- The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.
- When Lieutenant Junior Grade Tormolen brings aboard an infection that killed the science team on Psi 2000, the crew of the Enterprise soon find themselves unable to control their most pre-dominant emotions. Soon the entire starship is in a shambles and plummeting toward the self destructing planet.—The TV Archaeologist
- On a mission to pick up a scientific party, all the Enterprise crew find on the frozen planet are dead bodies. Mr. Spock and crewman Joe Tormolen beam down to the planet and Tormolen acquires a strange virus. It quickly spreads among the crew who begin to act irrationally. The virus affects the crew's judgment and self-control, much as would be the case if they were drunk. When Lt. Riley takes control of engineering, the Enterprise begins a slow descent into the planet's atmosphere. With Kirk also infected, it's left to Scotty and Spock to re-start the ship's cold engines.—garykmcd
- 2 crewmen (Spock and Tormolen) from Enterprise beam down PSI 2000 to pick up a scientific crew before the planet collapses. PSI 2000 is a frozen wasteland that is about to rip apart. Enterprise mission was to pick up the scientific crew and to observe the disintegration of the planet But the crew finds everyone frozen to death (with life support systems turned off) and one person taking a bath fully clothed. Tormolen picks an infection from the planet by being careless with his gear. He was having trouble operating an instrument and hence removed his gloves momentarily and touched surfaces in the laboratory with his bare hands, which was enough for the infection to find its way through.
Spock and Tormolen are beamed back up, and the ship remains in orbit to take measurements as the planet breaks apart. Aboard the ship, Tormolen gets manic depressive (he says that 6 people were dead, and they didn't have a care in the world before they killed themselves) and tries to kill himself (he was already picking fights with everybody on the ship), in the process cutting his skin and spreading the infection to other crew members as well. The infection spreads with contact to the skin. Tormolen dies from his injuries which puzzles McCoy as the injuries were superficial and yet nothing McCoy did could revive him. The only reason he died was because he didn't want to live.
The Planet begins to collapse and the helm needs to react quickly to maintain the ships distance from the planet, saving it from sudden magnetic field and gravity spikes. Both the helmsmen were involved in saving Tormolen and now show casual behavior and desert their posts. Spock notices too late and orders other crew members to control the helm of the ship.
A strange, intoxicating infection, which lowers the crew's emotional inhibitions, spreads throughout the Enterprise. As the madness spreads, the entire ship is endangered. The planet's mass shrinks further, which pulls the Enterprise towards it The infected crewmen have taken over the Engine bay and locked Scotty out. From there Helmsman O'Reily has taken control of the entire ship, including communications. Kirk orders Scotty to cut through the walls to get to him. Helmsman Sulu (who was captured by Kirk and Spock) is in sickbay, with McCoy running tests on him. There are 20 mins left before the Enterprise enters the planet's atmosphere and total destruction. Spock is infected by nurse Catherine (who insists that she loves him) and locks himself in his room
Kirk and Scotty break into the engine room to find O'Reily has shut the engines down. He needs 30 mins to fire them up. The ship has 8 mins before it burns up. Kirk wants Spock to help him cold start the engines with an implosion, which has never been done before. Kirk also catches the infection, while McCoy finds the antidote serum. McCoy figures that somehow the planet's water changed to a complex chain of molecules. It passes from man to man through perspiration. Once in the bloodstream it acts like alcohol and depresses the center for judgment Kirk goes to Spock's room and slaps him several times to get Spock to take control of his senses. Spock says there is an intermix formula to cold start the engines based on relationship between anti-matter and time. Spock and Scotty work on the formula and fire up the engines. The formula works, but the engine output is very high and ship accelerates beyond the speed of light, the speed it now travelling back in time.. Kirk and Spock make a note of it, as they regressed by 71 hrs and hope to use this someday
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