History Recap / StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime

* ThrowItIn:
** Uhura's "Sorry, neither." was an ad lib by Nichelle Nichols during rehearsals.
** The entire scene where Spock struggles to remain in control of his emotions was suggested by Leonard Nimoy, and they only had time for one take, which was entirely improvised.

* [[BathroomStallGraffiti Turbolift Graffiti]] Kirk finds that someone wrote "Sinner Repent" on the walls of the turbolift. Elsewhere, the phrase "Love Mankind" has been painted on the wall.

* ThrowItIn: Uhura's "Sorry, neither." was an ad lib by Nichelle Nichols.
** As was the entire scene where Spock breaks down. It was suggested by Leonard Nimoy, and they only had time for one take, which was entirely improvised.

** As was Spock's the entire scene where Spock breaks down. It was suggested by Leonard Nimoy, and they only had time for one take, which was entirely improvised.

* MurderWater: Contrary to the episode synopsis you just read, the episode itself doesn't have the cause be a virus -- that was the retcon used in the 'revisiting' to cover the fact that the central premise of ''The Naked Time'' fell squarely into ScienceMarchesOn: polywater (a kind of high-viscosity, low-freezing point water that would tend to make other water into its own type). It's not actually ''sentient'', but it is extremely dangerous, can move in ways that should be impossible, and is (a type of) water.

* TimeWarp: The events of the episode result in sending the ''Enterprise'' three days into the past. The ep ends with Kirk reflecting on the possibility of [[RockyHorrorPictureShow doing it again.]]

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: A shirtless ''and freaking ripped as hell'' Mr. Sulu. Oh my!

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was not the first sci-fi production to have a doctor diagnose a patient with a fatal deficiency of will to live.

* WhatAnIdiot: Joe Tomerlin, the RedShirt who accompanied Spock down to the planet. He takes his protective glove off, puts his hand down on the surface of a planet where many people have died with no explanation, and scratches his nose with the same hand.
** Before he stabbed himself, he claimed that humanity didn't belong in space. Given his [[TooDumbToLive horrific failure to follow basic hazmat procedures]] on a space station where everyone has died for no evident cause, perhaps it was only ''he'' that did not belong in space.
* TheWoobie: Yeoman Rand is fast approaching this. Of the first four episodes aired, three of them had her having to fend off unwanted male attention (though the first one of them was actually a shapeshifting alien, as if that makes it any better for her.)

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: {{Lampshaded.}} Lt. Riley claims that Sulu's interest in Botany in ''[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]'' was one of his weekly fads. This week it's Fencing.

* ScottyTime: "[[MemeticMutation I cannae change the laws of physics!]] I've got to have thirty minutes!"

Chaos engulfs the ship as the virus spreads: crew members act careless, laughing maniacs run around the halls painting creepy messages in red paint, Sulu menaces passersby with a fencing sword, and Spock enters a crippling depression. Worst of all, Riley has locked himself in the engine room, stranding the ship just as the planet is breaking up, threatening the ''Enterprise''. Kirk and Scotty try to break into the engine room while [=McCoy=] cooks up a vaccine. However, by the time Scotty gets the door open, it's revealed that the engines were stopped completely and that restarting them would take more time than the planet has. Desperate, Kirk orders Scotty to... [[{{Technobabble}} do something involving matter/antimatter annihilation]] to get the Enterprise out of the way. Scotty cries that it only has a [[MillionToOneChance 1-in-10,000 chance]] of not blowing them to smithereens (so, naturally, it will work perfectly), but he needs Spock's help. Kirk tries to [[GetAHoldOfYourSelfMan slap Spock out of his funk]], but Spock only recovers when Kirk [[strike:[[LargeHam hams it up]]]] empathizes with him under the virus' influence and reveals the heavy burden of being Captain of the ''Enterprise'' -- contrary to popular belief, ''you can never get laid,'' at least not with crew members. [=McCoy=] cures the crew and the ship escapes, but with a strange side-effect: it travels about three days backwards in time, in the series' first instance of time travel.

[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] [[strike: ripped off]] simply ''[[SarcasmMode revisited]]'' this scenario in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow The Naked Now]]." ...'''just''' revisited.

* [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Crap Past The Radar]]: Uhura's quip when Sulu says, "I'll protect you fair maiden.": "Sorry, neither."

* WhatAnIdiot: Joe Tomerlin, the RedShirt who accompanied Spock down to the planet. He takes his protective glove off, puts his hand down on the surface of a planet where many people have died with no explanation, and scratches his nose with the same hand.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After Uhura apologizes for getting snippy with Kirk, he apologizes for being snippy with her first. It takes a big man to apologize like that.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: A disease makes everyone get progressively drunker,

* [[BathroomStallGraffiti Turbolift Graffiti]] Kirk finds that someone wrote "Sinner Repent" on the walls of the turbolift. Elsewhere, the phrase "Love Mankind" has been painted on the wall.

* [[BathroomStallGraffiti Turbolift Graffiti]] Kirk finds that someone wrote "Sinner Repent" on the walls of the turbolift. Elsewhere, the phrase "Love Mankind" has been painted on the wall.

* TimeWarp: The events of the episode result in sending the ''Enterprise'' three days into the past. The ep ends with Kirk reflecting on the possibility of [[RockyHorrorPictureShow doing it again.]]

* MadnessMatra: Spock tries to ward off the effects of the disease by repeating "I am in control of my emotions." and reciting multiplication tables.

* [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Crap Past The Radar]]: Uhura's quip when Sulu says, "I'll protect you fair maiden.":
"Sorry, neither."

[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] [[strike: ripped off]] simply ''[[SarcasmMode revisited]]'' this scenario in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow The Naked Now]]." ...'''just''' revisited.

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Chaos engulfs the ship as the virus spreads: crew members act careless, laughing maniacs run around the halls painting creepy messages in red paint, Sulu menaces passersby with a fencing sword, and Spock enters a crippling depression. Worst of all, Riley has locked himself in the engine room, stranding the ship just as the planet is breaking up, threatening the ''Enterprise''. Kirk and Scotty try to break into the engine room while [=McCoy=] cooks up a vaccine. However, by the time Scotty gets the door open, it's revealed that the engines were stopped completely and that restarting them would take more time than the planet has. Desperate, Kirk orders Scotty to... [[{{Technobabble}} do something involving matter/antimatter annihilation]] to get the Enterprise out of the way. Scotty cries that it only has a [[MillionToOneChance 1-in-10,000 chance]] of not blowing them to smithereens (so, naturally, it will work perfectly), but he needs Spock's help. Kirk tries to [[GetAHoldOfYourSelfMan slap Spock out of his funk]], but Spock only recovers when Kirk [[strike:[[LargeHam hams it up]]]] empathizes with him under the virus' influence and reveals the heavy burden of being Captain of the ''Enterprise''--contrary to popular belief, ''you can never get laid,'' at least not with crew members. [=McCoy=] cures the crew and the ship escapes, but with a strange side-effect: it travels about three days backwards in time, in the series' first instance of time travel.

--->-Kirk, revealing his... ''[[CargoShip fondness]]''... for the ''Enterprise''