The Enterprise receives a distress signal, but when they arrived on the planet, they see it was once inhabited but is now totally depopulated. When they transport back to the ship, something is slipped in Kirk's coffee by an unseen force. Suddenly, everyone but him appears to be moving slower and slower, though it's actually Kirk that is accelerating in speed to such a degree that he seems to disappear--moving too fast for the human eye to detect. Once this occurs, he discovers that there were survivors on the planet and they beamed aboard undetected because they, too, were moving at this hugely accelerated speed. These humanoids plan on putting the ship's crew in suspended animation and using the crew as breeding stock to be thawed out as needed, as the same thing that makes these being accelerate also makes their men shoot blanks, so to speak! The shear originality of the script make this a very memorable episode. While not among the very best, it is well worth seeing and you'll once again see an alien hottie fall for the super-studly Captain.
Review of Wink of an Eye
