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#12 The Time Trap

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Written by: Joyce Perry

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Airdate: Nov. 24, 1973

Stardate: 5267.2

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Synopsis

Caught in an ion storm, the U.S.S. Enterprise and a Klingon battlecruiser are drawn into a time warp called the Delta Triangle and must cooperate in order to escape it.

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The story featured in a 1972 Gold Key STAR TREK comic had essentially the same plotline as this episode.

This episode's premise of starships accidentaly passing into a nigh-inescapable limbo world was again employed in the February 2001 STAR TREK: Voyager episode "The Void". The solution in this latter story was again that cooperation was the only means of escaping the netherspace.

Many, many ships were seen in this episode, which would have been very expensive to do live action.

This episode, which was the last animated episode to feature Klingons, is also the final appearance of the smooth-foreheaded Klingons. Six years and two weeks later, STAR TREK: The Motion Picture debuted in theaters and ushered in the era of the crab-headed "new-look" Klingons.

There was a dialog error in this episode: Kirk stated the stardate as 52.2, then later in the episode said it was 5267.6. The first stardate was probably supposed to be 5267.2, but the 67 was left off.

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Klingon Commander Kor was seen in this episode and was originally seen in the original series episode "Errand of Mercy." Kor was played by John Colicos in the original series but was voiced by James Doohan in animated form. John Colicos did later reprise his role of Kor in three episodes of STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine: "Blood Oath", "The Sword of Kahless" and "Once More Unto the Breach".

In the November 1998 episode of STAR TREK: Deep Space Nine, "Once More Unto the Breach", Kor mentioned that he served aboard the Klothos, a D-5-class battle cruiser sometime when the Klingons were still the adversaries of the Federation. Kor, of course, commanded the Klothos in the animated episode "The Time Trap." This is a direct tie-in, which makes the animated series that much more canon!

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