Plot; The Enterprise stumbles upon a magical world with a connection to Earth's past.
Whatever else "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" is, I'm reasonably sure it's the only episode of a children's cartoon series that casts Satan as a misunderstood victim. And that's what makes Star Trek: The Animated Series so, to quote Mr. Spock, fascinating. It really does try to stay true to its live action counterpart both tonally and thematically, with the episodes feeling as if they could have easily been part of the latter with a bit more meat on their, uh, bones.
The famously secular humanistic Star Trek often approached the subject of religion in such a fashion as this, but to do so in a 70s cartoon was nothing if not bold, and what's more Star Trek than that? - The character Lucien (later identified as Lucifer) was voiced by James Doohan, better known as Scotty.
Whatever else "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" is, I'm reasonably sure it's the only episode of a children's cartoon series that casts Satan as a misunderstood victim. And that's what makes Star Trek: The Animated Series so, to quote Mr. Spock, fascinating. It really does try to stay true to its live action counterpart both tonally and thematically, with the episodes feeling as if they could have easily been part of the latter with a bit more meat on their, uh, bones.
The famously secular humanistic Star Trek often approached the subject of religion in such a fashion as this, but to do so in a 70s cartoon was nothing if not bold, and what's more Star Trek than that? - The character Lucien (later identified as Lucifer) was voiced by James Doohan, better known as Scotty.
- Not surprisingly, writer Larry Brody originally pitched an idea for the third season of Star Trek that he ultimately shaped and developed into "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".