Star Trek: The Animated Series: How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth?

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How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth? ranks 228,165 out of all 118,840 episodes (of all shows) on TV.com.

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Air Date

Saturday October 5, 1974

Production Code

22022

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  While in space, the Enteprise comes in contact with the Mayan god Kukulkan. hide show

  This is another personal favorite episode that I really enjoyed, but others may not really like. So this is written on the personal enjoyment level alone. Much like the Goa'uld that are on Staragate, the Enterprise encouters an alien that in Earth's past was worshipped as a god. He is also the inspiration behind other relics of the past such as the Chinese dragon, which is understandable since he looks like a Chinese dragon on the episode. I have always enjoyed episodes of Trek that are based on human culture and past so I really did like this episode. If you are like me and enjoy history and figures of the past, then you will like this episode as well.

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• Guest Cast

  • Majel Barrett Female Yeoman
  • James Doohan Ensign Dawson Walking Bear/Kulkulkan/Male Yeoman

• Editors

  • Joseph Simon Editorial Supervision
  • Doreen Dixon Editorial Supervision
  • June Gilham Film Coordinator

• Animators

  • Reuben Timmins Animator

• Production Managements

  • Rock Benedetto General Manager

• Creators

  • Gene Roddenberry Creator

• Storyboard Artists

  • Dale Hale Storyboard Artist
  • Ken Leonard Layout
  • Christopher Lane (II) Layout
  • Maria Bennett Layout
  • Glen Keane Layout
  • Martin Muller (III) Layout
  • Wendell Washer (II) Layout
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• Kirk consistently mispronounces Ku-KUL-can as "KOOK-lu-can." According to the DVD commentary, this was because William Shatner recorded his voice material separately and author David Wise wasn't present to correct him. [edit]
• Uhura is drawn as a Caucasian in one bridge shot. [edit]

• This episode along with "The Counter-Clock Incident" was released on The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: Volume 11 for VHS. [edit]
• Geroge Takei and Majel Barrett are credited but do not appear as Sulu and Chapel/M'Ress. [edit]
• The animated series won an Emmy for the program as a whole. While this episode didn't specifically win an Emmy, it was the one presented to the Emmy committee as representative of the series. [edit]

• Spock: Vulcan was visited by alien beings. They left much wiser. [edit]
• (Kirk is trying to reason with the Kulkukan)
  Kirk: If children are made totally dependent on the teachers, they'll never be anything but children. [edit]

• Kirk: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child..."
  The title of this episode comes from a line in Shakespeare's "King Lear" -- 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child'. Presumably, this refers to the same theme explored in "Who Mourns For Adonais?"; that humanity has outgrown the "gods", and no longer needs them, despite what they gave it in the past. [edit]