Filmation Star Trek Cartoons

I saw that Paramount+ has the old Filmation Star Trek cartoons from 1973 / 1974.

I began re-watching these episodes.

Yesteryear was one of my favorites as a kid. Because of a mishap while using The Guardian of Forever, history is changed and Spock never lives to reach adulthood and his mother, Amanda, is also no longer alive. Isolating the pivotal point where time changes, Spock travels back through time to meet his family and his childhood self ( whose voice sounds like that of Linus from the Peanuts cartoons ) acting as a relative on religious travels. All seems to be righted, but a minor event occurs that differs from the original history. The episode ends. I’m not sure if this comes back to haunt the series later or not. This was good stuff by D.C. Fontana.

More Tribbles, More Troubles … eh. It’s a kind of rehash of The Trouble With Tribbles that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the combat with the Klingons and a new weapon at their command is interesting. This was written by SF author David Gerrold who also wrote The Trouble with Tribbles from the original Star Trek series. It was entertaining as a kid, but there are some parts of the plot that I don’t quite understand.

From my childhood, I remembered these and the episodes Bem and The Magicks of Megas-Tu the most. These stories had been compiled into book form by Alan Dean Foster as the Star Trek Log series.

These were quite a bit more cerebral than the normal Saturday morning cartoon fare. I enjoyed them as a kid and I’m surprised at how well they hold up now.