{"id":4309,"date":"2014-12-25T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:25:10","slug":"mark-watches-star-trek-s03e11-wink-of-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2014\/12\/mark-watches-star-trek-s03e11-wink-of-an-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Star Trek’: S03E11 – Wink of an Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the eleventh episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>, WHAT. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For nonconsensual drugging<\/b><\/p>\n

The Setup\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Truthfully, this episode has one of\u00c2\u00a0the<\/i> best premises of the whole show, so I wanted to talk about why this episode works \u00e2\u20ac\u201c up to a point. From inventive camera angles to the haunting mystery, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wink of an Eye\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an\u00c2\u00a0experience<\/i>. Until Kirk finds out what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually happening, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just in the dark as he is. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re led to think that some sort of minuscule insect, like a mosquito, is responsible for\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 chaos? Sabotage? Of course, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an absurd idea, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only thing we have to go on until it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all explained to us. We heard the buzzing down on Scalos, and we hear it onboard the\u00c2\u00a0Enterprise<\/i>.<\/p>\n

That mystery fuels a lot of frustration, and lord, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertaining. It was fun to try and figure out what was going on here, particularly since the writers kept practically everything a secret until the big reveal. And even when Deela finally appeared, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like this episode lost its steam; if anything, I was even\u00c2\u00a0more<\/i> thrilled by what I was seeing. The idea is just so good. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a race of people who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be seen because\u00c2\u00a0they move too fast to be observed in real-time.\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>Even more haunting is the fact that they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t originally like this; it was exposure to radiation that created this circumstance. So this is a case of survivors desperate to stay alive, despite that most of their people have already died. There are only five Scolosians left. FIVE. Out of over\u00c2\u00a0nine hundred thousand<\/i>. So I understood that they felt like they had to do something drastic to guarantee that they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t die out.<\/p>\n

But oh lord.<\/p>\n

The Fallout<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my fault that I forgot that Deela explained within the episode that all their men were now sterile. But even if I do factor this in to their behavior\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 no. This doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make any sense. How are two different species supposed to mate??? Like, this is categorically bad science, so bad that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually distracting. And I am not a science nitpicker when it comes to sci-fi, I swear. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll buy pretty much anything because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fiction. But this? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just nonsensical. None of this plan makes sense!<\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s put aside the bad science.\u00c2\u00a0Why are you freezing the Enterprise<\/i>? What are you going to do with all the people who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t impregnate you? Why do you need to freeze them when YOU LITERALLY EXPERIENCE TIME DIFFERENT THAN THEM? Like, this is so glaring to me because we constantly see how slow time moves relative to the Scalosians, so freezing them is just absurdly pointless. In the span it will take Deela pregnant and give birth,\u00c2\u00a0maybe<\/i> five minutes will have passed in the real world? Okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m exaggerating, but you understand the point I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to make, right? It just seems ridiculous!<\/p>\n

Again, though, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m willing to put aside all of the bad science and theorizing because the worst part of this is that Deela is convinced that every person she asks to impregnate her will do it. Like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 WHAT????? OKAY, to be fair, both Compton and Kirk appear to have at least temporarily fall under her spell, but without any way to compel them to do this, what is she hoping for? That every crew member she asks for sex will just eventually cave in because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any other options? HOW IS THIS A GOOD PLAN WORTH EXPENDING ENERGY OVER?<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a bad execution of a wonderful premise. It had so much hope! But \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wink of an Eye\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ends with the Scolosians abandoned on their planet with no hope of any help at all, destined to die off, and Spock\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just delighted to make puns. (It was a good pun, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll admit that.) Is no one concerned about this entire species dying off? Do they deserve it for being awful? WHY AREN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T THESE QUESTIONS BEING ANSWERED?<\/p>\n

Oh, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wink of an Eye.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d You showed so much promise!<\/p>\n

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