List of Star Trek: The Animated Series episodes (2023)

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Why is Chekov not in the animated series? ›

The Animated Series featured most of the original cast voicing their characters. The major exception was the character of Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), who did not appear in the series because the series' budget could not afford the complete cast.

The Star Trek canon includes eight live-action television series, three animated series and one short-form companion series, as well as a series of feature films.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

The series consisted of 22 episodes split over two seasons. In that era animated shows - even high profile ones like Star Trek: The Animated Series - were only designed to run for a finite amount of time, so it wasn't exactly cancelled, it just fulfilled its intended run.

Abrams has said Chekov will not be recast. Chekov's character was initially introduced to honor the fact that Russia made it to space before any other country, as well as to take an optimistic look at possible U.S.-Russia relations in the future.

Chekov's wig used as teen bait

The mop-topped Ensign Chekov, added in the original Trek's second season, was reportedly modeled after Monkees singer Davy Jones in an attempt to appeal to teenage viewers.

Star Trek: The Next Generation created the blueprint and became the most successful series of all.

Although at one point Paramount Pictures did not regard the animated series as canonical, with the release of The Animated Series DVD, the studio appears to have changed its stance, and is leaning towards the animated series being part of established Star Trek canon.

The Original Series (1966–1969)

Star Trek: The Original Series, frequently abbreviated as TOS, debuted on NBC on September 8, 1966. The show tells the tale of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise and its five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before", under the command of Captain James T. Kirk.

Captain James Kirk

Actually, there is one character that might be even more synonymous with Star Trek, depending on which fan you talk to. Captain James Tiberius Kirk was the most famous captain of the Enterprise, revered by the Federation as a skilled diplomat and brilliant tactician.

What was the banned Star Trek episode? ›

For many years, the episodes "Miri," "Plato's Stepchildren," "The Empath," and "Whom Gods Destroy" were banned in the UK. Star Trek was considered a children's program and these episodes were deemed too intense for minors.

The move continues the trend, according to the report, that is “part of an avowed strategy of ViacomCBS to make their key franchises and assets available only on their own streaming service, Paramount+.” This was seen last September, when three series left Netflix, and TrekMovie also noted recently that the five shows ...

A third season was “informally” green lit back in 2020, so it could be filmed back-to-back with season 2 before Sir Patrick Stewart officially confirmed the season in 2021, with filming wrapping in March 2022. Paramount confirmed that Star Trek: Picard season 3 would be the last though.

We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn't quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn't want to do a cameo.

Pine and his co-stars Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and more reportedly had no idea Paramount was even moving forward with “Star Trek 4” when Abrams announced as much in February 2022. It's all par for the course with “Star Trek,” Pine told Esquire.

The series continued into a fourth season. Then came the announcement during the filming of “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II” that UPN, the network on which Enterprise was broadcast, had cancelled the series. One of Enterprise's creators, Brannon Braga, attributed the end of the series to Star Trek needing a rest.

Anton took on Walter Koenig's original role as Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot films. The actor died aged 27 when he was crushed to death by his own car outside his home in Los Angeles on June 20, 2016. His car killed him when it rolled backwards down a steep drive.

How could Khan recognize Chekov, who wasn't in the episode? He wasn't even on the show! According to Walter Koenig, Khan remembered Chekov from the lower decks, because he took too long in a restroom Khan needed to use!

There are certain things in the movie that are very Russian that is difficult for an American audience to pick up on. Like when [Kirk and Sulu] free fall and I capture them and I say something in Russian… [says Russian phrase]…it means “Oh man!” basically, which is something I ad-libbed.

Anton Yelchin portrayed the character in the 2009 Star Trek reboot film and two sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. Both Yelchin and Koenig were born to Russian parents, but grew up in the United States, and both affected Russian accents for their roles.

What is the darkest Star Trek series? ›

Due to the lack of Roddenberry looking over their shoulder every step of the way for the first time, Deep Space Nine was allowed to broach subjects never allowed before in Star Trek. Not only making it easily the best entry in the franchise so far, but also making it by far the darkest.

Dorn has appeared more times as a regular cast member than any other Star Trek actor in the franchise's history, spanning five films and 277 television episodes.

Nomenclature. The name "Kelvin timeline" does not appear in any canon material, but is CBS Television's internal name for the alternate timeline created by Nero's attack on USS Kelvin.

Although both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager had already implemented CGI in their title sequences (created in 1992 and 1994, respectively), they both started their runs predominantly using traditional visual effects methods but transitioned to regular use of CGI in the late 1990s.

Star Trek: Prodigy is an American animated television series created by Kevin and Dan Hageman for the streaming service Paramount+ and the cable channel Nickelodeon. It is the tenth Star Trek series and debuted in 2021 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe.

So by Wrath of Khan Chekov had been promoted to Commander and was the First Officer on the Reliant. However from there on he is basically demoted to Tactical and Security on board the Enterprise and left there.

A scripted comedy series was about to be shut down by covid. So producers made everyone into a cartoon instead.

There are certain things in the movie that are very Russian that is difficult for an American audience to pick up on. Like when [Kirk and Sulu] free fall and I capture them and I say something in Russian… [says Russian phrase]…it means “Oh man!” basically, which is something I ad-libbed.

Who has passed away from the original Star Trek? ›

"Star Trek" debuted 56 years ago on September 8, 1966. After the show, the cast of the original series remained sci-fi icons. Only three stars of "The Original Series" are alive today, after Nichelle Nichols' death in July.

According to director Leonard Nimoy, this left Alley open to negotiate a new contract for this film, resulting in Alley's excessive salary demands, which led to her being dropped and replaced by Robin Curtis.

Ceti Eel. This concept drawing of the Ceti Eel mind-control creature from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is the design that was used for the film. The nightmare-inducing eel enters into its victim's ear. Khan used it to control Chekov and Captain Terrell in order to take command of their ship.

Khan takes Chekov and Terrell's space helmets and drops an eel into each one. Chekov and Terrell, held down by Khan's minions, can only gawp in fear.

Anton Yelchin(1989-2016) Anton Yelchin was an American actor, known for playing Bobby in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Chekov in the Star Trek (2009) reboot, Charlie Brewster in the Fright Night (2011) remake, and Jacob in Like Crazy (2011). He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, USSR, to a Jewish family.

According to the Star Trek iTunes movie app, Chekov was born in Tagnarog, Russia (the real-life home of Anton Chekhov).

Pavel Chekov

The character was not added to the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series until season 2, so his first appearance was in 2266 when he was 21. By the end of TOS, Chekov would have been 24, and his last appearance came with Star Trek: Generations in 2293 at the age of 48.

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The Simpsons had its first episode in 1989 and since, has gone on for 33 seasons. The show follows the titular yellow family: Homer, his wife Marge, and their children Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

While most planning is still driven by a single company, the whole committee has a say in the show, its content, and whatever business is conducted with the property. In order to limit the risk to the companies on these committees, each season is planned out at only a finite 11-13 episodes.

The team has to be reassembled, new scripts have to be made, and there's so much to do before the show can see air that it's usually only possible to make a season of anime once a year at this rate.