Product Details

• Actors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden
• Directors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Gabrielle Beaumont, Robert Becker, Cliff Bole
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: May 31, 1995
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302105838
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,313 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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"The Naked Now" is a must-own for all TNG fans. Who cares if it's basically a retread of the original series' "Naked Time" or that it breaks out every Star Trek cliché in the book? This episode lays the groundwork for fundamental relationship story lines that take seven years to unfold. Thanks to some nasty alcoholic space bug, the crew of the Enterprise-D loses all inhibition and has a good ol' time. See Picard and Doctor Bev get hot and heavy. Watch in awe when Troi asks Riker "Don't you want to be alone with me in your mind?" Find out what "fully functional" really means whether you want to or not. Of course, all good things must come to an end. (Un)fortunately, Dr. Crusher finds a cure and Wesley saves the day. "Naked Now" is so joyously and transcendentally bad, it's good. A number one guilty pleasure among TNG fans everywhere. --Kayla Riggney

From the Back Cover

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the new Starship Enterprise return in this action-packed episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

What would cause the crew members of a research vessel to party with wild abandon and then voluntarily blow open the air locks of their ship, killing themselves? While investigating this mystery, Geordi (LeVar Burton) contracts a deadly virus which spreads through the Enterprise, promoting symptoms of promiscuity and intoxication among the crew and imperiling the ship.

Can Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) find an antidote - before it's too late?

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fully Functional Guilty Pleasure, February 20, 2000

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This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 3: The Naked Now [VHS] (VHS Tape)

All TNG fans have one, and this is mine. "The Naked Now" is my big, huge, titanic TNG Guilty Pleasure. (And yes, I'm well-aware it's basically TOS "Naked Time" in a TNG suit.)

This episode is known for one thing and one thing only: Data has sex with Tasha. This act (which takes place off-screen) is so monumental that an entire fandom is built around its singular occurence. We're talking this is the one where we find out just what the term "fully functional" actually MEANS.

In short, everybody on the Enterprise is "intoxicated" by some sort of space disease that makes them lose control and do all sorts of things their sickeningly goody-goody selves secretly want to do but repress. Picard and Crusher get all het up. Wesley takes over the ship. Troi babbles about being One with Riker's Mind. (Why? I don't know. The man is as dumb as a box of rocks.) And, of course, Data and Tasha do the Wild Thing. The Enterprise is then threatened by a Deadly Situation -- the nature of which is so inane it escapes me -- and Crusher races against time to find a cure for the intoxication before the ship explodes or the pan comes for them or something. She finds the cure just in the nick of time and Wesley saves the day. Of course. Then, repressed and back to normal, Tasha says to Data: "It Never Happened."

Sure, sociologists write about "Naked Now" in clinical terms but we all know why they REALLY watch it.

A must-own for all Data fans.

Whenever I need a dose of Star Trek Therapy, I plug "Naked Now" into the VCR and watch the entire crew of the Enterprise go gonzo. Makes me see just how in control my life actually IS.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Episode Quite a crowd pleaser., May 14, 2001

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This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 3: The Naked Now [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the second episode of TNG's first season making it the Second episode of the series. Officially is is listed as episode 3 because the pilot episode was a 2 part or "double" episode.

This episode is a spin-off of the TOS episode "The Naked Time" Basically the same type of thing happens. In this episode the Enterprise meets up with the U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky, in observing a star that is about to go nova (Named after the great Russian physicist and rocket scientist, Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky if you look closely you will notice that one of the plaques on the ship is written in Russian) The crew is acting in a strange manner. They then, in their drunken-like state blow out the hatch, decompressing much of the ship. The Enterprise crewbeams over to find the ship is a mess. The entire crew is dead, there are clothes strewn all over the corridors, naked people in one of the crew quarters with the environmental controls set to a winter-like condition. One crew member is found in a shower stall fully-clothed. The Enterprise crew returns to their ship and the ship is contaminated.

The Transporter's Bio filter and decontamination is unable to filter out the contaminant. It is a set of water-based molecules that are in a chemical like state that when passed on to a human, will affect the human body like alcohol. Now eventually the whole crew becomes "drunk", the star is about to go nova at any minute and the ship's controls have been taken over by Wesley!

This is a great episode and in it we leard about Data's full functionality. and the "multiple techniques" he is programmed with. The documenatry "Trekkies goes into this as well"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely the best and funniest of Season 1, May 5, 2002

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This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 3: The Naked Now [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This episode is based on "The Naked Time", an Original Series show about the Psi 2000 virus. It all starts when the USS Enterprise is distracted by a series of distress calls from the S.S. Tsiokovsky, indicating something has gone wrong aboard that starship. When Geordi touches a frozen woman on that ship, he brings back an undetected virus that spreads at a rapid rate, and soon the crew have to fight their mischevious side and rescue the ship from a chunk of a star's surface. Will they make it?

You'll find the answer to this question and many more if you watch this exciting episode.