Bones gets arrested by an alien race for mass murder. He's accused of spreading a deadly disease on the planet 19 years ago. Like Regan spread AIDS in the 80's. Soon the plague spreads to everyone on the Enterprise ... uhh except Spock as always. They bust McCoy out of jail and he discovers a cure. The alien Demos was voiced by the guy that was Orcko on He-Man ... unfortunetly on this one he makes no attempt to put on a character voice. A weird looking alien with a crappy American accent just ruins the illusion.
What is the odds that on the only episode in which Ensign Running Bear appears, they happen to meet a Native American God? Well on Star Trek those odds are pretty fucking high. This episode is rather racist, but the idea is good I guess. The Enterprise encounter the Aztec serpent God Kukulkan. Remember when MaCauley Kukulkan was in that movie Home Alone? The name of the episode is a line from King Lear. If you want to see an awesome performance of Lear, you should find the one with Ian McKellen. He spits all over the place the entire time.
The final episode of TAS. The Enterprise is en-route to Babel with the great Robert April and his wife. They suddenly encounter a ship going faster than ever seen before, it's headed for a sun so Kirk stops it in the tractor beam. It's piloted by a woman that speaks backwards. Suddenly the ship is pulled into her time-plane. In this time everything goes backwards ... including time itself. Thus the crew begins to grow younger. Soon they are incapable of running the ship. So April (who is an old man to start with) grows younger but stays an adult longer. He takes command of the ship and gets them back to safety. The plot is completely ludicrous but it's OK because having an appearance of April is pretty darn cool.
TAS WRAP UP
What to say about The Animated Series. Well, it was far better than I expected. That's not to say that it didn't suck, because mostly it did. But, it had it's moments. In fact some episodes were very very good. I'd say that a good 1/3 of the eps are watchable. Overall I give the series a C, which I think is pretty fair.
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I liked the old 1950s puppet show Kukulkan & Ollie.
Wow. What a reference
Serpent's Tooth was the first episode of Trek I ever watched, and it blew my mind. I thought it was just about the most brilliant thing ever. Of course, we all know now that it probably sucks. But still, say what you will about TAS, it's the one that hooked me on Star Trek.
Serpent's was a great idea for an episode. I'm surprised that never really did this on TOS. They did the origin of "gods" thing but it was always Roman crap. They did some Native American type stuff but not to this extent. I really would have liked to see this on the live action show.
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