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   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
   On Sep 1, 12:00aam, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   > Ron  wrote innews:8ec3accf-b70b-4f7e-bc   
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   > > On Aug 27, 8:12 pm, "jph...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
   > >> THE TIME TRAP: PLOT   
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   > >> 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.   
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   > >> 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!   
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   > >> CHARACTERS   
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   > >> Spock behaves with excessive friendliness toward the Klingons in   
   > >> order to   
   > > ause his Vulcan Voodoo on them, tipping him off that they are planning   
   > > asome sort of sabotage. When one of Kor's men breaks the Elysians'   
   > > anon-violence law, Kirk gets to make a speech championing home over   
   > > athe Elysians' perfect society, showing (not for the first time) that   
   > > aeven cartoon Kirk can always find a soap box to climb.   
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   > >> THOUGHTS   
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   > >> 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.   
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   > >> In other words, The Time Trap is another episode that's kept short of   
   > >> its   
   > > apotential by the short running time. There was enough story here for   
   > > aa 2-parter, which would have allowed the breathing space the various   
   > > aplot strands require in order to develop it all. It also would have   
   > > amade good economic sense - a 2-parter would offer Filmation even more   
   > > aopportunities to recycle shots and artwork than is already the case!   
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   > >> 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.   
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   > >> Rating: 6/10.   
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   > > Perhaps a crappy episode, but it becomes canon in a DS9 episode where   
   > > it's mentioned that Kor captained the IKS Klothos. Oy.   
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   > > Ron   
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   > > ______________   
   > > "Don't you ever feel frightened?"   
   > > "All the time. I just don't let it get to me."   
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   > > --Teilani and Captain Kirk (Ashes Of Eden) --   
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   > Are we still bringing up this canon crap? aAll aired Star Trek is canon. a   
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   If they hadn't referred to the ship on Deep Space Nine, this episode   
   would have been promptly forgotten like so many other bad episodes of   
   TAS.   
   Ron   
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