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
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
technological 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
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.
