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A must for Niven fans
Last night I found something hyper-cool online, so today I'm just taking my lunchbreak to post it:

part 1, part 2

Watch it before YouTube yoinks it as being copyrighted. I tried to do this as an "embed" but some bug in either FF, YT, or LJ meant that one of the videos kept replacing the other.

To explain what you're looking at: Larry Niven is one of my favourite authors. "The Soft Weapon" is on of his better short stories set in his "Known Space" universe.  This episode of "Star Trek: The Animated Series" is a near word-for-word adaptation of Niven's original story, but with TOS Enterprise crew in place of the original characters. It's remarkable that the story isn't changed further, since the various Known Space concepts of Slavers, Kzinti, etc. are totally out-of-place in the Star Trek universe, but are included anyways.  Weird to see a story I used to read over and over done up as a campy animated ST episode.

For more information, a Wiki article on the episode over at the Star Trek Wiki, Memory Alpha.