Tantalus fieldedit

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In the mirror universe, the Tantalus field was a 23rd century device found aboard the ISS Enterprise, which could be used to monitor and eliminate enemies from existence with the touch of a button.

Captain James T. Kirk owed his success against a number of enemies to the Tantalus field, and the unknown alien scientist whose lab he plundered for it. The field was apparently a secret from everyone except Marlena Moreau, and to others it seemed that Kirk's enemies had a tendency to "simply disappear." The field was used by Moreau to save the "original" Kirk when he was trapped in the mirror universe. (TOS: "Mirror, Mirror")

[edit] Background

In a story planned for an unrealized William Shatner guest appearance on Star Trek: Enterprise, it would have been revealed that the Tantalus field did not kill its victims, but transported them to a different time.

In the story, it would have been revealed that, sometime after the events of "Mirror, Mirror", Mirror-Spock had used the device on Mirror-Kirk, depositing him on a remote planet in the 2120s, where he would have later been discovered by the crew of the NX-01 in the 2150s, shortly before the alternate timeline of the "mirror universe" was to have diverged from the standard Trek universe. The device was never seen in any of the other "mirror" episodes in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or Star Trek: Enterprise.[1]

[edit] External link

• Tantalus field at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works