Wink of an Eye
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 29 November 1968
- ON
- NBC
- STARDATE
- 5710.5
- DIRECTED BY
- Jud Taylor
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 68
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Arthur Heinemann; story by Lee Cronin
Lee Cronin was a pseudonym used by Gene L. Coon.
On Scalos the Enterprise crew find an empty city and hear only a strange buzzing. Then crewmen start vanishing, and someone unseen begins tampering with the ship.
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The Enterprise answers a distress call from Scalos and finds a city with no one in it and the air full of an insect-like buzz. A crewman, Compton, vanishes before his shipmates' eyes. Back aboard, unknown equipment appears and the ship's systems are sabotaged. Kirk drinks something laced with Scalosian water and is accelerated into the time frame of the Scalosians, who move so fast that they are invisible and their voices sound like buzzing. Their queen Deela explains that radiation has left their men sterile, and that they plan to put the Enterprise crew into cold storage and use them for breeding, starting with Kirk. Kirk plays along, then records a message for the crew. Spock accelerates himself to join Kirk, and together they destroy the freezing device and return the Scalosians to their planet. McCoy's antidote restores Kirk, while Spock repairs the ship at high speed.
- 01This was the first of three Star Trek scripts by Arthur Heinemann, who also wrote “The Way to Eden” and “The Savage Curtain”.
- 02Director Jud Taylor used tilted camera angles for the accelerated scenes, a technique also used on the contemporary Batman series.
- 03A Voyager episode first titled “Wink of an Eye” was renamed “Blink of an Eye” to avoid confusion with this one.