History Recap / StarTrekS3E11WinkOfAnEye

* LampshadeHanging: It's a Gene Coon show so it has a sense of humor about itself, even though Kirk's pissed off with the whole thing, with Della having an almost refreshingly honest excuse for kidnapping Kirk ([[EatingTheEyeCandy he's pretty]]) and Shatner's dramatic pauses getting teased.
* LargeHam: Kirk's slow and deliberate diction marked with...several...dramatic pauses, gets spoofed with Deela hurrying him and [[FinishingEachOthersSentences finishing his sentences for him.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: Kirk is bothered by what seems to be a buzzing insect on Scalos, but when he hears it again on the Enterprise, and Bones assures him he's not imaging it, he realises it's an intruder who has followed them up from the planet. Spock realises what has happened when he speeds up the tape of the DistressCall and gets the same sound.

* FragileSpeedster: The accelerated state the Scalosians, et al., operate at means that any kind of cellular damage (particularly that resulting from physical trauma) would lead to injured person going into rapid aging and subsequent death. Presumably, Deela asked Kirk off-screen to be gentle...

* IncrediblyLamePun: From the last person we'd expect:
-->'''Spock''': I found it an incredibly accelerating (exhilarating) experience.

* DoctorsOrders: Kirk really doesn't want to drop everything to have a physical, but Bones name drops the trope and points out that a physical for everyone on the away mission was Kirk's own order.

* SchmuckBait: Kirk is told by the Ekor not to touch the life support system. He touches it, and gets shocked. So what does he do? ''Puts both hands on it and [[WhatAnIdiot keeps getting shocked.]]'' In justice to Kirk the device in question is putting his crew into deep freeze to be preserved as potential breeding stock for the Alien. Naturally he's willing to endure some pain if he can only switch it off.

* CaffeineBulletTime: [[GirlOfTheWeek Deela]] slips Kirk a drug which speeds him up to BulletTime, enabling him to see her and her compatriots who live in BulletTime permanently. But since she got the drug into him by slipping it into his coffee, it ends up looking an awful lot like CaffeineBulletTime.

* AbsenteeActor: Chekov is seen in a recycled shot of the viewscreen with his and Hadley's back, but does not appear in the rest of the episode.

** The first shot of the bridge, with Scotty in the command chair, is recycled from "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath}} The Empath]]". Dialog from that episode can be slightly heard under James Doohan's log-entry narration. Also, this shot shows an unnamed woman at the communications station instead of Uhura, who appears there in the rest of the episode.
** Although Walter Koenig (Chekov) does not appear in this episode, a brief recycled shot shows him on the bridge neverthless.

* BeamSpam: Kirk, Spock and a couple of redshirts sweep a corridor on [[StunGuns stun]] in an attempt to flush out the intruders.

** When Spock reviews the events to confirm his theory about the buzzing noise, he watches footage of the away team on Scalos which is recycled from the teaser. No indication is given of who is supposed to have taken this footage in-universe, though it was presumably recorded on their tricorders.

* SexDressed: We cut away from Kirk and Deela in his quarters; when we next see them, she's brushing her hair and he's putting on one of his boots. A clear-cut case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, 1960's style.

!!Tropes for this episode include:

* PlotHole: So no one on the bridge noticed that phaser shot coming out of nowhere and aparently aimed at no-one?

* MauveShirt: Compton, though he's a literal RedShirt. Also a SacrificialLamb to demonstrate why Kirk can't resort to GoodOldFisticuffs.

* StockFootage: The first shot of the bridge, with Scotty in the command chair, is recycled from "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath}} The Empath]]". Dialog from that episode can be slightly heard under James Doohan's log-entry narration. Also, this shot shows an unnamed woman at the communications station instead of Uhura, who appears there in the rest of the episode.