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The animated series follows the adventures of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.
CRITICS OF "Star Trek: The Animated Series - Season 1"
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The pacing is similar to TOS - which means a lot of pregnant pauses, and not just from [William] Shatner, who reprises his role as Captain. But condensed to a 30-minute show, the episodes often flow much more smoothly than on TOS.
TAS still feels even stiffer and more self-important than Trek, hard as that may be to believe. But it also feels more thoughtful, and less beholden to the prime-time need for scantily clad space chicks and two-fisted action.
Star Trek is us at our most curious, most tolerant, and most together, and for a show aimed at a Saturday morning kids crowd, The Animated Series gives us all we could hope for.
It takes a devotee to get past the roughness, but once you accept that this is never going to be perfect, it's a charming, intelligent reward for everyone who ever wondered just what the hell was going on inside the planet of Shore Leave.
It feels like classic Trek. And if you've never seen it, it literally is like discovering that all this time, there was a fourth season you didn't know about.