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The Star Trek episode " The Naked Time " features polywater that is capable of infecting and spreading like a virus, collecting carbon from bloodstreams and affecting the brain similarly to ingested ethanol.

Infected victims start sweating profusely at first, then lose their inhibitions, acting as though as they have been intoxicated.

This plotline was later revisited in the spinoff series Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode " The Naked Now.

" The treatment worked out in " The Naked Time " proved to be ineffective in " The Naked Now ," forcing a reformulation.