From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
   On Aug 27, 10:12apm, "jph...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
   > Better than the last two episodes, this riffs on Lost Horizon to reasonable   
   effect.   
   Lost Horizon certainly was an influence, but an even bigger one was   
   the Bermuda Triangle, which was incredibly trendy in the 70's.   
   > 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.   
   Well, this is one of those episodes where you should check out the   
   Alan Dean Foster novelization.  He manages to stretch them all out to   
   reasonable length.   
   > Even with the rushed pace, this is a decent episode. I enjoyed seeing Kirk   
   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.>   
   Also interesting was that mention about the Bonaventure being the ship   
   equipped with warp drive.  I think that gets contradicted even before   
   TAS ends.  I think Sarah April makes the same claim about the   
   Enterprise in the final episode.   
   > 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. >   
   Well, part of the problem is that Star Trek was a 60 minute show, so   
   when people try to write for TAS, they probably thought in those terms   
   first, and then tried to adapt it to TAS.   
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