There are few excellent issues on this world, so it’s value celebrating them after we discover them. Case in level: this unbelievably excellent video from Gazelle Automations, which imagines if the traditional animation studio Filmation had managed to get its fingers on the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew.

Trek followers doubtless know that Filmation did the unique Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973, whereas others could acknowledge the title because the maker of the traditional He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon of the ‘80s. But anyone who’s ever laid eyes on a Filmation cartoon is aware of the studio was extremely low-cost. It reused as a lot footage as attainable, it animated as little as attainable, and it slowed down the story as a lot as attainable, all to spend as little as attainable. So once you watch this video, be assured it’s not a parody, however an actual duplicate of what Filmation would have performed with The Next Generation had the studio made a spin-off again within the ‘70s:

The attention to detail is astounding, from the lack of the whites of their eyes, to the strange angles of the shots, to the way each Borg has to be teleported in succession. I swear, when Worf raises his phaser to shoot the Borg, that’s even the identical (low) variety of cels Filmation used for the movement. Here, evaluate the clip to this scene from the traditional Trek cartoon:

Uncanny, proper? What actually will get me is that Gazelle Automations even nailed the characters’ shifting eyes, which represented the sum complete of emotional reactions the Filmation characters would have in response to… properly, something, mainly. Even the purple, oversimplified designs of the Borg are excellent. No notes!

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