Star Trek: The Animated Series - Serve a Greater Cause

[@zorkmid1083]

It's a pretty advanced concept for a children's cartoon here, where a visitor's normal bacteria became a plague for an alien race. I also liked the questions McCoy and Spock asked.

[@jtkirkfan2002]

Gene Roddenberry only agreed to do the animated series if the stories weren't dumbed down and they could tell the same type they told in the series. Many of TOS's original writers like Samuel A. Peeples, David Gerrold and Dorothy Fontana returned.

[@josephmassaro]

This episode was written by Walter Koenig.

[@logan5girl405]

Retlaw is Walter backwards

[@theawesomeran7779]

4:47 he said the thing!!!

[@CrystalClearNews]

Aha this was the animated episode where Kirk says "Beam us up, Scotty."

[@leovalverde1508]

The Retlaw plant... is Walter is reverse.

[@mdxque8393]

4:49 Oh, he said it!

[@epiendless1128]

2:46: Never mind the bad animation - some of those stills are stunning. Reminds me of something from a Miyazaki film.

[@zorkmid1083]

Epi Endless I had the same impression when I saw part of "Beyond the Farthest Star", when Scotty pointed out the arches in the spaceship! That can't be a coincidence!

[@Monkofmagnesia]

@Joe Reid, it is Doohan, as is Stavos.

[@billycampbell854]

Saturday morning Cartoons at their finest. 👈

[@jessesands4099]

This series was great almost as good as the Original Live Action Series!😀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀👩‍🚀🛸⭐🌟🌕🌑🔫🔫🔫

[@kirishima638]

Would love to see a remaster of this series

[@Hawkeman67]

The voice of the plant creature resembles that of James Doohan..

[@josephmassaro]

It is James Doohan. He did a number of extra voices in this show and TOS.

[@jeffw1267]

@@josephmassaro The producers were always looking to save money so it made sense to use Doohan for a lot of voices.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

@@josephmassaro including his own Scottish accent in the "real" TOS

[@HailAnts]

OMG! Flying spaghetti monsters!

[@davidboda1640]

Phylosians would make an awesome Cosplay

[@khandallah4725]

"i do not like puzzles"

[@Emily-Whitfield]

These Phylosians are cool looking ❤❤❤❤❤

[@SMunro]

So the alien plants wear a proto-commsbadge that translates spoken language.

[@davidboda1640]

Phylosians would make an awesome Halloween outfit

[@arober9758]

Amazing!!!

[@LordTalax]

-_- Beam us up scotty

[@brazillo19]

Where's the rest of this series?

[@normanlee6609]

Star Trek: TAS is currently available on Paramount+

[@niltamims3137]

Why are they not showing the whole episode? I don't get it. Will someone please tell me how to watch the WHOLE episode? So frustrating.

[@leovalverde1508]

The entire series is available on Paramount+. You can also find some lower quality copies on KZbin.

[@1blessedbrotha]

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!