TOS - Tholian Web

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

https://youtu.be/Y2LFYJgYS8M

This is one of the episodes that stood out to me.

[McAvoy]

It is an excellent episode. One of the best.

[Nobody700]

It's a shame we never get to see much of the Tholians, they were always an interesting bunch in both having actual alien designs, and the fact that they had an interesting relationship to the Federation. Not enemies, but not allies.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

The MU episodes were my first exposure to Enterprise, so it was fun to see how they took the events here and correlated them to mirror Archer winding up with The Defiant. Really though I'm not certain if Enterprise added much nuance to what's going on either in this episode here or in Mirror Mirror.

[clearspira]

It's a shame we never get to see much of the Tholians, they were always an interesting bunch in both having actual alien designs, and the fact that they had an interesting relationship to the Federation. Not enemies, but not allies.

I suspect that the Tholians were a very large special effects budget and technical problem. Even by the late 90s Star Trek was just about pulling off a few seconds of Species 8472. Its a nice effect for its time but you can see the limitations.

I'm kind of glad of this in a way. Trek has this habit of taking all of its coolest aliens making them absolutely pathetic. The Borg, 8472, the Gorn, the Nausicans. It was these limitations that actually saved the Tholians.

[pilight]

McCoy is pricklier than usual with Spock this episode. I choose to believe it is because the area of space is beginning to affect him.

[McAvoy]

It's a shame we never get to see much of the Tholians, they were always an interesting bunch in both having actual alien designs, and the fact that they had an interesting relationship to the Federation. Not enemies, but not allies.

I suspect that the Tholians were a very large special effects budget and technical problem. Even by the late 90s Star Trek was just about pulling off a few seconds of Species 8472. Its a nice effect for its time but you can see the limitations.

I'm kind of glad of this in a way. Trek has this habit of taking all of its coolest aliens making them absolutely pathetic. The Borg, 8472, the Gorn, the Nausicans. It was these limitations that actually saved the Tholians.

I think the 90's Trek could have pulled it off. Not a full body appearance but they could done something like a guy dressed up as Tholian on the mainview screen. Some hard plastic mask over an actor's head perhaps, with some programmed Christmas lights underneath for a glow or something.

That's just off of the top of my head. The studio miniature wouldn't be that difficult to make either.