Post by MS on Apr 25, 2022 8:34:43 GMT
The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
Saturday Morning Pinks:
Episode 2.
This episode looks into Star Trek: The Animated Series with the episode title being in reference to it coming out on Saturday mornings when kids didn't go to school on those days.
I was fascinated by what I saw here more than I expected I would be.
Interesting to learn that the genesis of the animated series was that of cadets on the Enterprise with each of them being mentored by an officer.
However came at the same time the live action series got cancelled and so that idea fell on the wayside.
This eventually came to the version of the Animated Series that made its way to the screen.
Quite thought provoking how the animated Star Trek was very different to the other Saturday morning cartoons and how it dealt with its purview of kids as their target audience.
Interesting on how the animated series links with its live action predecessor.
Gene Roddenberry later regretted giving the animated series the go-ahead and says that he would not have done so if he had knew Star Trek would eventually make its live action return.
It is because of this reflection that Roddenberry refused to give canon status to the animated series.
No doubt it should have been expected that the question of whether the animated series is canon gets addressed here and interesting the answers to this question that it produces.
One fact that I didn't know before is that while I knew that Walter Koenig had written The Infinite Vulcan, as there not enough money for him to reprise Chekov in the animated series, I however didn't know that he was asked to write a second episode but declined.
The reason why Koenig declined writing a second episode was that Roddenberry did many rewrites on The Infinite Vulcan.
My own experience in seeing the animated series, and without knowing the facts that got presented in Saturday Morning Pinks, was seeing it on television but frustratingly the TV channel that showed the animated series only showed 21 of the 22 episodes.
The one episode that wasn't shown is by coincidence the aforementioned The Infinite Vulcan.
I eventually got to see The Infinite Vulcan when in an early instance of online ordering for me I bought the video from a video/DVD retailer in the UK called Blackstar.
Blackstar had allowed returns and so I returned The Infinite Vulcan to them once I saw it and got a credit for it for a future purchase which I ultimately did use.
Incidentally I looked up what became of Blackstar and without going into great details it went out of business some years ago.
Saturday Morning Pinks:
Episode 2.
This episode looks into Star Trek: The Animated Series with the episode title being in reference to it coming out on Saturday mornings when kids didn't go to school on those days.
I was fascinated by what I saw here more than I expected I would be.
Interesting to learn that the genesis of the animated series was that of cadets on the Enterprise with each of them being mentored by an officer.
However came at the same time the live action series got cancelled and so that idea fell on the wayside.
This eventually came to the version of the Animated Series that made its way to the screen.
Quite thought provoking how the animated Star Trek was very different to the other Saturday morning cartoons and how it dealt with its purview of kids as their target audience.
Interesting on how the animated series links with its live action predecessor.
Gene Roddenberry later regretted giving the animated series the go-ahead and says that he would not have done so if he had knew Star Trek would eventually make its live action return.
It is because of this reflection that Roddenberry refused to give canon status to the animated series.
No doubt it should have been expected that the question of whether the animated series is canon gets addressed here and interesting the answers to this question that it produces.
One fact that I didn't know before is that while I knew that Walter Koenig had written The Infinite Vulcan, as there not enough money for him to reprise Chekov in the animated series, I however didn't know that he was asked to write a second episode but declined.
The reason why Koenig declined writing a second episode was that Roddenberry did many rewrites on The Infinite Vulcan.
My own experience in seeing the animated series, and without knowing the facts that got presented in Saturday Morning Pinks, was seeing it on television but frustratingly the TV channel that showed the animated series only showed 21 of the 22 episodes.
The one episode that wasn't shown is by coincidence the aforementioned The Infinite Vulcan.
I eventually got to see The Infinite Vulcan when in an early instance of online ordering for me I bought the video from a video/DVD retailer in the UK called Blackstar.
Blackstar had allowed returns and so I returned The Infinite Vulcan to them once I saw it and got a credit for it for a future purchase which I ultimately did use.
Incidentally I looked up what became of Blackstar and without going into great details it went out of business some years ago.