Star Trek: The Animated Series is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s. The animated series was aired under the name Star Trek, but it has become widely known under this longer name to differentiate it from the original live-action Star Trek. The success in syndication of the original live action series and fan pressure for a Star Trek revival led to The Animated Series from 1973–1974, as the source of new adventures of the Enterprise crew, the next being the 1979 live-action... feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. TAS was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy Award. The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes. An early Filmation proposal for this series had children assigned to each of the senior officers as cadets, including a young Vulcan for Mr. Spock.
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| On the air: | September 8, 1973-October 12, 1974 |
| Number of seasons: | 2 |
| Network: | NBC |
| Producer: | Gene Roddenberry, Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott |
| Genre: | Animation |