Stardate: 17.04.2 - 17.04.4 (but they also go back in time 3 days)

Original airdate: 9/29/1966

Writer: John F. D. Black

Director: Marc Daniels

Guest stars:

Bruce Hyde              Lt. Kevin Riley (Nagigator)spreds the disease to Nurse    Chapel in sick bay)

Stewart Moss            (Lt.) Joe Tormolen (Science dept., subordinate to Mr.    Spock. picks up the disease then he takes off his    glove. Spreds the disease to Sulu and Riley in the    rec. room. He kills himself with a kitchen knife and    the loss of the will to live.

John Bellah             Dr. Harrison, biopsy lab (voice only? or was he the    fellow assisting Dr. McCoy in the exam room?

Crew Appearances:
Kirk, Spock (possibly the one who gave Kirk the disease), McCoy

Scotty

Nurse Christine Chapel (who gets the disease from Riley and gives it to Mr. Spock when she declairs her love for him)

Yeoman Rand

Sulu (who possibly gives the disease to Kirk)

Lt. Brend? relieves Uhura at the navagation console

Lt. Hand? takes the helm after Sulu departs
 

Story:

Sent to pick up a research team, and observe the break up of Psi 2000. The Enterprise finds the scientists dead, under mysterious circumstances. Lt. Joe Tormolen brings aa disease back to the crew, forcing suppressed emotions to surface. The disease is spred through direct contact with an infected person's perspiration which changes water into a complex molecule acting like alcohol in the human blood stream. Sulu becomes a modern day D'Artagnan fancying himself as a 18th C. swashbuckler.  Lt. Kevin Riley envisions himself as a decendant of Irish kings and under the influence, shuts down the engines. Spock and Kirk are also affected. Spock cries, admitting that he felt ashamed of his earth blood, on a planet (Vulcan) where emotion is concidered bad taste. Kirk's deepest fear surfaces. He fears losing the Enterprise and would do anything to save 'Her'. In one of the series most powerful scenes, they help each other overcome their inner fears. Kirk races against time before the ship is pulled into the disintegrating planet. Mr. Spock employs the 'intermix formula' that is the theoretical relationship between time and antimatter, called a controlled implosion, to restart the engines by imploding cold matter and antimatter. This has been theory only up to now and they risk going up in a firefall if done wrong. They risk all and go back in time 3 days before any of this happened.

Factoids:

Psi 2000: an ancient world about to rip apart. Earth's future becasue before its sun went dark it was remarkably similar to earth.

Spock uses the vulcan neck pinch on Sulu

McCoy uses the medical instantantious injector device to "psssst"the antitoxin

the instrument (unnamed) Spock uses to gather data on Psi 2000 looks like a Pringle Chip can. :O LOL!

Spock physiology:  pulse 242,BP "practically non existant", green ice water blood. But Chapel states that he is "part human" too. (I've always wondered, Which Part??)

Quotes:

"You dont out rank me and you dont have pointed ears, so get off my neck"
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"Richeleu, beware!"
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"Take D'Artagnon, here, to sick bay." (classic!)
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"Now, crew, I will render 'Kathleen'. ONE MORE TIME!"
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"I am in control of my emotions"  (yeah, right:)
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"No dance tonight."
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"No beach to walk on"
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Moral:  dont take off your gloves on a frozen planet

Question:  if they went back in time 3 days, is Tormolen alive now?