History WesternAnimation / StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries

%%* BigDumbObject: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
%%* BigRedButton: "Beyond The Farthest Star". The auxiliary warp drive controls.

%%* CanonImmigrant: Creator/LarryNiven's Kzinti and Slavers in "The Slaver Weapon".

%%* CoolOldGuy: Captain Robert T. April in "The Counter-Clock Incident".

%%* DerelictGraveyard: "The Time Trap".

%%* DetachmentCombat: The title character in "Bem".

* FollowTheLeader: ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' borrowed from "Beyond the Farthest Star".

%%* LosingYourHead: The title character in "Bem".

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: "Life-support belts" that allow the crew to survive in vacuum without spacesuits are only seen in one episode.

* RealMenWearPink: The Klingons in "The Practical Joker", courtesy of a colorblind director.

* AIIsACrapShoot: The planetary computer in "Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E9OnceUponAPlanet Once Upon a Planet]]", as a result of the Caretaker's death in the time since the Original Series episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E15ShoreLeave Shore Leave]]". It creates things like the Queen of Hearts and dangerous animals when nobody is thinking about them, and it captures Uhura.

%%* FishPeople: "The Ambergris Element" features fish-like aliens who can only breath underwater.

Given the reality that it was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}, the animation is typically the studio's ultra-cheap style. However, they more than made up for that with most of the original cast and the writers as well. The result is a show that might not have the best animation, but still boasted spectacular imagery and believably non-human aliens that the original show could never depict, while still reasonably keeping to its artistic spirit. As a result, this series is the best example of the AnimatedAdaptation concept in UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation that was so good that it won the franchise's first ever Emmy Award.

''The Animated Series'' remains the shortest-lived series of the ''Trek'' franchise, with just 22 episodes airing over a 13-month period in 1973-74 on Creator/{{NBC}}. It was also the last ''Trek'' series to air in first-run on network television until ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' debuted in 1995 on Creator/{{UPN}}.

However, the franchise creator, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, later insisted that the animated show be kept out of continuity since he never anticipated that ''Star Trek'' would later be revived in live action on such a scale as would happen. Still, many fans insisted that at least the best episode, "Yesteryear", be counted, considering that it gives a valuable look into Spock's youth and character as well as the planet Vulcan as told by the most authoritative voice on the matter, D.C. Fontana. Because of the information about Vulcan presented in the show, the introducing of the Holodeck, giving Kirk his middle name, and the fact that many of the ''Star Trek'' writers and actors were involved with the show, many fans consider it a part of their personal ''Star Trek'' {{canon}} of it depicting the final two years of ''Enterprise's'' five year mission. In addition, the producers of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' used numerous references from this series. The ExpandedUniverse, already having less of a need to adhere to strict canon, even went so far as to revive the series' SixthRanger alien crew members, CatGirl Lt. M'Ress and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tri-symmetrical Lt. Arex]].

!!This series provides examples of:

* AIIsACrapShoot: The planetary computer in "Once Upon A Planet". It created things like the Queen of Hearts and dangerous animals when nobody was thinking about them and it captures Uhura.

* 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.

* ArtificialGravity: The Enterprise's computer shuts off the gravity in "The Practical Joker" and the fortress in "The Jihad" .
%%* AscendedMeme: "Beam me up, Scotty!"

* AsteroidThicket: In "The Pirates of Orion", the Enterprise pursues the Orion ship into one.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress, who wears a full Starfleet uniform, except for footwear. {{Justified}} because she has digigrade paws.(Meaning she walks on her toes.)
** DoesNotLikeShoes: Bios of M'Ress take pains to point this out.

* BriarPatching: How Kirk tricks the computer in "The Practical Joker".

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

* CatFolk: The Caitian Lieutenant M'Ress, as well as the Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon". Some of the ExpandedUniverse material around it suggested that the Caitian relationship to the Kzinti is essentially the same as the one between the Vulcans and the Romulans, only with the ones that left (the Caitians) being the "good guys" that ended up part of the Federation and the ones that stayed (the Kzinti) as the militaristic bad guys with historic conflicts with the Federation (and possibly with some ill-advised genetic engineering on the part of the Kzinti).

* ChekhovsGun: "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth". Dr. [=McCoy=]'s medical kit provides a hypo to calm the Capellan Power Cat.
* ChildrenAreCruel: In "Yesteryear", we get our first glimpse at Spock's childhood... and it's not pretty.
%%* CloningBlues: Spock in "The Infinite Vulcan".
* ContrivedCoincidence: "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth". If Ensign Walking Bear hadn't been on the bridge, Kukulkan would have destroyed both the Enterprise and the entire human race.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Than most other cartoons on television at the time. ''The Animated Series'' tended to work with the same style of cerebral stories that the previous live-action series did, and references to death were not glossed over at all. In fact, "Yesteryear" deals with [[spoiler:a child version of Spock losing his beloved pet]], and the "death words" weren't glossed over or replaced with LighterAndSofter equivalents. This has helped the series gain a strong following within the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan community, as well as with the creative staffs involved with the franchise.

%%* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: "Once Upon A Planet".
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" has ''[[CoolVsAwesome James T. Kirk defeating Satan!]]'' (or at least a being claiming to be him as part of a SecretTestOfCharacter)

* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: "The Lorelei Signal". The women of the planet Taurus II are effectively psychic vampires who drain the energy from men to survive, [[InferredHolocaust and have been doing so to the crew of passing ships for at least 150 years]]. They try to do the same to Kirk, Spock, and Dr. [=McCoy=] and are only stopped by threat of force from Uhura... yet they're still presented as sympathetic to both the viewer and the heroes because they "cannot bear children" and the end of the episode has the Enterprise crew promise them [[KarmaHoudini a ship to be able to leave their planet and thus escape the "curse" of immortality]].

* FiveYearPlan: The three seasons of ''The Original Series'' and the two seasons of ''The Animated Series''.
* FollowTheLeader: ''SpaceBattleshipYamato'' borrowed from "Beyond The Farthest Star".
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu". The inhabitants of Megas-Tu do this for their own bodies and their planet's surface for the benefit of the Enterprise crew.
* 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.
%%* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The "life support belts".

* GodGuise: Keniclius 5 with the Phylosians in "The Infinite Vulcan", and Kukulkan by the ancient Mayans in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".

* HauntedTechnology: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker" gains a prankster personality.

* HolodeckMalfunction: "The Practical Joker". [=McCoy=], Uhura and Sulu are trapped in it.

* HumanAliens: Although there are still a fair few, this show took advantage of the animated format to avert the trope whenever they could and come up with more divergent alien designs.
* HumanityOnTrial: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu." Humanity is put on trial by the Megans, for the crime of being xenophobic jerks. The trial is actually for "humanity and those who would aid them" in order to account for the nonhuman crew members. Humanity initially has its sentence suspended because it is concluded that they do not pose a threat to the Megans since it is nearly impossible to locate the Megan homeworld. Humanity is found not guilty after Kirk risks his life to protect a Megan who had been sentenced to A FateWorseThanDeath for associating with humanity. When asked why they didn't just use the Enterprise's records to discover for themselves that humans were capable of things like a HeroicSacrifice the Megans reply the records could have been faked.

%%* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Life-support belts

* IndyHatRoll: In "Once Upon A Planet", Kirk leaps through a sliding rock door in the side of a mountain just before it closes.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: The planetary computer in "Once Upon A Planet" develops artificial intelligence on its own.

%%* LimitedAnimation

* LostColony: Terra Ten in "The Terratin Incident"...only it wasn't really lost — just shrunken to an extremely tiny size.
* LotusEaterMachine: Kukulcan's zoo animals in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
%%* LouisCypher: Lucien in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
%%* LovePotion: "Mudd's Passion"

* MeaningfulName: Bem, which means "Bug Eyed Monster" in SF fandom.

%%* MorphWeapon: The title device in "The Slaver Weapon".
%%* MrExposition: Ensign Walking Bear in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
%%* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Spock in "Yesteryear."
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: It was actually in this show that Kirk's middle name was first revealed to be Tiberius, though it wouldn't officially enter canon until the sixth film.

* NeverSayDie: [[AvertedTrope Actively averted.]], which became a rather large source of controversy in the episode "Yesteryear"

* NowDoItAgainBackwards: How the computer is repaired in "The Practical Joker".

%%* PettingZooPeople: Lieutenant M'Ress.

* PlanetEater: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing" featured a space cloud that ate planets.

%%* PortalToThePast: The Guardian of Forever in "Yesteryear".

-->'''Kirk''': Besides, he'll be sure to take advantage when he sees that we've carelessly left our shuttle bay door open.
-->'''Uhura''': But we didn't, sir.
-->'''Kirk''': Oh yes. See to that little oversight, will you, Mr. Sulu?

* [[RealMenWearPink Real Klingons Wear Pink]]: Courtesy of a color blind director.
%%* RealityIsOutToLunch: The planet Megas-Tu in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
%%* RealityWarper: The inhabitants of the title planet in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".

* RoleReprisal: The entire cast, minus Walter Koenig, reprised the roles they played on the original series — William Shatner as Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, [=DeForest=] Kelley as [=McCoy=], James Doohan as Scotty, George Takei as Sulu, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Nurse Chapel.
** Instead of providing Chekov [[TheOtherDarrin another voice actor]], they instead replaced him with two new characters: Arex (voiced by James Doohan) and M'Ress (voiced by Majel Barrett). Koenig would wind up contributing to the series by writing the episode "The Infinite Vulcan".
** For guest stars, Mark Lenard reprised his role of Sarek in "Yesteryear", Stanley Adams reprised his role of Cyrano Jones in "More Tribbles, More Troubles", and Roger C. Carmel returned as Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Passion".

* SdrawkcabName: The retlaw plant in "The Infinite Vulcan", and the planet Arret in "The Counter-Clock Incident".
* SealedEvilInACan

* SelfDestructingSecurity: "The Slaver Weapon". The title device tricks the Kzinti into using a self-destruct setting to destroy it...and them.

%%* SnakeOilSalesman: Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Passion", Cyrano Jones in "More Tribbles, More Troubles".

* StarfishAliens: Edosians, Vendorians, Phylosians, Lactrans, and M/3/Green. The production team was clearly thrilled to not have to worry about budget constraints when designing the aliens, to the point that they probably went overboard with it.
** Also, if the aliens naturally fly, swim, or slither, you don't have to animate them ''walking.''

* TieInNovel: Creator/AlanDeanFoster wrote adaptations of the episodes, and many ''Trek'' novels referenced it.

* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: It's unknown what happened to Thelen the Andorian after the timeline got fixed in "Yesteryear".

* VengefulVendingMachine: "The Practical Joker". After the ''Enterprise'' passes through a mysterious energy field, the ship's computer starts playing practical jokes on the crew. When Scotty tries to obtain a sandwich from the food synthesiser it sprays food all over him, including a custard pie in the face.

* WellDoneSonGuy: In "Yesteryear" Spock wants to prove to his father Sarek that he is a true Vulcan by undergoing the Kahs-wan ordeal.

* WronglyAccused: [=McCoy=], in "Albatross" is falsely accused of indirectly killing people of a plague they weren't cured of.
* YearOutsideHourInside: This occurs in the title area in "The Time Trap".

-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' (''about to give an injection'') This won't hurt a bit, Spock.\\

!!Provides aversions of:

* LighterAndFluffier: One of the main reasons given by GeneRoddenberry as to why he chose Filmation out of all the animation companies who made a pitch at doing ''The Animated Series'' is because they were the only company who didn't suggest giving the ''Enterprise'' crew "funny animal sidekicks". Interestingly, ''after'' getting the job, the idea apparently did surface at pre-production meetings... but it was quickly (and rightly) kyboshed by Roddenberry. Regardless, Filmation didn't let the concept of "funny sidekicks in space" go to waste and created the live-action series ''SpaceAcademy'' a few years later.

Given the reality that it was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}, the animation is typically the studio's ultra-cheap style. However, they more than made up for that with most of the original cast and the writers as well. The result is a show that might not have the best animation, but still boasted spectacular imagery and believably non-human aliens that the original show could never depict, while still reasonably keeping to its artistic spirit. As a result, this series is the best example of the AnimatedAdaptation concept in the DarkAgeOfAnimation that was so good that it won the franchise's first ever Emmy Award.

However, the franchise creator, GeneRoddenberry, later insisted that the animated show be kept out of continuity since he never anticipated that ''Star Trek'' would later be revived in live action on such a scale as would happen. Still, many fans insisted that at least the best episode, "Yesteryear", be counted, considering that it gives a valuable look into Spock's youth and character as well as the planet Vulcan as told by the most authoritative voice on the matter, D.C. Fontana. Because of the information about Vulcan presented in the show, the introducing of the Holodeck, giving Kirk his middle name, and the fact that many of the ''Star Trek'' writers and actors were involved with the show, many fans consider it a part of their personal ''Star Trek'' {{canon}} of it depicting the final two years of ''Enterprise's'' five year mission. In addition, the producers of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' used numerous references from this series. The ExpandedUniverse, already having less of a need to adhere to strict canon, even went so far as to revive the series' SixthRanger alien crew members, CatGirl Lt. M'Ress and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tri-symmetrical Lt. Arex]].

%%* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kukulcan's city in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".

%%* DetachableLowerHalf: The title character in "Bem".

%%* EveryoneIsASuper: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".

%%* FishPeople: "The Ambergris Element"

%%* ForWantOfANail: "Yesteryear"

%%* GirlsNightOutEpisode: "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* HauntedTechnology: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".

%%* MerlinSickness: "The Counter-Clock Incident"

%%* PeopleZoo: "The Eye of the Beholder"

%%* PlanetEater: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"

%%* SequelEpisode: "Mudd's Passion", "More Tribbles, More Troubles", and "Yesteryear", to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episodes.

%%* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Thelen the Andorian in "Yesteryear".

%%* WitchSpecies: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

%%* WronglyAccused: [=McCoy=], in "Albatross".

%%* AssInAmbassador: The title character in "Bem".

%%* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".

%%* ArtificialGravity: "The Practical Joker" and "The Jihad".

%%* AIIsACrapShoot: The planetary computer in "Once Upon A Planet".
%%* AlternateUniverse: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" and "The Counter-Clock Incident".

* [[RealMenWearPink Real Klingons Wear Pink]]: courtesy of a colourblind director.

Given the reality that it was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}, the animation is typically the studio's ultra-cheap style. However, they more than made up for that with most of the original cast and the writers as well (although Creator/LarryNiven was a tad lazy in squeezing ''The Slaver Weapon'' from his ''Literature/KnownSpace'' universe into that of ''Star Trek''). The result is a show that might not have the best animation, but still boasted spectacular imagery and believably non-human aliens that the original show could never depict, while still reasonably keeping to its artistic spirit. As a result, this series is the best example of the AnimatedAdaptation concept in the DarkAgeOfAnimation that was so good that it won the franchise's first ever Emmy Award.

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress, who wears a full Starfleet uniform, except for footwear. {{Justified}} because she has plantigrade paws.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu". The inhabitants of Megas-Tu do this for their own bodies and their planet's surface for the benefit of the Enterprise crew.

%%* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: bios of M'Ress take pains to point this out.

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%%* AIIsACrapShoot: The planetary computer in "Once Upon A Planet".
%%* AlternateUniverse: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" and "The Counter-Clock Incident".
%%* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".

%%* ArtificialGravity: "The Practical Joker" and "The Jihad".
%%* AscendedMeme: "Beam me up, Scotty!"
%%* AssInAmbassador: The title character in "Bem".

%%* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress.
%%* BigDumbObject: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
%%* BigRedButton: "Beyond The Farthest Star". The auxiliary warp drive controls.

%%* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kukulcan's city in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
%%* CanonImmigrant: Creator/LarryNiven's Kzinti and Slavers in "The Slaver Weapon".

%%* CloningBlues: Spock in "The Infinite Vulcan".

%%* CoolOldGuy: Captain Robert T. April in "The Counter-Clock Incident".

%%* DerelictGraveyard: "The Time Trap".
%%* DetachableLowerHalf: The title character in "Bem".
%%* DetachmentCombat: The title character in "Bem".
%%* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: "Once Upon A Planet".

%%* DoomedDefeatist: Subverted with M-3-Green in "The Jihad".

%%* EnergyBeings: "Beyond The Farthest Star", "Bem".
%%* EnthrallingSiren: "The Lorelei Signal".
%%* EveryoneIsASuper: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
%%* ExpressiveEars: The Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon".
%%* ExpospeakGag: Between Spock and [=McCoy=].

%%* FilmingForEasyDub
%%* FishPeople: "The Ambergris Element"

%%* ForWantOfANail: "Yesteryear"
%%* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The "life support belts".

%%* GiantFlyer: "The Infinite Vulcan" and "The Eye of the Beholder".
%%* GirlsNightOutEpisode: "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* GrandfatherParadox: Spock in "Yesteryear".
%%* HauntedTechnology: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".

%%* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Life-support belts
%%* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "The Terratin Incident"

%%* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Charr in "The Jihad".

%%* LimitedAnimation
%%* LosingYourHead: The title character in "Bem".

%%* LouisCypher: Lucien in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
%%* LovePotion: "Mudd's Passion"
%%* MacGuffin: The "Soul of Alar" artifact in "The Jihad"

%%* MerlinSickness: "The Counter-Clock Incident"

%%* TheMole: Charr in "The Jihad".
%%* MorphWeapon: The title device in "The Slaver Weapon".
%%* MrExposition: Ensign Walking Bear in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
%%* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Spock in "Yesteryear."

%%* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: The end of "The Slaver Weapon".

%%* OceanPunk: "The Ambergris Element"
%%* OffModel

%%* PatchworkMap: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PatchworkWorld: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PeopleZoo: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PettingZooPeople: Lieutenant M'Ress.
%%* ThePlague: "Albatross", "The Infinite Vulcan".
%%* PlanetEater: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
%%* PlantAliens: The Phylosians in "The Infinite Vulcan".
%%* PleasurePlanet: "Once Upon A Planet"
%%* PortalToThePast: The Guardian of Forever in "Yesteryear".

%%* RealityIsOutToLunch: The planet Megas-Tu in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
%%* RealityWarper: The inhabitants of the title planet in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".

%%* RetGone: Spock in "Yesteryear".

%%* RiteOfPassage: The Vulcan kahs-wan in "Yesteryear".

%%* SequelEpisode: "Mudd's Passion", "More Tribbles, More Troubles", and "Yesteryear", to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episodes.

%%* SnakeOilSalesman: Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Passion", Cyrano Jones in "More Tribbles, More Troubles".
%%* SpacePirates: "The Pirates of Orion"
%%* SpaceshipGirl: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".
%%* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt
%%* SpiritualSuccessor: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing" to ''TOS'' episode "The Immunity Syndrome".
%%* StableTimeLoop: "Yesteryear"

%%* SufficientlyAdvanced: "Bem", "The Eye of the Beholder", and "The Jihad".
%%* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Arex, to Chekov.
%%* SwissArmyWeapon: "The Slaver Weapon"

%%* TemporalParadox: "Yesteryear"
%%* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Thelen the Andorian in "Yesteryear".

%%* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Vendorian in "The Survivor".

%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The alien women in "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* WitchSpecies: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

%%* WronglyAccused: [=McCoy=], in "Albatross".

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%%* AIIsACrapShoot: The planetary computer in "Once Upon A Planet".
%%* AlternateUniverse: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" and "The Counter-Clock Incident".
%%* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".

%%* ArtificialGravity: "The Practical Joker" and "The Jihad".
%%* AscendedMeme: "Beam me up, Scotty!"
%%* AssInAmbassador: The title character in "Bem".

%%* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress.
%%* BigDumbObject: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
%%* BigRedButton: "Beyond The Farthest Star". The auxiliary warp drive controls.

%%* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kukulcan's city in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
%%* CanonImmigrant: Creator/LarryNiven's Kzinti and Slavers in "The Slaver Weapon".

%%* CloningBlues: Spock in "The Infinite Vulcan".

%%* CoolOldGuy: Captain Robert T. April in "The Counter-Clock Incident".

%%* DerelictGraveyard: "The Time Trap".
%%* DetachableLowerHalf: The title character in "Bem".
%%* DetachmentCombat: The title character in "Bem".
%%* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: "Once Upon A Planet".

%%* DoomedDefeatist: Subverted with M-3-Green in "The Jihad".

%%* EnergyBeings: "Beyond The Farthest Star", "Bem".
%%* EnthrallingSiren: "The Lorelei Signal".
%%* EveryoneIsASuper: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
%%* ExpressiveEars: The Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon".
%%* ExpospeakGag: Between Spock and [=McCoy=].

%%* FilmingForEasyDub
%%* FishPeople: "The Ambergris Element"

%%* ForWantOfANail: "Yesteryear"
%%* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The "life support belts".

%%* GiantFlyer: "The Infinite Vulcan" and "The Eye of the Beholder".
%%* GirlsNightOutEpisode: "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* GrandfatherParadox: Spock in "Yesteryear".
%%* HauntedTechnology: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".

%%* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Life-support belts
%%* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "The Terratin Incident"

%%* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Charr in "The Jihad".

%%* LimitedAnimation
%%* LosingYourHead: The title character in "Bem".

%%* LouisCypher: Lucien in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
%%* LovePotion: "Mudd's Passion"
%%* MacGuffin: The "Soul of Alar" artifact in "The Jihad"

%%* MerlinSickness: "The Counter-Clock Incident"

%%* TheMole: Charr in "The Jihad".
%%* MorphWeapon: The title device in "The Slaver Weapon".
%%* MrExposition: Ensign Walking Bear in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
%%* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Spock in "Yesteryear."

%%* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: The end of "The Slaver Weapon".

%%* OceanPunk: "The Ambergris Element"
%%* OffModel

%%* PatchworkMap: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PatchworkWorld: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PeopleZoo: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PettingZooPeople: Lieutenant M'Ress.
%%* ThePlague: "Albatross", "The Infinite Vulcan".
%%* PlanetEater: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
%%* PlantAliens: The Phylosians in "The Infinite Vulcan".
%%* PleasurePlanet: "Once Upon A Planet"
%%* PortalToThePast: The Guardian of Forever in "Yesteryear".

%%* RealityIsOutToLunch: The planet Megas-Tu in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
%%* RealityWarper: The inhabitants of the title planet in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".

%%* RetGone: Spock in "Yesteryear".

%%* RiteOfPassage: The Vulcan kahs-wan in "Yesteryear".

%%* SequelEpisode: "Mudd's Passion", "More Tribbles, More Troubles", and "Yesteryear", to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episodes.

%%* SnakeOilSalesman: Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Passion", Cyrano Jones in "More Tribbles, More Troubles".
%%* SpacePirates: "The Pirates of Orion"
%%* SpaceshipGirl: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".
%%* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt
%%* SpiritualSuccessor: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing" to ''TOS'' episode "The Immunity Syndrome".
%%* StableTimeLoop: "Yesteryear"

%%* SufficientlyAdvanced: "Bem", "The Eye of the Beholder", and "The Jihad".
%%* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Arex, to Chekov.
%%* SwissArmyWeapon: "The Slaver Weapon"

%%* TemporalParadox: "Yesteryear"
%%* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Thelen the Andorian in "Yesteryear".

%%* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Vendorian in "The Survivor".

%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The alien women in "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* WitchSpecies: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

%%* WronglyAccused: [=McCoy=], in "Albatross".

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* AIIsACrapShoot: The planetary computer in "Once Upon A Planet".
* AlternateUniverse: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" and "The Counter-Clock Incident".
* AncientAstronauts: Kukulcan in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".

* ArtificialGravity: "The Practical Joker" and "The Jihad".
* AscendedMeme: "Beam me up, Scotty!"
* AssInAmbassador: The title character in "Bem".

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lt. M'Ress.
* BigDumbObject: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
* BigRedButton: "Beyond The Farthest Star". The auxiliary warp drive controls.

* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Kukulcan's city in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
* CanonImmigrant: Creator/LarryNiven's Kzinti and Slavers in "The Slaver Weapon".

* CloningBlues: Spock in "The Infinite Vulcan".

* CoolOldGuy: Captain Robert T. April in "The Counter-Clock Incident".

* DerelictGraveyard: "The Time Trap".
* DetachableLowerHalf: The title character in "Bem".
* DetachmentCombat: The title character in "Bem".
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: "Once Upon A Planet".

* DoomedDefeatist: Subverted with M-3-Green in "The Jihad".

* EnergyBeings: "Beyond The Farthest Star", "Bem".
* EnthrallingSiren: "The Lorelei Signal".
* EveryoneIsASuper: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
* ExpressiveEars: The Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon".
* ExpospeakGag: Between Spock and [=McCoy=].

* FilmingForEasyDub
* FishPeople: "The Ambergris Element"

* ForWantOfANail: "Yesteryear"
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The "life support belts".

* GiantFlyer: "The Infinite Vulcan" and "The Eye of the Beholder".
* [[GirlsNightOutEpisode Girl's Night Out Episode]]: "The Lorelei Signal".

* GrandfatherParadox: Spock in "Yesteryear".
* HauntedTechnology: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".

* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Life-support belts
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "The Terratin Incident"

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Charr in "The Jihad".

* LimitedAnimation
* LosingYourHead: The title character in "Bem".

* LouisCypher: Lucien in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"
* LovePotion: "Mudd's Passion"
* MacGuffin: The "Soul of Alar" artifact in "The Jihad"

* MerlinSickness: "The Counter-Clock Incident"

* TheMole: Charr in "The Jihad".
* MorphWeapon: The title device in "The Slaver Weapon".
* MrExposition: Ensign Walking Bear in "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth".
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Spock in "Yesteryear."

* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: The end of "The Slaver Weapon".

* OceanPunk: "The Ambergris Element"
* OffModel

* PatchworkMap: "The Eye of the Beholder"
* PatchworkWorld: "The Eye of the Beholder"
* PeopleZoo: "The Eye of the Beholder"
* PettingZooPeople: Lieutenant M'Ress.
* ThePlague: "Albatross", "The Infinite Vulcan".
* PlanetEater: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
* PlantAliens: The Phylosians in "The Infinite Vulcan".
* PleasurePlanet: "Once Upon A Planet"
* PortalToThePast: The Guardian of Forever in "Yesteryear".

* RealityIsOutToLunch: The planet Megas-Tu in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".
* RealityWarper: The inhabitants of the title planet in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".

* RetGone: Spock in "Yesteryear".

* RiteOfPassage: The Vulcan kahs-wan in "Yesteryear".

* SequelEpisode: "Mudd's Passion", "More Tribbles, More Troubles", and "Yesteryear", to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episodes.

* SnakeOilSalesman: Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Passion", Cyrano Jones in "More Tribbles, More Troubles".
* SpacePirates: "The Pirates of Orion"
* SpaceshipGirl: The Enterprise computer in "The Practical Joker".
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt
* SpiritualSuccessor: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing" to ''TOS'' episode "The Immunity Syndrome".
* StableTimeLoop: "Yesteryear"

* SufficientlyAdvanced: "Bem", "The Eye of the Beholder", and "The Jihad".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Arex, to Chekov.
* SwissArmyWeapon: "The Slaver Weapon"

* TemporalParadox: "Yesteryear"
* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Thelen the Andorian in "Yesteryear".

* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: "The Lorelei Signal".

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Vendorian in "The Survivor".

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The alien women in "The Lorelei Signal".

* WitchSpecies: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

* WronglyAccused: [=McCoy=], in "Albatross".

'''''Star Trek: The Animated Series''''' is an AnimatedAdaptation and the first SpinOff from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]], continuing the initial five-year mission.

* UsefulNotes/FurryFandom: Lt. M'Ress was a FetishFuel character for many early Furries.

* FurryFandom: Lt. M'Ress was a FetishFuel character for many early Furries.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Spock and his father Sarek in "Yesteryear".

* WellDoneSonGuy: Spock and Sarek

* SealedEvilInACan: "Beyond The Farthest Star"