Let me admit something: I don't like TOS. Only a handful of TOS episodes are not mediocre or worse. Thus, I don't really like TAS since it's a direct continuation of TOS. But, every Star Trek fan should watch it once (and then forget about it). On average, TAS's plots are better than TOS's plot. Episodes are condensed to 25 minutes and don't drag like many TOS episodes do. Most of them are quite entertaining. The animation feels awkwardly wooden though.
The show can't decide whether it is supposed to be for kids or not. I tend to argue it's not for kids. It's not a funny show tailored to kids.
In TAS, it's not all about Kirk, Spock and McCoy. And TAS refrains from showing Kirk as a shirtless pugilist, womanizer and alpha-male. That's welcome. Plus, TAS offers some freedom for costume, "make-up" and stage design which TOS never had or could never afford. Some worlds in TAS are much more interesting than TOS's paper mache worlds. All in all it's an okay-ish 4th year of the Enterprise's 5 year mission. Original voices make it feel like stories from the "real" Star Trek universe although some of the bad episodes really seem to have no connection to the original universe (or even timeline).
:thumbsup: Best episode: Yesteryear
:thumbsdown_tone3: Worst episode: The Jihad
:clown: My guilty pleasure: More Tribbles, More Troubles
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2023-09-18T21:02:48Z
Let me admit something: I don't like TOS. Only a handful of TOS episodes are not mediocre or worse. Thus, I don't really like TAS since it's a direct continuation of TOS. But, every Star Trek fan should watch it once (and then forget about it). On average, TAS's plots are better than TOS's plot. Episodes are condensed to 25 minutes and don't drag like many TOS episodes do. Most of them are quite entertaining. The animation feels awkwardly wooden though.
The show can't decide whether it is supposed to be for kids or not. I tend to argue it's not for kids. It's not a funny show tailored to kids.
In TAS, it's not all about Kirk, Spock and McCoy. And TAS refrains from showing Kirk as a shirtless pugilist, womanizer and alpha-male. That's welcome. Plus, TAS offers some freedom for costume, "make-up" and stage design which TOS never had or could never afford. Some worlds in TAS are much more interesting than TOS's paper mache worlds. All in all it's an okay-ish 4th year of the Enterprise's 5 year mission. Original voices make it feel like stories from the "real" Star Trek universe although some of the bad episodes really seem to have no connection to the original universe (or even timeline).
:thumbsup: Best episode: Yesteryear
:thumbsdown_tone3: Worst episode: The Jihad
:clown: My guilty pleasure: More Tribbles, More Troubles