- Watching this on a modern screen, you can see very clearly that's a photographic backdrop in the opening scene.
- Compton, you're a bit of an idiot for drinking the water without properly testing it. No wonder you ended up a dead red shirt.
- I'm not entirely sure they really thought much about this accelerated time thing. At the rate things are going as perceived in regular time, it would be many days or weeks from Kirk's perspective.
- The use of the Dutch angle in the accelerated time was a clever idea, in retrospect.
- And it's another Theiss classic outfit, seemingly in danger of popping open but never doing so.
- The acting from the guest cast is pretty poor in this.
- So, you're kidnapping people for the purposes of sex. That would be called out a lot more these days.
- These days, you would use digi-doubles for the scenes where people are frozen in place; here you've got the actors standing as still as they can and trying not to blink.
- Kirk is actually quite clever, leaving the message on the tape and swapping it over like that.
- How are we seeing footage from earlier in the episode when there was no in-universe camera present?
- The final scene is pretty poor, even by comedy episode ending standards.
Conclusion
An interesting concept, not particularly well executed.
4/10
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