[6.4/10] Pretty standard, nuts and bolts episode of Star Trek. We just did the “we’re checking out the space version of the Bermuda Triangle” situation in “The Lorelei Signal” but this one finds some new places to take the idea. It’s a neat sci-fi premise to have all these ships stranded in a pocket universe and forming their own multi-cultural and unified government. I have to admit, there’s something pretty neat about seeing members of many different Star Trek races all sitting together around a big desk Legion of Doom style.
The problem is that the episode doesn’t really do much of anything with it. The Pocket Universe Council is all about peace and has some mechanisms to enforce it, but otherwise they’re basically set dressing, only there to add detail to the sargasso of lost ships and use their psychic powers to warn Kirk about the Klingon explosive on board the Enterprise.
To that end, most of this one is about the Enterprise and a Klingon ship that also got sucked into the pocket universe having to work together to escape (thanks to a miracle Spock formula.) The mistrust between them has some juice, but it’s mostly a standard good guy/bad guy caper. Overall, not a bad episode by any stretch, but one that feels like it doesn’t make the most of either the “Intergalactic Model U.N.” or “have to work with the enemy” premises that it employs.
Either members of the crew are abducted and imprisoned or the whole ship ends up in a giant bubble, in a giant void, pocket of space in a temporal anomaly or a similar trap. That's the plot of 80% of all TOS episodes. But later installments of the franchise feature very similar plots. It reminds me of The Void - one of Voyager's better epiosdes Like in that episode, the trapped crews often were sworn enemies before but now try to build an alliance to survive and break free. Okay-ish episode.
Shout by Rob LoachBlockedParent2018-09-09T15:25:12Z
Scan 360°, Mr. Sulu..... Animated series is so silly, and so great.