There's one where Spock violently resents one of McCoy's sallies but he's the one under influence.
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There's one where Spock violently resents one of McCoy's sallies but he's the one under influence.
Wink of the Eye is a good episode in my opinion. Guest star Kathie Browne is enjoyable and playful. Trivia. Ms. Browne was married to the Night Stalker himself Darren McGavin. I was reading the IMDB page on this episode and they mentioned a couple of goofs in the episode. Compton's dead body should have been discovered by the crew. Also, Kirk could have easily communicated with the crew by writing down his situation with a pencil and paper. I though, prefer the way Kirk did it by recording his message for Spock and McCoy to find. I like the scene earlier when Kirk and Scotty are listening as Spock is asking the computer about the threat they are facing. When the computer suggests that the option of surrender should be considered, Kirk says that no, they will not surrender. Kirk asks Scotty if he concurs and Scotty says Aye. The way that Scotty says it, No way are we surrendering. Good enjoyable episode in spite of the goofs.
The interplay between Deela and Kirk elevates the episode.
This episode has the famous (or infamous) scene with Kirk putting on his boots.
Maybe they just exchanged shoes, y'know, walk a mile in another person's shoes and all...
Funny you should put it that way, because that's like a synopsis of what happens in the episode, from a certain point of view. Deela visits Kirk's starship for a while, and he spends some time in the accelerated state.Maybe they just exchanged shoes, y'know, walk a mile in another person's shoes and all...
Star Trek
"Wink of an Eye"
Originally aired November 29, 1968
Stardate 5710.5
What was going on the week the episode aired. Of general Trek interest: Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" is at its chart peak this week. And another casting coincidence: Kathie Browne was also on the Ironside that aired the night before this ("The Macabre Mr. Micawber"). Her boyfriend in that episode didn't dress as funny.
"Wink of an Eye" has a good concept, whether or not the relative time scale holds up to scrutiny.
Landing party personnel really shouldn't be drinking alien water, you'd think.
Poor ol' Security extras...get knocked off their feet by force fields but don't get to utter so much as a grunt.
If they're going to be serving coffee on the bridge, they could use some cup holders in most of those slanted consoles. Lids wouldn't be a bad idea, either, given the ship's propensity to get shaken around violently.
Speaking of slanted, I like how the ship in Scalosian time turns into a Batman criminal hideout.
One can't help noticing these days how much the Enterprise's fast forward and rewind behave like magnetic tape and film.
When Kirk's defending himself from Rael with the chair, they seem to use his "no" answer twice, once during the attack and once after where it clearly belongs.
Next week...well, at least she doesn't state the obvious in a funny accent that comes from neither of her parents:
"Wink of an Eye"
Originally aired November 29, 1968
Stardate 5710.5
H&I said:
What was going on the week the episode aired. Of general Trek interest: Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" is at its chart peak this week. And another casting coincidence: Kathie Browne was also on the Ironside that aired the night before this ("The Macabre Mr. Micawber"). Her boyfriend in that episode didn't dress as funny.
"Wink of an Eye" has a good concept, whether or not the relative time scale holds up to scrutiny.
Landing party personnel really shouldn't be drinking alien water, you'd think.
Poor ol' Security extras...get knocked off their feet by force fields but don't get to utter so much as a grunt.
If they're going to be serving coffee on the bridge, they could use some cup holders in most of those slanted consoles. Lids wouldn't be a bad idea, either, given the ship's propensity to get shaken around violently.
Speaking of slanted, I like how the ship in Scalosian time turns into a Batman criminal hideout.
One can't help noticing these days how much the Enterprise's fast forward and rewind behave like magnetic tape and film.
When Kirk's defending himself from Rael with the chair, they seem to use his "no" answer twice, once during the attack and once after where it clearly belongs.
Next week...well, at least she doesn't state the obvious in a funny accent that comes from neither of her parents:
Yeah, I like that too.
Yes, I forgot to mention that scene. That seemed to be pretty obvious for 1960s American television. In a couple of weeks Kirk will be suggesting that people from a different planet should start using contraception to keep the population down.
I never noticed it. It was only when someone pointed it out that I went 'Ahhhh'.
Told my friend who never noticed it either and like me went back to eagerly watch the episode.
It is indeed a very interesting concept, so much so that they reused it on Voyager and almost named the episode exactly the same because they forgot this one existed.
The execution of it is a bit shoddy here, the timey wimey stuff doesn't hold up to a cursory glance let alone any attempt at scrutiny, but it's not boring even if it feels a bit perilless most of the time, so it gets a pass in my book.
Yeah, I noticed that too, I half expected the non-speaking Scalotians to have "Goon" written on their clothes.
Speaking of reuse, the intro with Scotty in the command chair seems to be stock footage with his log entry overdubbed.
This is two episodes in a row now where the crew(well, McCoy mostly) stumbles into a superpowers potion, and just like telekinesis last week, there are surely instances where superspeed could come in handy. For instance when the ship needs quick repairs like at the end of the episode. I would even bet the Scalotian quickening potion mixes well with scotch...
It's a bit weird that once the cure is discovered and proven that it works, they don't even inform Deela of it, instead Kirk just stares longingly at the screen for a bit and then buggers off.
Yeah, I noticed that too, I half expected the non-speaking Scalotians to have "Goon" written on their clothes.
I always assumed that the cure wouldn't work on the Scalosians, just on those who'd been sped up to their level. Clearly things worked a little differently for the two parties, as the Scalosians didn't seem to have to worry about being scratched.It's a bit weird that once the cure is discovered and proven that it works, they don't even inform Deela of it, instead Kirk just stares longingly at the screen for a bit and then buggers off.
Yeah, but Scalosians didn't even know how to do that much.
Since McCoy figured it out and cooked it up in minutes, surely it would have deserved some further looking into. Even if didn't outright work on them, perhaps he could have come up with a modified version in another 5-10 minutes that does work...
I thought that the scratching thing only worked on tissues that had been newly accelerated?
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It would have been interesting if it was too late to cure the Scalosians, because they'd already turned to dust, in the wink of an eye.
It would have been interesting if it was too late to cure the Scalosians, because they'd already turned to dust, in the wink of an eye.
From our perspective, they should have very short lives.
Yeah, but Scalosians didn't even know how to do that much.
Since McCoy figured it out and cooked it up in minutes, surely it would have deserved some further looking into. Even if didn't outright work on them, perhaps he could have come up with a modified version in another 5-10 minutes that does work...
A solution may have worked out would have been if McCoy and a team got accelerated.
Could Kirk trust them not to get scratched and for the Scalosians not to turn to their kidnapping ways again.
Was it worth the risk?
Unless of course they froze the Scalosians until a solution could be found.
I suppose TOS wasn't always about Kirk saving the day. Perhaps this was one of the moral tales of TOS.
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