From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: The Time Trap (TAS): my review   
      
      
      
   "Rik P"  wrote in message    
   news:727b2c12-6f0b-4dc3-b9c4-ad29c734c91a@m4g2000pri.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > Some of the pacing problems seem to be in the soundtrack editing.  In   
   > this episode there's a shot towards the beginning that's nothing but a   
   > slow zoom to Spock's eyes, at the end of which he raises his   
   > eyebrows.  There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for this other   
   > than the audio track (edited before the visuals are produced) has   
   > music instead of dialogue and they need to show *something*.  I've   
   > noticed this in other episodes.   
   >   
   > I've read that TAS went into production at the last minute which   
   > invariably means rushing scripts into production.  It was a Saturday   
   > morning show so I can't believe the budget for writing and rewriting   
   > would have been that high anyway.  We're probably lucky the stories   
   > are as varied and imaginative as they are.  Even the lesser ones can't   
   > be accused of being unimaginative or of having patently un-Trek ideas.   
   >   
   > I did find this episode quite enjoyable, though.  A mass of ships like   
   > that is something we wouldn't see again in Trek until the Borg attacks   
   > or the Dominion War.  Seeing a Klingon briefing room is certainly a   
   > first.  I usually like ship-board stories and the joining of the   
   > Enterprise and Klothos predates Arthur C. Clarke's use of a similar   
   > device in the novel "2010: Odyssey Two" to escape from Jupiter by   
   > almost a decade.   
   >   
   > But one of the Trekiest bits would have to be the resignation of the   
   > Elysians to stay where they are while our heroes continue to make   
   > escape plans.  Devna wants to return home but refuses Kirk's offer of   
   > a lift simply because she has accepted that escape is impossible.   
   > They won't make it.  Case closed.   
      
   Yes, despite what some of its critics claim, TAS is "real Star Trek."     
   Had some of these TAS stories been produced as live-action in a putative    
   4th season of TOS, fans might actually have said that it's an    
   improvement over TOS's 3rd season.   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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