- For other uses, see Blake.
Blake's disease was a medical condition.
History and specifics[]
It had no cure and afflicted more than one billion people in the Alpha sector.
In 2264, Doctor Mark Piper found a plant whose DNA looked promising as a cure for Blake's disease. The plant had three-foot-wide black leaves with a red strip down the middle. Piper found a sample two miles into the jungle from the entry to the Archernar airlock station on the world-ship Archernar IV. Unfortunately, his sample died.
In 2270, Leonard McCoy headed out with a landing party on Archernar IV to collect more samples. McCoy thought it would take a year to research and develop a cure once he had the plant in hand. Before the sample could be located, however, Crawlers captured the team. (TOS - Mission's End comic: "Issue 2")
In his Captain's log, James T. Kirk hoped McCoy would find the sample and develop a cure to Blake's disease, at it would balance the scales against 11 deaths that had occurred during the mission to Archernar IV. (TOS - Mission's End comic: "Issue 3")