History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow

'''Picard:''' Captain to security! Come in!

* HumansThroughAlienEyes: When Captain Picard cuts off Data repeating an obscene limmerick being broadcast from the shuttle bay, Worf chalks it up to more wacky human humor that he understands about as much as Data.

* FailedFutureForecast: The SS ''Tsiolkovsky'''s dedication plaque says it was manufactured in the USSR. Oops.

* BareYourMidriff: Tasha Yar, to such a degree she displays everything from hipbones to {{Underboobs}}. Wow.

* {{Fanservice}}: Tasha Yar and her [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TR6iuvzrfdI/AAAAAAAAC2I/se_5X1lis0s/s1600/Tasha_Yar.JPG outfit]].

* MaleGaze: The camera zooms in right on Tasha's ass during her SexyWalk.

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

* SexyBacklessOutfit: Tasha Yar, again.

** Kirk and the ''Enterprise'' are treated as being obscure.

** Troi refers to Riker as "Bill." He's only ever referred to as such in this episode and "[[StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E10Haven Haven]]", otherwise it's always "Will".

** Troi refers to Riker as "Bill." He's only ever referred to as such in this episode and "Haven", other wise it's always "Will".

** Troi refers to Riker as "Bill." It's "Will" Riker from here on out, and for ever [[{{Pun}} will]] be.

* SpaceIsCold: Yar mentions that most of the crew of the ''Tsiolkovsky'' froze to death after someone disabled the environmental controls, allowing the heat on the ship to "bleed out into space". In reality, given that they're so close to a star (even a red dwarf, one of the colder types of star), the actual result would have been the crew dying of heatstroke.

* ShoutOut: Among the tools Riker asks for when trying to break into engineering is [[Series/DoctorWho a Sonic Driver]].

* {{Underboobs}}: Tasha Yar out-of-uniform outfit has a belly window that leaves the underside of her breath exposed.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Data and Tasha Yar having sex together while intoxicated. After they were cured, Tasha tells Data that the whole thing never happened.

* PeekABooCorpse: Geordi gets his infection from one.

* ReadyForLovemaking: Tasha Yar
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A Writers Strike caused the need to recycle the Original Series episode. Why they decide to recycle this ''specific'' episode is still a mystery (there were plenty of options that didn't rely on discredited scientific concepts or the characters you know- or have just started getting to know, acting odd, after all).

** Tractor beam technology in this episode is initially only able to pull, not push, until Wesley invents a new technique to make the tractor beam bidirectional. One wonders why this is considered a new invention since in the original series, set nearly a century prior, the tractor beam already had this capability. Apparently the Federation lost the technology somewhere in-between ''[[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais Who Mourns For Adonais]]'' and this episode.

* {{Underboobs}}: Tasha Yar, ''again.''
* {{Vaporwear}}: Tasha Yar. That outfit has the least amount of cloth possible to make a wrap out of; it's clear there's nothing under it. Fully justified, as it's something she threw on between partners in a marathon sex session.

** Data gets drunk (and is still using contractions), Kirk and the ''Enterprise'' are treated as being obscure, and many more.
** Troi refers to Riker as "Bill." It's "Will" Riker from here on out, and for ever [[PunnyName Will]] be.
** Data's explanation of how the virus can affect him is the clearest artifact of the original conception that he was actually more of a cyborg with several organic components.

* {{Fanservice}}: Tasha Yar and her [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7SVSAcj5xz4/TR6iuvzrfdI/AAAAAAAAC2I/se_5X1lis0s/s1600/Tasha_Yar.JPG outfit.]]

** ''Every'' female character is turned into one. Some fans have naturally taken issue with how this was apparently the only thing the writers could come up with to show any of them acting weird.

Sadly, unlike many of the finer episodes of the show, our description is better than the work itself. Trust us on this one!

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The SS ''Tsiolkovsky'''s dedication plaque says it was manufactured in the USSR. Oops.

** Also a matter of TruthInTelevision. Alcohol intoxication reduces testosterone production in men, leading to an eventual inability to perform. In women, however, it actually increases testosterone production, which in turn ramps up their sex drives. The combination of reduced inhibitions and an increased sex drive is the source of the idea that women become looser when they're drunk.

* BareYourMidriff: Tasha Yar, to such a degree she displays everything from hipbones to {{Underboob}}. Wow.

* BareYourMidriff: Tasha Yar. Wow.

** Troi refers to Riker as "Bill." It's "Will" Riker from here on out, and for ever [[SarcasmMode Will]] be.

** Troi refers to Riker as "Bill."

* IdiotBall: When Wesley barricades himself in Main Engineering, using his portable tractor beam to forcefield the door, the Chief Engineer has to go through a complicated process to cut power to his device. No one thinks to just grab a phaser and melt the unprotected glass.

* {{Retcon}}: The ''Enterprise'' looking like the movie version has already been mentioned, but the episode also changed polywater from "The Naked Time's" form of water (as the then-cutting edge scientific concept of polywater said it was) to a kind of virus which for unexplained reasons is called polywater (as polywater had turned out to not actually be possible in the early '70s).
** Tractor beam technology in this episode is initially only able to pull, not push, until Wesley invents a new technique to make the tractor beam bidirectional. One wonders why this is considered a new invention since in the original series, set nearly a century prior, the tractor beam already had this capability. Apparently the Federation lost the technology somewhere in-between ''Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais'' and this episode.