History WesternAnimation / StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries

* CatSmile: Lieutenant M'Ress has one constantly, due to her cat-like anatomy.

* ForWantOfANail: In "Yesteryear", if Spock hadn't saved his past self, he wouldn't be alive in order to be part of the ''Enterprise'' crew.

* CloningBlues: In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7TheInfiniteVulcan The Infinite Vulcan]]", the giant clone of Spock experiences an existential crisis when he realizes he is quite out of scale with the ''Enterprise'' and everything he is familiar with. [[IChooseToStay He ultimately elects to remain on the planet.]]

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress, who wears a full Starfleet uniform, except for footwear. {{Justified}} because she has digitigrade paws (meaning she walks on her toes).

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* WiseSerpent: [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E5HowSharperThanASerpentsTooth How Sharper Than A Serpents Tooth]]" has the Enterprise encounter a starship shaped like a winged serpent. This alien ship is piloted by an actual winged serpent named Kukulkan, [[AncientAstronauts who visited Earth thousands of years earlier]]. Kukulkan guided the early Mayans out of tribalism, and into civilization and academia. He's pleased that his name and legacy are remembered, but still regards humans as childlike: inept and immature, still needing his guidance.

* WingedHumanoid: The Skorr, a race of bird-people who were the the focus of the episode "The Jihad".

* PleasurePlanet: "Once Upon A Planet" featured the same planet that first appeared in the Star Trek TOS episode, "Shore Leave".

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* OffModel:
** In addition to ''incredibly'' LimitedAnimation, one of the producers was colorblind, so everyone but Sulu and Uhura was absolutely ''chalk white.'' Colors of things established in the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries live-action series]] would be altered so you'd wind up saying "what do you mean that episode had [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Orions]]?" The Kzinti - a warlike enemy race who'd supposedly plagued mankind for a hundred years or more - dressed in very {{Narm}}ful ''hot pink uniforms.'' A lot of notorious animation errors require the pause button, but this ain't that. The animation was ''farcically'' bad throughout every episode ever. Yeah, it's good that ''Franchise/StarTrek'' didn't die after all, but dude. Can we at least ''leave the color decisions to the guys who can see colors?''
** Two words: Pink Tribbles.
** In the mid to late 1970s, some selected reproduced cels were offered for sale through Gene Roddenbury's Lincoln Enterprises. One of these was a shot of Spock in front of the Guardian of Forever pointing at another character with a six fingered hand.
** One shot of Scotty operating the transporter switched to an over-the-shoulder shot of the mustached Mr Kyle, making it look like Mr Scott had a mustache. [[HilariousInHindsight Fast foward to 1979 in which James Doohan actually does have one]]. There is also a shot of Scotty, in "Beyond The Farthest Star, in which he is a floating torso!?

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Bios of M'Ress, a BarefootCartoonAnimal, take pains to point this out.

The title used here and on the DVD release is a {{retronym}}, as the show originally aired as simply ''Star Trek''. It's also known by the more ponderous title of ''[[LongTitle The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek]]''.

* InsectoidAliens: The episode "Beyond The Farthest Star" has the Enterprise encounter an alien spacecraft orbiting a lifeless planet at the edge of the galaxy. Its organic shape resembles the chambers and tunnels of an ant colony, and its metal hull isn't rolled or cast, it's been drawn into filaments and spun like spider silk. When the away team attains the ship's command section, they activate an ApocalypticLog which shows the insectoid captain on a viewscreen.

* PeopleZoo: The Lactrans in "The Eye of the Beholder" capture the away team and put them in their zoo.

* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan in "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth". He visited Earth in the distant past and was the basis for the Mayan god of the same name, the Toltec god Quetzalcoatl, and the Chinese dragons.

* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kukulcan's city in "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" has the Mayan pyramids.

* LotusEaterMachine: In "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth", the animals in Kukulcan's zoo believe that they are living in their natural environment, a hallucination generated by Kukulcan's machines.

* MorphWeapon: The titular device in "The Slaver Weapon" has settings from "stun" to "atomic bomb".
* MrExposition: Ensign Walking Bear, a character never seen before or since, just happens to be on duty on the bridge at the proper moment to explain how Kukulcan is important in the history of his people, in "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth". Dawson Walking Bear (Comanche) was originally supposed to be in "The Patient Parasites". Fontana didn't really know what to do with him, but Russell Bates (Kiowa) included him in "How Sharper". He appears in three ''Star Trek: Phase Two'' fan film episodes. He is played by [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3900115/ Wayne W. Johnson]], who says he actually has no Native heritage.

** As in "Journey To Babel," the Orions are again depicted as pirates in "The Pirates of Orion," though their name is pronounced "OR-ee-on" throughout the episode for some reason. Also, they're depicted as blue-skinned here rather than green. [[note]] In "Journey to Babel," the one Orion we meet is disguised as a blue-skinned Andorian. In "The Menagerie" and all other appearances since the original series, though, they are green.[[/note]]

* AbsenteeActor: Everyone ''except'' Spock, Sulu, and Uhura in "The Slaver Weapon". Chekov is absent the whole series.

** "Beyond The Farthest Star". An evil EnergyBeing is trapped in a 300 million year old starship orbiting a black hole.

* BeingWatched: Episode "Beyond the Farthest Star". While the Enterprise away team is on board the alien ship, Dr. [=McCoy=] says being on the ship gives him the creeps and that he feels like something's watching them. He's right: there's an intangible alien being on the ship that's trying to return to the Enterprise with the team.

* AssInAmbassador: The title character in "Bem". He swaps out Kirk's and Spock's communicators and phasers for counterfeits, runs off from the away team, doesn't even bother separating himself to escape when he is first captured, and leaves Kirk and Spock in their wooden cages when he does manage to escape.