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				 Star Trek
			       Episode Guide
			      Animated Series

		   by Saul Jaffe (Moderator, Sf-Lovers)

  In 1973, NBC and Paramount attempted to revive Star Trek as a weekly
series.  This time, it would be animated and not live action.  Possibly
this decision was due in part to the fact that animation was much cheaper
than the special effects of the old series.  Another reason is the ability
to present a far greater range of aliens through animation than are
possible with make-up and costumes.

Most of the crew of the original returned except for Walter Koenig (Chekov)
and Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand).  There was also the addition of two
new regular crew members - Lt. Arex and Lt. M'Ress, both non-humans.

The most unfortunate thing about the series is that NBC chose to place on
Saturday morning as part of its regular Saturday cartoon line-up.  I
believe this was a mistake and the series would have been much better off
at a early evening time slot so that adults could watch it too.  

			    Principle Credits:
                                     
                  Producers.................Norm Prescott
                                             Lou Scheimer
                  Associate Director......Dorothy Fontana
                  Director.................Hal Sutherland
                  Art Director............Don Christensen
                  Character & Layout............Bob Kline
                                            Herb Hazelton
                  Background Color.............Irv Kaplan
                  Editor........................Joe Simon
                  Music & Effects............Horta-Mahana
                  Camera Supervision...........R. W. Pope


			   Regular Crew Voices:

		   William Shatner		Majel Barrett
		   DeForest Kelley		George Takei
  		   James Doohan			Nichelle Nichols

YESTERYEAR
Original Air Date: 9/15/73
Writer: Dorothy Fontana
Guest Voice: Billy Simpson as the young Spock, 
             Keith Sutherland as the young Sepek

This episode was a sequel to "The City on the Edge of Forever."  Kirk and
Spock return from a voyage through the Guardian of Forever only to find
that Spock has been erased from history and the minds of the Enterprise
crew.  They discover that somehow Spock had died as a child on Vulcan and
he must journey back through time to save himself.

ONE OF PLANETS IS MISSING
Original Air Date: 9/22/73
Writer: Marc Daniels

A sentient creature which at first appears as an enormous cloud drifts into
the galaxy and begins devouring planets.  Spock (naturally) needs to
communicate with the creature using the Vulcan Mind Meld.

THE LORELEI SIGNAL
Original Air Date: 9/29/73
Writer: Margaret Armen

The men of the Enterprise get captured by beautiful alien women and have
all of their strength sapped.  The female crew members, led by Uhura come
to the rescue to save the crew.

MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES
Original Air Date: 10/6/73
Writer: David Gerrold
Guest Voice: David Gerrold as Korax 

This episode was a sequel to "The Trouble With Tribbles."  Cyrano Jones is
back with Klingons in pursuit.  This time he has tribbles that have been
engineered so they can't replicate, but they do grow to enormous size.  The
Klingons are pursuing Jones because he has stolen a "glommer" which the
Klingons invented to eat tribbles.

THE SURVIVOR
Original Air Date: 10/13/73
Writer: James Schmerer
Guest Voice: Ted Knight as Carter Winston

The Enterprise encounters a battered one-man ship in space and Kirk orders
the single survivor aboard.  The survivor is Carter Winston who had
disappeared some years back.  By coincidence, his fiancee, Anne Nored is
aboard the Enterprise.  Carter informs her that he has changed his mind
though and won't marry her.  It turns out in the end that Carter is really
an alien that has the ability to change shape and is a spy for the
Romulans.

THE INFINITE VULCAN
Original Air Date: 10/20/73
Writer: Walter Koenig

Yes, that's the same Walter Koenig who played ensign Chekov and it seems
he has it in for Mr. Spock.  In the original series, Spock went insane
("Amok Time"), mutinied ("The Menagerie") and had his brain stolen
("Spock's Brain").  In this episode, he is cloned into an immortal,
unfriendly giant.  Kirk once again needs to prove that human logic is
superior to Vulcan by convincing the cloned Vulcan to save the original who
is dying.

THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU
Original Air Date: 10/27/73
Writer: Larry Brody
Guest Voice: Ed Bishop as The Prosecutor

The Enterprise is transported to another dimension where magic works and
science doesn't.  The systems on board the Enterprise are reactivated by
one of the Megans named Lucien who tells them that they too have magical
powers.  However, when the Enterprise crew attempts to use them, they are
captured by the Megans.  Lucien is put on trial for helping them and Kirk
must defend him.  Lucien bears a striking physical resemblance to our
concept of Satan.

ONCE UPON A PLANET
Original Air Date: 11/3/73
Writer: Len Jenson and Chuck Menville

This one is a sequel to "Shore Leave".  The Enterprise returns to the shore
leave planet only to discover that the Keeper has died and the computer
that ran everything has taken over and is out to destroy all non-computer
life-forms.

MUDD'S PASSION
Original Air Date: 11/10/73
Writer: Stephen Kandel

This one is a sequel to "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd" from the original
series.  Our old friend Harry Mudd is back selling fake love potions to
miners.  If that wasn't bad enough, he is using an illusion-maker to help
prove that his goods really work.  Kirk rescues him from some angry miners
incarcerates him.  In escaping, he gives some of the fake potion to Nurse
Chapel for her to use on Spock and then steals a shuttlecraft.  Chapel
tries to capture him but winds up captured herself.  The joke is that the
potion turns out to be real and the love-stricken Spock sets out to rescue
his beloved Nurse Chapel.

THE TERRATIN INCIDENT
Original Air Date: 11/17/73
Writer: Paul Schneider

A bolt of energy hits the Enterprise and shrinks the entire crew.  Once
again, the transporter comes to the rescue and Kirk is restored to normal
size by beaming down to the planet where the bolt came from.  The
transporter automatically returns him to the ship, where he finds that the
entire crew has been taken by the citizens of a miniature city on the
planet's surface.

TIME TRAP
Original Air Date: 11/24/73
Writer: Joyce Perry

The Enterprise and a Klingon cruiser enter a time warp where they find an
interstellar Sargasso Sea.  The dilithium crystals are breaking down and
Kirk and the Klingons must cooperate to link their ships together in order
to reach the necessary speed to break through back to our universe.  

THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT
Original Air Date: 12/1/73
Writer: Margaret Armen

This time Kirk gets it along with Spock.  On the water planet Argo, a
research shuttlecraft is attacked by a sea monster. Both Kirk and Spock
disappear underwater with the sea monster.  They return five days later
after having been mysteriously transformed into water breathers.  They
must travel underwater to find their benefactors and force them to change
Kirk and Spock back again.  They are arrested and brought to trial (what
else?) because they are air-breathers.  Not one of the best episodes.

SLAVER WEAPON
Original Air Date:  12/15/73
Writer: Larry Niven

Larry Niven brings his Known Space universe into the Star Trek Universe.
The episode is loosely based on his short story, "The Soft Weapon".  Spock,
Uhura and Sulu are assigned to bring an ancient slaver artifact inside a
stasis box to Starbase 25.  Slaver stasis boxes have the unique ability to
find other slaver boxes and they are diverted on heir way when the box
registers another box in the area.  They are captured by Kzin who want the
the artifact.

BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR
Original Air Date: 12/22/73
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples

This episode was written by the same person that wrote the second pilot
episode for the original series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before."  At the
edge of the galaxy the Enterprise is captured by the gravitational pull of
a negative star mass.  In orbit around the object is another ship that was
built by an insect-like race.  The ship had been apparently invaded by an
intelligent, but evil, energy being and the captain of the insect's ship
destroyed his own ship rather than let it spread.  The energy being makes
its way to the Enterprise and takes over the ship. Kirk and crew must
figure out how to deal with the being without destroying their own ship.

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Original Air Date: 1/5/74
Writer: David P. Harmon

Another poor episode combining several elements of earlier episode from the
old series.  A landing party is captured by slug-like beings and placed in
a zoo.  The creatures are so far advanced that Spock's telepathy merely
amuses them and does not act as a source of communication.  The party
eventually manages to communicate with one of the children who assists them
in escaping.

JIHAD
Original Air Date: 1/13/74
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Guest Voice: Some claim that David Gerrold provided the voice of EM/3 but I
             haven't seen this episode recently to verify the information.

A holy relic is stolen and it must be returned before it is discovered to
be missing.  A diverse group of beings from various planets are assembled
for a top-secret mission to retrieve the relic from its hiding place on a
wild, unstable planet.  Typical quest adventure episode complete with a
traitor as one of the party members.

THE PIRATES OF ORION
Original Air Date: 9/7/74
Writer: Howard Weinstein

The writers all seem to have it in for poor Mr. Spock.  In this episode, he
is inflicted with a rare blood disease that strangely enough, is fatal to
Vulcans.  The only known cure is too far away to reach in time.  An
arrangement is made with a freighter to meet them half-way with a supply of
the drug but the shipment is way-laid by pirates.

BEM
Original Air Date: 9/14/74
Writer: David Gerrold

One of the few original ideas used in this series.  The Enterprise has on
board an independent observer, Bem, from the plane Pandro.  He has been
sent to test the Federation's usefulness to Pandro.  While exploring a
newly discovered planet, he arranges to have himself, Kirk and Spock
captured by the locals.  By disassembling his body, he leaves the cage,
returns Kirk's and Spock's weapons to them and then reenters the cage
insisting that they must prove their usefulness by rescuing him without
any further help from him.

PRACTICAL JOKER
Original Air Date: 9/21/74
Writer: Chuck Menville

While escaping from two Romulan ships that had attacked the Enterprise,
Kirk orders the ship into cloud.  Afterwards, the computer goes haywire,
and turns into a practical joker.

ALBATROSS
Original Air Date: 9/28/74
Writer: Dario Finelli

McCoy is arrested on Dramia for the mass murder of the population of Dramia
II.  McCoy had been to that planet years before to head an inoculation
program to combat a virus.  After he left, a plague broke out wiping out
half the population.  Kirk and Spock travel to Dramia II to find someone
willing to testify in McCoy's behalf.  The entire crew though (except
Spock who is immune) fall victim to the plague.

HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH
Original Air Date: 10/5/74
Writer: Russel Bates and David Wise

Very similar to the original series episode, "Who Mourns for Adonis."  The
Enterprise follows a space probe back to a strange planet where Kirk,
McCoy, Scott and Ensign Dawson Walking Bear are captured and forced to
solve a puzzle.  When they do, they are confronted by the Mayan god,
Kulkukan who is angry at having been forgotten.  My recollection of this
episode is that someone seriously confused American Indian mythology with
Aztec and Mayan mythology.

THE COUNTER CLOCK INCIDENT
Original Air Date: 10/12/74
Writer: John Culver

The Enterprise, on route to Babel where their passenger, Commodore Robert
April is due for retirement ceremonies, attempts to stop a ship from
entering a dangerous nova.  Instead, the Enterprise is drawn through the
nova into a reverse universe where time runs backwards.  Commodore April,
now the only adult left on the ship, has to pilot the ship back through to
our universe.

