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"One of Our Planets is Missing" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 (Patreon)

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2025-01-31 21:43:45
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"One of Our Planets is Missing" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1

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Greg

You have to watch your own copy of this along with Bunny. The best place to do so is through Paramount Plus, unless you have a home copy on physical media.

Greg

Two episodes in one week -- awesome! I agree with many of your thoughts about this episode Bunny. I really like this one, and it does live up to the messages and themes that Star Trek tries to present with killing as a last resort and the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, as they are ready to destroy the Enterprise to save 82 million people and nobody seems to bat an eye at that (although I'm sure they are screaming internally!) We already talked about Checkov in past comments which by now you've read, so, whoops, sorry about that. :) One thing I really enjoy about TAS is how often they tie into the original series. Not only is this idea somewhat similar to the giant amoeba episode, they also brought back Robert Wesley -- you may remember him as the Commodore in command of the war game fleet in "The Ultimate Computer". Perhaps that experience was too much for him, as he's now left Starfleet and is serving as governor of this remote Federation world. However, TAS does play VERY loose with the 'established cannon' that they started developing with Star Trek through the original series. You'll never hear mention of a anti-matter shield or a anti-matter pulse again, LOL. Although yes, I do think we saw the inside of one of the warp nacelles, which is pretty cool, and there's at least some Star Trek 'science' behind how Scotty re-powers the ship, although it's not really made clear if this process somehow REPLACES the dilethium crystals that power the ship or somehow ENHANCES it. It always cracks me up to see that silly posture that Spock is in on the Bridge when he's trying to establish contact with the mind of the cloud. :) TOS director Marc Daniels wrote the script for this one, and this is another story that was expanded and fleshed out more in book form. The actual director for THIS episode was Hal Sutherland, who had a long active career working on cartoons and animated projects for Disney and other companies, and the experience of both men really show here.

William Terry

Pretty good episode! Short but it gets to the point. Like it's the fourth season of Star Trek TOS. I notice that rather than having the crew journey through the blood vessels like Fantastic Voyage, or the surrounding membrane as in Enterprise Incident, they send the poor Enterprise into the food canal, and out,🤮 It looks like they replaced Lt Kyle with a Harry Mudd lookalike.

Skyman's Follies

Aside from the obvious re-hash/mash-up of Doomsday Machine/Immunity Syndrome, this is pretty good ep. Although totally fitting-in with TOS, this is is VERY adult stuff for Saturday morning (and great, tight dialogue to boot) with millions of people on the line and talk of *only* saving 5,000 children. Although you did have Wile E Coyote biting it every week on the other channel so I guess this is just the other side of the coin. But, man, some dark stuff to squeeze in-between Loony Toons and the Pink Panther. Laugh-out-loud moment from Bunny this week: "we'll just hand the problem over for you guys to deal with", great stuff. I know someone already commented on this as Greg said but just in case: originally network was only going to bring in some of the cast (I believe it was Shatner, Nimoy, Kelly and maybe Doohan. But Nimoy said if Nichols and Takei were not also involved, he wouldn't do the show. So they brought those two in but Koenig was left out. So I believe Fontana threw him a bone and got him a writing assignment on TAS.

SuicuneSol

So far, this show really reminds me of the old Jonny Quest cartoons from Hanna-Barbera, down to the stiff head movements. I did notice the show moves VERY fast, no doubt to keep the attention of Froot Loop-addicted children in the 1970s. I also noticed the alien crewmember speaking for the first time. I'm really hoping we get some background for him.

Matthew Graves (Graviton)

The knock on this one is the retread of ideas from TOS episodes, and frankly, that’s justified. BUT bunny is also correct in her observation that they were riffing on ideas they couldn’t quite “show properly” in live action. If “Yesteryear” was an A+this is a solid A. It’s more of a classic sci-fi story than a character piece But it works perfectly. The intelligence and empathy of the .”monster” adds a very classic Trek feel to the whole thing. Plus Hero points for Scotty? Am I right?

Skyman's Follies

Agreed- kudos to the TAS team in bringing to life ideas that were beyond the budget of TOS, and helping expand the universe. I haven’t seen most of these and it’s cool seeing this new set or that new creature (love the Ereks character). What’s also cool is this was produced just about 5 years after TOS and so science fiction (and science!) had been evolving even in that short time and TAS benefitted from that.

Lee

It should come as no surprise that my favorite part of this one is a call back to a Gene Coon script (Kirk's memory of having said "I will not kill today"). I think Gene Coon would have approved of this episode's message, and I can think of no higher compliment for an episode of Star Trek. (Dorothy Fontana actually invited him to write for TAS, but he declined. Thankfully, this story seems like something he could have written.) Since Bunny requested no spoilers as to Chekov's whereabouts (and a bit too late for the comments section to do anything about it -- sorry about that, Bunny!), I won't mention anything regarding storylines for the new alien crewmembers. But I will say that I've always liked Arex and M'Ress. Interesting character designs, and nice to see some new faces on the bridge.

bunnytails

Aw, I wish Gene Coon had accepted the invitation to write for TAS! The spoiler about Chekov is no big deal :D

bunnytails

Froot Loops, bleh! Well, better than Lucky Charms at least. I can't stand the texture of those "marshmallows." I think when they are trying to cram a bunch of scientific dialogue in the 22 minute episode, it makes the pacing feel a bit much.

bunnytails

I really love that story of Nimoy standing up for his co-stars!

bunnytails

"Through the food canal and out", reminds me of Metaphor: ReFantazio when the gang got eaten by the sandworm!

Lee

There's nothing definite about why Coon declined Fontana's invitation, but it's believed that his lack of interest stemmed from lingering creative conflicts with Roddenberry. At the same time, Coon and Roddenberry were working together on both Genesis II and The Questor Tapes pilot movies. I think the more likely reason for Coon's decision was his deteriorating health. He passed away in July 1973 from lung and throat cancer, prior to TAS' premiere in September of that year. However, Coon did recommend a protege of his named Russell Bates. Fontana accepted Bates' script, and his episode won the first Emmy for the Star Trek franchise.

Greg

I actually much prefer Lucky Charms to Froot Loops, LOL

MntrTodd

The episode has a very similar story line to the live-action "The Immunity Syndrome". In both, a giant phenomenom is destroying massively populated worlds. The animated episode improves upon the original in at least two respects - an aspect of humanity in we get to see the reactions of the planet about to be destroyed and the governor's anxiety and preperation for it (the return of "The Ultimate Computer's" Commodore Wesley!) and there is also the solution of being able to communicate with the cloud, discover that it is intelligent and convince it to turn back. Also, the solution they come up with to restore the ship's power is slightly more ingenious.

MntrTodd

Gene Coon died very shortly after the animated series began production, so his acceptance of the invitation would have been moot anyway.

Mark Gosine

For a Saturday morning cartoon, it certainly has its share of classic Trek techno babble. Kudos.

John DiGiantomasso

Interesting rendering of the non-CGI Trek. The ship's chronometer were shown as numbers on rotating dials. This is what TOS showed as those were common aa "modern" in the 1960s. These were replaced by the more modern yellow-on-black digits during the CGI rendering upgrades. Hey, Bunny! Thanks for doing these. I never got to see these as a kid and never made the time to go back and check them out. Watching them along with you gives me a great excuse to finally get around to doing it!

Andrew Westcott

Bob Wesley was a character in TOS, in the episode "The Ultimate Computer"