I always crack up when Kirk gets in a fight, because he seems to always tear, rip or cut his shirt somehow. Can you name the episodes where Kirk gets his uniform top mangled?
Kirk's Torn Shirt
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There's already a comprehensive list of Kirk with a ripped shirt or shirtless. 
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I like in Naked Time how McCoy can just rip Kirk's jersey open to give him the shot. Clearly, Kirk's manly shoulders cannot be contained and demand to be free.
The funny thing is, in later episodes the hypospray could give an injection right through clothing. In "The Tholian Web," McCoy gives Kirk an injection of tri-ox compound through his spacesuit !
What good is a porous spacesuit?
Luckily, McCoy happened to be carrying a Mini-Transporter Medicine Delivery System (looks just like a hypo!) that day. No injection necessary.McCoy gives Kirk an injection of tri-ox compound through his spacesuit !
Yeah, right. Why didn't he do the same to Rand or Uhura? What a double standard!!!
Perhaps, William Shatner was tempted at times to change his name after the other actor who went by the name of "Rip Torn?"
I like the bit in Galaxy Quest where the Nimoy-like actor says "I see you managed to get your shirt off."
Futurama's TOS tribute episode also had some fun with the torn shirt.
Futurama's TOS tribute episode also had some fun with the torn shirt.
The late great Alan Rickman.
I liked Patterns of the Force ep when both he AND Spock are shirtlessIt seems like it wouldn't take much to rip Kirk's shirt.
I know we saw Sulu shirtless in The Naked Time. I'm trying to think, were there any episodes where Chekov, Scotty, or Bones managed to get their shirts off? I was looking on the interwebs but didn't see any visual evidence of that.
Yes, that's the one I was thinking of. Everyone else I believe got the shot through the uniform, but Bones rips Kirk's shirt to give his.
So... since there's already a reference of which episodes featured Kirk with a torn shirt, maybe we should get creative and thing of times when his shirt wasn't ripped, but should have been.
For example, on the bridge, Kirk tears his shirt off to intimidate the Balok puppet.... this is the real "Corbomite Maneuver."
Kor
For example, on the bridge, Kirk tears his shirt off to intimidate the Balok puppet.... this is the real "Corbomite Maneuver."
Kor
In "The Tholian Web," McCoy gives Kirk an injection of tri-ox compound through his spacesuit !
Using a jet injector through common cloth might still be a risky proposal. For "Tholian Web" De Kelley should have aimed for Shatner's neck once the helmet was off. It's a foregone conclusion that a jet injector would not work through gas-tight material. And aiming for his arm was hardly the most outstanding of TREK's visual shorthands.
Porous spacesuits, on the other hand, might be viable. From time to time I read something about "electrolastic" research where a plastic-like material will contract or expand when an electric current is applied. Such a material might be useful as an artificial muscle in human prosthetics, or for robotics. In the movie I, ROBOT (2004) the woven texture of the NS-5 muscles suggests such a development.
Woven into a suit, electrolastics might work as a high-tech acceleration suit. (Look, Ma, no corset!) The "plugsuits" in the anime NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (1995) are an example.
In EXO, the fourth book in Steven Gould's JUMPER series, Cent (short for Millicent) hooks up with a university researcher working on electrolastic spacesuits. Like her parents, Cent is a "jumper" who can teleport at will. The book series introduces a number of "derivative" applications for jumping. In IMPULSE (third book) Cent learns how to "fly." Before long, she is jumping to dangerously high altitudes. One of the problems the researcher has with his early spacesuit designs is producing a hole large enough for a person to fit through that will also close up properly. As a jumper, Cent has no problem teleporting straight into the relaxed prototype suit.
Many of Gould's books go into detail about some technology. For example, WILDSIDE is very extensive about flying and piloting. I'm assuming Gould did similar research for EXO, while also extrapolating from what is currently possible. I can't give any specific references, but I recall once reading that human skin would make a suitable "spacesuit" if external pressure could be maintained. Enter form-fitting electrolastics.
(People blowing up like balloons from explosive decompression—a la OUTLAND or TOTAL RECALL—is unrealistic. Dave Bowman's stunt in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is credible.)
In EXO, Cent suffers minor hickey-like skin traumas in places where the experimental suits do not fit just right. The book goes into detail about how the rest of the suit works: a re-breather-type oxygen system, UV protection, etc. Because the suit is porous—handy for radiating excess heat and moisture—the researcher warns Cent not to jump straight to orbit if her suit is wet, as the sudden evaporation would freeze her.
How credible is this? I haven't researched the technology in detail, although electrolastic suits have been in sci-fi for many years.
Is it possible that the spacesuit had a port specifically for shooting a hypospray through?
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