I can't say I found Kathie Browne to be that attractive and the fact that Scotty was always standing in front of that door for so long was a bit annoying! Never the less I gave it an eight!
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Episode of the Week : Wink of an Eye
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This and Mark of Gideon somehow seem almost like the same episode. I can't explain that, though.
The idea is the strong part. They did take it from The Wild Wild West, though. The generic humanoid "aliens" were routine and irritating by this point. Their plan was silly. Still good enough, still Trek.
My complaint is that they didn't really deal with how differently time was passing for crew and intruders. They act as if the "aliens" are invisible rather than moving too fast... you get the sense the scenes for one group and then the other group are happening almost at the same time.
Really, if they're moving SO fast you can't see any hint of them, all that we see of the intruders should happen in, I don't know, a minute or two? Waiting for a crew member to find a communication could take days or weeks. Acting on it, weeks more? Spock needs a toilet break, there's a week's delay right there...
The idea is the strong part. They did take it from The Wild Wild West, though. The generic humanoid "aliens" were routine and irritating by this point. Their plan was silly. Still good enough, still Trek.
My complaint is that they didn't really deal with how differently time was passing for crew and intruders. They act as if the "aliens" are invisible rather than moving too fast... you get the sense the scenes for one group and then the other group are happening almost at the same time.
Really, if they're moving SO fast you can't see any hint of them, all that we see of the intruders should happen in, I don't know, a minute or two? Waiting for a crew member to find a communication could take days or weeks. Acting on it, weeks more? Spock needs a toilet break, there's a week's delay right there...
Oh, no doubt. Both episodes are largely like Kirk being practically alone on the Enterprise with a blond space babe.
I find it a very entertaining 50 minutes of TV especially on first watching when one does not know how the plot is going to develop after Kirk is speeded up and is warmly greeted by an attractive older woman who identifies herself as 'The enemy.'
Lots of plot holes to resolve though, the difference in speed between the crew and the Scalosians in order for them to be invisible, maybe they are moving close to the speed of light so time dilation effects occur?
Why don't the Scalosians just collect sperm donations rather than mates?
Could the federation arrange for donations so the Scalosians do not go extinct, that also made me uncomfortable with the Man Trap that. Extinction of species is not held to be as important as it should be.
Lots of plot holes to resolve though, the difference in speed between the crew and the Scalosians in order for them to be invisible, maybe they are moving close to the speed of light so time dilation effects occur?
Why don't the Scalosians just collect sperm donations rather than mates?
Could the federation arrange for donations so the Scalosians do not go extinct, that also made me uncomfortable with the Man Trap that. Extinction of species is not held to be as important as it should be.
I don't quite see how slow human sperm would help with the Scalosian plight. It would stand no chance of ever fertilizing anybody who's accelerated. So the first step would be to get the sperm accelerated, and perhaps that is best done by accelerating the donor?
We never quite learn the physical or physiological specs of what Scalosian water does to people, or living tissue, or matter in general. After Kirk drinks it, his clothes and coffee cup move superfast with him, but his phaser doesn't work superfast. What are the limits?
OTOH, we never learn whether McCoy's cure would work on the Scalosians as well as on recently accelerated humans. Since the Scalosians will soon be extinct no matter what, why not try that particular poison?
Timo Saloniemi
We never quite learn the physical or physiological specs of what Scalosian water does to people, or living tissue, or matter in general. After Kirk drinks it, his clothes and coffee cup move superfast with him, but his phaser doesn't work superfast. What are the limits?
OTOH, we never learn whether McCoy's cure would work on the Scalosians as well as on recently accelerated humans. Since the Scalosians will soon be extinct no matter what, why not try that particular poison?
Timo Saloniemi
Maybe the sweat on their bodies accelerated their clothes? If not then it does not compute! Wrong show sorry! 
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The science behind the episode is rather questionable, but then I don't watch Star Trek for a science lesson. I watch it to, hopefully, be entertained. "Wink of a Eye" does that. It's still a somewhat weak episode but on the better side of average for Season Three.
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I used to get this one mixed up with By Any Other Name: a handful of desperate aliens, one of them a pretty blonde that Kirk seduces, take over the ship.
Actually, that sounds like quite a few episodes.
Their clothes don't need accelerating, to move along with them. We just wear clothes and they go wherever we go. I may have misunderstood the objection. Maybe they should catch fire from all the fast friction though...
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Since presumably phaser beams travel at the speed of light... because they are light... even accelerated people shouldn't notice any difference. Unless they really are walking and smooching and fighting at relativistic speeds, which was a pretty clever suggestion. In that case, though, their just being able to see each other properly becomes a bizarre problem, since the light they're using to see each other, and everything, is moving as slowly as that phaser bolt. Not to mention that they're just plain moving around the room faster than light, phaser light anyway.
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If we're going to put this much thought into it all, more than the creators did, I want us to get paid.
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Since presumably phaser beams travel at the speed of light... because they are light... even accelerated people shouldn't notice any difference. Unless they really are walking and smooching and fighting at relativistic speeds, which was a pretty clever suggestion. In that case, though, their just being able to see each other properly becomes a bizarre problem, since the light they're using to see each other, and everything, is moving as slowly as that phaser bolt. Not to mention that they're just plain moving around the room faster than light, phaser light anyway.
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If we're going to put this much thought into it all, more than the creators did, I want us to get paid.
That demolishes the interesting idea, though, which is all the episode has going for it. It has to be about speed, period.
Maybe it's like Silver Age Flash...their accelerated molecules are vibrating in such a way as to render them invisible to the unaccelerated even while standing still.
Strange how the bridge crew seemed to have moved somewhat yet Scotty hadn't! A boo-boo perhaps?
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Continuity Smontinuity. We don't need things to match from scene to scene. It's 1960's TV.
I really like the double meaning of the title.
Kirk and Deela in his cabin. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
I really like the double meaning of the title.
Kirk and Deela in his cabin. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
*inserts joke about Kirk having a quickie*
That is rather amusing.
She's not the beauty that Edith Keeler was, that's for sure. She's sympathetic, though, particularly in dealing with her boyfriend's jealousies. She's very honest with him and about the attitudes she has about her situation. She could've acted differently, but she was truthful about her motivations, it seems like.
In what universe was she not a beauty? A lot of women I know wouldn't mind looking that good. 
But phasers have never portrayed any light-like qualities - this just confirms what we already knew.
1) They are shining lines from the gun to the target, which a "beam of light" would not be - it shouldn't scatter to the sides much, and in vacuum it shouldn't scatter to the sides at all.
2) They typically splash when hitting their target, which sure wouldn't happen with a "beam of light".
3) They move slowly enough that we can follow the front and aft ends of any given beam without drinking Scalosian water.
4) Yet when necessary, they outpace a starship at high warp.
It's just too bad that we know there is no set speed for phaser beams, because 3) applies in all circumstances, including 4)! The thing that is more or less constant about phaser beams is time from gun to target, regardless of distance. And since distance varies a lot from shot to shot, the speed of a phaser beam can be established to vary from something short of that of a paintball round to something in excess of that of a starship at high warp.
If there did exist some set speed for stun beams from Type 2 sidearms, then we could make calculations on "Wink of an Eye". Here we can only do the reverse, guesstimate the acceleration factor from elsewhere and then try and deduce what the phaser speed might be. Many a valiant attempt has been made. Say, there's at least seven minutes of accelerated time transpiring between the unaccelerated Scotty first appearing in the transporter room doorway to him having taken one step. The acceleration factor would then depends on how long it took Scotty to take that step. Half a second, as usual? The factor is then almost 1000:1. Five seconds, because he heard the insect noise and stopped mid-step in wonderment? The factor then is no more than 100:1. The latter would probably be preferable, plotwise.
Timo Saloniemi
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