The Enterprise gets drawn into a parallel world like the Bermuda Triangle is to aircraft, where it encounters unaged souls who have defined a new craft that's based on peace and harmony and a bit like a United Nations graft, but more Universal Nations, made up of diverse aliens and ex foes. There's an escape plan hatched with a Klingon enemy and you'll need to watch it and see if they manage to break free - bet you can't guess?
5 Reviews
Surprisingly Solid
Samuel-Shovel26 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
In "The Time Trap" the Enterprise is investigating a Bermuda Triangle-like section of space where many ships have disappeared for centuries past. They run across a Klingon ship and the two end up being sucked into another dimension during a fight. In this place, a weird space-time warp, the other missing ships also exist. Here, everyone lives longer and there is perfect peace between all the races. The council permits no violence. The catch is that no one has ever escaped.
The two new ships realize that their only chance of returning home is to combine the power of their ships to blast through. (I don't know how this works but ignore that). The Klingons place a bomb in the Enterprise and plan to detonate it when they return. The council head of this place warns Kirk and they jettison the bomb in time. They escape. The two ships go their separate ways now back in our dimension.
This episode is actually not 100% terrible. It has a tight 20-minute plot that works, shows a strange, interesting dynamic between Kirk and the Klingon For, and has a crewmember use the term "my foot!" as an expletive. There are some things to like here.
The weirdest part of the entire episode is the infamously racist Dr. McCoy asking a Klingon woman to dance. He'd be the last crew member I'd expect to do that!
This genuinely might be the second best episode of the series so far behind "Yesteryear".
The two new ships realize that their only chance of returning home is to combine the power of their ships to blast through. (I don't know how this works but ignore that). The Klingons place a bomb in the Enterprise and plan to detonate it when they return. The council head of this place warns Kirk and they jettison the bomb in time. They escape. The two ships go their separate ways now back in our dimension.
This episode is actually not 100% terrible. It has a tight 20-minute plot that works, shows a strange, interesting dynamic between Kirk and the Klingon For, and has a crewmember use the term "my foot!" as an expletive. There are some things to like here.
The weirdest part of the entire episode is the infamously racist Dr. McCoy asking a Klingon woman to dance. He'd be the last crew member I'd expect to do that!
This genuinely might be the second best episode of the series so far behind "Yesteryear".
The Space Ship's Graveyard
Hitchcoc20 March 2017
Enterprise finds itself moving into a kind of time portal as it faces off against some Klingons and comes into a kind of junkyard of old ships. These are what's left of centuries of misguided guidance systems. Because these folks couldn't leave, they have formed their own society where a council runs things. They don't believe that escape is possible, but they hadn't counted on the diligence of Captain Kirk. The Klingons are willing to form an alliance with Kirk because Spock has figured out that if the two of the ships work together they can burst through. Of course, we know the Klingons aren't the stellar citizens that are aboard the Enterprise. An average episode at best. Good idea but dull conclusion.
About average
planktonrules12 April 2015
Enterprise is fighting it out with a Klingon ship when they both pass into a Bermuda Triangle-like part of space--littered with stricken space ships and apparently none of them can escape. The beings from these ships comprise 123 races and rule over each other- -enforcing the niceness clause. However, instead of just accepting their fate, Kirk wants to try to escape but he needs the cooperation of Captain Klothos of the Klingon ship---but Klothos is a lying jerk-face.
The animation is as it always is in these "Star Trek" cartoons-- total crap with embarrassingly low cell-counts which make the terrible looking characters movie like robots! To make it worse, one of the female aliens has the highest pitch and most annoying voice acting I can recall ever having heard.
As for the story, it fair--about average for the series. The only exception is Spock, who, at times, appears very gay. I don't mean that in a homophobic way--I truly means that he acts like he really, really likes guys...a lot! You have to see it to believe it and, believe it or not, this is the best thing about this particular cartoon.
The animation is as it always is in these "Star Trek" cartoons-- total crap with embarrassingly low cell-counts which make the terrible looking characters movie like robots! To make it worse, one of the female aliens has the highest pitch and most annoying voice acting I can recall ever having heard.
As for the story, it fair--about average for the series. The only exception is Spock, who, at times, appears very gay. I don't mean that in a homophobic way--I truly means that he acts like he really, really likes guys...a lot! You have to see it to believe it and, believe it or not, this is the best thing about this particular cartoon.
Needed more time
Fluke_Skywalker20 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
If "The Time Trap" had merely been a story about enemies forming a temporary alliance to confront a greater and more immediate danger, then this animated format would likely have been sufficient. Not that the ham-fisted effort here would've made it work necessarily, it's just that there would be enough space (no pun intended) to tell such a story. But because the threat isn't just your standard space energy blob, there's too much story here to try and tell in twenty two minutes and do it any justice.
We needed more time to explore this Elysian Council and their society and ponder on the hidden cost of peace and whether or not it's worth relinquishing our freedom for.
I suppose the latter could be forgiven if they had simply made better use of the Enterprise crew and the Klingons having to try and cooperate, but what should have been a layup is a complete brick, as is this episode unfortunately.
We needed more time to explore this Elysian Council and their society and ponder on the hidden cost of peace and whether or not it's worth relinquishing our freedom for.
I suppose the latter could be forgiven if they had simply made better use of the Enterprise crew and the Klingons having to try and cooperate, but what should have been a layup is a complete brick, as is this episode unfortunately.
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