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BurntToast
Since: Mar, 2018
21st Apr, 2018 11:52:59 AM
was it a book? A tv show? movie? what media?
CatcherInTheWry
Since: Feb, 2015
21st Apr, 2018 12:38:02 PM
I think it was a TV Show
BurntToast
Since: Mar, 2018
21st Apr, 2018 04:57:07 PM
Was it educational or was it a special episode of a show? Was it live action or animated?
ApeAccount
Since: Feb, 2015
21st Apr, 2018 05:14:20 PM
Could you be thinking of Star Trek: The Next Generation, particularly "The Naked Now"? The child in question would be Wesley Crusher.
- Picard: Wes. Are you aware that you're acting strangely, that a kind of infection was brought over from the Tsiolkovsky which acts like intoxication?Wesley: Are you saying that's why I feel so hot? So strange?Picard: That's a very adult bit of reasoning, Wes.Wesley: So you mean I'm drunk!
Kayube
Since: Jan, 2001
22nd Apr, 2018 05:16:08 PM
ninja'd
Edited by Kayube
There was something happening where everyone was acting high or something, including a kid who had some very important control that was essential for getting everything back to normal. This is a paraphrase of their exchange: