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The final
episode of "Star Trek: The Animated Series" as well as
the final episode of a "Star Trek" television series
starring the cast of "The Original Series." |
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With the possible exception
of the upcoming feature film
"Star Trek",
and aside from
the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode of
"Trials and Tribble-ations" and the "Star
Trek: Enterprise" episode of
"These Are the Voyages. . .", this episode marks the
final appearance of the U.S.S. Enterprise in its
"television form." It later appeared, refitted, in
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture." The classic-variant
of the Constitution class ship would later reappear in
the form of the U.S.S. Defiant in "Star Trek:
Enterprise"'s episode
"In A Mirror, Darkly, Part I and
II" |
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Following
this episode and based on lines from
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture", we can infer that
Captain Kirk is promoted to admiral and made Chief of
Starfleet Operations, Mr. Spock retires from Starfleet
and returns to Vulcan to begin the Kohlinar discipline,
Dr. McCoy also retires from Starfleet becoming a private
practitioner, Scotty is promoted to full commander,
Uhura and Sulu are promoted to lieutenant commander,
Pavel Chekov returns to the Enterprise as a full
lieutenant and as chief of security, Nurse Chapel gets
her medical degree and becomes a doctor, M'Ress and Arex
possibly remained aboard the ship, (there was many
aliens present in the "rec deck" scene in
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture.") Lieutenant Ilia, a
Deltan, is assigned as the new navigator, and Willard
Decker, son of Commodore Matt Decker from the classic
episode "The Doomsday Machine" is named captain of the Enterprise on the recommendation of Admiral Kirk.
The Enterprise is also recalled to Earth for
experimental refit, which takes 18 months of redesign
and refit, producing an almost totally new ship. |
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Captain
Robert April was the original name of the captain of the Enterprise in Gene Roddenberry's original pitch
for "Star Trek" in 1964. |
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Several novels
chronicle the events of Captain Robert April as captain
of the Enterprise. |
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The only
"live-action" photograph of Captain Robert April is that
of series creator Gene Roddenberry in a
"Where No Man
Has Gone Before"-variant Starfleet uniform.
(Take a look) |
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John Culver is the pen name
of writer Fred Brosnan, who would go on to write
"Menage a Troi"
for "Star Trek: The Next Generation." |
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The concept of the crew
degenerating in children later reappeared in the "Star
Trek: The Next Generation" episode of
"Rascals." |
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The
"anti-time" element of this episode would factor heavily
in the final episode of "Star Trek: The Next
Generation",
"All Good Things..." as well. |
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Kes
regressed younger and younger in the "Star Trek:
Voyager" episode
"Before and After." |
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In the
alternate ending to
"Star Trek: Insurrection", Ru'afo would have fallen
into the metaphasic rings of the Ba'ku planet, causing
him to grow younger until finally perishing. |
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This episode
contradicts events established by "Star Trek:
Enterprise" by saying that Dr. Sarah April was the first
chief medical officer of a warp drive ship, as well as a
previous mention of the Bonaventure in
"The Time Trap." |
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Beta Niobe, referenced in
this episode,
went nova in the classic episode
"All Our Yesterdays." |
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Minara, referenced in this
episode, went
nova in the classic episode
"The Empath." |
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Dr. Sarah
April's flower, "a native from Capella IV", is from the
same planet the Enterprise visited in
"Friday's
Child." |
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Once again,
the transporter is used to restore the crew to their
original selves. A similar technique was previously used
in
"The Lorelei Signal" and
"The Terratin Incident." |
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Kirk, Mr.
Spock and Dr. McCoy go from one extreme to the other
having grown mortally old in
"The Lorelei Signal" to young children here.
(although we don't see the child-like Dr. McCoy in this
episode, it's implied that the entire crew has turned to
children.) |
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In a
forgivable plot hole, as the crew degenerate into
children, their uniforms also shrink in size to
accommodate. |
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As the crew
degenerate into children, Lieutenant Arex grows younger
slower than the human crewmembers, but not as slowly as
Mr. Spock. |
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Second
appearance of the young Spock. The first was in
"Yesteryear." |
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The aliens
from the "Antimatter Universe" have numbers in the their
names, similar to the Eminians in the classic episode
"A
Taste of Armageddon." |
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Keeping with
continuity, the mandatory retirement age in Starfleet
remains nullified by the 24th century as Admiral Mark
Jameson demonstrates in the "Star Trek: The Next
Generation" episode
"Too Short A Season." |
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Leonard
Nimoy and James Doohan are the only cast members to lend
their voices to all 22 episodes of "Star Trek: The
Animated Series." |
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Nichelle Nichols gets the
final line of the series as Dr. Sarah April by saying
"It gave us all a second life," a reference to the
revival of "Star Trek" with this series
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