History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A Writers Strike caused the need to recycle the Original Series episode.

* CanonDiscontinuity: When the crew research the previous incident with the original ''Enterprise'', the computer shows a picture of the movie refit version rather than the TV version. This was apparently deliberate, with the production team not wanting to acknowledge the now dated look of the original TV series and always using movie-style aesthetics to mean 'old ships'. This policy changed later on in "Relics" when we finally get to see the original ''Enterprise'' bridge again.

** Though it's been noted how odd it is to have this kind of episode as just the second episode. We've just barely gotten to know these characters, so how is their acting out of character supposed to be any fun?

** Considering that Tasha is later revealed to have grown up on a hellish colony, constantly dodging rape-gangs, there might be a very ''good'' reason that she doesn't want to be reminded of the polywater intoxication turning her into ship's bicycle.

* GrammarNazi: Data pointing out to Riker that the correct term is to be "[[ThrownOutOfTheAirlock blown out]]" into space.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The ''SS Tsiolkovsky''[='s=] dedication plaques says it was manufactured in the USSR. Oops.

* [[NotHimself Not Themselves]]: Just about everybody by the end of the episode

* TheSameButMore: It's the same polywater, but it needs a stronger vaccine! It's the same problem, on a newer ''Enterprise''! (This is why a lot of fans, some of the cast known to be included, don't like this episode overmuch).

* BareYourMidriff: Possibly Tasha Yar's most famous scene in the whole series.

* FetishFuel: Gentlemen, I give you [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TR6iuvzrfdI/AAAAAAAAC2I/se_5X1lis0s/s1600/Tasha_Yar.JPG Tasha Yar.]]

* RecycledScript: Even Riker points this out

* Robosexual: Data is fully functional in every way of course, and gets to prove it at Tasha's very strong insistence.

* FetishFuel: Glemen, I give you [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TR6iuvzrfdI/AAAAAAAAC2I/se_5X1lis0s/s1600/Tasha_Yar.JPG Tasha Yar.]]

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The ''Enterprise'' comes across the science vessel ''SS Tsiolkovsky'' (which looks peculiarly like the ''USS Grissom'' from ''StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' -- apparently, TheFederation doesn't update their designs much) to find the entire crew dead. It turns out they were all acting crazy and died when someone blew the hatch. The bodies all look like the ones from the [=TOS=] episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]", Geordi finds the body of a woman who was taking a shower with her clothes on, causing him to start sweating and acting strange. Can you see where this is going? Riker does and enlists Data to look through their library to find out where he's heard about something like this before. When even the characters notice the episode is a rip-off, you know you're in trouble.

Wesley has also been infected from Geordi and inevitably the first thing he does after losing his senses is hijack the ship, using ([[{{ptitlexn9xzsjd5fif}} you guessed it]]) that recording of Picard which was [[SarcasmMode totally innocent fun]]. To make matters worse, the star whose collapse the ''Tsiolkovsky'' was supposed to be examining is starting to... well, collapse. Picard is forced to ask Captain Wesley to save the day and Wesley cheerfully decides to follow through. Wesley realizes Data can put back the command chips removed by the infected assistant chief engineer at super speed. This still doesn't give them enough time, so Wesley throws the ''Tsiolkovsky'' into the way of the core fragment with the tractor beam. By this time, the elder Crusher has developed a modified vaccine and the day has been saved.

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