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TAS was great for what it was. Animation at the time was super cheap and outsourced, so you can't really put them blame on them for something that was pretty standard at the time.
One of the neat things about Star Trek: The Animated Series is that they were able to have crew members and aliens that were more than just humans with a couple of prosthetics. Aside from the Horta, and a couple glowing space things, basically every alien in The Original Series was a quickly painted extra.
You'd be hard pressed to find someone who says TAS was their favorite Trek, but it's probably in my top 4 Trek series.
It's my favorite for that very reason. I find myself more immersed in the world when aliens look alien. Humans with minor cranial differences just don't do it for me.
Wait until we find out that us humans look like some other species but with a ~~rubber prosthetic~~ protruding chin, and male pattern baldness. Then imagine the episode where the Captain teaches a lesson to us humans about a compromise.
How could you forget the [Alfa 177 canine](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_non-humanoids_(23rd_century)#Alfa_177_canine)? 😁 (and, on a more serious note, the M113 salt creature which was my introduction to Star Trek and which looked pretty awesome)
I bow to your trek knowledge
btw, your link doesn't work for me (an errant backslash), but I see it at https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_non-humanoids_(23rd_century)#Alfa_177_canine.
Anyway, I feel I've seen the salt vampire in another sci-fi, although whether it was meant as an homage I can't say.