American animation producer (1928–2013) who co-founded Filmation and, with Norm Prescott, produced Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first continuation of Star Trek after the original show's cancellation.
Lou Scheimer (1928–2013) was an American producer and co-founder of Filmation, the studio behind a large share of American Saturday-morning animation from the 1960s to the 1980s.
With his partner Norm Prescott he produced Star Trek: The Animated Series, which ran for twenty-two episodes on NBC in 1973 and 1974. The series brought back most of the original cast as voice actors and used writers from the live-action show, with D.C. Fontana as story editor in the first season.
The series won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1975, the first Emmy given to Star Trek as a programme. Scheimer's other productions include Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which had begun in 1972, shortly before Star Trek, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the 1980s.