On a strictly sci-fi level, this one's pretty good. Bodies moving at a highly accelerated frequency are invisible to the normal human eye, much like high pitched noises dogs can hear are inaudible to people. It makes for an interesting give and take between the effort of the Scalosians to take over the Enterprise, and the crew led by Spock and McCoy to save the ship and get the Captain back.
I was amused by the name of the red-shirt character who disappeared first while on Scalos. In the 1969 movie "Joe", Peter Boyle's character utters the line "It's your ass now Compton" when his businessman friend gets himself jammed up in that story. Somehow it seemed utterly appropriate here.
And sure, how can I let it go by that this episode played the viewer for a gut level response to the Captain fixing his boot at the edge of the bed with Deela (Kathie Brown) standing nearby. There did seem to be a chemistry between the two that was much more evident than any of Kirk's past associations except maybe Natira (#3.8 - For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky), Miramanee (#3.3 - The Paradise Syndrome), or Ruth (#1.15 - Shore Leave). On second thought, never mind.
The solution to the Enterprise predicament was handled quite cleverly I thought, with the Captain's secretive switch with the computer tape. Unable to communicate verbally with his crew, you took it pretty much at Deela's word that Kirk was good and stuck where he was. Kudos to the writers for coming up with a novel save that required some ingenuity instead of some manufactured fight to the finish between the good guys and the bad guys.
I was amused by the name of the red-shirt character who disappeared first while on Scalos. In the 1969 movie "Joe", Peter Boyle's character utters the line "It's your ass now Compton" when his businessman friend gets himself jammed up in that story. Somehow it seemed utterly appropriate here.
And sure, how can I let it go by that this episode played the viewer for a gut level response to the Captain fixing his boot at the edge of the bed with Deela (Kathie Brown) standing nearby. There did seem to be a chemistry between the two that was much more evident than any of Kirk's past associations except maybe Natira (#3.8 - For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky), Miramanee (#3.3 - The Paradise Syndrome), or Ruth (#1.15 - Shore Leave). On second thought, never mind.
The solution to the Enterprise predicament was handled quite cleverly I thought, with the Captain's secretive switch with the computer tape. Unable to communicate verbally with his crew, you took it pretty much at Deela's word that Kirk was good and stuck where he was. Kudos to the writers for coming up with a novel save that required some ingenuity instead of some manufactured fight to the finish between the good guys and the bad guys.