The Naked Time

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KEVIN THOMAS RILEY:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hyde,+Bruce" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hyde,+Bruce"><U><B>BRUCE HYDE</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>LT. JOE TORMOLEN:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Moss,+Stewart" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Moss,+Stewart"><U><B>STEWART MOSS</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>AMOROUS CREWMAN:  WILLIAM KNIGHT</B></div> <div> <B>LAUGHING CREWMAN:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bellah,+John" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bellah,+John"><U><B>JOHN BELLAH</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>WRITTEN BY:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Black,+John+D.F." TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Black,+John+D.F."><U><B>JOHN D.F. BLACK</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>DIRECTED BY:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Daniels,+Marc" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Daniels,+Marc"><U><B>MARC DANIELS</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>PRODUCED BY:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Roddenberry,+Gene" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Roddenberry,+Gen"><U><B>GENE RODDENBERRY</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>MUSIC COMPOSED BY:  </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Courage,+Alexander" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Courage,+Alexand"><U><B>ALEXANDER COURAGE</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>STARDATE:  1704.2  (2266)  The </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> is assigned to pick up the six members of the scientific survey party on planet Psi 2000 and remain in orbit to observe the imminent break up of the ancient world.  However, when Mr. Spock and </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=115752" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Lt. Tormolen</B></U></A><B> beam down to the research station in environmental suits, they find the facility's life support systems turned off and all six team members frozen to death.  While taking a reading, Tormolen forgets to put his glove on and unknowingly exposes himself to a new virus.  Although Spock and Tormolen undergo decontamination in the transporter room and are given a clean bill of health by Dr. McCoy, Tormolen still carries the virus in him, the only signs being excessive sweating and a persistent itch on Tormolen's hand where it entered his body.  A briefing held aboard the ship shows no cause for the deaths of the research team, although signs point to some sort of madness.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Meanwhile, Tormolen begins to express self-doubt about both himself and space exploration in general.  During a meal break in the recreation room, Tormolen reacts violently when invited into a conversation by Lt. Sulu and </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=113421" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Lt. Kevin Riley</B></U></A><B>, going so far as to threaten them with a knife.  When it becomes apparent to Sulu and Riley that Tormolen is going to use the knife on himself instead, they attempt to relieve him of the weapon.  A brief struggle ends with Tormolen accidentally stabbed in the abdomen and both Sulu and Riley unknowingly exposed to the virus.  An analysis of Tormolen's psychiatric file shows that his capacity for self-doubt was always present, but Spock is puzzled as to what brought the trait to the surface with so much force.  While McCoy successfully repairs Tormolen's injury to the abdomen, the lieutenant dies on the operating table, his will to live gone.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When the Captain and Spock are preoccupied, Sulu, under the influence of the virus, leaves his post to work out in the ship's gymnasium.  When questioned about Sulu's absence</B><B>, Riley also exhibits signs of the virus by acting like a descendant of Irish kings, and Spock orders him to sickbay.  When Riley arrives there, he acts strangely disassociated when Nurse Chapel tells him of Tormolen's death, and before leaving, the navigator infects her.  At the same time, Sulu, armed with a sword, is causing chaos on the ship.  After leaving sickbay, Riley goes to engineering.  He tricks Mr. Scott and his staff out of the engineering control room, locks himself in, and proceeds to sing over the intercom, issue inane orders ("In the future, all female crew members shall wear their hair loosely about their shoulders. . ."), and interfere with the ship's systems.  Because of his tampering, the ship loses power and begins to drop out of orbit.  In twenty minutes, the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> will </B><B>contact the planet's atmosphere, incinerating the ship.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Because the intercom system is down, Kirk sends Spock to check on both Scotty, who is attempting to break into the engineering control room, and Dr. McCoy, to assist him in finding a cure for the virus.  Upon arriving in sickbay, Spock finds that McCoy has gone to the lab.  Nurse Chapel corners Spock, confesses her love for him, and infects the First Officer with the virus when she takes his hand.  Under the influence of the disease, Spock loses emotional control, wandering the corridors until he makes it to the briefing room.  Although he tries several times to focus himself, he finally succumbs to the released emotions and breaks down crying.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>With only eight minutes left in their orbit, Kirk and Scotty break into engineering, haul out Riley, and discover that the delirious navigator has turned the engines off.  Since it will take thirty minutes to recharge the engines, and with no other choice available, Kirk orders a controlled implosion of the warp engines, a procedure with only a theoretical possibility of success.  Kirk leaves engineering to find Spock.  At the same time, McCoy finds the antidote to the virus and begins injecting the crew with the serum.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Kirk finds Spock in the briefing room, an emotional wreck.  The Captain attempts to break through to the First Officer, even striking him several times in an attempt to get Spock to focus.  When Spock strikes him back, Kirk realizes that his own actions are the result of the virus.  Seeing Kirk struggle with his love / hate relationship with the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> gives Spock the impetus to regain control, and knowing that he will lose his precious starship if he fails to act forces Kirk to shake of the disease's effect.</B><B>  Spock and Scotty go to engineering, and Kirk goes to the bridge, where McCoy injects him with the serum.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The implosion of the engines is successful, but the resulting reaction sends the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> backwards in time.  When the ship finally stops, the crew find that they have regressed in time seventy-one hours </B><B>–</B><B> they have three days to live over again.  Spock points out that they now have the means to travel to any planet and any era, and Kirk agrees, noting that they might someday take advantage of their newfound capability.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>INTERESTING POINTS</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- This episode introduces Nurse Christine Chapel.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The network censors were apparently asleep for this episode in 1966.  When Sulu says, "I'll protect you, fair maiden," she replies, "Sorry, neither,"  meaning she is neither fair nor a maiden.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The automatic pocket doors on the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> </B><B>must also sense when someone wants to actually pass through.  Otherwise, Spock would have tumbled into the corridor when he entered the briefing room and leaned back against the door.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The implosion sequence gives the impression that the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> became transparent during the initial engine restart.  Gene Roddenberry originally wanted the ship to become transparent when the warp engines were used.  "THE CAGE" shows such an effect when the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> enters warp speed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- This is the first episode that dealt with time travel.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Writer John D.F. Black is also an associate producer for the show.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Bruce Hyde also portrays Lt. Kevin Thomas Riley in the episode </B><A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Conscience of the King"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Conscience of the King"><U><B>THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING</B></U></A><A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Conscience of the King"><U><B>."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Stewart Moss played the Kelvin alien Hanar in the episode </B><A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="By Any Other Name"><U><B>"BY ANY OTHER NAME."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>- </B><A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Paskey,+Eddie" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Paskey,+Eddie"><U><B>Eddie Paskey</B></U></A><B>, who portrays </B><A HREF="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ.asp?ID=116841" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.startrek.com/library/individ."><U><B>Mr. Leslie</B></U></A><B>, speaks for the first time in this episode.  Visible as an extra player in almost every episode, he only has dialogue here and in the episode </B><A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="This Side of Paradise"><U><B>"THIS SIDE OF PARADISE."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>- John Bellah played a crewman in the episode </B><A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charlie X"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charlie X"><U><B>CHARLIE X</B></U></A><A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charlie X"><U><B>."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>PLOT FAULTS</U></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>- During the confrontation in the recreation room between Sulu, Riley, and Tormolen, the other </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> personnel present seem to be pretty aloof about the whole incident.  Shouldn't someone have been calling Security during the struggle?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Spock explains that as the planet shrinks in size, its surface moves away from the </B><I><B>Enterprise, </B></I><B> forcing the ship to spiral down in its orbit to maintain the same distance from the planet.  What he doesn't explain is where the planet's lost mass is going.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Kirk, Uhura, and Spock are all in contact with Sulu's bare skin during the swordplay scene on the bridge, but none of them are infected at that point.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Spock uses a slide rule to calculate the remaining time before the ship hits the planet's atmosphere.  A little odd, considering he has that massive computer right in front of him.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- One would think that someone from the engineering staff would remain in the engine room, even if Kirk did order everyone to the bridge, as Scotty stated.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Phasers are pretty powerful.  Why couldn't Scotty simply blast through the door to the engineering control room to get to Riley?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Needing someone to take over the position, Kirk orders Yeoman Rand to man the helm.  One would think that piloting the starship would take quite a bit more training than being a yeoman.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Spock tells Scotty that he will call in the intermix formula from the bridge, but he and Scotty go to engineering together.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Was it really necessary to tear Kirk's tunic to administer his injection?  Nobody else seems to have a ripped uniform shirt.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- This episode never address the implication of the time travel.  If the </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> were to travel back to Psi 2000, would they see their former selves in orbit around the planet?  Did all the actions of the crew during the past three days get nullified by traveling back in time?  Is Lt. Tormolen alive again, since he was alive three days ago?</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>TECHNICAL FAULTS</U></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Spock uses the phrase "tricky orbit" during the briefing, which is imprecise wording for the normally precise Vulcan. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Lt. Tormolen's rank is designated on his uniform cuff as a single dashed braid.  Both Lt. Sulu and Lt. Riley have a solid braid.  Based on the other rank designations in the show, this would indicate that Tormolen is a junior grade lieutenant.  However, in the recreation room scene, he points out to Sulu that the helmsman doesn't outrank him.  This designation of rank doesn't appear in any </B><I><B>Star Trek</B></I><B> reference material.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When the camera switches to the wide shot during the struggle between Sulu, Riley, and Tormolen, the line Riley said in the close-up shot is repeated.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- During Tormolen's surgery, the close-up shot of the medical scanner levels are different than in the distance shot with McCoy and Chapel.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When McCoy calls Kirk to sickbay, the camera shows a wall communicator panel, which is not found on the bridge.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When Spock orders Mr. Leslie to take the helm in Sulu's absence, he says, "Take over here, Rand."  This line of dialogue was supposed to be delivered to Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand, but when the characters were switched, the script wasn't subsequently changed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Spock sarcastically refers to Sulu as D'Artagnan after he incapacitates him.  Vulcans do not use sarcasm.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Moving into the act three commercial break, Spock noticeably sighs after Kirk acknowledges that they will hit the atmosphere and burn up in less than twenty minutes.  Spock shouldn't have sighed, since Vulcans do not get impatient or allow their frustrations to get the better of them.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- As Scotty resumes cutting into the wall with his phaser after his conversation with Spock, the sparks and smoke begin before he brings the phaser to the proper height.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When Scotty prepares to take out the cut section of the bulkhead to open the engineering control room door, the camera is jarred by someone or something as it dollies forward.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- When Kirk calls the bridge from engineering, the light on the intercom panel fails to illuminate when he activates the switch.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The overhead camera shots of the bridge after the implosion sequence show the front bridge handrail directly in front of the navigation console.  The handrail should be skewed to the left or right so that there is an opening in front of the navigation console.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- The helm chronometer is calibrated incorrectly.  The minutes advance when the seconds move from "00" to "01," instead of changing when the seconds move from "59" to "00."</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>