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From: tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.startrek
Subject: Re: ST Animateds Found!!
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Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 10:56:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 10 10:56:18 1985
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Summary: 


Your cup runneth over.  Niven (The Slaver Wepaon << good) and Gerrold
(More Tribbles, More Troubles << awful; Bem << brilliant) both did
animated Star Trek episodes.  But not Sturgeon or Ellison.  Koenig's
Infinite Vulcan is actually a good story, filling in some of the
history of the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s, but suffers from a
problem that plagued the animated series as a whole:  they threw in
a 20-meter-tall Mr. Spock for no better justification that the
fact that, because the show is animated, it would be fun to draw 
him that way.  

The series suffers from a second major problem:  retreads.  Far too
many episodes are just mediocre sequels or inferior rehashings of
live episodes.  The aforementioned Tribbles is perhaps the worst 
offender, but there's an awful sequel to Shore Leave, a version of
"Who Mourns for Adonais" with an American Indian God, a version of
"Menagerie" with elephant-like captors, and yet another story 
about a cloud creature, not to mention another Harry Mudd story.

Some examples of the first problem occur to me:  the crew shrinks
(Terratin incidnet), the crew gets old (Loreli Signal), the crew
turns blue (Albatross), Kirk and Spock turn into Creatures from
the Black Lagoon (The Ambergris Element) ...

Oh, and more:  the crew ages backwards, the gravity goes off ...
anything that would be fun to draw, regardless of whether it made
any sense at all.

There were some good episodes:  Yesteryear, Slaver Weapon, Bem, 
I liked Albatross, too ...

One more retread:  Ted Baxter beams aboard pretending to be an
octopus version of the incredible salt vampire ...

Enough!

RJS in Toronto
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					Tom Nadas

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