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   From: mvp@web1.calweb.com   
      
   In article , Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>Here's a no-brainer, which I am not sure why it has not already happened:   
   >   
   >>You have the animated series with the TOS original cast voices, some decent   
   >>scripts, and absolutely *awful* Filmation animation.  Now is the time to   
   >>redo the series in CGI, keeping the original voice tracks and scripts.   
   >   
   >I re-watched the series recently. The scripts were largely terrible. And   
   >the voice tracks? Toss 'em. None of the actors recorded together and   
   >there is no illusion that characters in the same scene were speaking to   
   >each other.   
      
   I just noticed they were on NetFlix the other day, and   
   re-watched one I had fond memories of from back when it was   
   originally on TV, "The Jihad".   
      
   Some decent ideas and worldbuilding.  I was particularly   
   intrigued by the Vedala "the oldest known species in the   
   galaxy", I think they said.  My vague recollection from   
   1970mumble was that they'd said the Vedala were the founders   
   of the Federation, but that wasn't stated.   
      
   One thing I liked about the animated series was that freed from   
   the practical constraints of the aliens having to be humans in   
   rubber suits, the aliens weren't all humans in rubber suits.   
   Or with this week's fashion in forehead bumps.   
      
   Alas... Yeah.  Wretched animation, really cut-rate.   
      
   The voice acting, they kind of seemed to be phoning it in.   
      
   The writing of this episode at least seemed mostly OK, probably   
   could have been carried with better voice acting.   
      
   One thing struck me -- I always thought that the original "Gene   
   Roddenberry" premise of Andromeda was "The Enterprise gets stuck   
   in a space-time wedgie for 300 years, and when it comes out, the   
   Federation has fallen, and all is barbarism.  James Tomcat Kirk   
   takes it upon himself to re-build the Federation from scratch."   
   They filed off all the serial numbers and made it "Not Trek", of   
   course.  Some was pretty good.  Much was unspeakbly putrid.   
      
   Part of the background of Andromeda is that the Commonwealth was   
   founded by the Vedarans (?sp?) some 10,000 years ago.   
      
   That similarity of the name... I wonder if there's some   
   connection in whatever notes the writers of TAS may have been   
   working from?  Was Roddenberry's concept (though never stated in   
   Star Trek, and contradicted by post-Roddenberry Trek) that the   
   Federation was much older than human space travel?   
      
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