Season three is holding up pretty well in my re-watching of the DVD set in series order. The Tholian Web is an excellent episode, at least top 30 of all the Trek TOS made. Here we see another Starship (The Defiant, I believe) losing its whole crew to a space madness, plus its phasing in and out of the dimension! The landing party don space suits (!) for the first and only time here, proof that the writers were at least trying to keep this series alive; despite it never cracking the top 30 shows TV ratings in its total run. We also get a new alien with comparable weapons, and its own unique ones at that, the Tholians! Add on top of that, cool scenes with Chekov, Dr McCoy and Scottie; and Spock becomes the Captain, this is on the level with seasons one seriousness with the crew and adds seasons threes chemistry between Kirk, McCoy and Spock, making it must watch Trek TOS. McCoy and Spock further their friendship and respect for each other here adding to the chemistry that would later on make the movies so good. A goof I noticed, the officer (a one strip on the sleeve type) beaming Kirk is an Ensign or close to that rank, the hand we see moving the slides is that of CDR Scott with two gold strips. Oh well I'm sure there are lots of others to make fun of but than this wouldn't be a cool show to watch if you nit picked. McCoys spacesuit went for 125,000 US dollars on auction recently, so there are those who think this was a great episode other than me. LLAP
Review of The Tholian Web
