Animated Adaptation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' had ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'', which had much the same crew as the original but added a few more officers, including a feline officer and a three-armed helmsman. More importantly, not only were most of the original cast signed, but also many of the original writers, which meant stories that were at least largely true to the original series' spirit. (Both of these were written into the DC ''[[Star Trek]]'' comics, set in between the various movies, and have now been picked up by Peter David for his ''New Frontier'' book series.) The animated series was set before the movies but after (or perhaps during?) the ''Enterprise'''s original five year mission.<br />TAS, as it's known in ''Trek'' fandom, is one of the few cases of Reverse [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]] on record that does not involve an [[Expanded Universe]]. Paramount says that TAS is not in continuity; a large subsection of fans say that it is (with the exception of the material from Larry Niven's ''Known Space'' series that were included when Niven adapted one of his short stories into a script; fans are perfectly aware of the implications of allowing that into ''Trek'' canon). Some elements have made their way into canon, mostly some scripts written by the popular Original Series writer D.C. Fontana. This disagreement was made worse when certain things only referenced in TAS made it into episodes of ''Enterprise'', thus placing those elements officially into canon. According to startrek.com, Paramount now considers it fully canon thanks to a poll where fans overwhelmingly supported including it.