kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) (01/17/86)
ANIMATED STAR TREK EPISODE GUIDE
The following information is from the June 1977 issue of STARLOG magazine (#6)
Principal credits for STAR TREK animated series from Filmation Studios:
Producers - Norm Prescott & Lou Scheimer
Associate Director - Dorothy Fontana
Director - Hal Sutherland
Art Director - Don Christensen
Principal Character and Layout Designers - Bob Kline & Herb Hazelton
Background Color Director - Irv Kaplan
Editor - Joe Simon
Music & Effects - Horta-Mahana
Camera Supervision - R.W.Pope
Plus a staff of Filmation animators and painters.
Character voices were by the original actors/actresses as in the live series.
YESTERYEAR By D.C.Fontana 9/15/73
Returning from a time trip through the Guardian of Forever, Kirk and
Spock discover that no one recognizes Spock and that the Enterprise has had
an Andorian as First Officer for the past five years. The library computer
tells them that Sarek and Amanda had a son but that he died at the age of
seven. Spock must go into his own past to discover what has changed and
correct it or he will have no future.
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING By Marc Daniels 9/22/73
The Enterprise is sucked into an enormous cloud that has drifted into
the galaxy and is devouring planets. When Spock discovers that the cloud is
actually an intelligent creature he must attempt to communicate with it
through a mind meld before Kirk is forced to destroy it.
THE LORELEI SIGNAL By Margaret Armen 9/29/73
The men of the Enterprise are overcome by a mysterious signal from an
unknown star system. On beaming down they are met by a race of beautiful
women who welcome them, but only so that they can feed on their life forces.
It is up to the women of the Enterprise to save them.
MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES By David Gerrold 10/6/73
Cyrano Jones turns up again, this time with a Klingon battlecruiser on
his tail. Jones has tribbles with him of course, but these don't reproduce,
he insists. But why are the Klingons demanding Kirk turn Jones over to them?
THE SURVIVOR By James Schmerer 10/20/73
The only survivor of a battered one-man ship is beamed aboard. All are
surprised when they discover it's Carter Winston, an interstellar philan-
thropist presumed long lost whose fiancee happens to be aboard the Enterprise.
But when an unknown spy begins to sabotage the Enterprise who else can Kirk
suspect?
THE INFINATE VULCAN By Walter Koenig 10/20/73
On a strange planet populated by a race of plant beings, the Enterprise
landing party is confronted by a gigantic human being that the plant beings
follow. He kidnaps Spock and clones him into a being a huge as himself,
but the real Spock is now dying!
THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS-TU By Larry Brody 10/27/73
The Enterprise is caught in a matter/energy storm and is transported
into a totally alien universe where none of the ship's systems will work.
A being reminiscent of ancient Earth legends suddenly appears on the bridge
and magically reactivates everything. The crew discover they have magical
powers as well but when they use them they are detected and imprisoned
along with their benefactor who is now on trial for his life.
ONCE UPON A PLANET By Len Jenson and Chuck Menville 11/3/73
The Enterprise has returned to the "shore leave" planet for a little
rest and relaxation, but threatening illusions again appear and this time
they won't go away! Kirk orders everyone back to the ship but Uhura dosen't
return with them. Kirk and Spock return to the planet to find the Keeper.
MUDD'S PASSION By Stephen Kandel 11/10/73
Interstellar con-man Harry Mudd is reluctantly rescued by Kirk from some
angry miners in the Acadian system. Seems he was selling a phony love potion.
But when Mudd gives some of the potion to Nurse Chapel to try on Spock the
results astonish everyone.
THE TERRATIN INCIDENT By Paul Schneider 11/17/73
While investigating a mysterious signal from an unexplored planet, a bolt
of energy flashes through the Enterprise and temporarily paralyzes everyone.
When it wears off, Scotty reports that not only have the engines been damaged
but that the ship and everyone in it is shrinking!
TIME TRAP By Joyce Perry 11/24/73
Both the Enterprise and the Klingon battlecruiser Klothos have been
captured by a time warp where they find a sargasso of lost ships and beings.
With the dilithium crystals on both ships breaking down they must attempt a
desperate escape by linking the two ships together. But are the Klingons
cooperating a little too easily?
THE AMBERGRIS ELEMENT By Margaret Armen 12/1/73
The Enterprise is exploring a planet almost completely covered with water
when a seismic disturbance causes a shuttlecraft with Kirk and McCoy aboard
to be lost. A massive search soon finds them but all are astonished when it's
discovered that neither of them can now breath in the open air but only under-
water.
SLAVER WEAPON By Larry Niven 12/15/73
Spock, Uhura, and Sulu are transporting a relic of the ancient warrior
civilization of the Slavers, a stasis box, to Starbase 25 when they are caught
in a trap set by the cat-like Kzin. The Kzin then open the stasis box and
begin to tamper with the artifacts inside putting everyone in grave danger.
BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR By Samuel A. Peeples 12/22/73
While investigating strange radio emissions the Enterprise is captured
by the gravitational pull of a dead star and finds a strange alien ship that
has also been caught. A party boards the gigantic ship and discover that
the radio signal it has been transmitting is actually a warning!
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER By David P. Harmon 1/5/74
The landing party on an un-explored planet are captured by slug-like
creatures that put them in a zoo. Spock discovers that the aliens are so
intellectually advanced that his attempts to mind-meld with them are re-
guarded with amusement.
JIHAD By Stephen Kandel 1/13/74
A diverse group of beings is assembled by an ancient race to search for
a precious holy relic of the Skorr so as to avert a Jihad, a holy war which
may encompass the entire galaxy.
THE PIRATES OF ORION By Howard Weinstein 9/7/74
Spock has been infected with a rare blood disease, fatal to Vulcans.
The only drug which can cure the disease is too far away but Kirk arranges
a rendezvous with a freighter to pickup the drug. The freighter is then
attacked and looted by Orion pirates who suddenly find themselves under pursuit
by the Enterprise while Kirk tries desperately to recover the stolen drug in
time.
BEM By David Gerrold 9/14/74
An Enterprise landing party is accompanied by an independent observer,
a representative of a planet considering alliance with the Federation. But
one thing after another seems to go wrong and Kirk is having a difficult
time with their guest.
PRACTICAL JOKER By Chuck Menville 9/21/74
In order to avoid a Romulan attack, Kirk orders the Enterprise through
a mysterious cloud. Soon afterwards the entire crew finds themselves being
subjugated to endless, and eventually dangerous, pratical jokes.
ALBATROS By Dario Finelli 9/28/74
Upon returning to Dramia to deliver a shipment of medical supplies, McCoy
is arrested for the mass murder of the population of Dramia II. Kirk and Spock
must find a means to defend McCoy but then discover that the same plague that
decimated that planet is now onboard the Enterprise.
HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH By Russell Bates and David Wise 10/5/74
The Enterprise is following the trail of an unidentified space probe when
they are suddenly held powerless and several of the crew are transported to
an unknown planet with what appears to be a Mayan temple. They are told they
have just so much time to solve the riddle of the city or they will be destroyed
along with the Enterprise.
THE COUNTER CLOCK INCIDENT By John Culver 10/12/74
The Enterprise is enroute when an alien starship flashes by at the in-
credible speed of warp 36 directly towards a nova. Kirk orders a tractor beam
in an attempt to save the unknown vessel only to have the Enterprise sucked
into the nova and into an incredible reverse universe where time flows back-
wards. They have only so long to escape before they all revert to children
and forget how to pilot the ship.
By the way... Most (if not all) of the animated episodes have been novelized
as the "Star Trek Log" series by Alan Dean Foster who does, in my personal
opinion, an excellent job. Most of the books contain 3 episodes but a few of
the later logs have episodes expanded into an entire novel. Definite ST
reading, how else would you know that Captain Christoper Pike was NOT the
first captain of the Enterprise, but that Captain Robert April was (Star Trek
Log 7, "The Counter Clock Incident").
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Kevin Thompson {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin
"It's a sort of threat, you see. I've never been very good at them
myself but I'm told they can be very effective."