Star Trek episode "Wink of an Eye"

Season 3, episode 11

"Wink of an Eye"

Fantastic episode about hyperaccelerated aliens that try to take over Enterprise.

(Although there are many plot failings, including the fact that if they are so fast, why it takes so long for them to do anything.)

One red-shirted crewman, Compton, disappears and we find out that cell damage kills him.

Hilariously, Kirk is hyperaccelerated and then has hyperaccelerated sex with the alien whose sole purpose is to seduce him.

This is the crux of the issue with me, an episode where Kirk and the Enterprise should have easily been finished--if they had not hyperaccelerated Kirk, if they had simply waited until they had taken over the ship, there would have been nobody to interfere. This is, then, simply stupid aliens.

I wish this concept could be revisited in one of the Star Trek novels by a decent writer. I think it would be neat to revisit this entire episode and take away some of the stupid mistakes that the aliens make and rewrite it.