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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: ST Animateds Found!!
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 22:32:07 EST
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> 
> Your cup runneth over.  Niven (The Slaver Wepaon << good) and Gerrold
> (More Tribbles, More Troubles << awful; Bem << brilliant) both did
> animated Star Trek episodes.  But not Sturgeon or Ellison.

Oops...you is right. My apologies...

> The series suffers from a second major problem:  retreads.  Far too
> many episodes are just mediocre sequels or inferior rehashings of
> live episodes.  The aforementioned Tribbles is perhaps the worst 
> offender, but there's an awful sequel to Shore Leave, a version of
> "Who Mourns for Adonais" with an American Indian God, a version of
> "Menagerie" with elephant-like captors, and yet another story 
> about a cloud creature, not to mention another Harry Mudd story.

Hmm...well...I'm not sure, More Tribbles, More Troubles is a
sequel, but I don't know if I'd call it a retread. (The sequel to
Shore Leave I liked quite a bit...) The rest is quite true...

> 
> Some examples of the first problem occur to me:  the crew shrinks
> (Terratin incidnet), the crew gets old (Loreli Signal), the crew
> turns blue (Albatross), Kirk and Spock turn into Creatures from
> the Black Lagoon (The Ambergris Element) ...
> 
> Oh, and more:  the crew ages backwards, the gravity goes off ...
> anything that would be fun to draw, regardless of whether it made
> any sense at all.
> 

Well, I would consider this a plus, and more or less interpret it
the opposite way you did. The animation allowed the authors to
write about anything at all, and not worry about "budget constraints."

(Incidently, I don't remember Albotross...except, of course, from
Monty Python...)

> There were some good episodes:  Yesteryear, Slaver Weapon, Bem, 
> I liked Albatross, too ...
> 
> Enough!
> 

I agree. Sorry...ST stuff in net.startrek...whoops, my mistake,
pardon me, excuse me...etc.

> RJS in Toronto
> c/o
> -- 
> 
> 					Tom Nadas
> 
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