I bought this a couple of weeks ago. For a cartoon made in the year I was born, it's not that bad. The scripts compare well with the best (and the worst) of the original series (in other words, God shows up every fifth episode). The one thing that annoyed me was the soundtrack--they had a very limited set of musical themes to work with:
Kirk:Spock, what do we do?
Spock: I have no idea.
Soundtrack: BUM-BUM-BUM!
Commercial.
Filmation was able to save costs by making a few complex shots (the Enterprise banking right, Captain Kirk looking forward, then left) and repeating them as much as possible. You don't notice these tricks much, except for the fact that about half of the dialog is blocked out so no mouths are moving on screen (close-up of the communicator instead, that kind of thing).
A couple of writers have commentary on some episodes.
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