Star Trek episode "The Naked Time"

"The Naked Time"

Season one, episode 4

Another space virus. It's amazing how that is very often the answer to many Star Trek episodes--a space virus.

It is hard sometimes to remember that this being one of the early episodes, that they have to go through these space viruses. It is amazing how they mention undergoing "decontamination" after visiting a starbase where everybody died mysteriously, trying to find the cause. Wouldn't decontamination be standard procedure? It would be after the first one I ever encountered as a starship captain.

Anyway, this one has 3D chess, and 3D checkers too!

Lt. Kevin Riley is featured again.

One crewman dies, Joe Something, the idiot that took off his glove at the contaminated starbase and ended up infecting everybody.

This episode also sees a crying Spock because of the virus.

Also, this episode features what appears to me, the first formula for a time warp--is it the same one the crew use again in Star Trek IV to save the whales?

This is also the direct precursor episode to The Next Generation season one episode "The Naked Now" in which Data and Tasha Yar get cozy with each other--somehow proving to people that Data was "fully functional." (Why anybody needed to know that is beyond me.)