I'm watching TAS for the first time--even as an absolute Trekkie, I never watched it. I really did not expect that it would have a trapped in the holodeck episode in the TOS/TAS era (s2e3 The Practical Joker). And I sure didn't expect that TAS would have possibly the best representation of a Native American character in all of Trek, although that's a very low bar. s2e5 How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth has a Comanche guest character (although voiced by James Doohan), and one of the co-authors of the episode was Kiowa. No flute music or dreamcatchers around. The story has the same problem Voyager did in crediting ancient Native Americans' inventions and culture to alien visitors. The Comanche guest character gets to solve the problem in this episode though by having studied Native American cultures (plural) and histories (plural), so that he knows a Mayan legend even though he's not Mayan. This has some similarity to Chakotay on Voyager being an anthropologist, but this character makes a point of mentioning that he's studied many different Native cultures. I like the twist of giving the authority in the field of anthropology to the Native character in both shows (as compared to current real life). But I think this 1974 TAS episode immediately has better representation the minute the character states which tribe he's from. Hiring a Native American writer makes the difference, even in a very cheaply made animated show from 1974. If anyone reading this is Native American and has watched this ancient low-budget episode, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. (I love Voyager overall, and am not complaining about the show as a whole.) #StarTrek #StarTrekTAS #StarTrekVoyager