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

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2025-02-10 19:00:09
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"The Survivor" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1

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Greg

I always get the name of this episode confused with a TNG episode that is very closely named -- that one is "The Survivors" where as this one is just "The Survivor", LOL Agree with you Bunny -- this is a pretty good episode, despite re-hashing several TOS episodes for plot ideas, and that overall TAS is underrated. It's a frantic, fast paced moving episode with everyone having a role in the episode and never a boring minute, also supported by some very good voice work. Nichelle Nichols provided the voice of Anne, and while I haven't read/heard anything to confirm this, I BELIEVE that's the reason that Uhura was not in this episode -- so that people wouldn't get confused and mix up their voices, as some people had complained happened in past episodes. On that note, I've also heard people complain that the actor voicing Carter Winston, a well known actor named Ted Knight, sounded too much like Captain Kirk, but I never had that issue. It's fun to see the Romulans again -- not only are they still using Klingon D-7 Class ships they got from the Klingons during the short alliance, but they are up to their old tricks, using spying and behind the scene tactics to get what they want. It's interesting to see how far back this was established in the Star Trek cannon. The battle was kind of a weak affair though -- as you pointed out, the Enterprise was outgunned. Sure, the Enterprise may have been able to disable ONE ship, but the other chose not to fight even if they were still a match -- perhaps the Romulan Commander realized the gig was up. But on the other hand, I don't understand why the Enterprise didn't just turn tail and run at max warp. The usual banter between Spock and McCoy is in full force here as well also, which is always fun to see and I'm always glad when writers are able to do a good job of recreating that. From what I read about the writer for this episode, he fully intended this episode to be aimed at adults, despite airing on Sat morning -- and he wasn't the only one. TAS kind of walked that fine line where, even though it's a cartoon and aired Sat morning, a lot of the material was written with the original fan base of TOS in mind. Perhaps it's like a Pixar movie, where kids could take away one message and adults another one. Finally, the Wikipedia article on this episode is very good and I suggest a read of it for background knowledge. For example, the writer for this script was a well known writer for several TV shows, and argued with Roddenberry about the script and changes to it.

William Terry

Bunny looks fantastic! I very much appreciate being able to listen to her thoughts on this underrated series. Bunny mentioned other episodes in TOS about hearts broken by aliens. (what the bleep is their five year mission? Amazon delivery, Uber, dash?) but like Ann McCoy hesitated to phaser something exactly like someone he knew previously. If the salt vampire had not been certain to get around to him, maybe McCoy, like Ann, decides he's going to "guard" her. In Metamorphosis I think Cochrane was surprised by The Companion's feelings for him and simply let her take Nancy's body, telling the landing party that he felt he owed it to her not to leave the planet. Here the Vendorian channels Winston Carter's feelings towards Ann, but only after he tells her he's not a great guy. So instead of just copying TOS, the writers took a unique angle to the plots of TOS episodes. Like the kitty communications officer, a nice treat like the beehive women who occasionally relieved Uhura.

Dave Riley

I was surprised to learn it was Ted Knight doing the Winston voice, he's sounded almost dead on immitation of Shatner, if he did his acting style too, he would be perfect. This would have been about the time of Season 3 of Mary Tyler Moore show, so guess he was picking up some voice acting on the side. Further perusal of IMDB shows the music was done by two individuals both using pseudonyms. Ray Ellis (as Yvette Blais) and Norm Prescott, also the producer (as Jeff Michael). Bunny, I have to add, thank you for the dick joke! It was a suprise but much appreciated.

Mark Chrisco

Another episode that would have worked well in live action.

Matthew Graves (Graviton)

Another very good one. This one is heavy on the action and suspense, which is fun. It’s kind of a running theme in TAS that they borrowplot elements from the original series. At its best it’s like this where it’s something of a conglomeration of ideas and a chance to maybe “ fix” a few things. There will be a few where comes across just as a cheap rehash unfortunately. Also this one’s notable for the first appearance of M’ress. Her along with the alien in this episode along either Arex in others) really demonstrate the advantage that animation has in showing more dramatically non-human aliens. Kinda neat Bunny that you picked up on the Lovecrafian feel of the alien. Though this alien was certainly a lot nicer than anything in Lovecraft.! 😄 The other bit of weirdness is the idea of Winston being a “wealthy” Citizen of the Federation. The Federation was supposed to be a Post – money society/Post scarcity society. There are other cultures that still use money,(indeed that fact will be prominent in at least one later series in the franchise) but the federation is supposed to be beyond it, and Winston is explicitly said to be a Federation citizen.

Lee

I could be wrong (it's happened before), but as far as I can remember, it isn't established until "The Voyage Home" that Federation citizens don't use money. In "The Trouble with Tribbles," Cyrano Jones and the bartender haggled over how many credits for the tribbles, and Uhura asked the bartender how much he wanted for the little furball. So this only seems like an inconsistency after the fact.

MntrTodd

The only ever onscreen mention of Dr. McCoy's daughter.

Matthew Graves (Graviton)

Hmmm. I looked it up on Memory Alpha and you seem to be correct that STIV is the first mention of the Federation not using money. So, I guess canonically we have to assume the Federation abandoned currency sometime between this episode and that movie. It makes a certain amount of sense. The main economic driver behind such a shift would be cheap energy and replicator technology. If we assume that replicators are relative new tech in TOS, it would mean that they are probably in the early stages of post-scarcity and thus still in economic “transition “ Or, ya know, the STIV writers just threw that line in to make the joke work in that scene and the idea stuck. 😄

SuicuneSol

This one is neat! I like the design of the alien; you won't see stuff like that on ToS proper. I did notice that the alien had a very proper human voice compared to his tentacle appearance, which was kinda funny.

Trilogian

Possession is a very common theme in science fiction. I suspect some of it in the 50’s and 60’s stemmed from concerns of Marxist infiltration. We have not seen the last of alien beings merging with humans in Trek.

Trilogian

PS I love watching these with Bunny!

Carlos Stevens

heh... Bunny has good instincts. She knew something was off the moment Winston beamed onto the ship.

Timothy Bennett

I spit my drink out when you said "They forgot to put his dick back on"