History Recap / StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime

-->'''Chapel:''' Christine, please. I see things, how honest you are. ''(takes his hands in hers)'' I know how you feel. You hide it, but you do have feeling. ''(Spock turns his head away but doesn't let go of her hand)'' Oh, how we must hurt you, torture you...

%%* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Nurse Chapel makes one for Spock.

** Why would a planet break up due to its sun going dark? Also, the universe isn't old enough for white dwarves or any other star to go dark, either, if it is meant that the star turned into a black dwarf.

* TooDumbToLive: Taking off your glove, getting some weird liquid on your hand, and then rubbing your nose? If the disease hadn't gotten him, this guy doubtlessly would have found some other way to kill himself in a few days.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Nurse Chapel makes one for Spock.
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Why would a planet break up due to its sun going dark? Also, the universe isn't old enough for white dwarves or any other star to go dark, either, if it is meant that the star turned into a black dwarf.
** A 'dark star' was an early name for a black hole, so it's possible that's what they're referring to, with the planet breaking up and then compressing as it falls into the black hole's gravity well.

* [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay Orbits Do Not Work That Way]]: There is no ice-planet's reason in hell that the ''Enterprise'' needs to "spiral down" as the doomed planet shrinks. Are they connected by fishing line or something? Every line of technobabble expended on explaining this problem just digs the hole deeper (The ''gravity'' is changing? ''What''?). Ultimately, of course, the problem is a VoodooShark: It exists to give the crew [[RaceAgainstTheClock a clock to race against]], not to accurately portray orbital mechanics.

* PlotHole: Dr. [=McCoy=], a front-line medical worker, never succumbs to the disease--pretty impressive considering that it manages to afflict much of his medical staff.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Uhura's quip when Sulu grabs her.
-->'''Sulu:''' Aha!, fair maiden!\\
'''Uhura:''' Sorry, neither.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Riley tells the Engineering personnel that the Captain wants them urgently on the Bridge, then locks himself inside.

* ZeeRust: Spock appears to be using a circular slide rule for his calculations on ExactTimeToFailure.

* [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay Orbits Do Not Work That Way]]: There is no ice-planet's reason in hell that the ''Enterprise'' needs to "spiral down" as the doomed planet shrinks. Are they connected by fishing line or something?

-->'''Riley:''' And now, crew, I will render "Kathleen"... ooonnne moooore tiiiimme!
-->'''Kirk:''' ''[muttered]'' Please, not again.

-->'''Kirk:''' I have a beautiful yeoman. Have you noticed her, Mister Spock? You're allowed to notice her. [[TheChainsOfCommanding The Captain's not permitted...]]

!!Tropes:

* StockFootage: A closeup of Kirk at the beginning of Act One is a recycled shot from "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap}} The Man Trap]]".

* PlotHole: Dr. [=McCoy=], a front-line medical worker, never succumbs to the disease--pretty impressive considering that it manages to afflict his head nurse. However they're both wearing protective gloves during the operation; Chapel only gets infected because she claps hands with an apparently distraught (but actually infected) Riley to comfort him.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan:
** Kirk attempts to slap Spock back into a steady state of mind. All it does is get Spock mad enough to slap him back, with enough force that he goes flying across the table.
** Kirk and Uhura start shouting at each other because Uhura can't turn off Riley's control of the communication circuits, then immediately apologise.

* InelegantBlubbering: Spock when he gets affected.

-->'''Spock:''' It's never been done.
-->'''Kirk:''' Don't tell me that again, Science Officer! It's a theory. It's possible. We may go up into the biggest ball of fire since the last sun in these parts exploded, but we've got to take that one in ten thousand chance!

* LoveIsAWeakness: Spock had to hide his love for his mother, who was the [[AloneInACrowd sole human on an alien world]] where the expression of love was disdained. Kirk vents about how his love for the Enterprise is AllTakeAndNoGive.

* PlotHole: Dr. [=McCoy=], a front-line medical worker, never succumbs to the disease--pretty impressive considering that it manages to afflict his head nurse.
** However they're both wearing protective gloves during the operation; Chapel only gets infected because she claps hands with an apparently distraught (but actually infected) Riley to comfort him.

* RoomShuffle: Riley tells the Engineering personnel that the Captain wants them urgently on the Bridge, then locks himself inside.

* SchmuckBait: What exactly did Kirk expect to happen when he touched the end of Sulu's sword?. (There are no euphemisms in the previous sentence, but don't let that stop your imagination.) To be fair, foils use in sport fencing don't have sharp tips for safety.

* IncomingHam: A naked-to-the-waist Sulu charging out of the turbolift door, wielding a fencing foil and reenacting ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''.

** {{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.

* OpenSaysMe: Downplayed; Scotty has to burn through the bulkhead next to the door.

* MagicAntidote: Sulu is shown screaming as Bones injects him, then is [[SuddenlySober abruptly restored to normal]], confused to why he's not on the Bridge.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: A disease makes everyone get progressively drunker.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Kirk attempts to slap Spock back into a steady state of mind. All it does is get Spock mad enough to slap him back, with enough force that he goes flying across the table.