Episode 132
Friday 8 November 2024
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 1, Episode 6
Stardate: 5143.3
First broadcast on Saturday 13 October 1973
This week, crudely-drawn slow-moving simulacra of the Enterprise crew interact listlessly in a crudely-drawn slow-moving simulacrum of Star Trek. Except for the shapeshifting red octopus, which is awesome. Meanwhile, Joe drops £2.50 renting a Star Trek episode whose budget was nearly ten times that, adjusted for inflation.
Episode 118
Friday 19 July 2024
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 1, Episode 8
Stardate: 1254.4
First broadcast on Saturday 27 October 1973
This week, with a budget of dozens of crisp American dollars at their disposal, Joe and Nathan pull out their smocks, palettes, easels and oils in order to bring you a lavishly illustrated story of human creativity and achievement in a 25-minute episode you won’t be embarassed to show your kids. Or not terminally embarrassed, anyway.
Episode 27
Friday 6 May 2022
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 1, Episode 12
Stardate: 5267.2
First broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1973
Exhausted from last week’s astonishingly brilliant performance, this week Bill Shatner is literally phoning it in — so bored with Star Trek that he can’t even be bothered to say all five digits of this week’s stardate. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is trapped in a thing, unable to escape until they do another thing. Or something. Whatever.
Episode 74
Friday 21 July 2023
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 2, Episode 2
Stardate: 7403.6
First broadcast on Saturday 14 September 1974
It’s a low-effort week here at Untitled Star Trek Project, as we pour dozens of crisp American dollars into animating a hilarious encounter between Kirk, Spock, some lizard men in nappies, and an alien who can detach his bits at will, and then spend some time wondering why on earth we bothered.
Episode 103
Friday 29 March 2024
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Series 2, Episode 6
Stardate: 6770.3
First broadcast on Saturday 12 October 1974
A return to the realm of cheap Saturday-morning-cartoon Trek, where the only person apparently putting in any effort is Master of Dialect, Jimmy Doohan. This week, we find ourselves in a universe where space is white, stars are black, people age backwards, women give birth to large old men, and the Enterprise crew are listless, lifeless and dull.