STAR TREK: #7 The Naked Time, 1966

 

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Writer: John D. Black
Dir.: Marc Daniels

Captain Kirk: William Shatner
Science Officer, First Officer, Cmdr. Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Dr. Leonard "Bones" Mc Coy: DeForest Kelly
Lt. Sulu: George Takei
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott: James Doohan
Lieutenant Uhura: Nichelle Nichols
Nurse Christine Chapel: Majel Barret

Lt. Kevin Thomas Riley: Bruce Hyde
Joe Tormolen: Steward Moss
Dr. Harrison: John Bellah
Lt. Brent: Frank de Vinci

 

Stardate 1704.2

The Enterprise gets a message from the scientists on Psi 2000: The planet is due to be destroyed and they themselves are ready to be evacuated. As the Enterprise arrives and the crew want to beam them up, they discover that all have frozen to death because the life supporting system has been switched off, but all are found to be frozen in an unusual position Spock and Lt. Tormolen report after they beamed down in protective suits to investigate. 


Lt Tormolen infects himself after he had removed his glove and brings a contagious disease on board: More and more people behave strange, overreact or live their dreams in reality. Lt. Sulu fights the crew with his sword, Lt. Riley locks himself into the engine room and switches off the engines, Sister Chapel confesses her love towards Spock : "I love the Vulcan and the Human" and Spock suffers from the fact that he never could tell his mother what he felt for her: "My mother; I could never tell her I loved her. An Earth – woman living on a planet where love, emotion, is bad taste. ... Jim, when I feel friendship for you I feel ashamed. I’ve spent my whole life learning to hide my feelings." 

Even Spock and Kirk engage in a fight. Spock tries to escape the others by locking himself into his room. The only thing which gets Spock back to normal is when he sees his friend caught up in confusion. This sight of the captain in distress causes Spock to fight the virus. 

... and all the time the ship is spinning around getting closer and closer to the planet. The only escape is a jump back in time ...

 


 

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