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INDEX
SECTION:
Animated Series episodes.
episodes are listed in
production order.
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More
Tribbles, More Troubles.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #1. Original airdate 6 October 1973. This was the first episode
produced, but the fifth that aired.
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Cast:
William Shatner as James Kirk; Leonard Nimoy as Spock; DeForest Kelley
as Leonard McCoy; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott; George Takei as Hikaru
Sulu; Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura.
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Crew:
Written by David Gerrold, directed by Hal Sutherland.
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Guest
Stars:
Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones; David Gerrold as Korax; James Doohan as
Koloth.
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Galactopedia
Entries: Devisor, I.K.S.; glommer; Jones, Cyrano; Koloth;
Korax; tribbles.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5392.4. Takes place after
"The Trouble With Tribbles" [TOS].
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Synopsis:
While escorting two robot grain ships to Sherman's Planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise
rescues trader Cyrano Jones from the pursuing Klingon battlecruiser, Devisor.
The Enterprise once again becomes infested with tribbles, as does the Devisor.
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The
Infinite Vulcan.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #2. Original airdate 20 October 1973. This was the seventh episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5554.4.
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Yesteryear.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #3. Original airdate 15 September 1973. This was the second episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5373.4.
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Beyond
the Farthest Star.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #4. Original airdate 8 September 1973. This was the fourth episode
produced, but the first that aired, except in Los Angeles where it was
pre-empted.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5221.3.
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The
Survivor.
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Animated episode #5. Original
airdate 13 October 1973. This was the sixth episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5143.3.
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The
Lorelei Signal
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #6. Original airdate 29 September 1973. This was the fourth episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5483.7.
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Captain's
Comments & Nitpicks: Comment:
Major details of this episodes plot would later be reused in the Star Trek:
Voyager
episode "Favorite Son" [VGR].
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One
of Our Planets Is Missing.
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Animated episode #7. Original
airdate 22 September 1973. This was the third episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5371.3
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.Mudd's
Passion.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #8. Original airdate 10 November 1973. This was the tenth episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 4978.5.
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The
Magicks of Megas-Tu.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #9. Original airdate 27 October 1973. This was the eighth episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 1254.4.
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The
Time Trap.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #10. Original airdate 24 November 1973. This was the twelfth episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5267.2.
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The
Slaver Weapon.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #11. Original airdate 15 December 1973. This was the fourteenth
episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 4187.3.
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The
Ambergris Element.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #12. Original airdate 1 December 1973. This was the thirteenth
episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5499.9.
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The
Jihad.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #13. Original airdate 12 January 1974. This was the sixteenth episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5683.1.
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The
Terratin Incident.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #14. Original airdate 17 November 1973. This was the eleventh episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5577.3.
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The
Eye of the Beholder.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #15. Original airdate 5 January 1974.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5501.2.
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Once
Upon a Planet.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #16. Original airdate 3 November 1973. This was the ninth episode
aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5591.2.
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Bem.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #17. Original airdate 14 September 1974. This was the eighteenth
episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 7403.6.
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Albatross.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #18. Original airdate 28 September 1974. This was the twentieth
episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 5275.6.
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The
Pirates of Orion.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #19. Original airdate 7 September 1974. This was the seventeenth
episode aired, and was the second season premiere.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 6334.1.
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The
Practical Joker.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #20. Original airdate 21 September 1974. This was the nineteenth
episode aired.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 3183.3.
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How
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #21. Original airdate 5 October 1974.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 6063.4.
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 The
Counter-Clock Incident.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
episode #22. Original airdate 12 October 1974.
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Crew:
Written by John Culver (Fred Bronson). Directed by Bill Reed.
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Guest
Stars:
James Doohan as Arex; James Doohan as Robert T. April; Nichelle Nichols
as Sarah April; Nichelle Nichols as Karla Five; James Doohan as Karl Four.
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Galactopedia
Entries: Amphion; April, Robert T.; April, Sarah; Arret; Babel;
Beta Niobe; Capella IV; Capellan flower; Karl Four; Karla Five; Minara;
San Francisco Navy Yards.
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Date
& Chronology Information: Stardate 6770.3.
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Synopsis:
While transporting Commodore Robert April, the U.S.S. Enterprise's
first captain, and his wife to Babel, the Enterprise plunges through
a nova and into an alternate universe where everything is backwards, and
the crew begins to grow younger at an accelerated rate.
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Captain's
Review:
  
Two and a half deltas out of five. While a ridiculous concept, this episode
has many enjoyable references to continuity within the Trek universe.
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Captain's
Comments & Nitpicks: This was the final episode produced for
the Animated Series, and was novelized by Alan Dean Foster in Star Trek
Log Seven. Comment:
The star Beta Niobe was named for Niobe, a woman in Greek mythology. Her
husband was named Amphion, which is why the star Niobe's companion was
named Amphion. Nitpick: This episode featured several ridiculous
concepts that make no logical sense, however, ironically enough, all were
used in later Trek productions. The concept of anti-time where a negative
chronology could run time backwards was part of the TNG finale "All Good
Things" [TNG #177&178];
 the
concept of the crew being turned into children was used in "Rascals" [TNG]
(which, along with "Unnatural Selection" [TNG], both used this episode's
concept of using a transporter trace to restore a crewperson's original
molecular structure); and "Innocence" [VGR] featured a civilization that
was born old and aged backwards. Comment: The character of
Robert April was taken from one of Gene Roddenberry's original drafts for
the Star Trek series, before the character was renamed Pike and later changed
again to Kirk. Although the animated series is not part of Paramount's
officially recognized canon,  Okuda
included the character of Captain April in his Chronology and Encyclopedia
due to Roddenberry's wish that there be an original captain before Pike
and Kirk. Nitpick: The map depicting the Milky Way Galaxy
would seem to indicate that the Enterprise has crossed to the opposite
side of the Galactic core as Earth. Later Trek productions used much more
sensible estimations of the Federation's size and the Enterprise's speed,
and kept our heroes mostly in what is non as the 'Alpha Quadrant.' If the
Enterprise really had traversed across the galactic center, the
location of Amphion would be somewhere in the Gamma Quadrant, near the
terminus of the Bajoran wormhole.  Comment:
This episode was written by Fred Bronson using the pseudonym John Culver.
Fred Bronson was not only the writer, he was the NBC publicist assigned
to the series. A year earlier, he was the publicist on Gene Roddenberry's
"The Questor Tapes." As a result of working on these two projects, Bronson
introduced his friend Susan Sackett to Roddenberry -- and in 1974, she
was hired as his secretary (and later became his executive assistant).
Fred Bronson later collaborated with Susan Sackett on two scripts for the
Next Generation series, "Ménage à Troi" [TNG] and "The Game"
[TNG], with Brannon Braga. Comment: This was one of only
two episodes not directed by Hal Sutherland, it was directed by Bill Reed.
Comment: The stars Beta Niobe and Minara were mentioned in
this episode as having recently gone nova. Beta Niobe was Sarpeidon's sun,
and went nova in "All Our Yesterdays" [TOS]. Similarly, Minara went nova
in "The Empath" [TOS]. Good continuity touches. Comment:
Another tie-in to the original series: in the episode, Sarah April held
a flower in her hand that was a native of Capella IV. That planet was the
site of "Friday's Child" [TOS].
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