I’m gonna tell my kids this was Star Trek The Animated Series
No way, I just recently watched an Allison Pregler video about that! (Invidious)
What a wild ride!
I have a direct answer to that question! The oral history on how the Care Bears made a Star Trek parody can be found in a recent video by Allison Pregler: https://youtu.be/t_pYuglkn84
I was a kid in this era, saw some of these episodes, and thought nothing of it.
After all, the Muppet Babies were doing Star Wars….
Also Star Trek.
Wait! How’d they wrangle that? They…oh wait it’s parody.
Muppet Babies would occasionally use actual Star Trek and Indiana Jones footage, they could get the rights because 20th Century Fox. I doubt Paramount let them use actual TNG footage.
“We’re already canceled, so let’s do whatever we want.”
Flashes of 90’s X-Men after they shipped production to a tiny Filipino studio. Weird shit.
Ah lawd, not handsome Beast.
Please don’t let my wife see this picture
Unfortunately the Care Bears didn’t think to take a barber with them on their interstellar voyage, and as a consequence their coats got pretty long. You can catch up with what happened to them in TOS S02E15.
I had no idea these were Canadian
They aren’t, according to the wiki page.
Care Bears are multi-colored bears, painted in 1981 by (American) artist Elena Kucharik to be used on greeting cards from American Greetings.
The animated series, however, was produced by Nelvana, a Canadian animation studio.
Ah that’s where the Canadian part comes in. Good catch. “The Care Bears” animated series was American, the later “Care Bear Family” series was Canadian.
The Care Bears Family is a Canadian animated television series produced by Nelvana and C.B.I.S. Productions based on the American franchise of the same name, and is the successor series to the American animated series produced by DIC Entertainment
All the best SciFi comes out of Canada.
Memory engram unlocked.
Engram never found the engram!
That wasn’t a Mandela effect!?!?
I think this was pretty popular in Germany
I wore Braveheart-inspired facepaint for a football game once as a kid when I lived in Germany, except it was yellow instead of blue to match my team color.
Another player asked what/who I was supposed to look like, and I said “Braveheart”, but obviously this 11yo girl had not seen Braveheart- the only Brave Heart she knew was from the Care Bears
I got made fun of a lot that day lol
Finland as well. There’s a lot of fans.
It was pretty popular in the US too.
Somewhat popular in Brazil
Germany changed the dubbing on TOS to make it more… comedic? I wonder if they did the same thing with this lol.
Wait, what?
Precisely that. First I’ve heard of it, and now I must, uh, research my heritage.
I keep discovering things from the 80s kid me would have loved but I never knew existed until my late 40s.
There’s nothing wrong with letting your inner child enjoy it!
It’s like one of the later seasons of The Smufs where they got stuck in a Quantum Leap type situation where they traveled through time or some shit. They were low on ideas after a while.
But is it cannon?
I like to think it is.Absolutely not.
This is cannon:
Bam boom
Probably. Weirder stuff has happened in Star Trek.
