Star Trek: Naked Time

[mbarker]

What can I say? A mysterious disease gets picked up from a frozen outpost where five researchers apparently went insane. On board the Enterprise, it lets loose various inhibitions, resulting in Sulu charging around bare-chested with a fencing foil, Christine admitting her love to Spock, and so forth. McCoy works through and finds an antidote in time!

I thought one of the amusing touches was in a Captain's log supplemental near the beginning, where Kirk muses that "unknown to us, a mysterious disease has been brought on board." It seems amusing to me that Kirk knows enough to comment about events that are unknown to us. I guess that's what makes him such a good Captain :-)

Synopsis over here http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68674.html

The theme of how we all change when our inhibitions are stripped away, by alcohol, drugs, disease, etc., is kind of a fun one. Especially when the setting includes quasi-military discipline and such.

Comments

[drammar.livejournal.com]

My favorite line from this show (I think it's this show, at least) is Uhura's response to Sulu's "fair maiden" comment. She looks him up and down, and says, "Sorry, neither." absolutely deadpan. Love it.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I think you're right! Sulu comes out of the elevator, grabs Uhura, says something like "I will protect you, fair maiden!" and threatens everyone with his foil. Then she gives him the look and says, "Sorry, neither." When he turns in shock to look at her, that's when his foil falls and Kirk dashes in to grapple. Then Spock gives Sulu the Vulcan squeeze and puts him to sleep. And Kirk says something about "You've got to teach me that someday" before dashing off.

But it is Uhura's little put-down that defuses the whole ludicrous stand-off. Thanks!

[pakwa26.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does TOS bring out some special kind of pendatry in its viewers? My Partner in Life & Crime is watching the original series on his laptop at home (only because I find it far too culturally imperialistic to be watchable) & he's watching them in strict order of airing... I despair, I really do...

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I'm watching the digitally remastered ones being broadcast on public TV here in Japan. It's kind of a memory trip combined with the fun of catching the odds and ends of those shows. Cultural imperialism? Just because Kirk gets all the girls? Or because freedom is the right thing to do? Or . . . where's that one about the interstellar rock'n'rollers? Where Spock jams with them, if I remember right?

Just kind of fun to remember. But some of the implications are pretty dated, you're right.