Hello, everybody.

Welcome to this week's episode of Trek Politics.

I'm Eric Trump here with my friend and co-host, Bob Suska.

So Bob, tonight we're going to talk about a Star Trek politics. I'm Mary Trump here with my friend and co-host, Bob Suska. So Bob,

tonight we're going to talk about a Star Trek episode that I don't completely get, but you probably do. All righty, spoilers ahead, Mary. This is the Tholian Web from Midway through Season

3, written by Judy Burns and Chet Richards, directed by Herb

Wallerstein and Ralph Sinensky. The Enterprise is searching for the USS Defiant, which has

gone missing in an unexplored region of space, and they find it glowing green, even though

sensors don't pick it up. Kirk, Spock, Bones, and Chekhov, for some reason,

beam aboard wearing glittery space suits. The crew members they encounter are all dead. The captain

has been strangled. Everyone aboard has evidently killed each other. Chekhov begins to show symptoms of space madness,

the same space madness that led to the deaths of the defiant crew,

while Bones notices that a crewman and a table are vanishing.

Sulu and Scotty watch in horror as the defiant begins to phase out of our dimension of

space-time, And as always,

when it rains, it pours. The transporters blow a gasket leaving Kirk behind to fade out into another

dimension. Meantime, Chekhov's space madness worsens as the Tholians show up to start

encapsulating the enterprise in a giant web, while Spock

declares Kirk lost forever, presumed dead. Bones hypothesizes that the spatial distortions

are affecting the minds of the crew, causing the epidemic of space madness. Spock and Bones buttheads over how best to resolve the crisis.

Bones, of course, wants to flee the region to protect the crew from the space madness,

while Spock wants to stay and see if they can rescue Captain Kirk.

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