"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.
It is the episode that introduced the aliens known as the Tholians. Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the Enterprise is trapped by an energy-draining web spun by mysterious ...
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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.
It is the episode that introduced the aliens known as the Tholians. Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the Enterprise is trapped by an energy-draining web spun by mysterious aliens.
On stardate 5693.2, the starship USS Enterprise enters an uncharted region of space to answer a distress call from her sister ship, the USS Defiant. Nearing the location, the Enterprise's engines begin to lose power and sensors detect a nearby dimensional fracture in space that seems to be the cause of the energy drain.
The Defiant appears on the monitor, adrift, and with a strange green glow surrounding the hull. Strangely, sensors show no indication that the vessel is there. There are no lifeforms detected, nor are communications...
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