Synopsis: The Enterprise responds to a distress call and is taken over by accelerated humanoid beings.
In “Wink of an Eye” the accelerated beings found on Scalos can be compared to classical Greco-Roman gods and goddesses in a couple of ways.
First, living at an accelerated rate makes the Scalosians a bit godlike in their presence. They select who they even want to see them, to others they only make a buzzing whining sound. They also demand that they be revered and served.
Secondly, unlike Captain James T. Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise, and Starfleet Command, they do not believe what they are doing, using lesser beings to further their own wellbeing is evil. It just is. As Carl (C. G.) Jung wrote: “Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships. ‘Good’ is what seems suitable, acceptable, or valuable from a certain point of view; evil is the opposite” (1951/1978, p. 53). This reflects how the classical Greco-Roman gods and goddesses were not seen as perfect entities; each one had their positive and negative attributes, just as we do.
This is also the second episode in a row where the Enterprise responded to a distress call from a species superior in technology to it, requiring the crew to fight for their lives. We also saw this type of story in the episode “By Any Other Name,” in another season. This illustrates how the unconscious will continue to communicate with the ego, in the never-ending process of trying to bring bits of psychic information into consciousness. And the repetition of this theme in Star Trek elucidates how it is necessary for us to continue to respond to these messages, even if danger lurks there.
Reference:
Jung, C. G. (1978). Aion: Researches into the phenomenology of the self (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). In H. Read et al. (Series Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (Vol. 9, pt. 2, 2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. (Original work published in 1951)
Original post created 19 March 2021
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