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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 3:03 pm    Post subject: TOS The Naked Time - episode #7 Reply with quote

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THE NAKED TIME (1st season; episode #7)
Directed by Marc Daniels / writer: John D.F. Black / Air Date: 09/29/66



This is the episode which is well known for scenes of Sulu, stripped to the waist, running around the ship's corridors with a sword (nearly all stills for this episode are of him). However, a few of the other actors get to shine in their roles as we learn a few new things about their characters, early in the series - this episode functioned as a 'get-to-know-the-characters' episode.



We learn that Kirk secretly yearns to walk on a beach somewhere, perhaps with Yeoman Rand; that nurse Chapel secretly yearns for Spock; that Sulu secretly yearns to be a swashbuckler; and Spock? he tends to weep a lot, in secret. A lot is revealed and I didn't look at the characters in quite the same way for awhile after viewing this episode (especially Chapel; I looked on her with a wary eye since then, waiting for the next time she might try some seduction; see Amok Time for the closest we got to that). This was a more interesting 'bottle' show than the later remake The Naked Now, on the 1st season of TNG, where it was very one-note by comparison.

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We were also introduced to crewman Riley (Bruce Hyde) in this episode, in the first of his two appearances on the show (the next was The Conscience of the King). Riley provides most of the dark humor in this episode, taking over the engine room as he succumbs to the latest space malady, a disease which removes inhibition. Hyde seemed to be a very natural performer on TV and it's a little strange that he didn't have a bigger career; I think he was more interested in playing a guitar in some small club somewhere or just hanging out. Click here - INTERVIEW WITH THE HYDE MAN - for an interview with a much older Bruce Hyde.



One thing, it's too bad Uhura did not fall victim to this - strange in that she had prolonged contact with the sweaty Sulu - that's how the disease spreads, through such social contact; the cause is altered water. The episode builds to a crescendo, as Kirk loses control of his ship and then himself. He and Spock have another intense confrontational scene. Some of the later scenes, as things build to a fevered pitch, are almost surreal. A very good early episode. BoG's Score:

9 out of 10


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Extra Trek Trivia: Another guest star in this one was Stewart Moss as a doomed crewman; only months earlier, Moss guested on an episode of Bonanza, "Ride the Wind," as a doomed Pony Express rider and which also guested DeForest Kelley and featured scenes filmed at Vasquez Rocks; Moss also guested on a later episode of TOS, By Any Other Name; some firsts in this episode: 1st shot of the Jeffries Tube, where Scotty usually has to effect some repairs; 1st mention of antimatter as a power source for the warp engines; besides Riley, the 1st appearance of nurse Chapel. This episode was designed as a 2-parter; but, the 2nd part was broken out into the separate episode, the time travel tale Tomorrow is Yesterday. The concluding scenes here, when they go several days into the past, are shown on a video screen in a late scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), a film in which early scenes revolved around time traveling several days into the past.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fun Facts for "The Naked Time" September 29, 1966. It was Written by John D.F.Black. Directed by Marc Daniels.

In Black's script it is Dr.McCoy & Scotty who accompany Mr. Spock to the Federation scientific outpost on the planet Psi 2000 and not crewman Joe Tormolen.

In the original draft Joe was to be in the Transporter Room as a member of the decontamination team greeting the returning landing party. He was to collect the environmental spacesuits (in reality, shower curtains) and was wearing one as well.

During his collection of the suits is when he has the urge to scratch his nose and removes his glove and inadvertently contaminates himself.

The scene is not logical, because anyone with training would not make such a disastrous mistake. It does work somewhat better — but not much — than having Joe do the same foolish move while down on the planet.

The sensor device Mr. Spock uses inside the scientific station is a modified Nuclear-Chicago Model 2586 "Cutie Pie" Radiation Survey Meter from the late 1950s. The device would also appear on the episodes The Enemy Within, Obsession, and The Doomsday Machine.

The frozen body of the deceased woman found at the science outpost is obviously a mannequin.

The original script had Mr. Spock in tears as a crewman painted a mustache on him, but nothing more. Leonard Nimoy met with the episode's writer to discuss redoing the scene. Nimoy felt that this would be the opportunity to have Spock reveal the pent up emotions of his half-Vulcan/human side, thus revealing that side of him.

He also felt that the painting of a mustache on Spock took away from the dignity of the character.

The writer rewrote the scene where we see Spock have a breakdown inside the Briefing Room of the Enterprise. Leonard was on to something. His fan mail increased enormously after the airing of this episode.

The Briefing Room was a redress of the ship's Rec Room.

Writer John D.F.Black considered having Sulu brandish a Samurai sword when Sulu became infected by the mysterious virus. George Takei told Black that would be a cliche and that the individuals of the 23rd century would not automatically be drawn only to things about their own native cultures and history.

George told Black that he (Takei) had grown up watching Errol Flynn as a swordsman in those classic films. Sulu would be much more likely to be drawn to that kind of sword than a Samurai sword. So the scene was changed to have Sulu as an expert with a fencing foil.

When asked if he knew how to fence, Takei said that he did.
He really did not. In order to look buff in his shirtless scenes, George Takei was doing push-ups all week every chance he could.

Majel Barrett made her first appearance as Nurse Chapel.

Nichelle Nichols would ad-lib the line "Sorry, neither," to George's scripted line calling her a "Fair maiden."

The Naked Time was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Scotty's phaser does not emit any beam as he is slicing through the bulkhead for Engineering.

The Naked Time was intended as a two-part episode, with the second part being Tomorrow Is Yesterday, due to TNT employing a time travel ploy by the Enterprise.

George Takei listed TNT as one of his favorite episodes. Gene Roddenberry listed TNT as one of his top ten Star Trek episodes.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote:
Nichelle Nichols would ad-lib the line "Sorry, neither," to George's scripted line calling her "Fair maiden."

He was to collect the environmental spacesuits (in reality shower curtains) and was wearing one as well.

They were actually surprise that the line made it past the NBC censor. Laughing

Shower curtains sewn over red cloth. William Ware Theiss was asked where he found all of the alien looking cloth for his costumes. He said that he looked at the back side of the cloth for his costumes that needed to look different, or alien.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This episode was mentioned and redone in an early TNG show called The Naked Now where the events here are brought to the command teams notice and the original cure is no longer able to save the crew of the Enterprise-D
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production. Very Happy
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~ According to William Shatner's memoirs, the scene where Spock breaks down into tears was originally supposed to have been a simple sight gag of a crewman painting a moustache on Spock. Leonard Nimoy desired a deeper scene for Spock and created the poignant interplay between Spock's human and alien halves himself. As the production day was winding down, there was time for only a single take, which Nimoy did unscripted.

Note from me: I once read that the camera's slow rotation around Spock as he sat alone in the briefing room while wracked with emotions was somewhat difficult to do, and it added to the cost of the episode.

~ After the scene where Spock is weeping, Leonard Nimoy's fan mail increased exponentially. Viewers were enthralled with the idea that Spock was secretly a reservoir of love and passion instead of an empty emotional void. This reaction inspired further scripts which explored Spock's inner makeup.

Note from me: Nimoy's inspiration and the effort the crew made to stage it certainly paid off.

~ Leonard Nimoy stated that the idea for The Naked Time came about when he started crying for no reason during a conference with the writers.

Note from me: Now let me get this straight. Nimoy got drunk before a meeting with the writers and started balling. Roddenberry came in, saw Nimoy sloshed and weepy, and demanded an explanation. The writers quickly covered for Leonard and said he was pitching a story idea.

Ya just gotta read between the lines, guys! :lo:

~ This is the only TOS episode in which the three primary female crew members — Uhura, Chapel, and Rand - appeared together. The characters did not appear together again until Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Note from me: This is amazing! I never would have guess it.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nitpickers Guide for TNT episode.

After Riley seals himself in Engineering, Scotty uses several precious minutes cutting a hole in the bulkhead in order to get to the mechanism inside which will open the Engineering door.

Wouldn't it be easier to cut open the Engineering door itself or maybe even transport into Engineering as Kirk did in "Day of the Dove?''

Item from me: I'm wondering if the doors to Engineering were impervious to phaser fire? Although no such fact is stated in any dialogue on this episode, it's the only reason I can come up with. Still, seeing phasers used to disintegrate other structures I have to question that they would be useless against this door. What could it have possibly been made of? Same thing as the hull of the Enterprise that is built to withstand such powerful weapons?

I'm also wondering if they could use a phaser on the Engineering doors, what happens if the phaser beam isn't turned off quickly enough once the door vaporizes?

Could the phaser beam possibly strike something critical inside Engineering that could cause even more problems? Could a phaser blast into the ship's engines---which have anti-matter---destroy the Enterprise?

Some simple dialogue could have cleared this all up without adding anything excessive to the budget.

Mr. Spock bumps into a graffiti artist with an insane laugh. Spock orders him to the "lab." Shouldn't Spock have ordered him to sick bay?

The establishing shot of the planet Psi 2000 shows the Enterprise orbiting the planet with the planet rotating right to left with respect to the star ship.
The scene then cuts to the bridge of the Enterprise where we see on the main viewer where we see the planet now rotating left to right.

The hood on the isolation suits is a loose-fitting affair with plenty of gaps for airborne particles to slip through.

The doors on the Enterprise automatically open for people. When Mr. Spock enters Briefing Room 2 he barely gets inside when the doors close behind him.
Spock then leans against the doors and they remain closed.

How do they know to do this instead of opening up as usual?

After cutting through the bulkhead in order to force open the Engineering doors, Scotty pulls off the panel with his bare hands. Just how fast does this bulkhead metal cool down after being subjecting to phaser fire?

Note from Me. Once Mr. Spock & Joe Tormolen beam back from the planet we see Joe ready to step off the transporter pad right away before Mr. Spock puts out his hand to stop Joe. Spock then orders the decontamination procedure which lights up the pad as Spock and Joe remain still.

Shouldn't a highly trained Starfleet officer like Joe be well aware of decontamination protocol?

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote:
After Riley seals himself in Engineering, Scotty uses several precious minutes cutting a hole in the bulkhead in order to get to the mechanism inside which will open the Engineering door.

Right. Just disintegrate the door or beam into Engineering. Clearly, those would be much better solutions. Rolling Eyes

Pow wrote:
The hood on the isolation suits is a loose-fitting affair with plenty of gaps for airborne particles to slip through.

Even worse is the fact that crewmen took off his gloves and rubbed his hands together to warm them! Not too smart . . .

Pow wrote:
The doors on the Enterprise automatically open for people. When Mr. Spock enters Briefing Room 2 he barely gets inside when the doors close behind him.

Spock then leans against the doors and they remain closed.

As I remember, this was just prior to Spock's lonely crying jag as he struggles with his emotions, a famous scene which Nimoy improvised.

Nimoy was apparently focused on his dramatic one-take performance and he forgot that leaning back against the door would (logically) cause it to open and send him tumbling backward into the corridor, cracking up the crew!

But wouldn't that look great on the gag reel!
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Pow wrote:
Once Mr. Spock & Joe Tormolen beam back from the planet we see Joe ready to step off the transporter pad right away before Mr. Spock puts out his hand to stop Joe. Spock then orders the decontamination procedure which lights up the pad as Spock and Joe remain still.

Shouldn't a highly trained Starfleet officer like Joe be well aware of decontamination protocol?

You're right, of course. But this was the same doofus who took off the glove of his hazmat suit to rub his hands together for warmth. Clearly this guy was not exactly one of Starfleet's "brightest and best". Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
Pow wrote:
After Riley seals himself in Engineering, Scotty uses several precious minutes cutting a hole in the bulkhead in order to get to the mechanism inside which will open the Engineering door.

Right. Just disintegrate the door or beam into Engineering. Clearly, those would be much better solutions. Rolling Eyes

The capacity for intra-ship beaming wasn't established until it was used as a deus ex machina in the third-season episode "Day of the Dove."

However, zapping the door does make more sense than delicately cutting through the wall to access the switch circuit. For that matter, it strains credulity that a lone deranged crewman could lock himself in Engineering and endanger the entire ship -- unless it was a hostage situation or the guy had a bomb, like Alvarez (Michael Ansara) in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote :
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The establishing shot of the planet Psi 2000 shows the Enterprise orbiting the planet with the planet rotating right to left with respect to the star ship.

The scene then cuts to the bridge of the Enterprise where we see on the main viewer where we see the planet now rotating left to right.

What?
The ENTERPRISE can't do U-Turns??????

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scotpens wrote:
The capacity for intra-ship beaming wasn't established until it was used as a deus ex machina in the third-season episode "Day of the Dove."

As I recall it was said to be a risky, dangerous procedure that had a good chance of failure.

scotpens wrote:
However, zapping the door does make more sense than delicately cutting through the wall to access the switch circuit. For that matter, it strains credulity that a lone deranged crewman could lock himself in Engineering and endanger the entire ship -- unless it was a hostage situation or the guy had a bomb, like Alvarez (Michael Ansara) in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

I could see the need to secure the engine room for security reasons, which unfortunately can work against you. This why you always have a full crew compliment in the room. It makes it harder for one crewman to take over. It could be that the doors and walls are armored for security, and cutting to access the door circuitry was the quickest way of getting in the room.

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