[sickoflibs]

RE:”However, he was extremely stiff in Star Trek I and seemed to playing robo-Kirk (my guess is he was “off” as Kirk since he hadn't played the role in a decade and didn't go back and review the old episodes).”

This was the 1970s between the show and the movie.

Star Trek The Animated Series Episode 1 [FULL EPISODE]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Given the time and the fact that it was geared to kids, those were solid and intelligent little episodes. Animation could also allow them to do more fantastical settings that budgetary limitations of the time could not (recall the budget cutbacks for the 3rd and last season left many episodes largely shipbound).