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Due to a distress call, Starship Enterprise arrives at planet Scalos, but once the landing crew - Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Bones (DeForest Kelley) and redshirt Compton (Geoffrey Binney) - arrive at the surface, they find traces of a highly developed civilisation, but hardly any life and certainly no human life. And then, before the others' very eyes, Compton disappears into thin air. Back on the Enterprise, the ship shows all sorts of malfunction, almost as if some saboteurs were on board, but none register on the scanners. And suddenly a machine is found attached to the life support system that makes it clear there must be intruders, whether or not the scanners show it. Then something is mixed into Kirk's coffee by unseen hands, and once he drinks it, he disappears - but not really disappears, he's merely super-accelerated, and this way able to meet the saboteurs, the Scalosians, who just live in a super-accelerated mode and are this way invisible to the human eye. Thing is, the Scalosian population is down to 5, so they have to find a mate for their queen Deela (Kathie Browne), who just happens to fancy Kirk - who's of course happy to bed Deela, not so happy to return with her to Scalos to stay (which is why he sabotages the teleporter), and very unhappy that the Scalosians plan to put the Enterprise under deep freeze. So he somehow manages to send a message to Spock and Bones to tell them what has happened, and they quickly come up with a liquid to super-accelerate Spock and another to de-accelerate Kirk. But while they're busy with that, Rael (Jason Evers), king of the Scalosians, gets jealous because Deela spends so much time with Kirk. Also Kirk meets redshirt Compton again who has been brainwashed by the Scalosians, and the two get into a fight. Kirk defeats Compton, but a simple scratch then makes Compton age and die quite rapidly. Once Spock is on super-acceleration, the Scalosians are quickly rounded up and sent back to their planet, the machine to freeze the Enterprise is quickly destroyed, and on super-acceleration it takes Spock mere seconds to fix every act of sabotage shipwide ...

An interesting concept is turned into harmless fun that unfortunately relies more on series mainstays - like fistfights and Kirk's womanizing - than trying to explore the possibilities of the premise. That's not to say the episode's a trainwreck, as in a way it's pretty amusing despite of or maybe even for all of its shortcomings, it just fails to develop to full potential.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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