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    star trek: the animated series

    Explore "star trek: the animated series" with insightful episodes like "TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" & "The Lorelei Signal" (s1e3-4)", "TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star" & "Yesteryear" (s1e1-2) with Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com", "Trekabout Episode 51: How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth/The Counter-Clock Incident", "Trekabout Episode 50: The Practical Joker/Albatross" and "Trekabout Episode 49: The Pirates of Orion/Bem" from podcasts like ""Trek, Marry, Kill", "Trek, Marry, Kill", "Trekabout: A Star Trek Podcast", "Trekabout: A Star Trek Podcast" and "Trekabout: A Star Trek Podcast"" and more!

    Episodes (13)

    TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" & "The Lorelei Signal" (s1e3-4)

    TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" & "The Lorelei Signal" (s1e3-4)

    UHURA TAKES COMMAND and the Enterprise becomes trapped in a sentient cloud (again, and not for the last time) -- it's another exciting month of animated Star Trek

    Bryan and Kristen examine two more from Star Trek: The Animated Series, one that features floating teeth and another that has the men aboard ship so horny that they could die. Does this 50-year old children's programming hold up in the 21st century or is it all too silly? Find out!

    If you're enjoying the show, considering rating and reviewing us on your podcast platform of choice. Check out our standings at trekmarrykillpod.com. Are we tracking with the old thought that 30% of the episodes are amazing, 40% are good or fine, and 30% are bad? Go find out!

    TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star" & "Yesteryear" (s1e1-2) with Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com

    TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star" & "Yesteryear" (s1e1-2) with Laurie Ulster from TrekMovie.com

    THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the debut of The Animated Series more or less coincides with Trek Marry Kill's 1ST ANNIVERSARY, and so to celebrate both, Bryan has decided to remove this podcast's original sin of holding the animated shows off to the side by fully embracing them with the first of what will be monthly special episodes dedicated to animated episodes. 

    Joining him for the first special episode is Laurie Ulster of TrekMovie.com, who hosts the All Access Podcast on that network. She also copy edited Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series, an awesome reference guide for this Emmy-nominated Saturday morning cartoon that's not "just" a cartoon -- it's animated Star Trek!

    This month, the first two episodes of the series. One written by the same guy who wrote the first episode of The Original Series and the other written by D.C. Fontana, perhaps the second-most important writer in franchise history after Gene Roddenberry. Hear about Bryan's chance encounter with her back in 2016. 

    The grades begin at (22:15). "Yesteryear" discussion begins at (48:23). This episode features some old promos for which you can see here on YouTube. One of those promos is an old "Keep America Beautiful" PSA. Our theme is "70's Synth Funk Jam" by Phill_Dillow on Pixabay. We also use a snippet from Luis Humanoide from Pixabay's "Space Fleet" during our bridge. If you're liking the show, consider rating us five stars on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. 

    Trekabout Episode 51: How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth/The Counter-Clock Incident

    Trekabout Episode 51: How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth/The Counter-Clock Incident
    We bid a fond if not entirely unwelcome farewell to The Animated Series this week, the show that proved that The Original Series was not just a flash in the pan. “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth” is basically a retread of “Who Mourns for Adonais?” but with 100% less sexual harassment and 100% more ...

    Trekabout Episode 50: The Practical Joker/Albatross

    Trekabout Episode 50: The Practical Joker/Albatross
    Well, after a lackluster start, the second season of The Animated Series roars back. “The Practical Joker” is notable for featuring the precursor to the holodeck. It’s also notable for being insane. Meanwhile, “Albatross” (winner of the 1998 Most Obtuse Star Trek Episode Title Award) is a quiet character study and a cautionary tale about ...

    Trekabout Episode 47: The Slaver Weapon/The Eye of the Beholder

    Trekabout Episode 47: The Slaver Weapon/The Eye of the Beholder
    Wildly inconsistent, is The Animated Series. “The Slaver Weapon” is one of the finest episodes of the show yet, with an interesting if admittedly cliche premise and a strong statement about the rights of cat women. “The Eye of the Beholder” is so bad that Eric rants about the episode until Richard adopts a kitten ...

    Trekabout Episode 46: The Terratin Incident/The Ambergris Element

    Trekabout Episode 46: The Terratin Incident/The Ambergris Element
    Star Trek has always had a relatively loose relationship with scientific rigor, and this week we have some of the shoddiest understandings of evolution this side of The Creation Museum. In “The Terratin Incident” everyone on board the Enterprise starts shrinking, for unknown reasons, and in “The Ambergris Element” Kirk and Spock get turned into ...

    Trekabout Episode 45: Once Upon a Planet/Mudd’s Passion

    Trekabout Episode 45: Once Upon a Planet/Mudd’s Passion
    The Animated Series is sequel-heavy this week. In “Once Upon a Planet”, we revisit the shore leave planet from, uh, “Shore Leave”, and discover that they probably should have left well enough alone. In “Mudd’s Passion”, an animated Harry Mudd talks Nurse Chapel into slipping Spock some ecstasy. Plus! Richard is very interested in exploring ...

    Trekabout Episode 43: More Tribbles, More Troubles/The Survivor

    Trekabout Episode 43: More Tribbles, More Troubles/The Survivor
    This week, on Trekabout: Episode 23, Eric and Richard discuss “The Trouble… wait, what? That can’t be right. Everything is animated! Oh, this episode is called “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, and it’s… adequate? Then, on “The Survivor”, we’re faced with a member of the 1% who is actually a monster. Not that different from the ...

    Trekabout Episode 42: One of Our Planets Is Missing/The Lorelai Signal

    Trekabout Episode 42: One of Our Planets Is Missing/The Lorelai Signal
    The Animated Series is hungry this week. In “One of Our Planets Is Missing”, a giant intelligent space cloud is eating planets–and the people too! In “The Lorelei Signal”, Amazon vampire ladies are luring men to their deaths because the women are infertile, or something. Look, Uhura and Nurse Chapel shoot people in this episode, so ...

    Trekabout Episode 41: Beyond the Farthest Star/Yesteryear

    Trekabout Episode 41: Beyond the Farthest Star/Yesteryear
    You can’t tell, since this is an audio podcast, but in honor of our move into The Animated Series, we’ve replaced ourselves with cartoon facsimiles. And just in time, too, as “Beyond the Farthest Star” and “Yesteryear” assuage Richard’s fears about an animated Trek. The former provides a possible template for the show–trippy visuals with ...