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   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
      
      
   "Ron"  wrote in message    
   news:b454ab35-ce35-44dc-83c9-494965fac763@o10g2000vby.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Sep 1, 12:00aam, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   > > Ron  wrote innews:8ec3accf-b70b-4f7e-   
   c60-6f66903b11c8@l4g2000vbz.googlegroups.com:   
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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.   
   > >   
   > > >> 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   
   > > > 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.   
   > >   
   > > >> 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   
   > > > 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!   
   > >   
   > > >> 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   
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   > > > ______________   
   > > > "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? aAll aired Star Trek is canon. a   
   > > End of discussion.- Hide quoted text -   
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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.   
      
   The fact that the writers had referred to the ship proves that the    
   episode hadn't been forgotten.   
      
   How many other shows maintain continuity over decades?  Do soap opera    
   episodes today mention events that happened 20 years before?   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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