Seinfeld

SEINFELD BLOG

Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 32 - Episodes 63 & 64: The Empath/ The Tholian Web

starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy

: Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 32 - Episodes 63 & 64: The Empath/ The Tholian Web
See Larger Image







Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792174820
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792174828
Label: CBS Paramount International Television
Manufacturer: CBS Paramount International Television
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: CBS Paramount International Television
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 51027
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1966



Related Items:

Editorial Review:

Description:
'The Empath,' Ep. 63 - As prisoners of the Vians, Kirk and McCoy are tortured so that Gem, a mute empath, can learn to use her abilities and save her race. 'The Tholian Web,' Ep. 64 - Kirk is trapped in interspace, and the Tholians, accusing the Enterprise of trespassing, begin to weave an energy web around the ship.

Amazon.com:
'The Empath'
'The Empath' is an absolute must for fans of Star Trek's recurring shirtless-Kirk-being-tortured motif. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are taken to a strange laboratory and tortured by powerful aliens while a mute woman is forced to watch--a woman whose empathic abilities are being put to the test. There is, of course, a broader scheme to it all--this is one of the early manifestations of Trek's eternal conflict between the needs of the many and the needs of the few, or the one. Keep an ear out for one of the all-time great Bonesisms ('I'm a doctor, not a coal miner!') and hang on to those fragile but oh-so-important human emotions. --Ali Davis

'The Tholian Web'
'The Tholian Web' was conceived when writer Judy Burns went looking for a new angle on ghost stories. A physics student suggested she somehow use the theory of infinite dimensions, and out of that came Burns's script, which finds Captain Kirk (William Shatner) trapped between different kinds of space, floating in and out of view of the Enterprise crew. Adding to the dilemma are time constraints (Kirk's oxygen supply is running low), an effort by the arachnid-like Tholians to trap the Enterprise in a gigantic web, sub-space dementia affecting the crew, and rising hostilities between Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the latter none too happy with the way the Vulcan is running the ship in Kirk's absence. Burns's original conception was to make Spock the spectral Starfleet officer locked in interspace, but the show is quite effective in the way various characters mourn the presumed death of their leader and figurehead. The Tholians don't make another appearance in Trek lore until The Next Generation, but this particular episode won the original series its first Emmy for special effects. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Both episodes EXCELLENT!
I love both episodes. I particularly LOVE the music for "The Empath." The Empath's (the character ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the Very Few Season Three Keepers!
Though by far not among the better overall episodes of Classic Trek, this volume is a keeper if you ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Classic Spock in command episode....
The Tholian Web
The USS Enterprise finds her sister ship, the USS Defiant in unsurveyed territory ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - I'm givin' ya fair warnin' here...
I was planning on reviewing this and four other 2-episode original Star Trek DVDs I hadn't yet gotten to ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A Little Too Late...
Both The Empath & The Tholian Web could have been much better scripts.

In The Empath the ... Read More

More Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 32 - Episodes 63 & 64: The Empath/ The Tholian Web Reviews

Browse for similar items by category:







Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.