I love the animated series. We got to see bigger roles for Uhura and Sulu (especially Uhura taking command in "Lorelei Signal") and the teaming of Spock, Sulu, and Uhura in "The Slaver Weapon." "Yesteryear" is one of the best episodes of Star Trek. Period. And I also like "Counter-Clock Incident" because of its introduction of Robert April.

The animated series is great. Not a dark reimagining. No new spin. Just more episodes. What a concept.

@nardpuncher

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. We were lucky they didn't do something like put some sort of cute wisecracking Scooby-Doo or Scrappy-Doo kind of alien or whatever in there they just kept it pretty much like the original show as though it had a bigger budget

@ThommyofThenn

9 ай бұрын

With some delightfully goofy animation. But the writing is actually quite good imo

@BTScriviner

9 ай бұрын

​@@ThommyofThennBecause many of the writers had worked on TOS.

@ThommyofThenn

9 ай бұрын

@@BTScriviner Cool thanks and I appreciate that.

@boss-anova

9 ай бұрын

Omg, modern audiences exist you fucking dinosaur. Make some fucking room.

TAS is a hidden gem. I read all the Alan Dean Foster books (Star Trek Logs 1-10) prior to every watching the show and was blow away by the bravery of putting these wild books on TV, in animation format. Thanks! More TAS videos please.

@ThommyofThenn

9 ай бұрын

It's hard to take seriously due to the extremely poor animation quality but next time I watch it, I'll try to watch it with a serious tone. I'll imagine I'm watching a TOS episode

@DMSProduktions

8 ай бұрын

@@ThommyofThenn Yoo must UNLEARN, what you have learned!

@paulhunter6742

8 ай бұрын

I began collect Dean Fosters novellas of Star Trek after I SEEN animated series. I had no clue they're written before animated series.

@ThommyofThenn

8 ай бұрын

@@paulhunter6742 who's ISEEN? Animation company?

@DMSProduktions

8 ай бұрын

@@paulhunter6742 I HAD seen!

Good to see TAS getting more support these days. You did a great job sorting this all out

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@chrissonofpear1384

9 ай бұрын

@@OrangeRiver By the way, I think the Tarian world MAY be Taurus, located on the far side of Klingon space, past Relay 47, going by Star Charts? Although I suspect the name, is a common one, though.

More time passes, the more I love the weird vision of TAS.

Airdate order for TAS is also a bit on the arbitrary side, especially since airdates in Los Angeles are different than the rest of the country, due to George Takei running for a seat on the LA city council at the time, and the equal time rules at the time pushed those episodes that had Sulu until after the election. I recommend in order of production number.

I love TAS, it's the TOS writers without having to worry about a live action production budget. So trippy!

those force field space suits they use in teh animated series. love 'em.

These videos are way more entertaining and engaging then they have any right to be 😂 great job bro.

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I have always considered the second TOS Pilot ("WNMHGB") as the only episode of 1st year of Kirk's 5-year mission; TOS seasons 1-3 as years 2-4; and TAS as year 5.

@rickjohnston2667

9 ай бұрын

I agree, except I would consider TAS as Year 4 of their 5 year mission, and Star Trek Continues as their 5th and final year.

@alexanderc.broche4017

8 ай бұрын

IF IT WAS LN’T FOR NBC ASKING GENE RODDENBERRY AND DESILU STUDIOS TO SHOT PREPARE AND MAKE ANOTHER PILOT AND NBC SUGGESTED TO RODDENBERRY TO HIRE WILLIAM SHATNER TO PLAY THE PART OF THE NEW CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK AND THE NBC EXECUTIVES WERE IMPRESSED WITH THE NEWLY SHOT WILLIAM SHATNER PLOT AND IT WAS S SUCCESS AND THE REST WAS HISTORY

I’ve always found it kinda weird how the episode with the Phylosians and Giant Spock tied its backstory into the Eugenics Wars. In a way it’s kind of nice but it also raises a whole host of other questions. How many rogue augments are there?! I also like the Pandronians. It’s such a simple concept in execution - they needed separate legs, body, and head cels for animation anyway. So just don’t follow the usual rules about aligning them!

I appreciate your dedication -- and thank you for your quick shout-out to Lauren Graham! (But why couldn't the Delta Triangle at least have been a Delta Pyramid?) "The animated series is weird" pretty well sums things up.

I love these. I hope you eventually do every series.

From TAS we get Kirk's full middle name of Tiberius, Spock being bullied by other Vulcan kids, and the only episode in TOS or TAS without Kirk. The Slaver Weapon is one of my favourites because it features only Spock, Uhura and Sulu. Nimoy convinced the "suits" to get Nichols and Takei back for TAS instead of creating new characters and having Majel Barett and James Doohan take those voices to cut costs. He basically said that if they didn't come back, neither would he. His star power wasn't enough to bring Walter Koenig back as well, but I must admit I liked Arex a lot. My namesake M'Ress would probably have been the main Communications Officer in lieu of Uhura, but I'm glad they kept her as backup! 😊🐱💖

This is really a lot of work. It does feel like a star ship is not really on a mission as much as as bouncing like a pinball.

The irony of TNG-era Trek is that it presents a Federation or universe that is in some ways less advanced than what was presented in TOS-era Trek, which includes TAS and the movies. (I’m not including Discovery or SNW, only classic Trek in this specific discussion.). In the TOS-era, ships could go much farther faster. From the edge of our galaxy to the center of our galaxy at speeds that would certainly make Voyager envious. Data’s very existence as an android seems novel to the crew of the Enterprise-D even though the Enterprise crew of TOS encountered sentient androids numerous times without being all that shocked by it. Annoyed, yes, but not shocked. One was even built by an immortal human from Earth. And of course In TAS, the Enterprise had a new holodeck 100 years before it was the most incredible thing anyone had seen aboard the Enterprise-D. In truth, the writers of TNG (which frankly includes Roddenberry ironically enough) and then later VOY, are the ones who contradicted pre-existing canon that the Enterprise (and even a pre-NX ship named Valiant) could cover vast distances in a short time and it wasn’t considered strange.

The only thing I wish is that the series does get a remaster. Like to make the animation look a little more fresh and new, but still very classic looking.

i watched TOS as-it-aired on tv--then came syndication, and it was on every weekday after school...and then... The Animated Series i've wanted TAS to get way more attention for forever! currently 62, and tuning in every week for Strange New Worlds, and recently (guess why...?) i binged Lower Decks... all is right with MY Star Trek world...no kelvins here...

"AM-ber-gris". It's a whale secretion used in perfumery.

Essential viewing. 🖖

In a Lower Decks episode, Spock 2's skeleton is found on a remote planet by Mariner.

I got a suggestion for a Gilmore Girls video essay right after this. That can't be a coincidence.

TAS and LWD deserve more respect. Lower Decks is still new but it seems promising

Wait, Delta Triangle is near Gorn and Klingon space and ships go missing there.... wonder why? lol.

I haven't seen much of this cartoon. It's cool to see the references in Lower Decks.

These "where did they go" vids are a treat, thanks. 420th like.

I just want a list of every alien species in Star Trek that visited earth and influenced ancient humans in some way

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

Trekspertise honestly has a really good video about that topic!

@desmond9945

9 ай бұрын

Cool lol

@rickjohnston2667

9 ай бұрын

Yes, Tyler. I would love to see you do a video on that. It would be very interesting. It would include Apollo, Kulkukan, the Platonians, the aliens Chakotay encountered in the Voyager episode (I don't remember the name of it), and technically Flint, although he was an immortal human, not an alien. But he definitely influenced Earth history & culture.

if you count the M5 and the short story countdown to destruction plus the episode you mentioned ( Kirk is a jerk) the Enterprise has been self-aware three times

The video mapping the entire DS9 series could be a minute: They were here. They once in a while went to this and that and this other. Oh, and they spent some time way the heck over there. But mostly they were here.

Any plans to map the other series? DS9 might be tough since a lot of the early seasons are limited to the station and Bajor with occasional wormhole jaunts but TNG would be really interesting.

@blackrazer22

9 ай бұрын

What are you trying to do? Break him mentally.? 😄😂😂

Surprisingly centralised, was not expecting that. Great job! 👍

I wonder if the Practical Joker is where they got the idea for the DISCO ship computer to become sentient.

I’m really looking forward to the TNG mapping the D was all over the place. and I don’t know how the romulans can strike 15 dominion bases along there border because federation space is in between cardi and Romulan lol opposite sides

8:25 - Please don't blame the animated series for having the Slaver Weapon take place near Beta Lyrae. That is where Larry Niven originally set his Known Space story The Soft Weapon, which this episode is adapted from... by Larry Niven. That actually is even weirder than it was in the animated series as space travel in the Known Space series is very much slower than warp speed is in the Star trek universe. I sometimes wonder if Larry Niven had any idea where Beta Lyrae actually was when he wrote the story in fact, as he had established Known Space to be only a few dozen light years in diameter. Therefore Beta Lyrae should have been *years* of travel from *anywhere* in human space at Quantum I velocity.

@rickjohnston2667

9 ай бұрын

Larry Niven was my mentor. He encouraged me to write science fiction. He also signed the Alan Dean Foster Star Trek Logs adaptation that contained the Slavery Weapon episode novelization for me.

@jasontoddman7265

9 ай бұрын

@@rickjohnston2667 Cool. I never got to meet him, but I found his writing inspiring when I was a young adult. Even drew my own set of science fiction comic books back in the 1980s based on a setting similar to Ringworld's. Those were all lost in an apartment house fire in 1993 alas when I was away; no computers or back up media back then.

Another peak vdeo from the king

It seams everything we've seen on screen in trek is real, with a sort of "life is crazy" explanation witch as and argument you would expect to work. But, number go up?

I still wince when Shatner mentions "its five year mission" when the show ran for just three. 😮😮😮

@rickjohnston2667

9 ай бұрын

That's not his fault. That was Gene Roddenberry's vision, and studio execs lack of vision that cut their mission short. But TAS made up for it, so Roddenberry was vindicated in the end. And 60 plus years later, we see how much his vision still inspires others, with 10... 11 Trek series and 13 movies to date.

@rickjohnston2667

9 ай бұрын

And TA$ was the beginning of that continuation of the franchise.

I know this might be more of an undertaking than you might be willing to undertake, but I'd love to see a few videos mapping TNG, or probably way more doable Enterprise. Love these fantastic attempts at giving us Trekkies a way to visualize Kirk's journeys in TOS and TAS. One of the best parts of Star Charts back in the day was charting the first year or so of NX-01's journey. Shame it didn't come out a few years later so the Delphic expanse would have had a better chance at being located.

@OrangeRiver

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Matthew! I DEFINITELY plan to do both of those

Is there anywhere i can download the completed map? That'd be neat!

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

I'll think about adding it to my website soon!

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

@subraxas I'd still reserve a higher resolution version for members and patrons, to be sure.

11:29 Lower Decks shouldn't be regarded as Cannon Either, at least even more than the Animated Series

@rakaydosdraj8405

9 ай бұрын

As canon as Strange New Worlds, apparently, with the recent crossover episode...

👍👍really appreciate all of the mapping star trek videos you have done! Thank you 🖖🤙

Ya. Love the Animated series! Your right, when it comes to cannon, it's a case by case thing, but at the of the day, who cares? It's just great fun and story telling! 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦

A Pandronian visits the Cerritos in Lower Decks.

Peace and Long Life

So, is he going to map the tos movies too?

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

I might attach it to a supercut of this video and the two TOS mapping videos :D

Didnt they get all the way up to Warp 25 in one episode?

Great vids. When are you going to do Babylon 5 vids? They do plan to do a reboot so it may be relevant.

@OrangeRiver

9 ай бұрын

I'm definitely thinking about how I plan to start covering that franchise!

I was mystified how Shuttlecraft could reach planet 960 light years from Earth? Since in The Slaver Weapon episode there no reference to Enterprise being anywhere near by to drop off Shuttlecraft.

You never watched my Starmapping video did you. Because I think that I could tell if NImbus III is in the Northern or Sourthern regions of the galaxy.

So… “ambergris” is obviously a word you’ve only really dealt with in print, I assume?

How bout a "Henti" version of this.

I'm late, but I'm here ... Wooo Hooooooo!

It would be interesting to fix this web and make it more coherent

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