Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series) Once Upon a Planet (1973) User Reviews

Curiouser & Curioser ...

[Xstal · 7/10 · 28 February 2022]

... as the planet gets more furioser, with the beasts getting more dangerouser and two headed dragons getting more flamier.

Paradise become hell on earth as the machine rises up and challenges with misconstrued assumptions and flawed logic.

I'm Surprised How Dull This Series Is

[Hitchcoc · 5/10 · 18 March 2017]

I suspect that these animated efforts were primarily designed for children. With what the potential is for fun and enlightenment, I think they are a bit insulting. What I'm saying is that young people have standards too. There are so many dragons and pterodactyls and things jumping at people. The adversaries are really unimaginative. The science almost totally lacking. And that cat person on the bridge is such a ridiculous alien with her purring and soft little voice. This episode involves another race of aliens (computers this time) that seem totally lacking in important knowledge. They are making life miserable for the crew for some cockeyed reason.

Reliving the "Greatest" Hits

[Samuel-Shovel · 3/10 · 16 December 2018]

In "Once Upon a Planet" the Enterprise returns to the planet where they once partook in shore leave. The first time around, they didn't realize a keeper watched over a planet where your dreams and thoughts are reality. This time around they are ready for it. But something is awry...

The keeper has died and the computer has gone rogue. It's ready to kill the crew, steal the starship, and head off to meet other computers. Spock talks the computer down and convinces it to continue its tasks.

This show's pretty awful at this point. If it lasted more than a season and a half I might just skip it in my quest to see everything in the ST universe but I'll continue to trudge along since I'm about halfway through the animated series. There are shots of Sulu on the bridge while he's also on the planet's surface because they were too lazy to reanimate it. They reuse everything because it's so cheaply made. I like the cat lady and the alien they've introduced but that's about it.

Bad...but not horrible.

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 9 April 2015]

When this episode of "Star Trek: The Animated Series" begins, I had high hopes. Sure, the animation was a steaming pile of crap (as usual) but I was happy to see this show visiting one from the original (and GOOD) series. In the original episode "Shore Leave", the crew lands on a planet not realizing it's a pleasure planet where the crew can live out their fantasies in complete safety--sort of like a nice version of "West World". However, inexplicably, instead of it being a fun time, Uhura is kidnapped and McCoy attacked by the computer running the planet. To stop it, it takes Kirk, Spock and Uhuru to talk sense into the computer and butter up it's ego. In the end, the computer says it's sorry for acting like a butt-head and everyone is happy.

Apart from the crappy animation, this show suffers from a sub-par script that was very disappointing. Now completely horrible but it sure should have been better.