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* ...Sometimes, it's amazing that this series even had a ''chance'' to be as [[Growing the Beard|good as it was in season six]] with all the rampant Wall Bangers flying around in season one. |
* ...Sometimes, it's amazing that this series even had a ''chance'' to be as [[Growing the Beard|good as it was in season six]] with all the rampant Wall Bangers flying around in season one. |
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** "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Recap/S1 E2 The Naked Now|The Naked Now]]" is the supreme Wall Banger episode in the hit-and-miss first season. The inhibition-destroying disease from the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original series]] episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S1 E4 The Naked Time|The Naked Time]]" hits the ''Enterprise-D''. During the story, Dr. Crusher is somehow unable to recognize a ''dangerous disease'' with a ''known history'', nor does she find it in her medical database; but Commander Riker finds it in Kirk's archived [[Captain's Log|Captain's Logs]], which are more than 70 years old. This implies that Dr. McCoy or Starfleet Medical kept ''terrible'' records. And ''that'' is nothing when you consider that ''Data gets drunk off of the molecule!'' A sentient ''machine'', made (mostly) of metal and plastic with a positronic brain categorically different from our own, gets drunk off of a molecule that ''itself'' only causes drunkeness because of its similarity to the alcohol molecule. The whole "Riker found what Doctor Crusher didn't" is nothing compared to that. |
** "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Recap/S1 E2 The Naked Now|The Naked Now]]" is the supreme Wall Banger episode in the hit-and-miss first season. The inhibition-destroying disease from the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original series]] episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S1 E4 The Naked Time|The Naked Time]]" hits the ''Enterprise-D''. During the story, Dr. Crusher is somehow unable to recognize a ''dangerous disease'' with a ''known history'', nor does she find it in her medical database; but Commander Riker finds it in Kirk's archived [[Captain's Log|Captain's Logs]], which are more than 70 years old. This implies that Dr. McCoy or Starfleet Medical kept ''terrible'' records. And ''that'' is nothing when you consider that ''Data gets drunk off of the molecule!'' A sentient ''machine'', made (mostly) of metal and plastic with a positronic brain categorically different from our own, gets drunk off of a molecule that ''itself'' only causes drunkeness because of its similarity to the alcohol molecule. The whole "Riker found what Doctor Crusher didn't" is nothing compared to that. |
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*** [[Lampshade Hanging|Pointed out]] by the Captain and [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by Data. {{quote| |
*** [[Lampshade Hanging|Pointed out]] by the Captain and [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by Data. {{quote|'''Data''': I have pores. Humans have pores. I have fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me, do I not... leak?}} |
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**** By the way, Data ''doesn't'' leak: if you chop off his arm he has a snarl of wiring and metal "bones" — with empty gaps of air in between. And if you rip off or cut his skin, it just flaps there like wrapping paper, revealing the circuitry underneath. So the Trek writers accomplished the impressive feat of making even a handwave that didn't make sense actually contradict canon. |
**** By the way, Data ''doesn't'' leak: if you chop off his arm he has a snarl of wiring and metal "bones" — with empty gaps of air in between. And if you rip off or cut his skin, it just flaps there like wrapping paper, revealing the circuitry underneath. So the Trek writers accomplished the impressive feat of making even a handwave that didn't make sense actually contradict canon. |
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*** Not to mention the mutation that caused the disease to [[Hotter and Sexier|increase the libido of the crewmembers, or something]]. In "The Naked Time" it lowered inhibitions -- Riley, proud of his Irish ancestry, imagines himself as a old High King singing love songs; Sulu, who fancies himself a fencer, becomes one of [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]; Spock, forever forced to bury his emotional side has it come to the surface leading to him losing control and ''weeping''; Nurse Chapel admits her love to a man who can never return it; finally, Kirk, burdened by his position of Captain, breaks down and admits the enormous pressures he's under and how being around [[Love Interest|Yeoman Rand]] is painful. What happens in "The Naked Now"? "You're kinda hot, let's have sex!" |
*** Not to mention the mutation that caused the disease to [[Hotter and Sexier|increase the libido of the crewmembers, or something]]. In "The Naked Time" it lowered inhibitions -- Riley, proud of his Irish ancestry, imagines himself as a old High King singing love songs; Sulu, who fancies himself a fencer, becomes one of [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]; Spock, forever forced to bury his emotional side has it come to the surface leading to him losing control and ''weeping''; Nurse Chapel admits her love to a man who can never return it; finally, Kirk, burdened by his position of Captain, breaks down and admits the enormous pressures he's under and how being around [[Love Interest|Yeoman Rand]] is painful. What happens in "The Naked Now"? "You're kinda hot, let's have sex!" |
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