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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
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Subject: Re: "Wink of an Eye" question
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 14:37:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 14 14:37:37 1983
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The reason I've heard why Kirk did not offer to decelerate the Scalosians
was that they would probably (certainly?) die in the attempt because they
had been accelerated for so long and were thus in their now-natural state.
Of course, this brings up the question of why it was not immediately nor
necessarily harmful to be accelerated.  Notice Kirk and Spock (and that
crewman--what was his name?  Compton?) show no effects of fatigue from this
experience like they (or at least Kirk) did when Sargon and Henoch temporarily
took over their bodies.  A more plausible explanation is that Kirk was not
sure that he and Spock could be decelerated, perhaps he even believed
that Spock was confirming that they couldn't.  Of course, that would all
be for Deela's benefit, I guess.  In any event, Kirk certainly didn't owe
it to the Scalosians.

The best part of this episode for me is the scene where we cut back to Kirk
and Deela in Kirk's quarters.  How the 1968 censors ever let her be combing
her hair in his quarters while he sat on the bed pulling his boots on, I'll
never know.  It is probably the most blatant suggestion of Kirk's sexual
activities ever implied in any Star Trek TV show or movie.

Let's not even discuss the phaser beam (presumably traveling at the speed of
light through air) inching it's way across the room.
-- 
        Roger Noe            UUCP:  ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
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