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#82: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 7 "The Infinite Vulcan"

Written by Walter Koenig, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardates 5554.4 through 5554.8 (early 2269)

"Well, how 'bout that. Great-granddaddy's weed spray still works." - Doctor McCoy

Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Doctor McCoy, and Lieutenant Sulu have beamed down to a newly-discovered planet in search of new life forms. Sulu finds a plant that can uproot itself and walk to a new location before replanting. While handling the creature, he gets stung by it and immediately falls ill. McCoy has difficulty helping Sulu with conventional medicine when the party is approached by a peaceful group of botanical creatures. They warn that Sulu is close to death and that their remedies can save him. They identify themselves as Phylosian and tell Kirk that humanoids came to their planet before and accidentally brought their species to the brink of extinction. They bring the party deep inside a structure and reveal that they had lured them here to capture Spock. The humanoid the Phylosians had previous contact with was Dr. Stavos Keniclius; a scientist on Earth during the time of the Eugenics Wars who has kept himself alive through cloning and plans to do the same to Spock. Kirk and company attempts to rescue Spock from the Doctor's clutches, while contending with the locals and a 40-foot tall clone of himself.

Originally released: 20 October 1973

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#81: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 14 "The Slaver Weapon"

Written by Larry Niven, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardates 5538.6 through 5539.2 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"We can't give them that!" - Lieutenant Sulu

Commander Spock, and Lieutenants Uhura and Sulu are returning to the Enterprise via shuttlecraft with what is known as a Slaver Stasis Box. These mysterious boxes contain the only remaining artifacts of an advanced race that ruled the galaxy billions of years ago. Each time a box is discovered, it leapfrogs technological development for that species. The box then begins to glow, which indicates (against all odds) that a second Stasis Box is nearby. Spock orders Sulu to redirect the shuttle to a nebula to locate it. Once they land, they are ambushed by a group of Kzinti pirates who take their Stasis Box and hold them hostage. The Chuft Captain of the Kxinti announce that the second box was empty and used as a decoy to lure them to the ice ball they were hiding on as they use it to open the genuine Stasis Box and retrieve an unknown handheld device. Now Spock has to devise a way to get him and his officers to safety while also preventing the malevolent Kzinti from learning how to use the hyper-advanced device and using that technology to their advantage.

Originally released: 15 December 1973

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BONUS #2: Star Trek Continues, episode 1 "Pilgrim of Eternity"

Written by Jack Marshall & Vic Mignogna, directed by Vic Mignogna

Stardate 6147.3 (sometime in 2269)

"You never considered there may be another way. A better way." - Kirk

While investigating why power stations in the area are being drained, the Enterprise herself begins to lose power. At the same time they find an unknown object floating off the power station and identify it as the source of the power drain. Captain Kirk tries hailing it but as the ship gets close to completely losing power, he feels there is no choice but to destroy the object. Just after launching a torpedo, Spock identifies two life forms within the object. With the Enterprise almost dead, and Doctor McCoy protesting, Kirk allows the torpedo to reach its target and watch it explode. While they lament being forced to make a difficult choice, two alien materialize on the bridge - A very old Apollo and Athena. Everyone immediately assumes the worse, but then watch as Athena's last life force fades and she dies Apollo's arms... and Apollo announces he no longer seeks their worship but asks for their help.

Originally released: 25 May 2013

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#80: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 2, episode 2 "Bem"

Written by David Gerrold, directed by Bill Reed.

Stardate 5537.3 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"How come we always end up like this?" - Kirk

The Enterprise is sent to observe primitive life on Delta Theta III with an official observer from the planet Pandro; Commander Bem. After months of sitting by and watching the crew work, and despite the dangers involved, Bem insists on joining Captain Kirk and the away team down to the planet. Unfortunately, Commander Scott's coordinates were slightly off, beaming Kirk and Commander Spock directly over a body of water and they both fall in to the waist-deep water. Bem immediately jumps in to offer assistance. While doing so, Bem's lower half separates from the rest of his body under the water, as he is a colony creature, and replaces Kirk and Spock's communicators and phasers with fakes without their knowledge. Moments later Bem runs off, losing the away team in a thicket and getting captured by a local tribe. Kirk and Spock try to rescue Bem then realize their equipment doesn't work and also get captured. Kirk struggles to understand the situation as the Enterprise tracks an unknown energy source on the planet surface.

Originally released: 14 September 1974

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I saw Part 1 of this and it was pretty good and fun to watch but dead-ended: Q brings a Darth Vader and his Star Destroyer to confront Picard in the Star Trek universe. That video is summarized in the first 30 seconds here.

But this Part 2 is really, REALLY good. Next level. There are all kinds of places the author can take this.

Speaking of whom:

A lot of people have asked how I actually make these videos, so I thought I’d use this pinned comment to explain the process.
There isn’t a button I press that spits out an episode. 😂 A video like this involves hundreds of individual generations, tests, failed attempts and edits before I get something I can actually use.
I start by developing the story and writing the dialogue. From there, I break everything down into individual shots and work out the camera angles, character positions, eyelines, performances and continuity between shots.
I then create the reference images needed for each scene and use ComfyUI and MiniMax H3 to turn those images into video. A single finished shot can take multiple attempts because the movement, facial expression, performance, timing or continuity has to be right. If it isn't, I generate it again.
Dialogue and voices are another part of the process. Depending on the character, I use generated voices, voice references and, in some cases, recordings from real people. Those recordings then need to be edited, cleaned up, EQ'd and mixed with the rest of the scene.
Finally, everything goes into Adobe Premiere Pro, where the episode is assembled shot by shot. That's where I do the editing, timing, colour work, dialogue mixing, sound effects, ambience, music and all the other little details that turn hundreds of separate pieces into the finished video you're watching.
AI is obviously a major part of the toolset, but it's a filmmaking tool here rather than the filmmaker. The story, writing, shot selection, performances, continuity, editing, sound design and the countless decisions about what actually makes the final cut are all part of the production process.
Hopefully that gives you a better idea of what actually goes into making one of these videos.

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#79: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 15 "The Eye of the Beholder"

Written by David P. Harmon, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardate 5537.1 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"They appear to be as advanced beyond Earth civilization as you are from a colony of ants." - Commander Spock

The Enterprise arrives at Lactra VII to determine the fate of a science team from the Ariel which disappeared there. Three people disappeared while surveying the planet, then the rest of the team disappeared when they went down looking for them. Despite the dangers, Captain Kirk believes the only way to find out what happened is to also beam down while taking extreme precautions. Once on the surface, they are immediately met with hostile creatures and environments, but the creatures they encounter feel familiar somehow. What's more, there are sudden changes in the biome from one location to the other, suggesting that the environment is artificial in some way. Just as Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor McCoy are putting things together, they get captured by slug-like creatures with trunks who take them to a very comfortable facility designed to cater to all their needs. It is there they learn the fate of the Ariel science team, and the exact nature of their prison.

Originally released: 5 January 1974

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#78: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 2, episode 6 "The Counter-Clock Incident"

Written by John Culver, directed by Bill Reed.

Stardate 5536.3 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"No matter where I've traveled in the galaxy, Jim, this bridge is more like home than anywhere else." - Ambassador Robert April

The Enterprise is escorting the famed Ambassador Robert April, first Captain of the USS Enterprise, to the Babel Peace Conference for his retirement ceremony. April expresses reluctance to end his career in Starfleet when a ship is found moving at impossible warp speeds towards the Enterprise. Captain Kirk moves them out of its way, but it continues speeding towards a supernova. Lieutenant Sulu puts a tractor beam on the runaway ship, but it just causes the Enterprise to get dragged along for the ride. Kirk tries to communicate, but they respond in what sounds like gibberish as they continue to race towards certain death. However instead of burning up as expected, both ships find themselves in an anti-time universe where everything runs in reverse. Now they can understand the pilot of the ship, but find the chances of getting back to their own universe are mathematically astronomical as everyone on the Enterprise begins to age backwards.

Originally released: 12 October 1974

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#77: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 2, episode 1 "The Pirates of Orion"

Written by Howard Weinstein, directed by Bill Reed.

Stardate 5527.3 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"Blasted Vulcan! Why can't you have red blood like any normal Human?" - Doctor McCoy

Commander Spock has contracted an illness that is nothing to humans, but fatal to Vulcans due to their blood containing copper instead of iron. Since the Enterprise is warping away on mission, Captain Kirk contacts Starfleet and arranges for life-saving drugs to be handed off from the USS Potemkin to the USS Huron which will then rendezvous with the Enterprise with only days to spare. However, the Huron is ambushed by Orion pirates and their entire cargo of Dilithium (including the medicine meant for Spock) is taken and the ship left adrift. The Enterprise picks up their distress call and double backs to rescue the crew of the Huron. Now Kirk has the Enterprise chasing the emissions of the pirate ship in a desperate attempt to recover the medicine before Spock's organs give out.

Originally released: 7 September 1974

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#76: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 8 "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

Written by Larry Brody, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardate 5524.5 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"Always so curious, that must be why I've always liked you Earthlings so much!" - Lucien

The Enterprise is sent to survey the center of the galaxy in the hopes of finding matter in the process of being formed. When they arrive, an interstellar storm catches the ship and sends it spinning out of control. Lieutenant Sulu manages to get the ship into the eye of the storm, but things only get worse. One by one, all of the Enterprise's systems give out - including life support. Just as everyone is about to suffocate, a strange, horned and hoofed humanoid appears and miraculously restores the ship's systems. This creature identifies himself as Lucien, and his abilities appear to be magic. Spock can find no explanation as to how he restored power to the Enterprise. Lucien invites Kirk and others to his home planet, speaking to then as if they were old friends, but he also warns them to stay out of sight of everyone else.

Originally released: 27 October 1973

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#75: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 10 "Mudd's Passion"

Written by Stephen Kandel, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardate 5514.0 (early 2269)
(Using the novelization Stardate)

"You're funny and very attractive for a Human." - Lieutenant M'Ress

The Enterprise arrives at Motherlode, in pursuit of a familiar conman; Harry Mudd. Despite Motherlode not being under Federation jurisdiction, Captain Kirk is determined to bring him in. And after his latest con is revealed to a crowd of locals, Mudd agrees to come willingly. Onboard the Enterprise, Mudd coerces Nurse Chapel to release him with he promise that Commander Spock will finally fall for her thanks his "love crystals." Once Chapel is compromised, Mudd commandeers a shuttlecraft and accidentally spills more crystals in the ventilation system while taking Chapel as a hostage. Now Kirk struggles to track down Mudd while the entire crew starts developing overwhelming relationships with each other.

Originally released: 10 November 1973

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#74: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 13 "The Ambergris Element"

Written by Margaret Armen, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardates 5499.9 through 5506.2 (early 2269)

"I did not believe such knowledge was possible." - Domar

The Enterprise is sent to study Argo, a planet whose surface has almost completely sank into its ocean due to seismic activity in an effort to prevent a similar disaster on other Federation worlds. As Captain Kirk and Commander Spock explore the surface with an away team, their shuttlecraft comes under attack by a previously unknown sea creature. They conclude that the initial survey of the planet was incomplete and are attacked again, this time Kirk and Spock are pulled underwater with the wrecked shuttle. When they come to, they are washed ashore and gasping for air. Doctor McCoy realizes the've mutated to be able to breathe underwater by unknown means. This leads to the assumption that there may be an advanced civilization deeper underwater. With their new-found abilities, Kirk and Spock search the depths of the ocean and find water-dwelling humanoids who run at the sight of them. When Commander Scott reports that a massive underwater tremor is imminent, Kirk and Spock try to establish communication with a species that distrusts land dwellers and find a way to protect them from the tremors while also figuring out how to undo their mutation.

Originally released: 1 December 1973

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A clip from The Search for Spock - Directed by Leonard Nimoy
Scene: Getting Dr. McCoy and Stealing the Enterprise

S01E23 A Taste of Armageddon
https://antifandom.com/memory-alpha/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon_(episode)

A rare situation for Scotty-- both in command of the Enterprise, and also making a typically Kirk-like bluff. Or was it, really..?

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#73: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 4 "The Lorelei Signal"

Written by Margaret Armen, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardates 5483.7 through 5843.9 (early 2269)

"It does resemble a summons." - Commander Spock

After Federation diplomats meet with the Klingon and Romulan governments, the Enterprise is dispatched to investigate why ships disappear exactly every 27.3 star years from a certain sector of space. Shortly after the Enterprise arrives, Commander Spock detects a strange signal coming all the way from the Taurean System at the far end of the sector - a signal that sounds like music. Captain Kirk orders the ship to follow the signal to its source. Once there, it appears to Lieutenant Uhura that all the men on the bridge have become entranced by it and calls Nurse Chapel to observe. Despite her vocal concerns, Kirk leads an away team down to the planet and are drawn to a temple filled with beautiful women who welcome them. Shortly after they arrive, they all lose consciousness and are taken to chambers by the women. With the away team disabled, and the men still aboard the Enterprise becoming unresponsive, Uhura assumes command of the Enterprise and assembles teams of female security officer to prevent more men from beaming down to the planet while her and Chapel take an armed away team down to the planet to rescue their missing crewmembers.

Originally released: 29 September 1973

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#72: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 7 "Day of the Dove"

Written by Jerome Bixby, directed by Marvin Chomsky.

Stardate unknown (early 2269)

"What power supports our battle yet starves our victory?" - Commander Kang

After responding to a distress call from a colony of over 100 people, that now seems to no longer exist, a damaged Klingon Battlecruiser led by Commander Kang enters the system demanding Captain Kirk pay for what they've done to his ship. Kang claims he responded to a distress call as well, and neither side are aware of what happened to the other. Kirk tricks Kang and his men aboard the Enterprise into the waiting arms of security and Commander Spock evacuates the bleeding batlecruiser before destroying it. At first, Kirk tries to reason with the Klingons. But primitive weapons magically appear, which replaces diplomacy with combat and leaves parts of the Enterprise under Klingon control. Communications stop working, a majority of the crew becomes trapped, and the Enterprise goes to high warp on its own while the crew starts to become uncharacteristically bloodthirsty. With the ship speeding out of the galaxy, everyone fights the urge to surrender to blind hatred while fighting for control of the ship.

Originally released: 1 November 1968

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60 years ago, the first episode of Star Trek, featuring “Space: the final frontier” and the USS Enterprise, began its three-year mission of exploration on TV screens across America. The science-fiction television show created by Gene Roddenberry was set in the 23rd century and starred William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. The NBC show has since […] The post Good News in History, September 8 appeared first on Good News Network.

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#71: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 8 "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

Written by Rik Vollaerts, directed by Tony Leader.

Stardates 5476.3 through 5476.4 (January 2269)

"A lot can happen in a year. Please, give yourself every minute." - Nurse Chapel

Several missiles are detected approaching the Enterprise and are shot down. The source of those missiles turns out to be a giant asteroid hurtling through space under artificial propulsion. Deeper scans of the asteroid reveal inner layers with a breathable atmosphere. Commander Spock plots the course of the asteroid and finds it will strike the planet Daran V, inhabited by over 3 billion people, in about a years time. The impact would not only kill everyone living aboard the asteroid, but everyone living on Devon V. Captain Kirk feels obligated to beam into the asteroid to investigate the situation, and offer to help its occupants if possible. Meanwhile, Doctor McCoy confides to Kirk that he is now terminally ill, but insists on joining the away mission despite his condition.

Originally released: 8 November 1968

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