Insanely Silly
The first thing you need to know about this series is that you should not expect high quality animation. Though some of the character designs are genuinely interesting, the actual animation itself is something I'd compare to He-Man if the budget was even lower. Mind you, that does lead to a lot of very amusing close-up shots of the characters and some great reaction images.
Once you get past that, the show here is...well, Star Trek TOS. It is nice to see some of the stories and ideas they were able to pull off without the limits of practical effects at the time. More aliens actually look like aliens, rather than humans with a singular feature changed. The settings could be more varied. This is the show that introduced the idea of the Holodeck for the first time! I do enjoy the creativity the series shows off.
The cast of the original series, minus Chekhov, all return to reprise their roles. Other than them, the majority of the voice cast is James Doohan (Scotty) and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (Chapel, The Computer, Number One, and Lwaxana Troi). For a show like this, I think they both do well.
Sometimes you could see some of that TOS philosophical debate in there, but it's mostly just silly. If you like the campier episodes of TOS, you'll probably enjoy this as much as I did. If you're looking for more serious Trek, avoid this show like the plague.
I don't usually do episode recommendations, but I'll make an exception here. Yesteryear, The Ambergris Element, and The Eye of the Beholder are as close to good, serious episodes as I think it gets. Watch More Tribbles More Troubles, The Infinite Vulcan, Once Upon a Planet, The Magicks of Megas-Tu, and The Counter-Clock incident for more funny ones.
Once you get past that, the show here is...well, Star Trek TOS. It is nice to see some of the stories and ideas they were able to pull off without the limits of practical effects at the time. More aliens actually look like aliens, rather than humans with a singular feature changed. The settings could be more varied. This is the show that introduced the idea of the Holodeck for the first time! I do enjoy the creativity the series shows off.
The cast of the original series, minus Chekhov, all return to reprise their roles. Other than them, the majority of the voice cast is James Doohan (Scotty) and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (Chapel, The Computer, Number One, and Lwaxana Troi). For a show like this, I think they both do well.
Sometimes you could see some of that TOS philosophical debate in there, but it's mostly just silly. If you like the campier episodes of TOS, you'll probably enjoy this as much as I did. If you're looking for more serious Trek, avoid this show like the plague.
I don't usually do episode recommendations, but I'll make an exception here. Yesteryear, The Ambergris Element, and The Eye of the Beholder are as close to good, serious episodes as I think it gets. Watch More Tribbles More Troubles, The Infinite Vulcan, Once Upon a Planet, The Magicks of Megas-Tu, and The Counter-Clock incident for more funny ones.
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