Talk:Wink of an Eye

The picture caption

The caption seems odd. Battle? Kirk points a phaser. And if it's going to mention the aliens, the picture should show the aliens. Lots42 15:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Resistance is futile

I removed the "resistance is futile" link to The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation) as the linked episode isn't relevant to this one. If Compton actually directly stated that "Resistance is futile", then a link to Resistance is futile would be appropriate. However if that's the case, that article would also need to be re-edited to acknowledge that the phrase wasn't first used used in Star Trek in the 1990 episode, The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoin (talk • contribs) 19:48, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Possible goof

I observed this on my region 2-dvd of the remastered episode. I have no way to compare it to the original version.

During Scotty's log entry at the beginning of this episode his lip movements don't fit the dialogue at all. Also in this scene his hairstyle is different from the rest of the episode. That's because the footage used stems from the beginning of "The Empath". The curios thing is that in "Wink of an Eye" it is one long uninterrupted shot of Scotty sitting in the captain's chair, with two crewmen passing behind him. In "The Empath" it is intercut with a shot of someone (Kirk, I believe) talking to Scott via communicator. Since it is cut into two shots on "The Empath" this could't be an easy fix by the authoring facility. If this differs from the original version, it must have been done by someone with access to the original film material.--Dvd-junkie (talk) 01:39, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

If fact, is this notable? Alastairward (talk) 15:26, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

No more or less than anything else in the article. Feel free to put it in. 23:02, 14 April 2023 (UTC) 2001:9E8:4616:B600:8406:B69:83CE:2D6E (talk) 23:02, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Question

The scene ends with the Scalosian's audio-visual distress call accidentally replaying on the large viewing screen. This sentence makes little sense to me. Can anyone explain? I am very clueless. Lots42 (talk) 20:44, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

I suspect the meaning here is that the "accident" was a production mistake, and was not something that was intended to happen nor to be seen by the audience. The other interpretation would be that one of the characters in the story accidentally pressed a button that replayed the distress call on the ship's viewscreen. LarryJeff (talk) 18:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The latter is correct. Uhura presses the button accidentally. She apologises and says she is going to turn it off again, but Kirk interrupts her because he wanted to see Deela one last time. He smiles at her and says "Good bye, Deela." --Robinandroid (talk) 08:36, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Pen and paper

Why did Kirk not just write a message to Spock and co? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.153.7 (talk) 11:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Wells got there first

This idea goes back at least as far as H G Wells' comic short story "The New Accelerator". WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 18:19, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Not good enough?

Very interesting idea which brings controversy as any other 'time paradoxes': always subject to discussion. For me, a top story. 62.37.26.15 (talk) 06:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Plot section

I've looked at a number of these Star Trek TOS articles, and the plot section is always very long and detailed. For instance, in this one: "Suddenly, a beautiful woman in a colorful gown appears on the bridge and greets Kirk with an embracing kiss before introducing herself: "Deela, the enemy," in response to the computer's designation of her people for their actions on the ship." Although that is accurate, even though the computer knows nothing about her people, "Kirk, now accelerated, meets Deela, the leader of the Scalosians, on the bridge" would be sufficient. (By the way, Deela's thong underwear is showing.) How about this: "Their plan, she explains, is to use the Enterprise crew to help propagate their species, whose men have been rendered sterile by the same natural disaster that caused their accelerated state. After a heated debate on the ethics of this plan, Kirk rushes away and disables the transporter. Deela, finding it inoperative, pretends to believe Kirk's claim to be ignorant of the problem." This is vague about "the problem." I suggest instead, "Deela tells Kirk the Scalosian plan, and Kirk frustrates it by disabling the transporter. Deela pretends to believe his explanation." I really think that this section could be severely edited, and I think the same thing about the other articles on TOS.

Also by the way, if acceleration renders the Scalosian men sterile, why wouldn't it do the same for human men? Why wouldn't future generations be sterile? Please, no jokes about frog-hopping from bed to bed in the wink of an eye. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 19:06, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I also think too much is given in the plot synopsis sections of articles. As they say, make bold edits. StarHOG (Talk) 01:54, 15 June 2023 (UTC)