3x09 The Tholian Web - Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Original Series

- Episode 03x09

Episode: 03x09
Title: The Tholian Web
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 60043-64
First Aired: Nov. 15, 1968

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Star Trek: The Original Series - 03x09 The Tholian Web

Summary: The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of its fellow starship the U.S.S. Defiant. Kirk takes a team over and they find the entire crew dead, having killed each other in fits of madness. The Defiant starts to vanish and everyone but Kirk makes it back before it disappears for good. Spock orders the Enterprise to stay in the area to attempt a recovery, but the crystalline Tholians launch an attack and the Enterprise crew start to experience the same madness that destroyed the Defiant crew.

Who appeared in this episode?

Mr. Spock

Guest Stars:

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Dr. McCoy	played by DeForest Kelley
Scott	played by James Doohan
Sulu	played by George Takei
Chekov	played by Walter Koenig
Uhura	played by Nichelle Nichols
Enterprise Computer	voiced by Majel Barrett
Lt. O'Neil	played by Sean Morgan
Engineer	played by Jay D. Jones

	Season 3 / Episode 9: - The Tholian Web Capt. Kirk: I had a whole universe to myself. After the Defiant was thrown out. There was absolutely no one else in it. I must say I prefer a crowded universe much better. How did you two get along without me? Bones: Oh, we managed. Mr. Spock gave the orders and I found the answers.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - The Tholian Web Bones: [about Kirk] He was a hero in every sense of the word, yet his life was sacrificed for nothing. The one thing that would have given his death meaning Is the safety of the Enterprise. Now you've made that impossible.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: Obvious stunt double for Mr. Scott saying "Scott here" when Spock calls the engine room.
SYNC: Chekov screams though his mouth does not move.
CONT: Scotty has his hair cut short and combed down in this episode. But, in one scene, where Spock calls him right before inter-phase, the scene shows his hair combed back, in the style he wore in the first few episodes of the third season. That shot was re-used from the episode "The Paradise Syndrome."

TRIVIA

Herb Wallerstein is the credited director of this episode. Ralph Senensky was the original director, but was fired midway through filming, and replaced by Wallerstein. Senensky refused any screen credit for this episode.
The only episode without a single guest star.
According to a TV Guide interview from 1970, The Tholian Web was the first script that episode writer Judy Burns (I) ever wrote.
Spock tells Chekov that the U.S.S. Defiant is the first starship on record to fall prey to mutiny. Inaccurate, as he himself committed this offense on "The Menagerie, Part I" as well as nearly a year later from this in "Turnabout Intruder".