(pink tribbles, pink Klingons)
In this installment:
(viewed Sunday, April 14th)
Star Trek: The Animated Series, S01E05 - "More Tribbles, More Troubles"
Star Trek: The Animated Series, S01E06 - "The Survivor"
"More Tribbles, More Troubles"
- This episode is the second in what I call the "Tribble Trilogy", the first being TOS's "The Trouble with Tribbles" and the last being DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations".
- The design of the robot grain ship would ultimately be adapted for the Atares in the remastered version of the TOS episode "Charlie X".
- I may be mistaken here, but I believe that TAS is when Federation ship-mounted phasers begin to fire the yellow/red/orange beams that we're used to seeing in later iterations of Trek. In TOS, of course, they're most often a blue hue.
- The tribbles and Klingon tunics in this episode are pink because the dude at the animation studio who did the coloring was color blind. True story.
- Koloth, like so many other secondary characters in TAS, is voiced by James Doohan.
"The Survivor"
- Missing space explorer comes aboard, everyone starts taking unexpected naps.
- Romulan vessels in this episode are once again of the D7 variety.
Not to discriminate against the color blind, but you'd think someone doing coloring would want to be able to see the full range of colors.
ReplyDeleteThe Klingon people are extremely comfortable with their sexuality... and ability to crush anyone who would make fun of their pink uniforms.
ReplyDeleteThat's clearly more purpley.
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