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"The Tholian Web" was a third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
It is episode #64, production #64, first broadcast on November 15,
1968 and repeated August 19, 1969. It was written by Judy Burns and
Chet Richards and directed by Herb Wallerstein.
Overview: Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the crew of the Enterprise works to retrieve him. All the while, the Tholians demand that the Enterprise leave their space.
On stardate 5693.2, the starship USS Enterprise enters an uncharted region of space to search for her sister ship, the USS Defiant, which disappeared three weeks previously. The Enterprise's warp engines begin to slowly lose power for no apparent cause, yet sensors detect nearby dimensional fractures in space.
They visually find the Defiant,
adrift and glowing eerily, despite sensors reporting the vessel is not
really there. Captain Kirk assembles a boarding party consisting of
himself, Dr. McCoy, Mr. Spock and Mr. Chekov
in environmental suits, as the conditions of the Defiant are unknown.
They discover the entire crew dead, having apparently killed each
other. What's worse, the ship appears to be dissolving as McCoy is able
to put his hand through a corpse and a table.
The
dematerialising of the Defiant is causing the Enterprise's transporter
frequencies to be blocked; only three are working and even these are
dubious. Kirk orders the landing party back whilst he remains. But
before Kirk himself can be beamed off, the Defiant disappears
altogether, taking the Captain with it.
Spock
determines that due to the Enterprise's transporter lock, Kirk has
been left in the interdimensional rift when the Defiant phased out, and
they can recover him again during the next period of spatial
interphase. Spock notes that the Captain has just over three hours of
oxygen left in his environmental suit.
Meanwhile,
Chekov suddenly goes berserk and attacks the bridge personnel. McCoy
surmises that the spatial interphase causes psychotic effects in the
human brain, and the same murderous hostilities that affected the Defiant's crew will eventually overcome the Enterprise. McCoy strongly suggests that they put some distance between themselves and the Defiant
but Spock refuses, believing any movement from their position could
disrupt the delicate fabric of space in their region and jeopardize
their chances of finding the Captain.
A small vessel of unknown configuration approaches the Enterprise.
A crystalline being initiates contact and identifies itself as
Commander Loskene of the Tholian Assembly, and demands that the Enterprise
leave their territory immediately. Spock apologizes for their
intrusion and explains their situation to Loskene, asking they be given
time to retrieve the Captain. Loskene agrees to give the Enterprise precisely 1 hour and 53 minutes until the next spatial interphase period.
The moment comes when the Defiant
should phase in again, and Spock attempts to lock onto the Captain;
however the ship is not where she is supposed to be. Spock believes the
arrival of the Tholian vessel has somehow disturbed the Defiant's
position and they have lost Captain Kirk for good. Before any other
action can be taken, the Tholians open fire on the Enterprise and
refuse any attempts at communication. Spock returns fire and disables
the Tholian vessel. Scotty reports that the Enterprise's damage
coupled with the lack of power means he cannot hold the Enterprise
purely stationary and she might even drift through the rift herself.
Meanwhile, another Tholian vessel arrives and begins to form a filament
structure between itself and the other ship. This filament thread is
spun by either ship around the Enterprise in a web-like pattern. Spock
explains that it is an energy field that, if activated before the
Enterprise is repaired, means they "will not see home again."
McCoy
and Spock conduct a makeshift funeral in the Captain's quarters where
McCoy plays a recording Kirk made for them just in case he was ever
killed on a mission. The somber recording gives the officers their
final orders and some words of advice for their future missions without
him; especially when he exhorts them to use their constant arguments
and different points of view to support and help each other.
After the message is heard, Spock orders the Enterprise to leave the area. However, in the midst of her private memorial for Kirk in her quarters, Lt. Uhura
notices a ghostly image of the Captain, still in his space suit, and
floating inside the ship, beckoning for help. Spock thinks Uhura is
seeing things and suggests she report to Dr. McCoy, but then Scotty
reports catching a glimpse of Kirk in engineering and confirms that
Uhura isn't hallucinating.
Spock
rushes to locate the Captain, but Kirk phases out again before he can
get a lock. If indeed the Captain is still alive, his pressure suit's
life support would be dangerously low and his time is running out.
More
reports of Kirk's "ghost" come in from around the ship and Spock tries
to lock a tractor beam on him when he appears again. In the meantime,
Doctor McCoy has discovered an antidote for the phasing effect by using
a diluted form of the Klingon nerve agent, Theragen.
As the Tholian web is nearing completion, Kirk's image is spotted once more and Spock locks onto him with the tractor beam.
Just
before the Tholians were able to complete the web, Spock takes a
gamble and activates the ship's engines. The Enterprise briefly drops
into the rift, and is hurled 2.72 parsecs away, enabling it to escape
the Tholian web. At this time, it was possible to retrieve Captain Kirk
from the rift, barely in time, for his oxygen supply was exhausted.
Kirk
makes a full recovery and is keen on learning what happened aboard his
ship while he was "away". He was surprised to learn McCoy and Spock
worked well together, and a little disappointed when McCoy claims they
didn't have time to open their Captain's "last orders" and his words of
wisdom had gone unheard.
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