Star Trek: The Naked Time

The starship Enterprise arrives in orbit around a planet on the verge of collapse and finds the survey team working there dead, all seemingly having gone mad. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, one member of the crew brings the cause of the insanity back aboard the starship with him. It spreads ...more

"The Naked Time" was the episode in which the original Star Trek series started to take on some real substance in terms of character development, as well as marking the first use of one plot device that would reappear a little too frequently in various scripts that followed. It is the story that first brings into focus the fine line that both Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock must walk, each for his own reasons, in balancing their emotions and their devotion to duty, as well as the various ...more