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Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 Episode 11

The Terratin Incident

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AIRED: 11/17/73

The crew of the Enterprise finds themselves shrinking after being bathed with radiation.

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All organic matter on the Enterprise begins to shrink, threatening the crew.

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By Celedorian, Feb 06, 2011

Fifteen years before "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," Star Trek did its version of a shrinking tale here – though thankfully with a different title. This is the sort of story that the original series could never have done (and one even Star Trek: The Next Generation would have found difficult). The story, however, is perfect for animation, and the finished product is a unique and solid episode. Many years later, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would try something similar with the episode "One Little Ship", but the animated episode is able to include more interesting visuals than DS9's limited "Land of the Giants" version.moreless
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Being in orbit of a strange planet causes the crew of the Enterprise to shrink.

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By GameraTrekkie, Jan 12, 2011

I really did enjoy this episode a lot. It was very interesting to watch everyone shrink, not to mention that it was also kind of cute that they couldn't reach their controls. Kirk, Spock and everyone started shrinking so fast, they couldn't reach any of their equipment. Overall, the episode really was interesting and better than some of the previous episodes of the series. You can't help but feel sorry for these humans who settled on this planet only to begin to shrink and not only that, but the planet is about to explode destroying them all. This episode is worth watching!!moreless
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Leonard Nimoy	Mr. Spock
William Shatner	Capt. James Tiberius Kirk
DeForest Kelley	Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

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James Doohan	Mendant of the Terratins/Gabler	Guest Star
Nichelle Nichols	Mess Officer Briel	Guest Star
George Takei	Lt. Hikaru Sulu	Recurring Role
James Doohan	Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott / Lt. Arex	Recurring Role
Majel Barrett	Nurse Christine Chapel / Lt. M'Ress	Recurring Role

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- If the space between the atoms is reduced but the weight of the shrunken objects remain the same, the crew would soon find it hard to move under their own weight. To say nothing of what would happen to the ship to beam aboard an entire city of perhaps diminutive size but gargantuan weight.
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- It's stated that the bridge crew are beamed away. However, Nurse Chapel is one of the people taken, and she's not bridge crew and given the number of ship's emergency medical situations, is unlikely to have been on the bridge. Also, there are several other people seen on the bridge later who aren't taken as part of the "bridge crew."
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- Just after discussion how DNA is another substance that contracts, Spock turns away to do his calculations and his badge is gone, then flickers back in as he completes his turn.
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- Just as he prepares to beam down, Kirk describes the spiroid rays as "lethal," but there's no indication that they are, before or after.
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- After becoming smaller, Lieutenant Arex mentions that his eyes no longer reach his station's opticals, but the navigator station has no opticals.
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- In one shot the elevator doors are light gray rather than their usual color.
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- This episode along with "The Jihad" was released on The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: Volume 7 for VHS.
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- Author Paul Schneider scripted the original Trek episodes "Balance of Terror" and "The Squire of Gothos."
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- Liliputian
  The Terratin city is referred to as lilliputian. Gulliver's Travels, written by Irish clergyman Jonathan Swift and published in 1726, is a collection of the experiences of sea captain Lemuel Gulliver. Gulliver explorered a number of fascinating places; each journey carried a measure of social commentary. One journey carried Gulliver to the land of Lilliput, whose inhabitants were just a few inches tall. The word lilliputian came into the English language from this tale; although there was more to the tale than just the small size of the inhabitants.
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