. I’d be rich! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/15 "2002-12-30T16:43:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*seeing the show as an adult it was really too wretched for any response other than laughter. \*\* Well, it was definitely a kids show, but there are good bits. There were 22 episodes numbered 1-11 and 13-23 and the series was released on 11 video tapes some years ago. I got my set off eBay a couple years ago; at the time, a complete set was running maybe $50 (but mine were a lot cheaper! ;)). –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Tyrrell\_McAllister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tyrrell_mcallister/32/16772_2.png) [@Tyrrell\_McAllister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyrrell_McAllister)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/16 "2002-12-30T19:06:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **Aesiron** \* > I do love DC Fontana’s Romulan novelizations though. They’re must-reads for any fan of the Rihannsu. I think that your thinking of Rihannsu novels of Diane Duane. [Here](http://www.owlsprings.com/dbibl.htm) is a bibliography of her novels from her website. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/17 "2002-12-30T20:44:57Z")
Hand-made Lt. M’ress action figure. [http://www.geocities.com/therinofandor/trek/Mress.html](http://www.geocities.com/therinofandor/trek/Mress.html) Another H/M action figure [http://home.earthlink.net/~tbleblanc/\_uimages/Lt.MRess.jpg](http://home.earthlink.net/~tbleblanc/_uimages/Lt.MRess.jpg) Lt. M’ress’s bio [http://66.113.217.85/AnimatedSeries/MRessBio.html](http://66.113.217.85/AnimatedSeries/MRessBio.html) image [![](http://startrekanimated.com/tas_art_mress3d_raimo_luoto.jpg) ](http://startrekanimated.com/tas_art_mress3d_raimo_luoto.jpg) And two Alternative Trek/Animated series you’ve **never seen** [![](http://startrekanimated.com/ds9tas.jpg) ](http://startrekanimated.com/ds9tas.jpg) [![](http://startrekanimated.com/tas_art_ihle.jpg) ](http://startrekanimated.com/tas_art_ihle.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/18 "2003-01-03T23:54:43Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/19 "2003-01-04T05:06:38Z")
I have a cel from the series of the Enterprise. Do you want to look at that? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059/20 "2003-01-04T05:16:37Z")
Thanks, all. I did locate some of the tapes. I’ll let you know if they’re as I remember them from 1976. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-star-trek/145059.md?page=2)