Editing Star Trek: The Animated Series (section)

=== Critical response ===
Through both seasons, ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' faced the reverse situation of ''The Original Series'' with regard to its popularity: ratings were high, but skewed away from the young children which Saturday morning advertisers were trying to reach, being more popular with adults and older children.<ref name="RetFan1" />

''[[IGN]]'' named ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' the 96th best animated series. They declared that although the series suffered from technical limitations, its format allowed the writers far greater freedom and creativity than was possible in the original live-action series.<ref name="ign100">{{cite web |title=96, Star Trek: The Animated Series |url=http://tv.ign.com/top-100-animated-tv-series/96.html |website=IGN |access-date=January 23, 2009 |date=January 23, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119005234/http://tv.ign.com/top-100-animated-tv-series/96.html |archive-date=January 19, 2009  }}</ref> In a [[Los Angeles Times|''L.A. Times'']] listing that included each ''Star Trek'' film and TV series separately, ''The Animated Series'' was ranked 11th.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bernardin |first=Marc |date=September 8, 2016 |title=Ranking every 'Star Trek' movie and TV series from first to worst |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-hc-star-trek-movie-and-show-ranking-20160830-snap-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712164534/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-hc-star-trek-movie-and-show-ranking-20160830-snap-story.html |archive-date=July 12, 2019 |access-date=July 12, 2019 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> The comic ''[[Star Trek vs Transformers]]'' was inspired by ''The Animated Series'', and takes place in a similar universe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2018 |title=Exclusive IDW announces Star Trek vs. Transformers Comic Series |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-idw-comic-is-mashing-up-star-trek-and-transformer-1826960426 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801190309/https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-idw-comic-is-mashing-up-star-trek-and-transformer-1826960426 |archive-date=August 1, 2018 |access-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref> [[Comic Book Resources|''CBR'']] ranked all 31 seasons of ''Star Trek'' television shows, placing season 1 of ''TAS'' at 23rd, and season 2 at 24th. Similarly to IGN, they commented that "The animation is definitely limited by today's standards, but the idea of an animated ''Star Trek'' makes perfect sense, since concerns over budget and scope would be very different. Although only two seasons long, we were given some memorable moments."<ref name="CBRank">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/every-star-trek-tv-season-ranked/|title=Every Star Trek Season of TV Ever, Ranked from Worst to Best|date=January 4, 2019|website=CBR|language=en-US|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-date=February 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203024856/https://www.cbr.com/every-star-trek-tv-season-ranked/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Moviefone]]'' ranked ''The Animated Series'' the seventh best out of seven ''Star Trek'' TV series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moviefone.com/photos/every-star-trek-series-ranked/|title=Every Star Trek Series, Ranked From Kirk to Picard|last=Pirrello|first=Phil|website=moviefone.com|language=en|access-date=July 12, 2019|archive-date=July 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712143304/https://www.moviefone.com/photos/every-star-trek-series-ranked/|url-status=live}}</ref>