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Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review
Ron wrote in
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> On Aug 27, 8:12 pm, "jph...@gmail.com" wrote:
>> THE TIME TRAP: PLOT
>>
>> The Enterprise is investigating The Delta Triangle, an area of space
>> in w
> hich an unusal number of ships have disappeared. As soon as they
> reachit, they are attacked by three Klingon ships. Kirk's old
> adversary, Commander Kor (this time voiced by James Doohan), is in the
> lead. The battle begins... but ends abruptly, as Kor's ship vanishes
> before their eyes.
>>
>> Kirk orders the Enterprise to those exact coordinates and finds his
>> ship
> following Kor's into a pocket universe. Here, races from various ships
> that disappeared in the Triangle have learned to live in harmony. Kirk
> and Kor are welcomed into the community, known as Elysia, and are even
> welcome to attempt escape. But there is one rule which they cannot
> countermand, on penalty of being frozen for 100 years - no violence of
> any kind, from any member of their respective crews!
>>
>> CHARACTERS
>>
>> Spock behaves with excessive friendliness toward the Klingons in
>> order to
> use his Vulcan Voodoo on them, tipping him off that they are planning
> some sort of sabotage. When one of Kor's men breaks the Elysians'
> non-violence law, Kirk gets to make a speech championing home over
> the Elysians' perfect society, showing (not for the first time) that
> even cartoon Kirk can always find a soap box to climb.
>>
>> THOUGHTS
>>
>> Better than the last two episodes, this riffs on Lost Horizon to
>> reasonab
> le effect. It's still rushed, though. The Elysian society is
> established through a couple of brief scenes, but there's no chance to
> really explore it. Similarly, Kor's plan to sabotage the Enterprise
> and Spock's atypical behavior covering his attempts to figure out and
> stop the sabotage are plot turns with a lot of potential - but the
> rushed pace doesn't allow either strand to be properly developed.
> Spock's ruse is a story strand that ends up being dropped, with the
> resolution of the sabotage subplot being provided by the Elysians at
> the eleventh hour.
>>
>> In other words, The Time Trap is another episode that's kept short of
>> its
> potential by the short running time. There was enough story here for
> a 2-parter, which would have allowed the breathing space the various
> plot strands require in order to develop it all. It also would have
> made good economic sense - a 2-parter would offer Filmation even more
> opportunities to recycle shots and artwork than is already the case!
>>
>> Even with the rushed pace, this is a decent episode. I enjoyed seeing
>> Kir
> k put in the position of working with the Klingons, and the glimpse we
> got of the Elysians was interesting enough to make me wish the episode
> could actually spend more time with them. The ongoing pacing issue is
> aggravating, though. By this point in the series' run, the writers and
> producers really should have a stronger sense of how much story can
> fit into 22 minutes. As it stands, we seem to move back and forth
> between episodes with virtually no story and episodes with too much
> story, with only an elite handful of shows managing to strike the
> balance just right.
>>
>> Rating: 6/10.
>
> Perhaps a crappy episode, but it becomes canon in a DS9 episode where
> it's mentioned that Kor captained the IKS Klothos. Oy.
>
> Ron
>
> ______________
> "Don't you ever feel frightened?"
> "All the time. I just don't let it get to me."
>
> --Teilani and Captain Kirk (Ashes Of Eden) --
>
>
Are we still bringing up this canon crap? All aired Star Trek is canon.
End of discussion.
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