From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Beyond the Farthest Star (TAS): my review   
      
   On May 8, 9:25apm, "jph...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
   > Amusingly, Kirk is given a moment of animated ham, elbowing Mr.   
   > Kyle out of the way   
   I guess he didn't like the mustache Kyle had mysteriously grown since   
   the series ended, or the fact that he suddenly sounded so much like   
   Doohan.   
   > The opening credits clearly signal this as a direct continuation of   
   > the 1960s series. The titles are pretty much the same as the TOS   
   > titles, save for a change in the theme music. Even the new theme is   
   > clearly designed to evoke the old one.   
   The title is still "Star Trek", with nothing added on.  They even went   
   back to the yellow lettering of Seasons 1 and 2.  It's so much a copy   
   of the TOS credits that they even elbow everyone except Shatner, Nimoy   
   and Kelly out of credit.   
   > The first half of Beyond the Farthest Star is really quite good. The   
   > exploration of the alien ship is intriguing. The sense of the regulars   
   > exploring something truly alien is something that was too often absent   
   > from TOS' later episodes,   
   This is far and away the most science-fictiony of the TAS episodes,   
   and was written by Samuel Anthony Peeples, who wrote Where No Man Has   
   Gone Before.   
   The Automatic Bridge Defense system is one of the biggest new   
   gadgets.  You never hear about it again, but there is something on the   
   bridge that looks very much like it in Star Trek:  The Motion   
   Picture.  At the time, we assumed that this was a homage to TAS.   
   > And I would love to see the life support belts all vanish in a   
   > transporter accident between now and Episode Two. But that's probably   
   > too much to ask.   
   They don't really get used all that often.  You see them again in   
   Slaver Weapon, where they aren't used as a plot device (in fact, Uhura   
   gets phaser stunned while wearing one).  You see them a couple of   
   times more, but not in a big way.   
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