History WesternAnimation / StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries

* AscendedMeme: "Beam me up, Scotty!" is famous for [[BeamMeUpScotty never being actually spoken]] in the Original Series, but it appears in this one.

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* {{Bowdlerise}}: By [[GermanTVStations German TV station ZDF]].

* WingedHumanoid: The Skorr show up in several episodes.

* WorldOfChaos: The planet in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu", and the so-called "Mad Planet" in "Jihad".

* DolledUpInstallment: "The Slaver Weapon", from Creator/LarryNiven's "[[Literature/KnownSpace The Soft Weapon]]".

* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: In the end of "The Slaver Weapon", both the Starfleet personnel and the [[KnownSpace Kzinti]] renegades want to get the titular LostTechnology because of its awesome power: a beam that causes [[EarthShatteringKaboom total conversion of matter into energy]].
-->'''Sulu''': It would have looked nice in some museum.
-->'''Spock''': It never would have reached a museum, Lieutenant. There was too much power in that one setting. If not the Kzinti, the Klingons or some other species would have tried to possess it.

-->'''Head Female Theela''': To survive we must vitalize each 27 years of your time.

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 the presence of most of the original cast and the writers as well. The result is a show that might not have had the best animation, but still boasts 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, and was so good that it won the franchise's first ever Emmy Award.

* GirlsNightOutEpisode: In "The Lorelei Signal", Uhura and Chapel have to lead an all-female rescue team due to the planet's inhabitants' ability to drain men of their life forces.

* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: "The Lorelei Signal". Every 27 years, a starship is lured to a planet where female aliens drain the life force of the male crew members. While explaining the situation to Lieutenant Uhura:

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "The Lorelei Signal", the women of the second planet of the Taurean system neither age nor die. However, any men on the planet die quickly. They must lure humanoid males to their planet once every 27 years and drain them of their Life Force in order to survive. They can't escape their planet and they can't even have children.

* CatSmile:
** The cat-like Lieutenant M'Ress has one constantly.
** Averted by the Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon", and in particular their telepath (Kzinti telepaths in general are stated to be manic-depressive).

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

* PrecisionFStrike: A quite mild example from "The Magicks Of Megas-tu," when Asmodeus describes the Earth from where the Enterprise crew came from as "hellish."
* PsychicStatic: Used to defeat the Kzinti telepath in "The Slaver Weapon".

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 had the best animation, but still boasts 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, and was so good that it won the franchise's first ever Emmy Award.

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 boasts 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, and was so good that it won the franchise's first ever Emmy Award.

* 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.)

* CanonDiscontinuity: The series was declared non-canon by Creator/GeneRoddenberry himself, with the sole exception of the episode "Yesteryear". (Until CBS later declared the whole thing Canon, anyway.)

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!! This series provides {{aver|tedTrope}}sions of:
* LighterAndFluffier: One of the main reasons given by Creator/GeneRoddenberry as to why he chose Creator/{{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 ''Series/SpaceAcademy'' a few years later.

* SequelEpisode: "Mudd's Passion" is a sequel to "I, Mudd", "More Tribbles, More Troubles" is a sequel to "The Trouble with Tribbles", and "Yesteryear" is a sequel to "The City on the Edge of Forever".

%%* TemporalParadox: "Yesteryear"

%%* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: "The Lorelei Signal".

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

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

%%* 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"

%%* RetGone: Spock in "Yesteryear".

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

%%* SequelEpisode: "Mudd's Passion" is a sequel to "I, Mudd", "More Tribbles, More Troubles" is a sequel to "The Trouble with Tribbles", and "Yesteryear" is a sequel to "The City on the Edge of Forever".

%%* SpacePirates: "The Pirates of Orion"

%%* ThePlague: "Albatross", "The Infinite Vulcan".

%%* PlantAliens: The Phylosians in "The Infinite Vulcan".
%%* PleasurePlanet: "Once Upon A Planet"

%%* MacGuffin: The "Soul of Alar" artifact in "The Jihad"

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

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

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

%%* PatchworkMap: "The Eye of the Beholder"
%%* PatchworkWorld: "The Eye of the Beholder"

%%* FilmingForEasyDub

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

%%* GrandfatherParadox: Spock in "Yesteryear".

%%* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "The Terratin Incident"

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

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

%%* EnergyBeings: "Beyond The Farthest Star", "Bem".
%%* EnthrallingSiren: "The Lorelei Signal".

%%* ExpressiveEars: The Kzinti in "The Slaver Weapon".
%%* ExpospeakGag: Between Spock and [=McCoy=].