Not my favorite episode, but it does feature another of the unfortunate sisters of the
Enterprise.
The Tholian Web features the
U.S.S. Defiant and introduces us to the mysterious Tholians--a warlike, xenophobic species with an interesting weapon. On a routine patrol, the
Defiant is caught in a spacial anomaly (a great word for an otherwise scientifically impossible plot device) and trapped. After three weeks, the crew goes mad and falls upon one another in a barbaric frenzy. Though the events are not fully explained, the entire crew die in a variety of violent ways. When discovered by the
Enterprise, the
Defiant is enveloped in an eerie green mist, shifting between dimensions. Upon beaming aboard, Captain Kirk and party discover the entire crew dead.
While he spoke no lines and is only visible for a moment, I decided to include the ill-fated Captain of the
Defiant in this collection. The reason, I had the parts and wanted to see how it would look. Here is my attempt:
We really know nothing about the crew of the ship, except that they all killed each other. The Captain was found dead with a Red Shirt on the bridge.
To accomplish this scene, I simply removed Captain Kirk's hair and posed the figures as close to the image from the show. While the actual name of the captain of the
Defiant remains a mystery, some of the non-cannon novels refer to him as Captain Thomas Blair. The unknown Red Shirt is simply unknown...and a dirty mutineer so his name should be lost to history.
The actual insignia patch for the
Defiant is never seen on the screen--at least not until
Star Trek: Enterprise took us back to the mirror-universe in its hackneyed attempt to draw in viewers. The less said about that abortion the better. For this creation, I used the original episode as my template. I arranged the figures as accurately as I could to be true to the original episode.
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