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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 15:16:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Wow, the TAS crew sure spend a lot of time talking about "primitive cultures".

   #StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries
   #StarTrek #TheAnimatedSeries

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 23:11:47 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @clacke Is Syar Trek the Animated Series the show that was on US stations Saturday mornings in the 1970s? #STTAS
      
      I watched that up until the episode where they said to forgive Satan. At the time, I was trying to be a good Catholic, and that went too far.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 23:12:39 EDT lnxw48a1

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         *Star*
         
         I hate on-screen keyboards.
   2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 00:45:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      TAS came out four years after Star Trek (TOS) closed (the gap was 1969–1973) and was simply called Star Trek at the time. It's basically Star Trek season 4[0] with the animation allowing reduced stage and acting budget and allowing the aliens to be more than forehead aliens.

      They removed Chekov. Barrett and Doohan are voicing two bridge crew each and almost all the aliens. The animation is Filmation with lots of stills, low framerate, etc. The voice acting is much more wooden than the live acting on TOS.

      TOS had inconsistent writing, but TAS goes even wilder and generally throws physics entirely out the window. It does some interesting things too though and is worth watching for the dedicated fan. The alien aliens are the best part.

      @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} There is indeed an episode where the Devil turns out to be a being from another dimension who just wanted friends to talk to because his own species were all so boring. They were all on Earth once but were driven off-planet by bigoted humans for performing magic.

      [0] It's "two seasons", but they have 16+6 episodes (!) and there's no significance to the split, so apart from official numbering you can treat it as simply one season of 22 episodes.