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This won't fit in the word count of the essay I'm writing, which is about Star Trek, but I wanted to share it:

It was about this same time that I first saw Battle of the Planets. Planets was an imported anime series dubbed and re-edited for North American consumption. It concerned a group of teenagers tasked to protect the earth in a giant birdlike spaceship. Each team member had a helmet with a translucent visor in the shape of a different bird’s beak. As a child, I found this a brilliant aesthetic choice.

Well into my adult life I remembered Battle of the Planets as an excruciatingly poignant and beautiful story — right up until I saw an episode for the first time in thirty years and realized that it was rubbish.

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