TAS gets a fairly well earned bad rap for the shit recycled animation, but the stories are good. Also, Doohan filling in a lot of the additional voices is awesome.
That wasn’t really unique to TAS though. A lot of other Filmation and other companies’ productions had similar cut corners during that time especially. Some of the later 70s Scooby Doo cartoons have backgrounds change mid shot and shit like that even.
TAS gets a fairly well earned bad rap for the shit recycled animation, but the stories are good. Also, Doohan filling in a lot of the additional voices is awesome.
My only complaint was that the klingons were apparently Scottish.
Lots of places have a North.
The most egregious example I can think of are these three distinct creatures from three distinct planets that are just recycled sprites/animations:
And this one frame appearing in most episodes:
And the way some characters would put their hands on their mouths, so the studio wouldn’t have to animate their lip movements.
I also seem to remember a lot of zoomed in faces. I’m wondering now if that was another trick to avoid animating lips
Didn’t even change the color 😩
That wasn’t really unique to TAS though. A lot of other Filmation and other companies’ productions had similar cut corners during that time especially. Some of the later 70s Scooby Doo cartoons have backgrounds change mid shot and shit like that even.