Trivia / Star Trek S3 E9 "The Tholian Web"

• Completely Different Title: International adaptations of this episode's title include:
  • Japan – "Crisis of Captain Kirk, Who Was Thrown into Different-Dimensional Space"
  • Germany – "The Spider Web"
  • Portugal – "The Web"
  • France and Quebec – "The Tholian Trap"
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Nichelle Nichols named this as one of her favourites.
  We think Kirk is dead and I see him floating through the walls of my quarters. That was fun to do – of course, I enjoyed anything that I was able to get out of uniform.
• Money, Dear Boy: Judy Burns, a freelance writer, penned this episode, co-written by her husband Chet Richards, to earn money for a study trip to Africa.
• Prop Recycling:
  • One of the spacesuit helmets can be seen ten years later in a first season episode of Mork & Mindy. The nameplate is removed so it is unknown whose it was.
  • The antique Napoleon III ebonized cabinet pedestal found in Spock's quarters had previously appeared in the likes of Citizen Kane and It's a Wonderful Life. The piece, which was originally part of the RKO Property Department, later came into the possession of Paramount Pictures, and was sold in late 2008 as part of the "Profiles in History" auction, where it was sold for US$6,000.
  • The lab apparatus and tubing that McCoy uses in attempting to synthesize the theragen derivative appears to have been recycled from "The Devil in the Dark", where it was used as part of Scott's makeshift replacement for the main circulating pump of the PXK pergium reactor.
  • The operations division uniform with lieutenant commander's braid, originally made for Doctor Ann Mulhall in "Return to Tomorrow", is worn by an unnamed female background character during the chapel scene. She is sitting on a bench directly behind McCoy.
• Recycled Set: The ship's chapel, which had previously appeared in "Balance of Terror", was a redress of the briefing room. (The Making of Star Trek incorrectly states it was a redress of the transporter room.)
• What Could Have Been: Originally, the idea was for the Enterprise and the Tholian ship to re-engage inside the alternative universe once Captain Kirk was retrieved. Kirk offered peaceful negotiations, and the two ships returned to the mainstream universe together.
• Working Title: In Essence-Nothing.