Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series) The Terratin Incident (1973) User Reviews

Radical Reduction...

[Xstal · 7/10 · 28 February 2022]

It takes very little time, to reduce you from your prime, to cut you down in size, reducing all your highs, disappear into a dot, leaving little not a lot, due to scientific wave, brings you closer to your grave.

The incredible shrinking crew race to recover their stature.

Tiny Humans

[Samuel-Shovel · 4/10 · 26 December 2018]

In "The Terratin Incident", the Enterprise receives a strange signal from an unexplored planet. The ship orbits the planet and suddenly the crew of the Enterprise begin to shrink, making the ship difficult to control. As the crew gets smaller and smaller, Kirk beams down to the planet's surface to investigate. He finds that a satellite is behind it and threatens to destroy the civilization there if they don't turn his crew back to normal size. At this point, the planet's inhabitants have kidnapped the bridge crew. The inhabitants explain that they were just trying to secure rescue from their doomed planet. Apparently the colony is a lost human colon "Terra 10", that got shrunk by the planet and had to adapt. The Enterprise transports the Terratins to a new planet.

I don't know what to make of this episode. It feels like the writers wanted to play around with scale and didn't think too hard about the rest of it. It's unfortunate that they didn't do more with having a tiny crew. Nurse Chapel falling into the aquarium is the only thing of note. This episode is a bit of a snoozer, unfortunately that's part for the course with the animated series.

A Real Short Story

[Hitchcoc · 5/10 · 19 March 2017]

In this episode, circumstances involving a volcanic planet cause the Enterprise crew to begin shrinking. As they get tinier and tinier, they must activate their ship's functions in creative ways. The question is why is this happening to them. We eventually find the answer as we watch an intergalactic version of "Horton Hears a Who." As is often the case with Star Trek, the characters seem to be able to land on their feet without the help of any real research. The final solution to all this is quite laughable.

Shrinkie dinks

[planktonrules · 5/10 · 9 April 2015]

The Enterprise nears a planet that appears dead. Somehow the gravity is such that the ship cannot escape--and that sucks because the crew start shrinking! After a while, they realize that unless they can stop it soon, they'll be too small to control the ship! Fortunately, a transporter mission to the planet helps Kirk get to the bottom on all this and learn HOW and WHY they began to shrink.

As I always say about these cartoons, the animation is pure crap. The normal cell count of a good classic cartoon is about 20 frames per second. Here, however, only tiny portions of the cel (such as lips or an arm) move slightly--and with perhaps 5 or less cels per second. In addition, apart from some nice backgrounds, the animation is ugly as well--as if drawn by lemurs. However, despite all these complaints, the plot is reasonably engaging and the show not totally bad.