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160			     WINK OF AN EYE
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WRITER: Lee Cronin

GUESTS: Kathie Brown (Deela)
	Jason Evers
	Eric Holland
	Geoffrey Binney

AIRED:	November 29, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .870
Usenet rating:   .544

QUOTES:
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			     WINK OF AN EYE

PLOT:
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A race  of  fast  people steal  the Enterprise.   All  the crew  hear is an
occasional buzzing sound when they talk.  Kirk is  sped up  when his coffee
is spiked by one of the aliens.  Kirk leaves a message on a tape and leaves
it where  the  crew  will  eventually find  it.   At the  end, Spock speeds
himself up and makes repairs to the ship.

FACTS:
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 - This is the episode where we see  Kirk pulling on his boots after  (what
   we are supposed to assume is) a roll in the hay with the Deela bimbo.
 - Another in a long list of episode where they are handed  a great techno-
   logical breakthrough  which could be used  to get them out of a jam in a
   later episode, but apparently are pretending never existed  (and if it's
   too dangerous to use,  because of the possibility of "damage",  then how
   come they let Spock use it to make the repairs?)

OPINIONS:
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My bogometer went off the scale on this episode.   (1)  Spock wouldn't have
had time  to play  the tape  and walk  all over  the Enterprise  in the few
seconds of time that elapsed.  (2) The fast folks  can duck  a phaser bolt?
(3) the phaser bolt doesn't blow a hole in the wall of the ship?   (4) They
completely ignored the T-squared effect of apparent gravity.

It was,  nonetheless,  an  exceptional episode  from a  imaginative and new
idea, despite the plethora of logic flaws.