This fully illustrated Star Trek: The Official Starships magazine covers the Tholian Webspinner. From the Enterprise episode "Future Tense", the Tholian starship was a somewhat small ship that was sent by the Tholian Assembly to try to steal a time-travel pod from the 31st century. Four Tholian Webspinners overtook and disabled the Tal'Kir, a Vulcan cruiser, as it awaited a rendezvous with the Enterprise. This ship is very similar in design and function as those in Star Trek: The Original Series season three episode "The Tholian Web".