The SILLIEST Episode of Star Trek: the Animated Series (The Infinite Vulcan)

One time Spock was really, really big.
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[@joezilla6615]

Star Trek's right. We should all live our life like Sulu's got one minute to live.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

_Oh my!_

[@NY4Life]

Okay this is one of the worst but if you saw "Mudd's Passion " you can tell from the voice acting when they recorded it you can tell when it was after the drinks were served

[@jasonblalock4429]

Also, Mudd's Passion sees Scotty hook up with a catgirl. And sees Kirk & Spock become awfully... chummy. So, it's awesome. :-)

[@floydlooney6837]

They all recorded their parts separately from what I hear, never in the same room or place.

[@MisterNinten]

Those boing boing effects mixed with the birdemic crowing is killing me!

[@AllisonPregler]

The birdemic noises were in the actual ep LOL

[@jedigecko06]

Welcome to the Filmation sound library. (Those bird-cries also made it into every other episode of He-Man!)

[@AdamKNAC]

_The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek_ began airing on September 8, 1973, which would have been a Saturday back then, making this a "Saturday morning" cartoon. So they had to simplify it for kids. I actually like the final episode entitled _"The Counter-Clock Incident"_ in which the Enterprise is pulled into a negative universe where time and everything works in reverse, including the aging process where people start life at an old age and die as they get younger. A concept that was used in the final episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ and the _Star Trek: Voyager_ episode titled _Innocence_ from the 2nd season.

[@Feasco]

And also used in Red Dwarf

[@v.m.9198]

Okay, lets be honest here: that giant needed somebody his size to bang and chose spock because he was he hottest. Everything else is just pretense

[@3dfly657]

Honestly this is the only episode of the animated series I remenber

[@holmfriurvigdisristjonsdot4968]

I love the animated series, especially this episode it’s so funny and silly!😂 would be great to see the Spock clone in future episodes 😆

[@lennyfiasco9834]

I really hope the giant wearing a toga had something under it.

[@nickbell8353]

If this guy was one of the scientists during the Eugenics Wars, I'm starting to think Khan and his supermen was a fluke!

[@Tareltonlives]

This is kinda like the CGI Clone Wars of TOS: terrible animation and a mix of really bad ideas and really creative ideas, only this is like Clone Wars was hit in the head with a frying pan.

[@TheAbstruseOne]

Fun Fact: Walter Koenig wrote this episode under the assumption he'd be cast to play Checkov. He was not as they cut him from the animated series entirely. Which Koenig found out at a Q&A at a Star Trek convention when someone asked him about it. So he is the only of the main TOS Star Trek cast to write an episode of the animated series and also the only member of the cast to not appear on the show. It apparently took a LOT to get him to come back for Star Trek: The Motion Picture after that slap in the face.

[@GeekFilter]

He actually wrote the episode assuming that he would play Dr. Stavos Keniclius 5, he knew the Chekov boat had sailed.

[@girl6girl6]

That is soooooo fucked up. Why did they leave him out of TAS, and replace him Cat-in-heat lady and Orange Alien dude. WTF??? Everytime she purrs, I almost piss my pants

[@Swiftbow]

@@girl6girl6 TAS had such a crap budget, they could only afford Sulu OR Chekov, but not both. So they picked Sulu. I did read that somewhere (might have been Shatner's memoirs book), but I can't remember for sure where. It is also possibly mentioned on the Star Trek wiki.

[@joeschembrie9450]

Koenig's filmography at the time was guest star in one TV episode every other year. His option other than to appear in the movie was to wait tables.

[@davidtucker9498]

@@Swiftbow Makes sense. Also, I think they wanted more alien crew members because, you know, it's a Federation of Planets, not just humans... And while Chekov was Russian, he's still another white dude. they wanted more diverse looking characters, and Sulu was there from the beginning. That said, as much as I love George Takai, Walter Koenig is a MUCH better actor, whose talents were squandered on Star Trek...

[@lotus-prince]

Sulu only having one minute to live barely even registered as a blip in this episode's radar. That's incredible.

[@Endocrom]

It was a pretty small part of City on the Edge of Forever too.

[@joeschembrie9450]

Then there was the time he nearly froze to death on that planet while they took their sweet time fixing the transporter. Sulu having one minute to live is kind of a trope.

[@jasonblalock4429]

Yeah, one thing the cartoon did right was giving the women more to do, at least in some eps. In fact, it included the only times Uhura was shown taking command. The Original Series would always come up with an excuse to prevent her from sitting in the captain's chair, despite being something like 5th in the chain of command, even to the point of *inventing* a never-seen-again Lieutenant in one episode just so there'd be someone who outranked her.

[@peterg76yt]

Not to mention Uhura, as communications officer, would have had the highest security clearance of anyone on the ship except Kirk and maybe Spock.

[@timf7413]

One of the original series' less than enlightened moments actually stipulated that women couldn't be promoted to captain, so it's possible (although somewhat ambiguous) that at the time they were operating under the assumption that rule applied to any sort of command situation. At best, there was probably a soft bias against the idea. Thankfully, that was a concept that got memory-holed by the time TAS rolled around.

[@Swiftbow]

@@timf7413 It was never clear if that was actually a regulation, or just the insane ramblings of a crazy person. (It only ever was mentioned once, in Turnabout Intruder. It was a rather bad episode, spoken by an insane villain, and never confirmed by any other character.)

[@timf7413]

Fair enough, but I tend to think it was presented as an actual rule (albeit one that was already becoming indicative of a dated mentality at the point that episode aired.) That said, my point was more that what's shown on screen in other episodes seems to suggest the writers may have always been working from that mindset, even if they never said it that explicitly.

[@garygoldstein6862]

I don't remember that episode, but the fact they did that was stupid. I mean, in the original pilot the first officer was a woman so it's like they reverted.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

Interesting how the giant clone dude, was able to clone ( and make bigger), Spock's clothes.

[@mathieuleader8601]

NUDITY IS PROHIBITED IN THE FEDERATION HANDBOOK

[@GamesFromSpace]

He also cloned a giant tailor.

[@Endocrom]

In another episode of TAS (this one dealing with shrinking) they say that their uniforms are made of organic material (kelp?), so naturally they were cloned as well.

[@10191927]

That would be mad awkward to have a giant Spock with his giant dick flopping about, Sulu would be swatting at it like a cat toy.

[@pete_lind]

He used same clone tech than Lex Luthor in Superman 4 , it clones clothes to fit .

[@bittipasuta]

Wait, so canonically there's just a giant Spock out there in the Universe? Why didn't the reboot movies ever touch this lore gold?

[@jedigecko06]

Quinto Spock will now never go on this mission, but old Spock remains. Always two there are. No more. No less...

[@mdxque8393]

@@jedigecko06 XD

[@rorylumley4727]

I don't know why giant spock didn't show up in the transformers crossover. He would probably work well with the giant robots they are pretty close in size.

[@darinae34]

Lower decks did show his skeleton.

[@abelq8008]

There's a giant spock, an invisible dead romulan, and an extra Will Riker out there.

[@dupersuper1938]

If that giant clone has a regular Vulcan lifespan, he could totally still be out there. I for one hope he shows up in the new Picard show.

[@Enzo012]

I don't think TAS counts as canon.

[@CaptPanOfSteel]

@@Enzo012 There are a few plots that stay throughout the rest of the series.

[@timf7413]

Officially, the entire series was removed from canon in the 1980's, but since then many individual elements from it have been referenced in canon Trek, including as recently as Picard, so it's sort of quasi-canon at this point.

[@caileyrookids]

@@timf7413 I don't know the references, so I don't know if this fits, but perhaps TAS was entertainment for the in-show people, like a television show nowadays only in the Star Trek universe.

[@mikamo]

If Vulcans are anything like dogs, and I’m totally convinced they are for no reason, then the larger breeds don’t live as long :(

[@emilsoderman3691]

I have a certain fondness for TAS: Its weird and often ludicrous high concept nonsense.

[@TheBrotherGrim]

I adore the show, pretty much because of all that high concept ridiculousness. It can get super goofy, the animation is really limited, annnd I love every minute. Most of the main cast returning to voice their character is pretty cool too, buuut whatever. I've got pretty trash taste. Reveling in bad tv is fun.

[@GamesFromSpace]

"Rock 'em, Spock 'em" robot is my favorite callback in anything, ever.

[@revspikejonez]

I authentically love this show, and I totally support you making fun of every single episode. This is your best so far.

[@phelous]

Actually, Filmation animated this. Did you know that? Also actually this was in the 70's. Also also actually this follows the Original Series.

[@rodrolliv]

Phelan Porteous I imagine you're a big fan of these series, given the quality of the animation and the music track endlessly repeating over and over...

[@GoodOldGamer]

At least it wasn't Good Times. 🖖

[@Ektalon]

Not to mention the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon used the same damn music, as well as the whole sloppily animated, repetitive schtick.

[@christopheralthouse6378]

There is some good reason to appreciate TAS, even if it wasn't the best Star Trek ever had to offer... For one, this was the first attempt to bring back Star Trek following the cancellation of TOS... Second, TAS did make some clever use of the animated medium to bring us environments and creatures which TOS just couldn't give us during its run, like Aron-Bem-Bem which was a walking colony creature and Lt. Arex with his three arms and legs... Third, TAS brought us Cpt. Robert April, who has since entered proper canon as Enterprise's first captain... Fourth is the Emmy-award winning "Yesteryear", which dug deeper into Spock's childhood and further enhanced the character's mythos... Also amongst the show's run were the widely-appreciated sequel episodes "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Mudd's Passion"... Last but not least is the first ever holodeck scene in Star Trek, in the episode "The Practical Joker"... By no means is this an exhaustive list of all of the positive aspects of TAS but hopefully now you can see why the series is starting to gain some renewed appreciation in this day and age...☺☺☺☺

[@blackphoenix77]

Um, actually.....😏

[@BATCHARRO]

Also why is your voice for the phylosians so good? I was dissapointed at the actual ones.

[@toastlover]

Love how animation allowed for fantastical creatures and locations but somehow that didn't extend to the crews facial expressions, both of them.

[@racookster]

I've read that Filmation's management actually chewed the animators out if they drew the characters rather than xeroxing them off a model sheet. "Time is money! How dare you draw something?!"

[@mastermarkus5307]

Where is the audio of angry William Shatner from?

[@GeneralApeGaming]

I too must know

[@jessesaunders7043]

No Alison! What have you done!? Your actually valid observations about the quality of some parts of the Star Trek canon will drive the Trekkies into a frenzy! Do you want another civil war!? DO YOU!?!

[@BronzeBoy520]

The women are trying to ruin our Trek, time to gatekeep!

[@tomservo5007]

Jessse, we don't take the animated series seriously -- people might call it canon, but I've never seen a argument where people were arguing over ST cartoon details.

[@tomservo5007]

@@BronzeBoy520 STD did ruin Trek

[@jessesaunders7043]

Tom Servo you must have missed all the guys lining up to defend the honour of Spock’s Brain

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@Talisguy Yeah, I'm only like... a tangental fan of Star Trek, but people saying the Discovery ruined the series reminds me of people in the Star Wars fandom who say that the Sequel Trilogy ruined the series. I'm just like "Did you FORGET about Jar Jar!? Or like, 90% of the lines in the Prequels!?"

[@10191927]

I can’t watch Star Trek animated without Allison’s silly voices, they’re stuck in my brain now.

[@orinanime]

What is brain?

[@Tareltonlives]

I can't watch Star Trek period without Allison's silly voices and I love it

[@mastermarkus5307]

I know why this wasn't a good TAS episode - it didn't have the lion lady in it.

[@MegaTylerwilson]

I always saw her as a cat lady.

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@MegaTylerwilson Eeeeeh, lions are cats.

[@rubiesncreme]

@@MegaTylerwilson She's a Caitian, thank you very much! （￣へ￣）

[@samk522]

M'ress is bae

[@skwills1629]

@@samk522 M'Ress is poop? Thats...not how I'd describe her.

[@kevinconnor3187]

The standout animated episode is when Spock revisits his past. Very moving.

[@mmmghool]

The only episode I’ve seen and I haven’t watched more cause I can tell it’s just going to get worse

[@GreatgoatonFire]

"lOokS lIKe yUo underestimated 70s voice acting. LEGALIZE IT!

[@SHINOBI-03]

LEAVE SPOCK'S BRAIN ALONE! God is this show goofy.

[@renato.pastor]

Everytime Kirk screamed FUCK OFF, I just lost my shit completely hahahah it was peppered wisely throughout the episode so it always caught me off guard

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Just be lucky Filmation decided that Kirk and the Gang didn’t need to be a rip off of Scooby Doo with some obnoxious sidekick with an annoying voice and catch phrase, Hanna Barbera did enough of that to make 20 years worth of crap.

[@CartoonTriper]

and run in a endless background

[@mastermarkus5307]

Fuckin' Godzooky...

[@mathieuleader8601]

A talking Tribble

[@Dariushellstrome]

TAS was really wonderfully goofy my favorite episode is Slaver Weapon. The guy who wrote it Larry Niven is one of my favorite authors. He knew none of his own stuff would ever be adapted to film or animation so what else do you do but hijack the show your writing, other than the main star trek characters everything else is from his Known Space

[@NozomuYume]

I read the Known Space books before I saw Star Trek: TAS, and my mind did weird melty explodey things when the Kzinti showed up in TAS.

[@alunrundle162]

@@NozomuYume they're also hanging around in 'Lower decks'.

[@Natakupl]

Sulu’s gaydar was going off the charts as soon as they landed on that planet.

[@HiperPivociarz]

"You're the most screwable person I know" *wink*

[@Natakupl]

CookieMastah oh my god a giant Spock!

[@HiperPivociarz]

@@Natakupl OH MYYYYYY

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

Giant Spock roams the universe eating planets.

[@PhoenixBird9000]

No, that was Unicron. Spock just did the voice work for his minion.

[@Robert08010]

True fact, ST:TAS episode title: "One of our Planets is Missing." The next episode should be "Infinite Vulcan has Indigestion."

[@Kolbatsu]

Lupa is it too much to ask for you to do a Baywatching type recap of this glorious series? Also Hikaru Sulu's butt 10/10

[@TheyMadeMePickAName]

"It is not a show made for binging" *awkwardly thinks back to last year when I binged the entire thing* Oh?

[@dupersuper1938]

I first had my own computer back in 2000. One of the first things I did was binge this. I'd heard about it (and read some of the novelizations without realizing that's what they were), but it was never rerun on TV in my area. It's ironically the least animated of all the Star Trek series, but there are some good ones in there. I actually like all of the first 3 episodes.

[@mastermarkus5307]

You can DO it, but it's not made for it. Cakes aren't made to be eaten in one sitting, but I CAN technically accomplish it.

[@Ektalon]

I just did the same a few weeks ago at work. It broke my brain.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

@@mastermarkus5307 Who told you cakes aren't made to be eaten in one sitting? I beg to differ.

[@imaginaryfriend4512]

I barely made it through the first episode.

[@densetsugojirin5518]

idk why but the silly "blplplpplplplp" sound you made for that little bit @3:04 makes me smile and laugh every time.

[@mastermarkus5307]

I'm totally with you on the animation. Filmation also did Masters of the Universe, and while they would occasionally make new animation for episodes and did well enough with what they had, on a basic level it's just... not very nice to watch compared to animation with an actual budget because of the stiffness and obvious constant reused footage. I'll give them credit for doing what they could with what they had, but I'm not going to ignore that and say the animation was fundamentally good when considering TV animation as a whole.

[@dunes8817]

For the most part, it looks fine in stills, until the characters move.

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@dunes8817 I mean, I'm not a huge fan of the flesh-coloured eyes most of the characters have in this series, but I agree otherwise. The issue is in how obvious it is that the characters are going between default positions (often close-ups with little movement) and animation sequences so there's very little "flow" in the movement unless it's something basic like walking or one of the few things they made a specific animation for.

[@barkboingfloom]

Filmation also created the real Ghost Busters (no, not The Real Ghostbusters). It was a 70's live action show with two detectives and the fakest gorilla ever. After the unrelated movie of a similar name, Filmation created an animated series based loosely on their previous live action series.

[@janetsbrick]

Those were strange times, growing up with multiple unrelated Ghostbusters. Kind of the 1980s cartoon equivalent of the antipopes of the 12th century.

[@DevKerrigan]

Call me crazy but I love the animated series to bits, just for being so... how to put it. Devoted, in its terriblness.

[@Tareltonlives]

Same! It's awful and I love it!

[@trevingrayek1671]

That fake Phylosian voice you did was great. They sound adorable. Their designs are pretty cool too.

[@amberace]

I agree. She cracked me up everytime she did that voice.

[@LaNoLaCola]

I just realize that Allison's Phylosian voice is like a mix of inklings and Baywatching Eddie's voice

[@ToHoldNothing]

@@amberace Also, the obvious parody/satire of "millennials" it would seem. "Vote for Bernie!"

[@HiperPivociarz]

10:31 Damn, Mr. Sulu just seduced me.

[@optillian4182]

Oh my.

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

"-And then the plant people close a 25foot tall Spock." "Walter, is this about not being cast in the show?" "Let me finish. He is going to be called Spock 2 and he's going to mind-meld with Spock 1 to bring him back to normal. Also, the last shot of the episode will be Sulu winking."

[@Enigma141]

Welp... looks like the acid finally kicked in. I think that statement sums up most cartoons of this era.

[@MrHootiedean]

Vote Bernie! Hear, hear!

[@fightscrimewhilesleeping4024]

i mean...from a certain point of view...we kind of...are...made...of leather

[@AllisonPregler]

-Welcome to Night Vale

[@mastermarkus5307]

Pre-leather.

[@flowertrue]

As a kid, my dad would sometimes sit down and watch with me, and he always pointed out the animation cheats like frequent zooming in on the face because there's lot much to animate, or how only one character in a scene moved at a time. As a result, I have a hard time watching old Filmation and Hanna Barbera cartoons. I can't help noticing every single time they cheap out, and they do it a lot

[@TheBrotherGrim]

If Spock is so great, why isn't there a Spock 2?...Ohwait.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

Brain and brain, what is brain?

[@FuugaNatsu]

It is controller, is it not?

[@Robert08010]

@@FuugaNatsu You beat me by 8 months. Hell I'd already be cancelled by now.

[@themadoneplays7842]

I dunno the best episode of the ST animated series for me will always be Yesteryear, its not perfect but I think its a good episode and is on par with some of the TOS episodes.

[@CaesiusX]

If you found that music annoying, then just imagine being a kid in 70s, when virtually every single Filmation cartoon used that same music! 🤪🥴 🤣

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

....You're seen Mission: Magic, haven't you?

[@BronzeBoy520]

The animated series is my favorite series because in most episodes, Scotty doesn’t wear pants, and I just picture him walking around pantless and creeping out the crew.

[@JamesMC04]

“Caniculus” in Latin = “bunny rabbit”. The character is called “Bunny Rabbit”. No wonder it wants to propagate. The episode was too short.

[@Spike-Prime]

Every time you played clips of Shatner screaming about how much he wants Takei to STFU about crap that happened 50 years ago, I burst into laughter

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

"I don't know the mother fucker"

[@Coolg82]

Sure, that was the style, but the animation was still cheap and shitty, even by Filmation standards. Its absolutely valid to point out the shittiness when NBC wanted the show on the cheap and Filmation lowered themselves to the occasion.

[@arturmical]

the music bit you said about was reused between many cartoons of filmation. one other example would be lassie's resue rangers (check it out. material gold)

[@turbotime1964]

Can you review the episode where beautiful alien females seduce the men of the Enterprise to be their slaves.?Their charms don’t work on women, so Uhura takes command and leads an all-female crew to rescue the men. Love to see your take on that one - it was called The Lorelei Signal

[@AllisonPregler]

Maybe! I do remember liking that one since that was the most Uhura and Chapel got to do I think ever.

[@jedigecko06]

They almost remade it in Enterprise, with the Orion pheromones. Also, bits of Yesteryear keep showing up in live action.

[@SkunkWerks7]

Probably not the first to mention this, but "giant Spock's skeleton" made it into Lower Decks.

[@Psilocervine]

Star Trek: The Animated Series is not a good program, but every episode was absolutely hilarious in its own special way. This is the entirety of my opinion on the show. I will now watch the rest of the video.

[@mitchypdx]

Giant Spock's corpse is in the Collector's vessel in Lower Decks. I loved that call back

[@Nergalsama01]

Poor Walter Koenig. Not only was his character scrapped in this show, his only writing contribution to Trek just had to be .... this. :/ Well, at least it's memorably bad.

[@bellesogne]

He also wrote episodes of "The Land of the Lost"

[@montyr2083]

Koenig was one of the best sci-fi villains of all time, Alfred Bester on B5. He's fine. But it's weird to think about the pitch meeting: "Yeah, I know you replaced me with an orange tripod thing. But I DEFINITELY did not write the stupidest thing I could think of out of spite."

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

He also wrote a pretty incoherent comic book. So he has that.

[@Nergalsama01]

@@montyr2083 Oh man, Bester was so good. And Koenig was great on B5!

[@zutronius]

I bought the entire run of the Animated Series recently and just got to this episode you reviewed. What a wild ride. The Animated Series turned out to be much better than what I thought it would. There is some gloriously cheesy moments and I love it. I hope you will do some more episodes on the Animated Series. Your Star Trek videos are great!

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

After Spock 2 there is the third film, Army of Spockness.

[@4thofEleven]

I like that there's not even a hint of an explanation for why the clones are giant, nor is it ever relevant to the plot. It's like the animators just accidentally made one of the characters gigantic and they decided "Eh, just run with it."

[@Xondar11223344]

I can't stop laughing at "Rock 'Em Spock 'Em Robot." Edit: Also, I can see the Movie Nights/Steve Shives feud beginning now since he just released a video saying he really liked TAS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZvXaJmpqpenlc0 Please don't fight. I love you both. :(

[@CultureFusionSite]

I love the animated series. It tries SO hard.

[@Sarioya]

Space Lucifer will always be the best thing about this show to me.

[@Jokie155]

Ah yes, the episode where Giant Glowing Kirk shoots lighting from his fingertips at a pilgrim in an energy barrier. Classic.

[@jnwestray78]

I am in awe of how fucking funny this is. Thank you.

[@LevelUpLeo]

I love rewatching this, just for the alien voice Allison gives them.

[@Mikanojo]

Little did people suspect in the 1970s, just how 'scrutable' Mr. George Takei was 🤍🧡🤎🖤

[@WilliamGarland]

Just you wait! 50 years from now some kid will be complaining about the lack of character movement on Movie Nights, the reuse of sets, and the fact that no one appears to have a body below the torso.

[@AllisonPregler]

Damn future millennials!

[@MoonjumperReviews]

I’m the opposite: I love this era of animation and can’t stand modern animation. I like human beings drawn to look like human beings rather than weird distorted caricatures. And while the character animations are stiffer than younger generations are accustomed, the background and set paintings are gorgeously detailed and immersive, this series in particular, but that was also typical of Filmation and Hanna-Barbara. Modern cartoon backgrounds tend to be minimalist and impressionist, which can get the job done, but isn’t nearly as beautiful to behold. I actually love Filmation’s Star Trek. As one of the children parked in front of Saturday morning cartoons each week in the 1970s, this was actually the series which introduced me to Star Trek, so it holds a special place in my heart. As far as this specific episode, I always cringed at Giant Spock (completely ridiculous!) but at the same time, this episode introduces some interesting lore: a forgotten Eugenics War scientist I’d like to know more about and the fascinating Phylosisns, which I would love to see again in live action. (The plant dragons should have at least looked like plants!)

[@osito1329]

Why... why do the plant-pterodactyl things look like they brown ponytails? They look like Karendactyls.

[@racookster]

I'm 63 years old, I watched the Original Series when it first aired, I've always been an animation fan, and... oh, God, I can't make apologies for the state of the art from 1960 up until the 1990s. It all sucked. I've never been able to stir up any fondness for that era out of nostalgia. As far as I'm concerned, Hanna-Barbera ruined the medium and Filmation jumped on the ramshackle bandwagon that H-B built. The best I can say for Star Trek: The Animated Series is that it could have been worse - and if the network had gotten its way, it would have been. The suits wanted each of the main characters to be assigned a child to train. They thought having children on the bridge would appeal to kids. At least Roddenberry said "hell no" to that.

[@rorylumley4727]

weridly giant spock wasn't in the transformers star trek crossover. he might work well with them given they have similar sizes.

[@1977TA]

As an adult you have to have a lot of patience to sit through an episode of TAS. The limited budget forced the studio to go with Filmation who had pioneered the art of limited animation. While it saves time and allows for episodes to be completed quickly the lack of full range animation is quite telling. It is a shame this series wasn't given what it needed to be better. TAS is considered to be seasons 4 and 5 of TOS. Sucks that the episodes are so boring due to the overuse of recycled stock footage which was part of Filmation's limited animation technique.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

Despite its less than stellar reviews it's still the best animated,canon, official star trek series.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

So that's what recent Trek has been missing... a new animated series! Get on that, Netflix!

[@Xondar11223344]

​@@SimonBuchanNz There are currently two animated Star Trek series in production. One, "Star Trek Lower Decks" on CBS All Access, aimed at adults and an untitled one, on Nickelodeon, aimed at kids.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

@@Xondar11223344 Shit, I both forgot about those and didn't know they were animated, I'm legitimately slightly hopeful! Oh dear, they got me again....

[@shiv2nite]

TAS is a good show. That's final.

[@danielgertler5976]

I wouldn't say the Animated Series is all garbage, but even when it is good, at least for the animated series, it comes off silly.

[@Nostripe361]

I watched this show once when I was resting after a surgery. I do remember there was one good episode about spock timetraveling to save his past self. PS. please do a review of the one with the underwater people where everything is "FORBIDDEN"

[@drewgehringer7813]

the one with time travelling spock is the second episode

[@Porthosthe14th]

RIP Spock 2

[@MoonjumperReviews]

How is it I love this series so much and still laugh hysterically listening to you trash it? Well done! A little Filmation fact: all the music from this series would be reused and recycled in Filmation’s live-action “Space Academy” and “Jason of Star Command,” among other Filmation series. Speaking of recycling, as silly as this episode is, I would love to see a Phylosian(s) appear in a live-action Trek series. They are an interesting concept for a species. A passing reference made to Keniclius would be cool, too.

[@crazyal8565]

Lassie rescue rangers. The new adventures of Batman. To name a few

[@MoonjumperReviews]

@@crazyal8565 - I have “The New Adventures of Batman” in my Filmation DVD collection. I have started rewatching “The Adventures of Batman” and “The New Adventures” will be next.

[@boss-anova]

In a years time you became such a massive trekkie. So impressed

[@bartholomewfargo]

Rarely have William Shatner audio clips been used so masterfully. Well played.

[@MrDN83]

Love how the Lower Decks references the giant Spock with a skeleton of him.

[@ryandowney8743]

Ugh, what is with the flesh colored eyes? It just looks awful!

[@Maniac536]

Filmmation being cheap I’m sure.

[@warrenrobertsen2724]

@@Maniac536 IIRC, the budget was blown by Roddenberry insisting on getting (almost) all the TV actors for the show. "Filmation: We'll Do It Cheap!"

[@Robert08010]

Kidney disease.

[@Geospasmic]

I like how nobody's expression changes ever.

[@dunes8817]

The bird and cat people races are actually going to be playable in an expansion book to the Star Trek RPG.

[@Xondar11223344]

The cat race is called the Catians, and they're a fan favourite for some reason!

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@Xondar11223344 I can give you a hint: FURRIES.

[@MyMagnificentOctopus]

The cats and three legged people were included in the old FASA Star Trek game. And I am kind of ashamed that I could rattle off that fact so easily.

[@Xondar11223344]

@@mastermarkus5307 Oh, right.

[@clearmountain28]

Ok I have to know, in the script was it Spock 2 or Spock too?

[@AllisonPregler]

Oh man I hope it was Spock Too

[@geoentronecromancer]

What, no mention of M'Ress??? RRRRAAAAAGH! *proceeds to have a Shatner-inspired gesticulating tantrum* Real Talk though, this was great. I was expecting this episode to be dumb after Linkara mentioned the plot outline years ago on AT4W, and by God, it DELIVERED.

[@bobjordan69]

From memory I’m pretty sure Spock is this size in every episode

[@bobjordan69]

Jangler333 oh myyyyyy

[@nohomers100]

Did they clone Spock’s uniform too?

[@eMDTee]

Ooohhhh so THAT’S why the plant people make no sense...

[@HiperPivociarz]

I don't see how it being ridiculous is a bad thing. I love how weird Filmation stuff is, and the bad animation just adds to the charm.

[@dunes8817]

It depends largely on the execution.

[@HiperPivociarz]

@@dunes8817 But I think the execution here is pretty good. Plus I like the sense of humor Filmation has.

[@scantrahan]

I lose it everytime I hear shatner yell FUCK OFF

[@ianciti]

"leave spocks brain alone" was just perfect.

[@gavinerickson9392]

Spock 3: The Search for Spock.

[@Enshohma]

YESSSSSSSS!!! Giant monsters and Star Trek go together is like peanut butter and jelly... At least within my own twisted mentality! Thanks a lot for this one, Alison!

[@daveohippus]

What a fantastically cheesy theme song TAS had! Thanks for covering the show regardless of it's many, many flaws. It was all we geezers had back then if you wanted to watch the continuing adventures of the heroic Enterprise crew. But yeah, it was Saturday morning cartoon silliness.

[@MrGlenbw]

2:28 - 2:49 Star Trek in a Nutshell. XD

[@Allen1co]

Dammit Alison..it is still entertaining