ST: TOS: The Naked Time

Enter the ever so famous plot where the crew unexplainable becomes foolish, giggly, and otherwise intoxicated. I believe every series after this one has taken advantage of this clever plot. I enjoy it because it's exciting, light hearted and it shows that future spacefaring species can have a little fun too.

It starts off with an away team beaming down to a planets surface to examine the remaining crew of a space station. I first noticed the elaborate stitching pattern on the encounter suits they used. I suppose interlocking circles will help prevent the spread of any noxious or contaminating debris. That is, unless you foolishly remove your glove...

The resulting remainder of the episode involves various characters running around, apparently drunk off whatever it was they came in contact with on the planet. Most notably was when Sulu and the other helmsman we sweating profusely on the bridge. Sulu then get up, puts his arm round the back of the chair of the other helmsman and seductively asks if he wants to go to the "gym".

Things get worse when more crewmen start to feel the effects of the intoxication. There's singing, dancing, and Sulu galloping around half naked with a fencing foil quoting early earth prose. the are some who have not felt the effects of this drunkenness. It's apparent that hey have no idea how to deal with these people when Spock tells one crewman to head to sickbay, unaccompanied. Did he make it to sickbay? No.

I think the moral of the story I took away from this episode is, if people just drank a little more of that Saurian Brandy they keep mentioning, they might know how to better deal with drunken crewmen.