This week, Nate and I discuss:
- The Emmy-award winning Star Trek: The Animated Series
- Stopped rating the episodes
- Less than the sum of its parts?
- A bad series
- Animated Series as punishments
- Spaceships and aliens
- Target demographics
- Shortcomings of TAS
- No Chekov
- The great episode of TAS – a top episode for the franchise to this point
- Political implications of airing certain episodes
- Is TAS canon?
- Life support belts
- Kirk was the Devil’s advocate?
- Missing charm and disjointed dialogue
- Unrealized potential
- What non-Star-Trek fans think Star Trek is
- Felt like the Gorn fight from Arena
- TAS trivia
- Nate’s Star Trek models
- Star Trek production guide
- Looking ahead to Next Generation
- Planning future podcast discussions and watch order
