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Star Trek - The Tholian Web
episode 3.9
Raumschiff Enterprise - Das Spinnennetz
USA 1968
produced by Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Herb Wallerstein
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Sean Morgan
written by Judy Burns, Chet Richards, created by Gene Roddenberry
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Starship Enterprise is called to a far-out corner of the galaxy to a
rescue mission for the USS Defiant. When the Enterprise arrives, it finds
the Defiant fading in and out of existence, yet Kirk (William Shatner),
Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Bones (DeForest Kelley) and Chekov (Walter Koenig)
beam over (wearing spacesuits for once, too) to investigate - and they
find the whole crew has murdered one another. When they want to beam back
though, the transporter can only carry three at a time, so Kirk sends his
men - and before he can be teleported too, the Defiant dissolves. Spock
however is quick to calculate when there'll be the next occasion to get
hold of Kirk, as the Enterprise is apparently in a region where the wall
between dimensions is very thin and Kirk is caught in a space between
dimensions, slipping from one to the next. Problem is, radiation in this
area makes people go mad (thus the massacre on the Defiant), starting with
Chekov who suddenly loses it and tries to kill Spock. Bones urges Spock to
leave the sector for the crew's sake, but Spock insists on trying to save
Kirk, causing the usual rift between the two men to deepen. Eventually,
they're attacked by a Tholian battleship, and though they manage to shoot
it out of commission, two more Tholian ships show up to build up a energy
web encircling the Enterprise, one that might be finished just before The
Enterprise can beam Kirk aboard the next time he passes through our
dimension - but need I tell you everything ends happily eventually? A
very mediocre episode of Star Trek, as the camp factor's
comparatively low (for better or worse) and the adversary our heroes have
to fight just isn't very impressive, which somewhat lowers the stakes, but
the controversy between Spock and Bones works very fine, even if in this
one, Spock's motives - save a friend - seem to be much more human, Bones'
- welfare of the crew first - more based on logic. Also seeing a
half-transparent Kirk floating through space makes some eerie visuals. So
in all, not top shelve or even particularly memorable, but fun still.
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