UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek TOS - Wink of an Eye S3E11
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TOS Sex Scoreboard Deela: You’ve been KIRKED I should say quick Kirked. Kirk 10 new +1 Chekov 3 Spock 2 Bones 2 Extras: Compton new +1. Boppin’ then boxed. He died like he had sex. Quickly, ugly, and with a weird look on his face. Kirk gives a new definition of “one minute man”. Usually the longer the better but Kirk shows a quickie works too. Deela goes after Kirk, rides the baloney pony, then brushes her hair. I can’t think of a single thing wrong with that.
Prof Moff
2024-12-10 15:10:12 +0000 UTCThis was actually a better episode than I remembered it being. I guess a volcano could lead to radiation by bringing up radioactive material from beneath the surface, but how that speeds everyone up is beyond me. Would have been better if they did it to themselves to help them have time to solve the problem and became trapped at the higher speed. Certainly as aliens who try to take over the Enterprise go, this wasn't, well, *that* unpleasant. But still, it's ultimately death by snu snu. Kirk can chase tail on any planet in the galaxy, and he already had the sampler pack anyway😄. Still, they could help the scalosians without putting a ship at risk. Might not be as "fun", but for their purposes, all they need to do is hit up a sperm bank and beam down a bunch of samples. I'm sure they can figure it out from there, and the one dude can stop being cucked at every turn. Also seems a little inconsiderate of Kirk to just return to normal speed and leave Spock to do all the work by himself. Also kind of risky. One slip up, one scratch or bruise and he winds up dead. But yeah, it's a interesting sci fi concept (even if the science is BS) that I'd give a B- or C+ on execution. There is a "sped up time" episode in a future trek series that is 10 times better executed. But for the 60s it was a very novel idea, and the scalosians weren't evil for evil's sake or anything. They're just desperate, and that's understandable, but there were better ways for them to address their situation and ask for help.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-04-30 02:03:33 +0000 UTCFirst, I wanted to point out a couple things on this episode. First, the purpose of the machine is explained briefly, as Kirk leads her into admitting it is to place the crew in suspended animation after they leave the ship. Additionally, there is a scene where Kirk offers her a Federation assistance plan......but she turns him down flat. After you both watched it, you were annoyed those topics were not explained.
Dale Gonyea
2023-03-13 02:23:42 +0000 UTCThat was the only thing I wasn't 100% sure about. I was going to go back and check but I had already watched the preview of the next episode and had set my DVD player at the beginning of The Empath, thanks for setting me straight on that one, my bad.
Brad Barter
2023-03-09 20:48:28 +0000 UTCIt is indeed a log he makes at the end about Spock. I just watched it again.
Josh (Target Audience)
2023-03-09 19:50:40 +0000 UTCI think the Scalosians probably modified both the transporter and the turbolift to be capable of working at their speed. Deela had a throwaway line about beaming up being "a ridiculously long process, but I've taken care of it."
James H
2023-03-08 13:15:37 +0000 UTCThat is really funny, how the transporter would work a for the accelerated has always bothered me but I never thought about the turbo lift! You really have to ignore basic physics to enjoy this episode, which I do.
Gary Leyh
2023-03-08 03:11:33 +0000 UTCIt was difficult to portray the sped up vs normal realm but I really love that concept. Plus it could have been fleshed out a little better to get to a resolution. Love your comments 👏👏
Charles Regazzi Jr
2023-03-08 01:57:40 +0000 UTCShe was in a taste of armageddon
Ellen Kaufman
2023-03-08 00:23:23 +0000 UTCMore 'meh' overall, in my opinion, but with some good parts, which is typical of this season for me. This one reminds me a lot of "By Any Other Name" from season 2. Kathy Brown did a very good job. She was married to Darren McGavin (Kolchak - look it up for possible future viewing). Loved the Kirk putting on his boots after he and Deela did the dirty deed. Pacing was sub-par. Perhaps a 90-minute episode would have helped but a 2-parter would have been too long. Shatner seems the most Shatneresque this season than he did in seasons 1 and 2. I think he was phoning it in more by season 3.
Collin Freeman
2023-03-07 23:08:59 +0000 UTCI am totally with you on this one. I really liked it. Complete silly concept . This is one where I think the acting truly saved it. This could have been horrifying bad but interactions among the characters was really really good. I felt sorry for Deela(?) even though their solution was stupid and clearly not working yet ( no kids = well no kids). I even really felt sorry the dude (whatever named guy that loved Deela(?) lol). Losing your love do to either an unloaded gun or a gun full of blanks has gotta be a bummer (they never really said unable to do it or unable to make it). BUT, watching and HELPING it happen wow.......enter crazy metaphor here! Poor guy. Not my top 10 but close
Prof Moff
2023-03-07 22:22:13 +0000 UTCWhen Kirk first meets Dila after she "accelerates" her, he tries to stun her with a phaser. It doesn't work, because she simply steps out of the way, because the phaser is simply operating in real time. So how come none of the bridge crew notices a phaser bolt shooting out of nowhere? Dila then tells Kirk that he sounds like an insect to his crew and says "That's your own description." How did she know what Kirk said? He would have been speaking incredibly slow to her ears and anything she heard at that speed would be indecipherable.
MntrTodd
2023-03-07 21:53:02 +0000 UTCRecently started listening to the audiobook about the show's production. According to their quotes of the man himself, he admired stories like Gulliver's Travels, which managed to criticize society and authority behind the guise of a strange land far away. That's what he wanted to do with Star Trek right from the start, not just in season 3. He always intended it to be a medium for talking about issues in society, issues he personally had with any kind of authority, organized religion etc. And packaging it away behind the Sci Fi front, gave him that ability. The networks would only see little green men and not realize who is actually being criticized. Roddenberry believed the audience to be smart enough to see the true meaning.
Andreas Schmitt
2023-03-07 19:11:30 +0000 UTCThe scene with Kirk putting on his boots and all it suggested got by the network censors because at this point they just did not care. In their minds the series was already good as cancelled, so why bother.
Mark Chrisco
2023-03-07 17:27:25 +0000 UTCLike many in Season 3, good story idea, but fumbled on execution
Firekrys FWO
2023-03-07 17:01:56 +0000 UTCThe music in the next episode The Empath really is good and in a massive way carries the episode as there are numerous scenes with no dialog but are necessary to the plot and not every scene in a show has to have action or dialog as so much can be conveyed in emotions, simple gestures and movement. For some it most likely isn't their favourite but it is definitely one of mine. The remaining episodes continue the season 3 roller-coaster going up and down, hit and miss but there are still a few gems left in the rough to come.
Brad Barter
2023-03-07 15:35:27 +0000 UTCSeason 3 has definitely seemed to be the most polarizing thus far. Several episodes we have had people say they hate it and others say they love it. It’s great!
Josh (Target Audience)
2023-03-07 15:22:53 +0000 UTCAfter you finished season 1 I devised a "metric" for rating episodes and have been adjusting it as we have gone through the episodes. This one(Wink) currently ranks exactly in the middle at 40. It is entertaining and has some interesting ideas but nothing stands out. Unlike other viewers here I think the best episode of season 3 is the next one(The Empath). There are some plot holes in the writing but this is the penultimate "big 3" episode. This episode is all about what Star Trek is trying to say as a show. Let me explain. The modern world with its technological advancements etc. moves us away from the important bonds that make life meaningful and also fosters a sense of nihilism in a culture. As Edith Keeler states this is not the attitude one must take - “The days and the years ahead are worth living for.” The Empath clearly shows us what traits are needed (in balance) to survive- all embodied by Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. As science fiction, however, the science underlying this episode is bad and as I said there are some big plot holes but the message is what makes the episode good. You also get the ultimate "big 3" episode. I understand why someone would not like this episode from a "technical" standpoint(to each his own) but Star Trek TOS is special because of the message and the Empath is special because of how it conveys that message.
Ricky Johnson
2023-03-07 13:44:42 +0000 UTCOne thing to note about the the third season is it reflects more social issues. You will see racism carried to far, over population issues, AI tragedy and even youth following a cult leader. I envy anyone watching for the first time. I believe G. Rodenberry knew he was being canceled and did a hail mary this season. Not so much a space western.
TeenyStudio Flicks
2023-03-07 13:44:00 +0000 UTCAs Deela said they tried everything to decelerate. Spock and Dr. McCoy found an antidote quickly so we can presume the Scalosians tried it before without success. It apparently worked fine on the species on the enterprise likely because it was not a generational condition but a less then 24 hours condition more easily reversed. The Scalosians intended to preserve the crew in a type of cryogenic environment to use as future progenitors when needed. The Scalosians also seemed to not worry about injury so the induced condition seemed to have different side effects (submissiveness, death by injury, short lifespan). Also explains leaving the crew in its natural state during cryogenics (they will not expire before needed).
TeenyStudio Flicks
2023-03-07 13:18:16 +0000 UTCGeoffrey Binney (Compton) was one of only a couple of original series actors to play both a Starfleet member and a Colonial warrior. In part 3 of the Battlestar Galactica pilot, he was the warrior who offered Cassiopeia "a little company" in the elevator on Carillon.
James H
2023-03-07 11:52:59 +0000 UTCKirk definitely took one for the team. There is literally no reason to be putting on your boots other than you had taken them off. Before TV and film got explicit they would use shorthand to get their message across, but maybe socks or the shirt would have been too to the point. Some parts don't make sense, like if the landing party were standing to be beamed up where were these five super fast people standing and not be noticed physically? Once Spock knew all he had to do was speed up and slow down the tapes why didn't he adjust the speed on Compton vanishing? But a lot of nerd culture is about just going with it. Not a bad episode, but the next one is my least favorite, right up there with The Alternative Factor. If I've seen Charlie X 400 times, I've seen The Empath maybe three.
Ken R
2023-03-07 07:50:25 +0000 UTCThe story logic falls apart as soon as you think about it (how do you ride the turbolift when you're in accelerated time and it isn't?) but this is a solid, likable, and rewatchable episode. Kathie Brown as Deela and Shatner have great chemistry and make this episode for me. The Dutch camera angles could be an influence from Batman, and we'll see supervillains a few episodes from now. Ship episodes were often due to a tight budget and were often my favourites. Gene Coon wrote the story for this one, but the actual script was by Frieberger's team. No original music this episode, but the choice of library music composed for earlier episodes works perfectly. TOS had great music.
deconstructionist66
2023-03-07 06:57:46 +0000 UTCThanks guys! I've been waiting for this one because it's become one of my favorite episodes over the years - for all the reasons you pointed out. Great acting and direction (that scene with the mirror was awesome). The time difference has never worked for me but I just go with it 😀 You'll understand more of the details in your rewatch for editing but honestly, it doesn't really matter. Just a fun episode.
Gary Leyh
2023-03-07 06:30:32 +0000 UTCPlot summary, since you asked for clarification: A radiation disaster on Scalos resulted in the Scalosians being trapped in accelerated time, with all of the men being sterile (presumably down through multiple generations), and most of the women being sterile as well. The species survives by using distress calls to entrap ships that happen to pass by, and forcibly bringing men from those ships into accelerated time with the Scalosians, to serve as mates. But ships only come by every so often, and the fact that the Scalosians are accelerated only makes the wait between ships even worse, so they need every ship they entrap to be a source of mates for generations to come. So they install a device to convert the ship's own life-support systems into a deep-freeze suspended animation system (like Khan and his crew being asleep for 250-ish years), so the population of fertile men on any one ship can last for several (accelerated) Scalosian lifetimes. The episode does a poor job of explaining why they don't try Spock's cure on the Scalosians themselves. But Deela did mention that their people have tried to return to normal speed before, but no one has survived the transition. And they keep bringing up that people who have been only recently accelerated are different from the Scalosians. Specifically, that the recently-accelerated are particularly sensitive to injury (so Kirk can't just punch his way to victory, as even a bruised knuckle could be fatal). So I think we're meant to assume that the cure would work for the newly-accelerated like Kirk and Spock, but wouldn't work for the chronically-accelerated Scalosians. But that definitely could have been spelled out much better. Here ends the plot clarification. I had always noticed the camera actively tilting when people transitioned between the two time frames, but I never noticed, until y'all pointed it out, that the camera stays consistently tilted in the accelerated time frame. But it certainly did its job, and I was never confused about what time frame I was watching at any given moment, even though I didn't consciously notice the visual distinction. I enjoy this episode. Relative to the series as a whole, I'd say it's pretty middle of the road. But it's a good show, so, "middle of the road" is still pretty good.
Jeff Cornell
2023-03-07 06:08:47 +0000 UTCThe story for sure with this episode is confusing. After several re-watches I finally understood what the device was for and their intentions. Compton was to be the mate of the other woman shown but had no lines. They planned on activating the device to freeze the entire crew of the Enterprise in suspended animation and would somehow use them for future mates as time went by and Kirk and other men burnt out but if they all beamed down then how would they beam back up? As for why they didn't try to help them it wasn't truly explained but most likely as these people are the long descendants of those initially affected by the disaster they most likely wouldn't survive the transition to a slower time frame and the shock alone would kill them. Kirk didn't make a log regarding Spock at the end, he went on ship wide intercom informing the crew of Spock repairing all the systems the Scalosians had damaged or diverted to make their deep freeze unit function, if you'll recall right after they beamed back up numerous systems had froze, malfunctioned and or repaired itself. On the point of a camera supposedly filming their movements when there seemingly was no camera there, make a mental note to watch for this in Star Trek The Motion Picture and Star Trek III and IV as well.
Brad Barter
2023-03-07 05:56:35 +0000 UTC
