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"Beyond the Farthest Star" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 (Patreon)

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2025-01-24 19:00:07
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2026-06

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"Beyond the Farthest Star" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1

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Skyman's Follies

Storywise, this episode is just okay for me. Wondering if Dan O'Bannon watched this (he must have?) prior to writing Alien? A derelict ship issuing a warning about a murdering alien and organic-looking bulbs bursting outward from within? I think the thing that the Animated Series really brings to light is that not only were the TOS cast interesting visually, they also ALL had amazing voices - each of them. So it really was a victory for Filmation to get the original actor's voice work onto this show and, to me, ilustrates just how important Star Trek SOUNDED as well as looked. If I'm not mistaken, better stories are ahead : )

J. Scott Phillips

Lt. Arex is the alien in Chekov's seat. He has three arms and three legs because, you know, just because they could draw something weird. Alas, no Chekov in the animated series. Walter Koenig didn't get hired along with the rest of the cast. BUT, he did write one of the episodes. There will be another new aliens crew person... Lt. Mress. She's a feline alien, and fills in for Uhura sometimes. Something to listen for in this and coming episodes is James Doohan doing the voices of guest characters and aliens. He had a way with voices, so they used him for a lot of other character voices to save some buck. He was the voice of the alien in this episode, and for Lt. Kyle.

J. Scott Phillips

Something I never noticed before, at the end of this episode... Kirk says the Enterprise is returning to their mission beyond the farthest star of the galaxy ... star charting! How can you chart stars beyond the farthest one in the galaxy? Might be a short mission!

William Terry

I remember watching Star Trek TAS when it came out in the 70s on Sony Color TV. They have done a swell job remastering it for 4K and it's amazing the quality. I like how the background in the shots have a different tilt. The music score is excellent. The takeaway: it's like if the Beatles had reunited in the 70s around the time of "Imagine" for one more album. I agree with bunny about the cast, and rue the absence of Chekov. I guess Arthur C. Clarke didn't write more than two Space Odyssey books, despite the blurb on the cover. Nice of bunny to tell us about the reference to Xenomorph. I recommend the Shortest History series of books, particularly England, Germany, Europe and one about military history. Despite the titles they're not just like Wikipedia and have interesting ideas.

Dave Riley

Welcome to TAS as it's known. The animation for the series is on the basic level, don't be looking for Disney or Warner Bros quality animation. You already have seen the basic take off and run move, with the forearm out front, you will see that alot! Another common shot was a tight shot of the characters head but offset to one side of the frame. Chekov was not part of TAS, so instead you see Arek (this espisode) and M'Ress who was a female cat like being voiced by Majel Barrett. Almost every non-regular character was voiced by Barrett or Doohan. Doohan was the malevolent entity in this episode. Walter Koenig did write an episode "The Infinite Vulcan" which is coming in a few weeks. David Gerrold and DC Fontana also wrote episodes. I went to my first Trek convention in fall of 1973, probably one of the first across the nation. Got to see various collectibles and screen one of the new TAS episodes on a big screen on film. This was many years before video cassettes came into use. There is extensive info in Memory Alpha on ST:TAS Enjoy!

timothy w moyer

The Animated Series will be fun to watch as well. I have a sporatic memory of them, so I'll tune in to remember them, Bunny. Thank you again, as always. I like the book review. 🥹 🖖 😎

Lee

There are four books in Clarke's Space Odyssey series: 2001, 2010, 2061, and 3001.

Lee

It bodes well that Bunny likes the music, because it basically runs on a loop. The same themes and motifs will be heard in all 22 episodes, if I'm not mistaken. The reason that TAS has new music for the main titles stems from a longtime feud between Alexander Courage and Gene Roddenberry. It started in the beginning of TOS when Roddenberry wrote lyrics for Courage's theme that essentially halved the royalty payments to Courage. As a result, Courage refused the use of his music. Sadly, this was typical of Roddenberry, who sought to monetize every aspect of Star Trek for his personal benefit.

Trilogian

When I was a kid in the 70’s, I had to sneak into my folks room and watch The Animated Series with the sound almost off so I wouldn’t wake them! The music is great, the background art is fantastic, some of these stories are essential Trek lore. Filmation did some absolute classics back in the day. Keep doing book and other reviews! Its fun to know what you’re getting exposed to in classic Science Fiction! Did I mention I talked to Harlan Ellison on the phone a few times? 😂

Carlos Stevens

I'm thinkin' she won't like it so much by the time we hit the end of season 2. not terrible...but enough already.

Carlos Stevens

oooo bunny is getting into Arthur C. Clark. Dare I bring up 2001: A Space Odyssey? I was 4 years old when that movie came out...and I saw it in the theater. Kinda made sense to me back then. I figured it out later.

Carlos Stevens

OMG... Bunny... D. C. Fontana was the Associate Producer (Gene Roddenberry was of course the Executive Producer) and a writer for the Star Trek Animated Series. She really did so much to coalesce Star Trek into a coherent universe.

Greg

I'm late in reacting to this, so I'll try to keep my comments short. I agree with a lot of what you said, Bunny. I recall seeing some episodes as a young kid when it was on cartoon re-runs in the late 70's to early 80's, but I never actually watched all of the Animated Series until it came to Netflix about 15 years ago. I watched all of them in one weekend, and have not seen this since, so unlike most Star Trek which I've seen like 50 times, this will be a pretty 'new' watch for me. Overall I recall liking the Animated Series, but I also felt it's very up and down quality -- there's some great episodes and there's some real stinkers. I think this one is kind of mid level quality. I enjoyed and disliked the same things about it that you did. ALL of the episodes are going to feel REALLY fast paced cause they only had 30 minutes. It's a shame it couldn't be longer. All of the other Star Trek shows are 60 minutes to allow for proper pacing and development. Walter Koening, who played Chekov, was not invited due to cost concerns -- they actually only planned to hire a few people but when Leonard Nimoy found out he flat out refused to work on the project unless money was found to hire them. I've read in other places that Walter was asked if he wanted to take part but turned it down, so the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The music is all original and is pretty good, it fits the cartoon well but it's done on a loop so you will hear it a LOT. The animation quality is typical of 70's cartoons. Most of the voice acting is really good -- except for William Shatner. He just phoned his lines in. And sadly it's not just here -- whenever he voices Kirk for video games it sounds the same way. If he's not on screen, he just doesn't seem to give it his all. I'm actually still surprised to this day that the cartoon even got made. Nobody expected Star Trek to have the legs it did. The show didn't even have enough episodes to 'technically' be considered for syndication when it ended in 1969. But it was included, and TV stations found that it was doing well, as the show was airing at better times then what NBC had put the show into. This helped to keep Star Trek alive during the 70's, along with things like some fan made newsletters and publications and the first Star Trek conventions. Science Fiction as a genre wasn't that good in the 70's....until there was a huge resurgence of it in the late 70's, sparked by movies like Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Seeing this, Paramount toyed with the idea of bringing Star Trek back as a new show called Warp 2, but in the end decided to make a movie instead, which came out in 1979, and continued making movies which did well in the box office until finally Next Generation started in 1987. The new show was syndicated, though, as most Star Trek shows (until recently) were going forward -- they had seen the success the original show had in syndication and didn't want to bow down to the wishes of a controlling network again. In short, a lot of people -- even Star Trek fans -- overlooked the Animated Series but it has some really good episodes and fun ideas and is worth at least a watch.

Greg

And there's a a reason people forget about the last two, LOL

Greg

Roddenberry always claimed he was 'forced' to do things like stick in lyrics into the opening theme cause he got very little money at all from Star Trek -- took a loss on it, if he's to be believed -- and so any chance he could he sought to recoup his losses. That wasn't the only time he did things like that either (the whole IDIC pins, for example). And then when he was given a ton of money to make the first movie, he went totally hogwild and due to the 'results' was kicked upstairs so he couldn't get involved with budgets and production again. The man could not handle money. I have mixed feelings overall about Roddenberry, though, but that's for another time. :)

William Terry

Still waiting for the decent sequel to Dune, Frank Herbert, LOL

Lee

I can't see how Roddenberry lost money on Star Trek as the show was funded by Desilu (and later Paramount) and NBC, not him personally. As the creator and producer/executive producer of the show, no one else was profiting more from it than he was (aside from NBC, which had the ad revenue; Desilu went bankrupt over the series), but I'm sure he felt he was owed more for his labor than he was being paid... which could be said of anyone who ever worked, anywhere at all. This seems like a good time to point out that, as time went on, Roddenberry claimed more and more solo credit for the series and conveniently forgot about all the others who contributed to its success. His later convention appearances and college speaking engagements are a testament to this. There's no denying that Roddenberry deserves the lion's share of recognition for the very existence of the franchise... but it wouldn't be what it is if not for the likes of Gene Coon, Dorothy Fontana, and Robert H. Justman, to name but a few. (I've always found an odd resonance between Roddenberry's inability to share credit and the case of Bob Kane claiming total creative credit for Batman, despite Bill Finger being responsible for creating virtually everything but the character's name.)

Matthew Graves (Graviton)

Regarding your book updates. No surprise, im sure but for what it's worth I love hearing your updates on your forays into literature, especially since you are reading a lot of the classic sci-fi stuff that I've always loved. "Childhood's End" is not my favorite Clarke novel, I'm more partial to Rama and the 2001 series. But you can't go entirely wrong with anything by Clarke. Now that you've sampled Asimov and Clarke you just need to try Heinlein to cover the "Big 3" . If you ever do, "Stranger in a Strange Land" is probably the place to start. "Farthest Star" is a pretty good episode of TAS and a fine into to the series. I do agree with you that Kirk looks a bit "generic". Story is pretty good though. I also agree that its unfortunate that there's no Chekov but Arex and M'Ress are kinda neat. They certainly take advantage of the possibilities animation opens up in terms of more "non-human" visuals. Don't feel bad for Koenig though. By all accounts I've read, at the time he wanted to get more into the writing side of TV production. As others have said he contributed to TAS in this capacity, and also was one of the main writers on another of my sci-fi favorite childhood sci-fi programs, a show called "Land of the Lost" that mixed live action with stop motion animated dinosaurs.

Chad Woodward

As I'm watching it it's all fuzzied out. I can't really see it, which kind of destroys watching it with you which is the fun part

bunnytails

I do apologize if it was unclear in the description of the tier, but the full reactions are meant to be watched by you with your own copy of the episode side by side with my reaction. I do not provide a free version of Paramount Plus’ properties as this is against copyright law. I can refund you if you wish

bunnytails

Thanks Matthew! I am glad you enjoy the book updates. I’ve not heard of Heinlein before, so I’ll try to grab the book you recommended!

bunnytails

I need to find the time to watch 2001!!!

bunnytails

I am pleasantly surprised by the animated series so far

bunnytails

I may be going to my first Trek convention this October! 😁

bunnytails

It’s crazy to me that some people (on YT) said they “sadly cannot follow me in watching TAS because they don’t like cartoons”. Have they even tried!? Cause some of these episodes are SO good so far, including the next episode, Yesteryear.