Editing Star Trek: The Animated Series (section)

=== Animation and design ===
[[Image:ST-The AS.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The characters of ''TAS'']]
Similar to most animated series of the era, the 22 episodes of ''TAS'' were spread out over two brief seasons, with copious reruns of each episode. The director of the first season (16 episodes) was [[Hal Sutherland]] and Bill Reed directed the six episodes of season two, though the first four episodes of season two erroneously credit Sutherland.<ref name=RetFan1/>

Don Christensen, creator of the original proposal, remained involved as art director. Other animation staff included Reuben Timmins (who oversaw all shots involving the ''Enterprise'') and Bob Kline. The animators [[rotoscoped]] the animations for the ''Enterprise'' and the original cast from [[35 mm movie film|35 mm film]] footage of ''The Original Series''.<ref name=RetFan1/> The chevrons were enlarged to make them easier to animate, but otherwise the crew's uniforms were unaltered from ''The Original Series''.<ref name=RetFan1/> Due to the hiring of nearly the entire regular cast of the original show, little money was left in the budget for the animation, so Filmation cut costs by using stock footage and shortcuts such as having a character put a hand to their mouth while speaking (thus eliminating the need to animate the lips) and silhouetting characters in action.<ref name=RetFan1/>

''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' was the only ''Star Trek'' series not to be produced with a [[cold open]] ("teaser"), instead starting directly with the title credits sequence. However, some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as those aired by the [[BBC]] in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, were edited to run the teaser after the credits.