Filmation - Sulu from Star Trek the Animated Series

One thing I really loved was when a Star Trek episode gave some of the other crew members key roles in the story. Sulu was at the helm "driving" the Enterprise so he often had more story involvement than the rest. Plus he was a swordsman... that was pretty awesome to see in futuristic story!



For those unfamiliar with the background of the series the following was taken from Wikipedia: The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes. An early Filmation proposal for this series had children assigned to each of the senior officers as cadets, including a young Vulcan for Mr. Spock. According to interviews with Norm Prescott, Paramount offered Roddenberry a substantial sum of money to abandon creative control of the project and let Filmation proceed with their "kiddy space cadet" idea. Roddenberry refused. Filmation would later develop the idea into its own original live action program, Space Academy, in 1977.



The writers of the animated series used, essentially, the same writers' guide that was used for the live-action Star Trek: The Original Series.