The Tholian Web

The Tholian Web
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Written by:	Judy Burns & Chet Richards
Directed by:	Ralph Senensky & Herb Wallerstein
Novelization in:	Star Trek 5 by James Blish
Production information
Episode no.:	3x09
Production no.:	6149-64
First aired:	15 November 1968
Chronology
Date:	2268
Stardate:	5693.2

"The Tholian Web" was the 64th episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Summary

investigating the derelict spaceship Defiant Captain Kirk is missing and presumed dead! Likewise the spaceship Enterprise is in danger of being trapped in a alien energy space web!

References

Characters

Episode characters

Thomas Blair • Clifford Brent • Christine Chapel • Pavel Chekov • Bill Hadley • James T. Kirk • Roger Lemli • Loskene • Leonard McCoy • O'Neil • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura • USS Enterprise computer

Novelization characters

Thomas Blair • Pavel Chekov • James T. Kirk • Loskene • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura

Referenced only 

O'Neil

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • USS Defiant (Constitution-class) • Tholia One

Races and cultures

Human • Tholian • Vulcan

States and organizations

Starfleet • Tholian Assembly • United Federation of Planets

Other references

interphase • Tholian web • theragen

Appendices

Related media

The Tholians and the Defiant have appeared many times throughout Star Trek since their introduction in The Tholian Web:

• ENT episode: "Future Tense"

Depicts Earth's first contact with the Tholians.

• In a Mirror, Darkly (Enterprise episodes)

After passing through the interphase the USS Defiant fell into the hands of the Mirror Universe Tholians a hundred years in the past. In a Mirror, Darkly shows the fate of the Defiant and has the Tholians use their web once more.

• Star Trek: Early Voyages

The Tholians, or at least their subject race the Chakuun appear in Early Voyages and an ongoing conflict with the Tholian Assembly is frequently referenced.

• TOS comic: "Raise the Defiant"

The first retrieval of the Defiant, in 2288. The interphase duplicated the ship at this point, leaving one still to be rescued in 2376.

• TLE novel: The Sundered

The Tholians, the Defiant and the interphase all appear in The Sundered, this time facing off against Captain Sulu of the USS Excelsior.

• SCE eBook: Interphase

Interphase see the crew of the USS da Vinci retrieving the Defiant from the interphase.

Adaptations

Novelization collected in The Classic Episodes 3.

Novelization collected in The Classic Episodes.

Images

Captain Kirk in an EV suit

The USS Defiant entering the spatial interphase

Tholian Assembly Spinner-class starships

dead crewoman on Defiant

a victim of the madness

more dead crew, one holds what appears to be a knife

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: The Empath	TOS episode produced	Next episode: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Previous episode: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky	TOS episode aired	Next episode: Plato's Stepchildren
Previous story: Whom Gods Destroy	Star Trek 5	Next story: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Legacy	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Sundered (Chapter 24)
Previous Adventure: Legacy	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next Adventure: Windows on a Lost World

External links

• The Tholian Web article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• The Tholian Web article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This character was not named in the episode but the same actor, wearing an officer's Starfleet uniform, was addressed as Brent in TOS episode: "The Naked Time". The same actor also played the character of Vinci.