[Bridger]

[timverbesselt]

Is this new?

[Petrarch]

Is this new?

It looks like it's a homage to TAS as the animation style is identical to what it used. The dialogue is all lifted from Best of Both Worlds Part 1.

The oddly coloured cube is a particular highlight.

[Bridger]

[Flicky]

This is so faithful to the show, it's uncanny. Riker's run toward the camera had me bust a gut.

TAS was never my favorite Star Trek, but it was unique and captured the spirit of a very specific (and very cheap) era of TV animation. It's usually hard for me to blast through seasons of TV, even Star Trek, but I found myself done with the entire Animated Series in about a week. Its charm was just as appealing as its runtime.

The pink cube is my favorite, I used to always giggle at the purple Klingon vests in TAS. The colorist loved to use bright pinks, purples, and greens, and the director who okayed everything was color-blind, so to him he assumed they were just grey.

The most notable color discrepancy was shown with several appearances of the color pink. Unknown to the rest of the production staff, director Sutherland was color-blind, so to him, pink was light gray.

According to Bob Kline, "Pink equals Irv Kaplan. Irv was in charge of ink and paint, coloring the various characters and props (and he would do it himself in his office, he would sit down with a cel and paint it). He was also referred to by many people there as the purple and green guy. You'll see in a lot of scenes, purple and green used together – that was one of his preferences. He made dragons red, the Kzintis' costumes pink. It was all Irv Kaplan's call. He wasn't listening to anyone else when he picked colors, or anything."

Memory Alpha

[Kiflin]

What makes me laugh is how the animations with only the eyes going back and forth and then a blink.

Absolutely hilarious!

[darthnovawave]

What makes me laugh is how the animations with only the eyes going back and forth and then a blink.

Absolutely hilarious!

The Animated Series only had a budget of $75000 USD per episode (about $400000 today). That's the kind of budget that gets allocated to "cheap to make" reality TV shows today. They originally were only going to pull in 5 actors from TOS for voice work, but ultimately pulled back 7 of the core cast. With that kind of budget and the cost of that many voice actors, cheap tricks like just animating the eyes had to have been a necessity to fill the runtime without going over budget on the art team.

[Flicky]

They originally were only going to pull in 5 actors from TOS for voice work, but ultimately pulled back 7 of the core cast.

Here's a fun game for anyone watching TAS for the first time: try to catch all the times they get James Doohan or Majel Barrett to pull double or triple duty in an episode.

Hint: it's often. James Doohan's voice acting section on Memory Alpha is just a massive collage of TAS characters.