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#62: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 12 "The Time Trap"
Written by Joyce Perry, directed by Hal Sutherland.
Stardates 5267.2 through 5267.6
"Home, with all its faults, is where we prefer to be." - Captain Kirk
The Enterprise has been sent to survey a region of space called the Delta Triangle, which is infamous for being a place where many ships throughout history have disappeared without a trace. While surveying, the Klingon Battlecruiser Klothos appears and attacks the Enterprise. But in the midst of its attack, the Klingon ship vanishes just like so many ships before. More Klingon ships appear and blame the Enterprise for the destruction of the Klothos. Out gunned and surrounded, Captain Kirk decides to take the Enterprise to the exact spot the Klothos disappeared and she also disappears into a pocket of starless space with a vast graveyard of derelict ships... ships that match the descriptions of those lost in the Delta Triangle. When the Klothos finds the Enterprise to resume fighting and their weapons no longer work, Captain Kirk and Commander Kor are beamed off their ships and stood before the Council of Elysia - made up of the survivors of the vanished ships - and are told that here there is total peace... and no possibly of escape.
Originally released: 24 November 1973
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The last death throes of institutionalized fascism.
I hope.