STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Season 1, Episode 3

The Naked Now

Series: The Next Generation - (1987-1994)
Season: 1
Episode #: 1.03
Production #: 40271-103
Original Airdate: 10/05/1987

Writer(s): John D. F. Black and J. Michael Bingham
Director(s): Paul Lynch

Guest Stars
Brooke Bundy as Lieutenant Commander Sarah MacDougal
Benjamin W.S. Lum as Assistant Engineer Jim Shimoda
Michael Rider as Transporter Chief
David Renan as Conn
Skip Stellrecht as Engineering Crewman
Kenny Koch as Kissing Crewman

Uncredited Guest Stars
Michael Bailous as Sciences Officer
James G. Becker as Ensign Youngblood
Darrell Burris as an Operations Division Officer
Dexter Clay as a Security Officer
Jeffrey Deacon as a Command Division Officer
Nora Leonhardt as a Science Division Ensign
Tim McCormack as Ensign Bennett
Lorine Mendell as Lt. Diana Giddings
Richard Sarstedt as a Command Division Officer

Stardate: 41209.2

Synopsis

The U.S.S. Enterprise and crew are summoned to investigate strange occurrences aboard the starship U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky, which has been monitoring the collapse of a red-orange star.

Once aboard the troubled research vessel, the away team finds a ship littered with food, wine, discarded clothes, several frozen bodies and no survivors.

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Unknowingly, Geordi energizes back aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise carrying a contagious, deadly contaminant that begins to infect the entire Starfleet crew, making them feel and act as if they were intoxicated and mentally unstable.

While Dr. Crusher searches for an antidote, chaos erupts when Wesley takes control of the ship.

Finally, Lieutenant Commander Data and Chief Engineer MacDougal, fighting the effects of the ailment, manage to get control of the ship. While Dr. Crusher administers the remedy to the mysterious contaminant, the crew, with Wesley's assistance, diverts the ship from further danger when a piece of the star's surface breaks off and heads directly toward the U.S.S. Enterprise. Captain Picard commends his crew for a job well done.

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