mbarker | Olde Star Trek - The Tholian Web

Aha! NCC-1701 boldly goes where no man has gone before, and finds . . . a ghost ship, fading, fading, fading. And with troubles on the transporter deck, Kirk gets left aboard when the Defiant vanishes. Love those sparkly spacesuits! The fabric of space is very weak here, as is Chekhov's mental stability? And just to make the conflict even more complicated, here come the Tholians.

"Captain Kirk is not on his designated coordinates!"

"The renowned Tholian punctuality." Nice response by Spock to being shot at, eh?

Ooh - the Tholian web is definitely enhanced on these updated shows. Shiny flickers, instead of a set of solid lines. Nice golden web of flickering lines. I suppose we shouldn't wonder about the effectiveness of what appears to be a flat web in a three-d space, but . . . now a bit later, it does seem as if the lines are both in front and behind the ship.

I had forgotten Uhura's dress! A wonderful confection in red, and the captain comes a-visiting? No one believes her, until . . .

Here comes the captain, in front of Spock, McCoy, and Scotty.

McCoy, with the antidote: "In this derivative, mixed with alcohol, it merely deadens certain inputs to the brain."
Scotty: "Any decent brand of Scotch'll do that."

Fun!