FArF: The Lovely Backdrops of Star Trek: The Animated Series

/ Therese

In reviewing the old Star Trek animated series it was clear that a lot of the best art was in the creative and colorful backgrounds made for the planets.  Characters  silhouetted against the backdrops made an even a stronger impact.  The Original Series had lovely painted backdrops too, but in TAS, the imaginations soared, creating scenes the original couldn’t afford.  A shame there were only  22 episodes. I  especially like the re-creation of the Guardian of Forever in Yesteryear, and the planet Vulcan.  There’s a lovely image of Uhura resting by a lake in Once Upon a Planet. And the curvy architecture of the palace in The Lorelei Signal reflects its female inhabitants.  Which are your favorites?

From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Yesteryear’
From ‘Beyond the Farthest Star’
From ‘Beyond the Farthest Star’
From ‘The Lorelei Signal’
From ‘The Lorelei Signal’
From ‘The Infinite Vulcan’
From ‘The Infinite Vulcan’
From ‘The Infinite Vulcan’
From ‘The Magicks of Megus-Tu’
From ‘The Magicks of Megus-Tu’
From ‘Once Upon a Planet’
From ‘Once Upon a Planet’
From ‘The Ambergris Element’
From ‘The Ambergris Element’
From ‘The Ambergris Element’
From ‘The Slaver Weapon’
From ‘The Eye of the Beholder’
From ‘The Eye of the Beholder’
From “The Practical Joker’
From :Albatross’
From ‘How Sharper Than A Serpent’s Tooth’
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Spock heads back to his arid hometown in “Yesteryear’

3 thoughts on “FArF: The Lovely Backdrops of Star Trek: The Animated Series”

  1. One I do like very much out of the animated is ‘The Infinite Vulcan’ but I could not really pick, I love them all.

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  2. They are all good, but maybe the more colourful and imaginative the better! And those creatures like in “the Eye of the beholder” are so wild! 🙂 (Today they create them by computers…:/)

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