I also didn't read the Niven story until a few years after the TAS episode ran, but the first time I encountered Niven's Kzinti I remembered the show. It didn't take me long to track down "The Soft Weapon" and realize that the show was a re-write.
Funny side story... according to this Memory Alpha Wiki entry, the Kzinti uniforms were pink in the episode due to a misunderstanding between the animation crew and the director, who was colorblind. D.C. Fontana personally apologized to Niven on his behalf for the error.
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Date: 2008-06-05 08:10 pm (UTC)I also didn't read the Niven story until a few years after the TAS episode ran, but the first time I encountered Niven's Kzinti I remembered the show. It didn't take me long to track down "The Soft Weapon" and realize that the show was a re-write.
Funny side story... according to this Memory Alpha Wiki entry, the Kzinti uniforms were pink in the episode due to a misunderstanding between the animation crew and the director, who was colorblind. D.C. Fontana personally apologized to Niven on his behalf for the error.