Wink of an Eye - episode #68
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Wink of an Eye - episode #68
WINK OF AN EYE (3rd season; episode #68)
Directed by Jud Taylor writers: Arthur Heinemann, Gene Coon Air Date: 11/29/68
This episode is more of the 'space invaders' action plotline, similar to By Any Other Name of the previous season. The invaders of this episode hail from a planet where volcanic upheavals affected the water and spread radiation which, over time, affected the inhabitants in an unusual manner. Kirk and some of his crew beam down to this planet, Scalos, responding to a distress call, but find an empty city. One of the landing party sips the native water and disappears (he must have been really thirsty - had the water been tested yet? I doubt it). The Trek scripting throws the usual unexpected curve at us - the crew member was not simply transported away as it seems. It turns out, the inhabitants of this planet have all been accelerated - or even 'hyper-accelerated' - to the point that they move too quickly for normal humans to see them. One sip of the native water and we're all just like them.
Since these invaders are so ultra-swift and basically invisible, it's a simple matter for them to beam aboard the Enterprise secretly and set up a new freezer unit - the intent is to store the crew for future breeding stock. These aliens are - one way of looking at it - stuck in another dimension or on another level; the concept is similar to the Flash comic book character, who moves so fast at times that everything else appears to be frozen still. This concept has also been on display for the past few years on the TV series Smallville: when Clark Kent switches to his full speed, outracing bullets and so forth, everything else, including people, becomes frozen in time, suspended.
There are obvious discrepancies in the way the concept is presented here: though all Scalosians supposedly move at a pace of 100 times that of normal, they go through the same amount of experience in this episode as the normal-moving crew; the crew get just as much done as the invaders during the course of the episode. For example, the Scalosians should have completed their invasion plan in the time it took for Spock to head down to McCoy's medical lab in mid-episode. Right after Kirk is accelerated on the bridge, he heads for the turbolift, but that mode of transport would now take him an eternity; though it isn't mentioned, he must have used the stairs, er, ladders. This seems to be some careless scriptwriting. However, maybe the Scalosians were using the turbolifts in ignorance and this slowed them down enough for the discrepancies to make sense. Sure, that must be it.
ABOVE: Jason Evers (left) plays Deela's jealous 2nd-in-command; he has issues with Kirk later...
Extra Trek Trivia: for all scenes involving acceleration, take note that the camera was tipped at a slight angle, suggesting that things were slightly off-kilter. Deela keeps a weapon strapped to her left wrist; she knocks Kirk's phaser out of his hand with it. She and other Scalosians also wear chokers around their necks which function as communicators. Kinky, eh?
Last edited by BoG on Sun May 03, 2015 3:33 am; edited 4 times in total
Wink of an EYE Full Episode
CLASSIC TREK QUOTES:
McCoy: "Compton!"
Kirk: "What Happened?"
McCoy: "I was looking at him. I was looking right at him, and then... he just wasn't there!"
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McCoy: "Compton!"
Kirk: "What Happened?"
McCoy: "I was looking at him. I was looking right at him, and then... he just wasn't there!"
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Kirk: "Who are you?"
Deela: "Deela... the enemy."
Deela: "Deela... the enemy."
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