Fridge / Star Trek: The Animated Series

Fridge Brilliance

• Although the Standards and Practices applicable to 1970's children's programming would never have permitted outright saying so, the nature of the the weapon found in the stasis box in "The Slaver Weapon", along with a picture of an unknown alien, suggest that the weapon was that of an assassin, and the picture that of the assassin's target. Sulu does suggest that the weapon could have been used by a spy, who would have need for an easily-concealable, versatile, and self-destructing weapon—an assassin or hitman would have similar needs as well. The meat inside is also shown to be poisoned when tested.
• In "The Pirates of Orion", Kirk offers to not report the titular pirates' activities to the Federation (and thus end the fiction of Orion neutrality) if they would hand over the medicine Spock needs. While it is the only option he has at that point to save his friend, it may seem a bit irresponsible considering the danger Orion pirates pose — after all, they left the Huron crew to die, and has probably done the same to a lot more trade vessels. But the fact is, he doesn't actually need to report them — the Huron crew he has rescued will do it once they recover. Orion neutrality is going to get challenged anyway.
• The rec room from "The Practical Joker" is most likely an experimental prototype of future holodecks. It is established in Star Trek: Voyager that holodecks did NOT exist during the original series.

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