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The Star Trek: The Animated Series Blu-ray collects all 22 episodes of the 1973-74 NBC series created by Gene Roddenberry, with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and much of the original cast voicing their characters. Its second season won the 1975 Emmy for children’s series. This is a brand-new copy, in stock and shipping free within the US. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | Blu-ray |
|---|---|
| Discs | 3 |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT |
| Released | November 15, 2016 |
| Run time | 10 hours and 5 minutes |
| Condition | New |
| Availability | In stock |
The Star Trek: The Animated Series Blu-ray collects all 22 episodes of the 1970s cartoon continuation of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, which aired on NBC on Saturday mornings from September 8, 1973 to October 12, 1974. Much of the original cast returned to voice their characters, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley.
This is a brand-new copy. It is a Blu-ray release, so you will need a Blu-ray player or a game console that plays Blu-ray discs. It will not play in a standard DVD-only player.
The series originally aired simply as Star Trek, subtitled "Created by Gene Roddenberry." It brings back Captain Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy in new animated stories, with much of the original cast providing the voices of their characters.
Original cast member Walter Koenig did not appear because the budget could not cover the complete cast. Filmation did buy a script from him, which became the episode "The Infinite Vulcan." Season 1 ran from September 8, 1973 to January 12, 1974, and Bill Reed directed all six episodes of season 2 in 1974.
The show was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy Award. Its second season received the 1975 Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment – Children's Series. In 2016, the animated series was included in Paramount's Star Trek 50th Anniversary Blu-ray set, alongside the three seasons of the original series and the original-cast films up to Star Trek VI.
For fans who own the live-action seasons, this collection fills in the rest of the original crew's TV adventures, with all 22 episodes of the Star Trek animated series together on Blu-ray.
Start with Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 on Blu-ray, then explore the next crew with Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Complete Series. Browse our classic TV and animation collections. For production history, see the Wikipedia article on Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Star Trek: The Animated Series Blu-ray: Questions Buyers Ask
How many episodes are included?
All 22 episodes: 16 from season 1 and 6 from season 2.
Did the original cast voice their characters?
Yes. Much of the original cast returned, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols and George Takei.
Will it play in my DVD player?
No. The Star Trek: The Animated Series Blu-ray needs a Blu-ray player or a console that plays Blu-ray.
Is this copy new?
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This is the Blu-ray edition, 3 discs.
Amazon Customer –
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How Current Star Trek Should Be
The Star Trek animated series has excellent storytelling although you will have to get over the quite dated animation. However, the original Star Trek cast does the voices and the quality is where it could be an audio book in it’s own right. Very creative stories and it is sad to see that Star Trek today has fallen to social engineering rather than imaginative adventures. Perhaps some day they will make realistic CGI and backgrounds and then use the audio of the animated series to make this appeal to the current generation. I mean…. If they can CGI and bring back Luke Skywalker then why not Spock?
Jackson Quarrell –
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Ada Bahena –
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Jay –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
No Audio Sync Problem on the Blu Ray
It seems to me the audio sync problem people have reported has to do with the poor quality of Filmation Animation that made the series. Their speech/facial animation is less than good especially when compared with today’s animation. Lips move very little and there is no visible facial feature expression.
from wiki: “Filmation’s animation often looked poor quality, due to the limiting of the number of frames per second to fewer than the standard 24 frame/second seen on film or 25/30 frame/s seen on video. Frames would be repeated to compensate for the deficiency, resulting in a jerky and cheap look.”
The story’s are solid though but do seem rushed compared to TOS’s 52 minute original broadcast episodes; the animated series episodes are 24 min. I would have really liked to have seen these episodes in a 4th season of TOS; oh well.
Doohan, Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett do a lot of the additional voices in the series, pretty obviously, to me at least.
I have seen a comparison of the DVD versus the Blu ray definition and the Blu ray really is worth it. Realize though that the animation is a lacking especially compared with today’s standard’s and probably even 70’s standards.
AlphaWolf –
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It was the 70s what do you expect?
First of all, the image quality is top notch for what this is. I don’t know if they could have restored it better since the drawings were very 70s. You are not buying this for the best of Trek. You are buying this on a dare, or to complete your collection. This is where you first hear Jim Kirk’s full name, and then 5 more times in a 22 minute episode. It would have also been nice if they hired more than two women voice actors. Still it was to complete my collection and I do not regret it one bit.