Star Trek: The Animated Series - High Speed Run

Kirk, Spock and the intergalactic experts try to divert lava flow.

[@videojomo]

I like how the group dynamics of this team basically parallel a dungeon-crawling party.

[@gordonlumbert9861]

This is before D&D was really a thing though.

[@videojomo]

Gordon Lumbert That’s what appeals to me! The basic archetype of an adventure team holds true, whether it’s a role playing game, an episode of Mission Impossible, or a Star Trek away team.

[@MundaneGray]

@@gordonlumbert9861 D&D was first published in 1974, the same year this episode premiered. But it's true that not very many people were familiar with it yet. I didn't play it until 1979. However, dungeon crawls are older than D&D. One could argue that the first dungeon crawls took place under the Misty Mountains and Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, in "The Hobbit" (1937). And that the second one took place in Moria (a.k.a. Khazad-dûm) in "The Fellowship of the Ring." You could even make a case for Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," which was first published in 1864. And there are many precursors, like Dante's "Inferno" and some parts of Homer's "Odyssey."

[@MrMarkerickson]

I wish they'd had more stories with this group. They look almost like the Federation's Justice League.

[@icollectstories5702]

Perhaps this was a backdoor pilot; otherwise, why did they need to use so many guest characters?

[@wpc9163]

Sord needed his own series.

[@jessesands4099]

The more I see of Star Trek The Animated Series the more I love it!😀🛸🚀🌋⭐🌟🌕

[@ericmadsen7470]

I agree. It was a great short lived series.

[@jeffclark2]

If memory serves me correctly, Tchar actually STOLE the Soul of Alar. When the group reached their destination, Tchar complimented the team for reaching the Soul before intending to destroy them, like he did to the previous expeditions. But Tchar didn't count on Kirk and Spock's ingenuity and combat skills (especially in zero-gravity).

[@a.hollins8691]

Em-3-Green is the best. He's a scared little nerd beetle but he joined the group on this dangerous mission despite his fear. And he saves the day!

[@nickmitsialis]

Em-3 Green was voiced by author and veteran Trek scriptwriter David Gerrold. He had to get a SAG=Aftra card to do the work.

[@aaronknight1430]

The Eagle and lizard man are my favourite 😀

[@Ringolero]

Lizard man barking orders at Insect man?..... Insect man must have been terrified! 😰

[@johnbockelie3899]

Funny thing. Insect man wasn't afraid lizard man wouldn't see him as an appetizer.

[@sail2byzantium]

Posted this from another clip of ST:TAS's The Jihad. Felt worth saying again: RE: Em-3-Green. That's David Gerrold (of "The Trouble with Tribbles" fame--and its ST:TAS sequel "More Tribbles, More Troubles") doing the voice. And James Doohan doing the voices of Tchar and Sord. And Jane Webb doing the voices of Lara and the Vedala (she did a bunch of voice work for Filmation--e.g., the voice of Batgirl in the orig. 1968-69 Batman cartoon and esp. the voice of Laura Turner, the mom, of Lassie's Rescue Rangers).

[@MundaneGray]

Voicing Em-3-Green in this episode enabled Gerrold to get his Screen Actors Guild card.

[@sail2byzantium]

@@MundaneGray I did not know that! Great info. Thank you!

[@josephmassaro]

Kirk: Sword, this reminds me the time I dropped a big rock on a Gorn. Sword: ...

[@MundaneGray]

Sord: The way I heard it, the Gorn just shrugged it off. Kirk: Yeah, but then I made a cannon out of bamboo . . .

[@phoule76]

"lavva", spoken like a true Canadian, Captain Shatner

[@energicko]

Crazy thing, he DID once live in Laval, Quebec near Montréal. LOL

[@kingsman8475]

Ask William to say, sabotage!

[@xaenon]

Isn't it convenient how all the boulders are on the edge of a cliff and perfectly round?

[@Salisbury2015]

Who'd have guessed that Kirk and Spock also encountered some of the Xindi? Lol.

[@paradoxdea]

The huntress is gorgeous!

[@williamhaynes4800]

Forget about it, she's hot for Kirk.

[@paulbunch8388]

Lol I remember she thought he was hot

[@beecher92099]

Tesla ludicrous mode!

[@gabriellavedier9650]

Not having seen the beginning but knowing some Star Trek lore, is that an Aarakokra and a Saurian? The Saurians are a Federation member race, and the Aarakokra are treaty partners with the Federation and members of the race can join Starfleet, like Klingons and Ferengi can.

[@comicblueswithjonygitar36]

Finally the real deal

[@icollectstories5702]

2:08 "Fifty meters" would take a world-class runner about 5 seconds. So couldn't they walk or even climb fifty meters to safety fast enough? Then again, maybe what she(?) calls fifty meters might be longer.

[@williamschleyjr7761]

Can't they ever show all the episodes in full? Please!

[@henryrapoport8608]

Just reminds me of living on the big island of Hawaii.

[@a.hollins8691]

Seatbelts don't exist in the Star Trek universe.

[@Sashazur]

Pssh. They have force fields.

[@bonshaw2]

fourth!!!

[@dontmesswiththenohan]

FIRST !!!!!!!

[@daceymcgovern397]

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[@MulToyVerse]

Out of the frier and into the icebox!