It is an urban legend that Tholian silk is actually made from Tholians, not by them, although there is no actual evidence in the Star Trek canon.

In the Mirror Universe, the Tholians appear to be more cunning and treacherous: in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", the Mirror Tholians are said to have intentionally caused the ' interphase ', the rift in space ( and, as it turns out, in time ) depicted in the original Star Trek episode " The Tholian Web ".

In this continuity, the Tholians were invaded by the Coalition ( but primarily by forces from the Klingon Empire, who wished to recover three lost colony worlds in the Tholian home sector ) in Y177 as part of Operation Nutcracker, the arrival of the Neo-Tholian 312th Battle Squadron in the Spring of Y178 saving a devastated Tholia from Klingon conquest and driving the Coalition forces from their space.

During the episode's stated date of January 2155, Archer steals the USS Defiant, an Original Series-era Constitution-class starship which disappears and is presumed destroyed in the Original Series episode " The Tholian Web ", from the Tholians ( who are more aggressive than their non-Mirror counterparts ), but he is later poisoned by Hoshi Sato, who subsequently declares herself Empress of the Terran Empire ( though whether she succeeds in this gambit is not revealed ).

Fearful of an eventual Tholian return, they have sent out large nest ships as mobile bases of operation against any remnants of the Tholians they locate.

In the Star Trek fictional universe, Tholians are a fictional starfaring and extremely territorial race.

Tholians have little tolerance for deception, and are insistent on punctuality.

Tholians from both the regular Trek universe and the Mirror universe are depicted as engaging in missions to capture future technology, ostensibly to use the advanced technology to further their own agenda.

In " Future Tense ", 22nd century Tholians attempt to capture a 31st century Federation vessel but are thwarted by Archer's Enterprise.

Later, secondary villains are introduced including an Andorian trader and later the Tholians along with a man named Siroc.

Tholians were depicted as orange crystals with arms and legs.

In that episode, the Gorn ( whose name was Slar ) was an overseer of a group of slaves belonging to the Mirror Universe's Tholians in an attempt to steal technology from the Constitution-class NCC-1764 Defiant which had been lured into the Mirror Universe from ours.

What Kirk never knew, but which was established in the Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", was the Tholians of the Mirror Universe in the 22nd century managed to open a dimensional rift hoping to steal technology from alternative realities.

Dillard's novel Star Trek: Recovery, Admiral James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy oversee the test of the rescue ship " Recovery " at Zotos IV before the Klingons, Romulans, and Tholians.

Archer led an away team to take control of the Defiant while the Enterprise was destroyed by the Tholians.

The Tholians claim this particular area of space and attempt to ensnare the Enterprise in their energy web, but the Enterprise, under the command of Spock, is able to escape and retrieve Kirk from between dimensions.

When the ISS Enterprise is destroyed by the Tholians, Phlox and other survivors transfer to the USS Defiant, which has been commandeered by Commander Jonathan Archer.

All the while, the Tholians demand that the Enterprise leave their space.

Before any other action can be taken, the Tholians punctually open fire on the Enterprise and refuse any attempts at communication.

The Mirror Tholians detonated a high-yield explosive device, which caused the interphase to form.

The extragalactic Tholians drove a wedge between the Klingons and Romulans, arriving in the region of Klingon space where the invasion was being prepared.

The normal Defiant had been lured in by a false distress call transmitted by the mirror Tholians and was taken to the mirror universe where it was being dismantled and studied for its future technologies.

The Klingons make a major effort to reclaim territory from the Tholians, reaching their dyson sphere home world before being defeated ( Y92-102 ).

The only survivors were a limited number of people in escape pods who were not destroyed by the Tholians.

The Klingon Empire even launched devastating raids against Romulan frontier bases and squadrons, and was planning a full-scale invasion were it not for the misfortune of the Tholians ' arrival.

Encounters with the Mazarites, Tholians, Suliban, and Klingons cause Archer to become more of a military commander.

Non-humanoid in form, Tholians have crystalline bodies, two arms, and six legs.

Temperatures below 380 K ( 107 ° C ) will kill Tholians, causing them to shatter into tiny crystalline shards.

The Tholians appear to actively explore the science of inter-spatial rifts and time travel.

In 2152, Tholians made their first contact with humans.

In 2353, Tholians attacked a Federation starbase and killed its entire complement, except for a civilian named Kyle Riker, father of William Riker.

In 2367, there was concern that the Tholians might get involved in the Klingon Civil War.

Shortly after, the Tholians signed a non-aggression treaty with the Dominion.

In 2379, the Romulans had diplomatic relations with the Tholians.

The Tholians captured the Defiant and attempted to steal its technology before it was commandeered by agents of the Terran Empire.

During this time, and for a time afterwards, the Tholians were a partner of the Alliance but refused to allow Federation ships to fight within their territory.

It was explained that Tholians perceive linear time differently than most other humanoids, alluding to their more heightened sense of " interphasic " four dimensional space / time.

* The 2003 novel The Sundered suggests that Tholians have a short lifespan.

When more ships are available, a web takes much less time to construct ; several Tholian vessels working in concert can spin such a web in under a minute ( as seen in " In a Mirror, Darkly "), while two vessels might take hours (" The Tholian Web ").

( Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Tholian Web ").

Commander Lokara of the Skotha seeks revenge on Kirk and Starfleet, because Lokara's breeding partner Lanra was crippled aboard Loskene's ship during the battle against the Enterprise four years earlier ( Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Tholian Web ).

In " The Tholian Web ", the Enterprise encounters the crippled Constitution-class U. S. S.

The surviving crew, initially led by Archer and later " Empress " Hoshi Sato, subsequently took over the USS Defiant, a United Federation of Planets Starfleet vessel that was transported to the Mirror Universe in the Star Trek ( TOS ) episode " The Tholian Web ".

A Tholian alien from Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Tholian Web © 1968 Paramount Studios.

It was preceded two weeks earlier by " The Paradise Syndrome " and followed three weeks later by " The Tholian Web.

It was preceded a week earlier by the remastered version of " The Tholian Web " and followed a week later by the remastered version of " And the Children Shall Lead.

" The Tholian Web " was a third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

The completed Tholian Web around the alternate universe ISS Enterprise ( NX-01 ) from Star Trek: Enterprise.

* The Tholian Web Remastered FX reel at TrekMovie. com

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Image from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Tholian Web © 1968 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

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Prominent examples include " The Tholian Web ", " Journey To Babel " and " Balance of Terror ".