Even as the series was winding down and plot elements were being rehashed, there were still a couple of new ideas used here. This was the first time for example, that a personnel conference was held aboard the Enterprise, called by Mr. Spock, to explain the Captain's apparent demise in an interspacial overlap between galaxies. This was also the first (and only?) time that the primary crew used space suits to beam down to The Defiant. If I'm recalling correctly, no reason was actually given for the suits, Kirk and Company just arrived in the Transporter Room wearing them and that was that. They could have made something up.
Say, didn't Chekov go berserk just a couple of weeks earlier in Season III's "Day of the Dove"? The writers probably should have spread the madness around to other members of the cast to keep things a little more varied, but what the heck. You just never know how the deteriorating effects of inter-space is going to affect someone.
The episode also had that interesting visual with the cross hatch pattern of the Tholian Web. It had the effect of creating a claustrophobic feel as if the Enterprise was being hemmed in, or caught in a spider's web if you will. Which would have been harder to do than it looked in the vast expanse of outer space, but it seemed to work here. True to form, Captain Kirk is saved at the v-e-r-y l-a-s-t m-i-n-u-t-e with not a second to spare. I just wonder how even Captain Kirk can keep perspective after being pulled out of the fire so many times throughout three seasons of the show.
Say, didn't Chekov go berserk just a couple of weeks earlier in Season III's "Day of the Dove"? The writers probably should have spread the madness around to other members of the cast to keep things a little more varied, but what the heck. You just never know how the deteriorating effects of inter-space is going to affect someone.
The episode also had that interesting visual with the cross hatch pattern of the Tholian Web. It had the effect of creating a claustrophobic feel as if the Enterprise was being hemmed in, or caught in a spider's web if you will. Which would have been harder to do than it looked in the vast expanse of outer space, but it seemed to work here. True to form, Captain Kirk is saved at the v-e-r-y l-a-s-t m-i-n-u-t-e with not a second to spare. I just wonder how even Captain Kirk can keep perspective after being pulled out of the fire so many times throughout three seasons of the show.