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
Locations
Races and cultures
States and organizations
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:
- Depicts Earth's first contact with the Tholians.
- 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.
- 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.
- The first retrieval of the Defiant, in 2288. The interphase duplicated the ship at this point, leaving one still to be rescued in 2376.
- The Tholians, the Defiant and the interphase all appear in The Sundered, this time facing off against Captain Sulu of the USS Excelsior.
- Interphase see the crew of the USS da Vinci retrieving the Defiant from the interphase.
Images
Captain Kirk in an EV suit
The USS Defiant entering the spatial interphase
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
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Next story: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Legacy |
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.