OEG TNG-The Naked Now

[SapphireFox]

The latest offering from our favorite opinionated reviewer

[Marcus Aurelius]

This episode is like a piece of pornographic fan fiction, albeit of course without any explicit pornography. Even the implied Data & Yar sex scenes are something the fans probably would have come up at some point, so they just decided to do them pre-emptively. Fully functional indeed. I still think Picard should have "made it so" with the good doctor, though. Maybe it would have loosened him up a little, which was desperately needed in Seasons 1-2

[Srelex]

This was really the second episode? Wow. I guess poor Gene must have ticked the wrong box somewhere. I'll confess that I like watching this episode purely for the camp factor. Fully functional indeed.

[Juubi Karakuchi]

If we want Wesley to lose for a change, I suggest 'The First Duty', in which he is shown to be capable of failure (though it's actually the fault of Tom Paris, albeit with a different name).

[Thanas]

This episode is like a piece of pornographic fan fiction, albeit of course without any explicit pornography. Even the implied Data & Yar sex scenes are something the fans probably would have come up at some point, so they just decided to do them pre-emptively. Fully functional indeed. I still think Picard should have "made it so" with the good doctor, though. Maybe it would have loosened him up a little, which was desperately needed in Seasons 1-2

This.

[TOSDOC]

(though it's actually the fault of Tom Paris, albeit with a different name).

Yeah, why did they change that up? It should have been the same character, just as Ensign Sito appeared in a later episode of TNG. It was a nice plausible backstory for the character anyway.

[Uraniun235]

Last I heard it was a royalties issue - something along the lines of having to pay the writer of that episode for every appearance of the character.

[Baffalo]

Yes of course. They'll sue your ass off if you try and steal from them, but they won't shell out a dime more than they have to. Damned communists, the lot of them. Well, more like socialism since they want to control everything but let other people do all the work.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Exactly. If they wanted 'Nick Locarno' on Voyager then the writer who created the character would have gotten a check every episode. I think they retconned it to Tom attending the academy under a fake name so that he could be a regular cadet and not get special treatment. There's even an ep of Voyager that shows Admiral Paris' office with a picture of Tom on the desk, and its a screenshot from the TNG episode.

[Eframepilot]

Exactly. If they wanted 'Nick Locarno' on Voyager then the writer who created the character would have gotten a check every episode. I think they retconned it to Tom attending the academy under a fake name so that he could be a regular cadet and not get special treatment. There's even an ep of Voyager that shows Admiral Paris' office with a picture of Tom on the desk, and its a screenshot from the TNG episode.

I don't think the fake name explanation is canon, but it's a decent fanwank explanation. Better than having two identical Starfleet cadets with near-identical backstories in the same time period.