History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow

* LampshadeHanging: The crew finds computer records that point out that this is exactly what happened in ''[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]''.

* 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 acting odd, after all).

** Apparently, Starfleet does not (and has never, and will never) utilize even the most basic hazmat protocols. While the transporters are supposed to be able to screen out biohazards, given that they don't seem to work on anything they can't ''recognize'' as a biohazard, you'd think that the crew might take at least a few extra precautionary steps to keep the ''entire ship'' from being infected, even something as simple as gloves and a facemask.

* ChekhovsGun: Wesley shows Geordi his voice recorder early on; he later uses it to take control of Engineering. In addition, the handheld TractorBeam that he plays with and turns into a repulsor beam inspires him to do something similar with the full-scale one on the ''Enterprise''.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: A serious disease that nearly caused the destruction of Kirk's ''Enterprise'', and Dr. Crusher can't find information about it in her medical database, but instead Riker had to find in Kirk's logs? It is to imply that Dr. [=McCoy=] couldn't be bothered to record the incident in his records nor pass on the information to Starfleet Medical, a preposterous idea for a doctor of [=McCoy=]'s caliber.

* ArtisticLicenseMedical: A serious disease that nearly caused the destruction of Kirk's ''Enterprise'', and Dr. Crusher can't find information about it in her medical database, but instead Riker had to find in Kirk's logs? It is to imply that Dr. [=McCoy=] couldn't be bothered to record the incident in his records nor pass in the information to Starfleet Medical, a preposterous idea for a doctor of [=McCoy=]'s caliber.

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Data recounts a limerick beginning "There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a..." as an example of strange behaviour by the crew, before being cut off by Picard calling security/

[[caption-width-right:350:"Hmm, I'm getting a really weird sense of déjà vu right now."]]

* GrammarNazi: Data pointing out to Riker that the correct term is to be "[[ThrownOutTheAirlock blown out]]" into space, not "sucked out".

** While surely not the intent of the writers at the time, Data getting intimate with Tasha Yar ends up becoming a ChekhovsGun, which fired in season 2's ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure of a Man]]''.

Dr. Crusher decides that Geordi should be confined due to his strange behavior. Naturally, Geordi is left unsupervised and unconfined, and he wanders off. Meanwhile, Wesley has decided to take recordings of Picard and [[TwistingTheWords Twist the Words]] to make it sound like he's putting Wesley in command. Geordi, of course, doesn't see any problem with this and compliments Wesley on his ingenuity. Data finds the relevant information after much difficulty (apparently Google didn't survive to the twenty-fourth century) and then the episode ends. No, of course not--this is a mutation immune to [=McCoy's=] antidote. Instead, Yar gets infected from Geordi and Troi from her. Yar becomes hot for Data and improbably infects him. Troi throws herself at Riker, who takes her to Sickbay and infects Crusher. Crusher now wants to get it on with Picard. Interesting how the infection causes the women to get horny, but not the men.

--> '''Data:''' And there was a rather peculiar limerick being delivered by someone in the shuttlecraft bay. I'm not sure I understand it. "There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a--"\\

** Data gets drunk (and he's still using contractions), Kirk and the ''Enterprise'' are treated as being obscure, and many more.

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

** Apparently, Starfleet does not (and has never, and will never) utilize even the most basic hazmat protocols. While the transporters are supposed to be able to screen out biohazards, given that they don't seem to work on anything they can't ''recognize''' as a biohazard, you'd think that the crew might take at least a few extra precautionary steps to keep the ''entire ship'' from being infected, even something as simple as gloves and a facemask.

* TooDumbToLive: Both the chief engineer and assistant chief are called away, and ''Wesley'' is left in charge over the several qualified engineers in the room. By the way, this is ''before'' the assistant chief is infected with the virus.

* LoopholeAbuse: When Data tells Tasha that Captain Picard has ordered her to report to duty, she dodges the issue by asking "Did he say when?" Data unsuccessfully tries to talk sense into her with the obvious response "I am sure he meant ''now''."

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Geordi's establishing shot was probably during his check up in sick bay, where we get a pan across the VISOR - the means by which he sees - and Geordi offers the Doctor an explanation for its purpose:
--->'''Geordi''': A remarkable piece of bioelectronic engineering by which I quote "see" much of the EM spectrum ranging from simple heat and infrared through radio waves etcetera etcetera and forgive me if I've said and listened to this a ''hundred'' times before.