Uploaded November 2009 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Public Service Announcement from the Animated STAR TREK series for the episode "The Infinite Vulcan" written and animated by Curt Danhauser.
Several animated Saturday morning series beginning in the 1970's had a 30-second "message" aimed at teaching the children viewers a lesson, like staying away from downed power lines and not being a bully.
Filmation was actually the first studio to add a moral in the form of an epilogue at the end of Saturday morning cartoon episodes. They made their debut in conjunction with Filmation's Hardy Boys series in 1969, but they didn't become a regular epilogue element until 1972 as part of Filmation's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids series.
No Public Service Announcements (PSAs) were made for the initial broadcast of the animated STAR TREK series. Just for fun, I decided to create 30-second Animated STAR TREK PSAs with the type of lessons that might be learned from each Animated STAR TREK episode. They were written seriously just like the ones that were seen on Saturday mornings in the 1970's and 1980's, but when viewed with today's sensibilities, they will probably seem quaint and perhaps humorous. Curt Danhauser - 2009
More info on these special PSAs can be found at danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/PSA.html
Public Service Announcement from the Animated STAR TREK series for the episode "The Infinite Vulcan" written and animated by Curt Danhauser.
Several animated Saturday morning series beginning in the 1970's had a 30-second "message" aimed at teaching the children viewers a lesson, like staying away from downed power lines and not being a bully.
Filmation was actually the first studio to add a moral in the form of an epilogue at the end of Saturday morning cartoon episodes. They made their debut in conjunction with Filmation's Hardy Boys series in 1969, but they didn't become a regular epilogue element until 1972 as part of Filmation's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids series.
No Public Service Announcements (PSAs) were made for the initial broadcast of the animated STAR TREK series. Just for fun, I decided to create 30-second Animated STAR TREK PSAs with the type of lessons that might be learned from each Animated STAR TREK episode. They were written seriously just like the ones that were seen on Saturday mornings in the 1970's and 1980's, but when viewed with today's sensibilities, they will probably seem quaint and perhaps humorous. Curt Danhauser - 2009
More info on these special PSAs can be found at danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/PSA.html






![Ptolemy Wept Animated STAR TREK episode, Part 5
PART 5 - The U.S.S. Enterprise crew takes on a Federation historian to investigate an ancient space station which has suddenly appeared in orbit of a planet that the crew has visited before. After they enter the space station, they soon realize that there is much more to the ancient complex than they expected.
This film entitled Ptolemy Wept was written, directed, animated and produced by Curt Danhauser and is the second new animated STAR TREK episode featuring Captain Kirk and his crew to be produced in more than three decades. The last new official animated STAR TREK episode was produced by Filmation and aired on NBC-TV Saturday morning, October 12, 1974. Now, after more than 35 years, new episodes are being produced. These new episodes are intended to be a direct continuation of the 22-episode animated STAR TREK series produced by Filmation Associates from 1973-1974.
Subsequent parts of this full-length animated episode will be released on youTube in the months to come.
[More details can be found here: http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/PW_Full.html] Ptolemy Wept Animated STAR TREK episode, Part 5](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u3gC_CKcnog/mqdefault.jpg)



