Joe Tormolen

Lieutenant, junior grade Joe Tormolen was a Starfleet science officer attached to the sciences division aboard the USS Enterprise in the mid-2260s.

In 2266, Tormolen accompanied Lieutenant Commander Spock to Outpost ULAPG42821DB on Psi 2000, where the discovered that the researchers had killed themselves after undergoing polywater intoxication. During the mission, Tormolen removed the glove from his environmental suit and absentmindedly touched a console which had a drop of blood on it. He carried the polywater back to the Enterprise and gradually infected the crew.

As the infection took hold of Tormolen, he began to express doubts about his life in space and began increasingly short tempered. During a meal with Lieutenants' Hikaru Sulu and Kevin Riley in the recreation room, Tormolen stabbed himself with a knife in front of his friends and crewmates. Although, Tormolen made it into surgery in plenty of time, Doctor Leonard McCoy's attempts to rescue Tormolen failed and he died on the operating table. McCoy became dismayed that such a minor injury could have killed him, but McCoy remarked that it was as if Tormolen lost the will to live. (TOS episode/novelization: "The Naked Time").