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["", "\u0000\u0000\u0000", "STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION", "\"The Naked Now\"", "#40271-103", "Teleplay by", "D.C. Fontana", "Story by", "D.C. Fontana", "and", "Gene Roddenberry", "Based on a story by John D.F. Black", "(May 12, 1967)", "Copyright 1987 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights", "Reserved.", "This script is not for publication or reproduction. No one", "is authorized to dispose of same. If lost or destroyed,", "please notify the Script Department.", "REVISED FINAL DRAFT", "June 26, 1987", "STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION", "\"The Naked Now\"", "CAST", "PICARD", "SARAH MACDOUGAL", "RIKER", "JIM SHIMODA", "DATA", "CREWMAN (2)", "TROI", "CREWWOMAN", "BEVERLY", "SECURITY GUARD", "TASHA", "TRANSPORTER CHIEF", "WORF", "CONN", "GEORDI", "WESLEY", "STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION", "\"The Naked Now\"", "SETS", "INTERIORS", "EXTERIORS", "U.S.S. ENTERPRISE", "(all opticals)", "Main Bridge", "Transporter Room", "Crusher's Office", "Sickbay", "Various Corridors", "Engineering", "Engineer's Office", "Tasha's Quarters", "Troi's Quarters", "S.S. TSIOLKOVSKY", "Main Corridor", "Second Corridor", "Bridge", "Personnel Quarters", "Bathroom", "Lab", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION", "\"The Naked Now\"", "TEASER", "FADE IN:", "1", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)", "racing through space at warp speed.", "PICARD (V.O.)", "Captain's log, Stardate 41209.2.", "We are running at Warp 7 to", "rendezvous with the science vessel", "S. S. Tsiolkovsky...", "2", "FULL ON WHITE DWARF (OPTICAL)", "with the S.S. Tsiolkovsky in orbit. Then the Enterprise", "appears and moves in to join the research vessel.", "PICARD (V.O.)", "(continuing)", "... which has been routinely", "monitoring the collapse of a red", "supergiant star into a white", "dwarf. What has brought us here", "is a series of strange messages", "indicating something has gone", "wrong aboard the research vessel.", "3", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE (OPTICAL)", "All regulars on duty -- Data at Ops, Geordi at Conn, Tasha", "and Worf upstage intent on main viewer which shows the", "Enterprise moving in parallel with the research vessel.", "First, a STATIC GARBLE, then a WOMAN'S VOICE over the", "audio channel, low and insinuating. INDISTINCT VOICES,", "LAUGHTER, IN B.G. indicate the SOUNDS OF A NOISY PARTY.", "WOMAN'S COM VOICE", "Well, hello Enterprise.", "Welcome... I hope you have a lot", "of pretty boys on board... because", "I'm willing... and waiting...", "They wait for more, then Picard nods toward Data.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "2.", "3", "CONTINUED:", "DATA", "(touches com panel)", "S.S. Tsiolkovsky, repeat your", "message.", "WOMAN'S COM VOICE", "(laughter, then)", "In fact... we're going to have a", "real blowout here... Thought that", "would interest you. Waiting!", "She LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY. There is MORE LAUGHTER FROM", "THE OTHERS, some cries of \"DO IT! GO AHEAD!\" in b.g.", "of the transmission, an EXPLOSIVE SOUND -- and then", "silence. After a beat:", "DATA", "Captain... what we just heard is,", "well...impossible.", "PICARD", "Report.", "DATA", "(quietly)", "I believe that last sound we heard", "was an emergency hatch being", "blown.", "The subspace channel is still open -- all we HEAR is", "the HISS OF EMPTY AIR.", "PICARD", "Are you certain... yes, of course", "you are.", "Riker comes to his feet fast, gets a nod from Picard,", "motions for Data, Geordi and Tasha to follow him to the", "turbolift.", "WORF", "Sensor scan now reveals no life", "signs aboard, Captain.", "4", "INT. TRANSPORTER ROOM - ANGLE ON AWAY TEAM (OPTICAL)", "The away team consists of RIKER, GEORDI, DATA, TASHA,", "and a SECURITY GUARD. Data and Geordi have tricorders;", "Tasha has the large phaser.", "RIKER", "Put us on their bridge, Chief.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "3.", "4", "CONTINUED:", "TRANSPORTER CHIEF", "Life support systems are not", "functioning in that area, sir.", "Riker nods to the TRANSPORTER CHIEF at the console.", "RIKER", "Then put us in the main corridor.", "Energize.", "The Transporter Chief works his console controls deftly.", "As the TRANSPORTER EFFECT AND SOUNDS BEGIN AND BUILD:", "5", "INT. TSIOLKOVSKY MAIN CORRIDOR - ON AWAY TEAM (OPTICAL)", "The TRANSPORTER EFFECT COMES IN, FADES DOWN, leaving", "the away team materialized. The ship is very quiet --", "a low HUM of working equipment, but without the murmur", "of living beings.", "RIKER", "Cover the ship as planned. Move", "out.", "Data and Geordi put tricorders on \"record\" and all move", "out.", "6", "INT. SECOND CORRIDOR - ON RIKER AND DATA (OPTICAL)", "This corridor shows signs of phaser char marks on the", "walls. There is litter on the deck -- food, a wine", "bottle, discarded clothes. Data records the scene with", "his tricorder, as:", "DATA", "Indications of what humans would", "call... a \"wild party?\"", "Riker has moved quickly to a door at the end of the", "corridor. It is shut, but there is a small viewscreen", "set in the wall beside it.", "RIKER", "Their bridge. If this thing", "works, be sure to record ---", "He activates the viewscreen, takes a look, and GROANS.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "4.", "7", "CLOSE SHOT - SMALL VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)", "Narrow view of a small bridge (SET FRAGMENT), mostly", "consoles, maybe a command chair. And beyond these, the", "emergency hatch set in the bulkhead -- the hatch is", "gone, and the cold glitter of a starfield winks beyond", "it. (SET DRESSING NOTE: There should be no loose", "objects visible, only items that are firmly anchored", "to deck or bulkhead. Anything loose would have been", "swept into space when the air rushed out into the", "vacuum.)", "8", "WIDER SHOT - RIKER AND DATA", "Riker steps aside, gesturing to Data to record the scene", "on the viewer as:", "RIKER", "You were right. Somebody blew", "the hatch and they were all sucked", "out into space..", "DATA", "Correction, sir, blown out.", "RIKER", "Thank you, Data.", "DATA", "A common mistake, sir...", "RIKER", "(emphasis)", "I know! Thank you, Data.", "TASHA'S COM VOICE", "Commander Riker, it's Lieutenant", "Yar, location Engineering. Ten", "people here, sir, all frozen.", "No vital signs.", "RIKER", "(touches communicator)", "Frozen how?", "TASHA'S COM VOICE", "Looks to me like someone was", "\"playing\" with the environmental", "controls, sir. Just let all the", "heat bleed away into space.", "RIKER", "(to Data)", "That's ridiculous!", "TASHA'S COM VOICE", "That's what I say, sir.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "5.", "9", "INT. PERSONNEL QUARTERS - ANGLE ON ENTRY DOOR", "as it opens heavily and causes a slight AIR HISSING.", "Geordi ENTERS from the corridor, reacts to the AIR", "HISSING, hits a wall control on the inside. His", "expression changes to one of dismay as he looks around.", "10", "ANOTHER ANGLE", "CAMERA ANGLE REVEALS a room partially covered with", "frost. We glimpse several male and female bodies,", "scantily clad or (implied) nude, possibly a couple", "entwined. All are frozen and dead. Bits of frost-covered", "lingerie and other intimate clothing are", "scattered around. Geordi touches his insignia.", "GEORDI", "Sir, Lieutenant La Forge in the", "crew quarters. Something in here.", "11", "BACK TO GEORDI", "as he HEARS A SOUND, the BUMP BUMP of a door bumping", "against the jamb. Geordi hurries across the small room", "toward the adjoining bathroom.", "GEORDI", "(continuing)", "Hello!", "12", "INT. BATHROOM - ANGLE ON GEORDI", "Nothing inside, Geordi decides to check the closed", "shower stall, yanks the door open -- and a frozen", "WOMAN'S BODY, fully clothed, falls out into his arms.", "Although startled, Geordi has the presence of mind to", "catch the ice-covered corpse and lower it to the floor.", "13", "CLOSER ON GEORDI", "Examining the frozen woman who had once been attractive,", "shakes his head in pity. He rests one hand on the wet", "side wall of the shower to brace himself as he prepares", "to stand upright again.", "14", "VERY CLOSE ON GEORDI'S HAND AND \"DROPS\" (INSERT))", "Several drops of \"water\" on the icy shower wall where", "Geordi's hand rests coalesce and move onto his", "hand (per Justman effect).", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "6.", "15", "INT. TSIOLKOVSKY MAIN CORRIDOR - EMPHASIZING RIKER", "as he uses his communicator.", "RIKER", "Riker to Captain, I have a report", "for you.", "16", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - CLOSE ON PICARD", "Worf at Ops (port) and crewman at Conn (starboard).", "PICARD", "(tabs com control)", "Picard here.", "RIKER'S COM VOICE", "They're all dead, sir. Some were", "apparently blown out the emergency", "hatches.", "PICARD", "There were eighty people on that", "ship, Number One.", "RIKER'S COM VOICE", "Yes sir. As I said, all dead.", "Picard looks incredulous.", "FADE OUT.", "END OF TEASER", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "7.", "ACT ONE", "FADE IN:", "17", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "The Tsiolkovsky still drifts in space. The Enterprise", "is nearby. Over this:", "PICARD (V.O.)", "Captain's log, supplemental. We", "are downloading the research", "information gathered on the", "collapsing...", "18", "CLOSE ANGLE ON DWARF STAR (OPTICAL)", "looking somehow strange, unstable, although we'd see", "no surface movement at this range.", "PICARD (V.O.)", "(continuing)", "... star nearby. I am concerned", "at being in such close orbit, but", "the Tsiolkovsky's research", "records...", "19", "INT. ENTERPRISE MEDICAL CORRIDOR", "with Picard striding toward Dr. Crusher's office.", "PICARD (V.O.)", "(continuing)", "... will no doubt predict the time", "of the star's final collapse.", "20", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY, PICARD AND TROI", "Beverly is examining information as it comes up on a", "desktop viewer. (NOTE: We see only the back of the", "viewer and the flicker of light on her face as the", "information changes.) Troi is there too, also watching", "the screen.", "Picard ENTERS, strides over to examine the viewing", "screen too.", "BEVERLY", "I can't find anything unusual in", "any of the tricorder readings", "they've sent over, Captain.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "8.", "20", "CONTINUED:", "Picard straightens up, and Beverly turns around to look", "at him.", "PICARD", "Give me a theory, Doctor.", "Anything!", "Beverly's silence is eloquent. She shakes her head,", "her face has a worried look.", "PICARD", "(turning; continuing)", "Troi? Did you feel anything from", "over there?", "TROI", "Perhaps some residual", "confusion... and exhilaration, too.", "But I'm not too certain of that.", "PICARD", "Madness? Mass hysteria?", "Delusion?", "TROI", "Any or all, Captain.", "PICARD", "All right. Let's bring the away", "team back. Set the transporter", "for maximum decontamination. And", "then full examinations and", "observation when they're here.", "He turns and heads for the door.", "21", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "as before.", "22", "INT. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY - BEVERLY, RIKER, GEORDI,", "DATA", "Data is just getting up from one of the hospital beds", "as:", "BEVERLY", "If you were any more perfect,", "Data, I'd write you up in a", "Starfleet medical textbook.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "9.", "22", "CONTINUED:", "DATA", "I am already listed in several", "biomechanical texts, Doctor.", "Beverly doesn't quite yet know how to take Data. Riker", "does, and grins.", "BEVERLY", "Yes... of course.", "(to Geordi)", "You're next, Lieutenant.", "Data LEAVES. Geordi obligingly lies down on the", "hospital bed, and Beverly starts to monitor him with", "a small instrument.", "23", "ANGLE ON MEDICAL VIEWSCREEN", "The readings come on -- nothing radical anywhere.", "24", "WIDER ANGLE", "as Beverly looks up at the o.s. viewscreen, then:", "BEVERLY", "(continuing)", "Normal -- all across.", "Except... why are you perspiring?", "Geordi appears to have a fine sheen of perspiration on", "his face.", "GEORDI", "I suppose because you have it too", "hot in here. What else would it", "be?", "Both Beverly and Riker have reacted to this un-Geordi", "reply.", "RIKER", "That doesn't... sound exactly like", "you, Geordi.", "Geordi looks up, then replies pleasantly, grinning.", "GEORDI", "Maybe it wasn't.", "(indicates Beverly)", "Maybe she threw her voice.", "He means it as a joke but no one is amused.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "10.", "24", "CONTINUED:", "GEORDI", "(continuing)", "Joke.", "BEVERLY", "Of course. But I would like to", "run another test or two on you,", "Lieutenant.", "25", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE AND CRUSHER'S OFFICE (INTERCUTS)", "as Picard turns to his panel.", "BEVERLY'S COM VOICE", "Sickbay to Bridge...", "PICARD", "Picard here. Go ahead, Doctor.", "BEVERLY'S COM VOICE", "I'm confining Lieutenant La Forge", "to Sickbay until further notice.", "PICARD", "Do we have a problem, Doctor?", "BEVERLY'S COM VOICE", "I don't know yet.", "26", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - FULL SHOT", "as Riker ENTERS from a turbolift and crosses toward", "Data, who is working at one of the science stations at", "the rear of the Bridge. All other Bridge Personnel are", "in place -- Picard, Tasha, Worf at Ops, Crewman at", "Conn.", "27", "CLOSER TWO SHOT - RIKER AND DATA", "Data looks up as Riker approaches him.", "RIKER", "Data, I need help in locating some", "library-computer information.", "DATA", "Specifics, sir?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "10A.", "27", "CONTINUED:", "RIKER", "All I have is a vague memory of", "reading somewhere about someone", "taking a shower in his or her", "clothing.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "11.", "27", "CONTINUED:", "DATA", "Ah. The body Geordi discovered.", "RIKER", "And I believe it may have happened", "before.", "DATA", "To \"someone,\" \"somewhere.\"", "RIKER", "(amused)", "Should be easy for someone written", "up in biomechanical texts.", "Data shrugs, enters a command on the panel, and", "information begins to flash up on a small viewscreen.", "(Viewscreen may be o.s.)", "DATA", "About that... did the doctor", "believe I was boasting?", "RIKER", "(dryly)", "Probably.", "(indicates viewer)", "This may take some time?", "DATA", "At least several hours.", "(looks up)", "But what I said was a statement", "of fact.", "Riker begins EXITING.", "DATA", "(continuing)", "Perhaps she will look it up.", "RIKER", "You can depend on it.", "28", "INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON GEORDI AND BEVERLY", "He is resting on a hospital bed. Beverly finishes", "working over him with a medical instrument, checks a", "reading on it, moves toward her office. (NOTE: At no", "time does she touch him.)", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "12.", "29", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY", "She sits down at her desk, compares readings on the", "medical instrument with something she has called up on", "the viewer.", "30", "INT. SICKBAY - ON GEORDI", "He sits up, takes off his communicator and lays it to", "one side. Then he gets to his feet, and quietly EXITS", "the Sickbay. A moment, then Beverly comes back IN --", "stares at the empty bed, snatches up Geordi's", "communicator and runs for the door.", "BEVERLY", "Geordi!", "31", "INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE SICKBAY - ON BEVERLY", "The door slides open and she stands there, agitatedly", "staring up and down the corridor.", "32", "BEVERLY'S P.O.V. - THE CORRIDOR", "empty.", "33", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ON TASHA", "as she hears an ALERT SIGNAL from her panel.", "BEVERLY'S COM VOICE", "Security! Lieutenant La Forge", "just left Sickbay while my back", "was turned. It's important we", "find him.", "TASHA", "(toward console)", "Security team alert, pick up", "Lieutenant La Forge who left", "Sickbay moments ago.", "(calling toward Picard)", "Captain, anything further?", "PICARD", "Affirmative. Make it a ship-wide", "search, Lieutenant.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "12A.", "34", "INT. CRUSHER'S QUARTERS - ANGLE ON WESLEY AND", "GEORDI", "The boy is in the living space, near a table littered", "with delicate futuristic tools.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "13.", "34", "CONTINUED:", "He has an intricately shaped tube attached to a miniature", "control device. It is a MINIATURE TRACTOR BEAM (OPTICAL).", "As Geordi watches, Wesley is using the device to maneuver a", "chair in the air.", "WESLEY", "It's a model of the same kind of", "tractor beam our ship uses... with", "some ideas of my own added.", "He hoists the chair higher, floats it sideways, lets", "it settle to the deck. Geordi is fascinated.", "GEORDI", "So that's your science project.", "Wes, you are something!", "WESLEY", "Meanwhile, the captain won't let", "me visit the bridge.", "Wesley goes to the littered table, pulls out a", "transparent cube, slides it into a slot on a small flat", "(portable) machine.", "WESLEY", "(continuing)", "So I use this to imagine I'm", "there.", "Wesley touches a control and a light goes on at the tiny", "machine.", "PICARD'S VOICE", "Take the helm, Mister Crusher.", "Set a course for thirty-seven mark", "one hundred eighty. Warp six.", "GEORDI", "(indicates)", "That's the captain's voice.", "WESLEY", "Pieced together from words he's", "used on the intercom.", "(indicates)", "I can pretend he's ordering me", "to take the Enterprise anywhere.", "And listen to this...", "Wesley touches another control.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "14.", "34", "CONTINUED: (2)", "PICARD'S VOICE", "Chief Engineer, report to the", "Bridge. Commander Riker, report", "to the Bridge. Doctor Crusher,", "report to the Bridge.", "WESLEY", "What d'you think?", "Geordi puts a friendly arm about the boy's shoulder.", "GEORDI", "I think the captain's lucky you're", "on his side.", "WESLEY", "But he still won't let me on the", "bridge. And there's nothing there", "I don't understand.", "GEORDI", "Wish I understood myself that", "well.", "Wesley turns at the \"down\" note in Geordi's voice.", "WESLEY", "You okay?", "GEORDI", "No. Suddenly I seem to be burning", "up inside.", "Geordi stands, moves for the door.", "GEORDI", "(continuing)", "Wow it's hot in here.", "Geordi EXITS leaving a puzzled Wesley inside.", "34A", "INT. CORRIDORS", "Tasha and Security Personnel searching for Geordi.", "35", "INT. OBSERVATION LOUNGE - ANGLE ON GEORDI", "perspiring, upset. Looking out to space.", "TASHA'S VOICE", "Geordi... ?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "15.", "35", "CONTINUED:", "She ENTERS SCENE from behind him, looking for a reaction", "from him.", "TASHA", "(continuing)", "Medical's been worried about you.", "GEORDI", "(without turning)", "Help me.", "Tasha studies him a beat. He seems so sad, so lonely.", "Then:", "TASHA", "Lieutenant Yar in the Observation", "Lounge. Send a team here now.", "After a beat, Geordi swings around to look at her, pain", "and longing chasing across his face.", "GEORDI", "Tasha... I said \"help me.\" Help", "me not to give in to the wild", "things coming into my mind...", "Tasha is moved, tries to fight it off.", "TASHA", "Geordi -- my job is security...", "GEORDI", "Please.", "Tasha folds him into arms.", "TASHA", "Yes, helping is more important.", "How can I help you Geordi?", "36", "INSERT - TASHA'S HAND", "being patted by Geordi's hand.", "37", "BACK TO SHOT", "A Security Guard hurries into the room, stops as Tasha", "motions him to a halt.", "GEORDI", "Help me to see like you do.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "16.", "37", "CONTINUED:", "TASHA", "But you already see better than", "I can.", "GEORDI", "I see more. But more isn't", "better!", "He tears off the prosthesis, exposing eyes that have", "flat gray irises with no pupil, incapable of expression.", "TASHA", "Geordi...", "GEORDI", "I want to see in shallow, dim,", "beautiful human ways.", "TASHA", "We'll talk about it, Geordi.", "(takes his arm)", "I'm going to take you to Sickbay", "now. All right?", "He bobs his head, willing to be assisted. As she leads", "him away:", "FADE OUT.", "END OF ACT ONE", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "17.", "ACT TWO", "FADE IN:", "38", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "The dwarf star in view too.", "PICARD (V. O.)", "Captain's log, supplemental. I", "am concerned that away team member", "Lieutenant La Forge has been taken", "to Sickbay. The report: \"unusual", "behavior.\"", "39", "INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON BEVERLY, GEORDI, TROI", "Geordi is lying on a hospital bed still struggling to", "control his emotions, while Beverly works her medical", "instruments over him, glancing up now and then at the", "o.s. viewscreen to check the results. Troi is assisting", "the monitoring.", "40", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON TASHA AND PICARD", "TASHA", "... and then we got him down to", "sickbay so Dr. Crusher could", "examine him.", "PICARD", "He wasn't violent?", "She glances over her shoulder back toward the treatment", "room.", "TASHA", "No, sir. He was very upset... he", "kept talking about wanting normal", "eyes.", "PICARD", "Thank you, Lieutenant. I'll be", "in Sickbay.", "Picard HURRIES OUT immediately. It's clear he has much", "on his mind. Tasha moves to EXIT, then pauses.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "18.", "41", "CLOSE ON TASHA", "wiping a hand over her lightly perspiring brow. As she", "EXITS, it is clear she feels strange somehow.", "42", "INT. SICKBAY - ON BEVERLY, GEORDI, TROI, PICARD", "Beverly administers a hypospray to Geordi, which finally", "begins to calm his emotional state. As Picard joins", "them, Beverly turns and indicates her medical", "viewscreen.", "BEVERLY", "According to our medical readouts,", "there's still nothing wrong with", "him. He looks like he's running", "a temperature but every instrument", "we have says he's not.", "PICARD", "Doctor, every person on that ship", "over there died. Is there any", "chance that whatever did it is", "loose on my ship?", "BEVERLY", "If you mean a disease, sir, I'd", "say there's no chance of it. We", "used full decontamination, we", "examined each team member", "carefully...", "PICARD", "(interrupting)", "The entire crew over there somehow", "managed to kill themselves,", "Doctor. If it wasn't a disease,", "what else could have made them", "do that?", "BEVERLY", "The obvious alternatives would", "be in areas of insanity, severe", "emotional upset...", "(stops short; to Troi)", "Troi, do you feel anything unusual", "in the lieutenant here?", "PICARD", "(to Troi)", "Security reported he was longing", "for normal eyesight. A rather", "sudden yearning for that.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "19.", "42", "CONTINUED:", "TROI", "Since his records show no previous", "mention of that, the fact that it's", "happened now could be important.", "Troi centers her attention on Geordi, mentally probing.", "Then:", "TROI", "(continuing)", "But all I feel from him is", "confusion. If I didn't know", "better, I'd say he was", "intoxicated.", "The Captain throws a quick look toward Beverly who", "shakes her head firmly.", "BEVERLY", "Our tests would have shown that.", "Also any signs of drugs,", "hallucinogens or other", "contaminants.", "43", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON RIKER AND DATA", "still at the science station, Data's fingers flying over", "tabs on the console. He looks at the viewscreen, shakes", "his head. Worf and Crewman as before.", "DATA", "Can you provide more information,", "sir? Seeking an instance of", "someone showering with their", "clothing on is...is...", "RIKER", "I know... like looking for a needle", "in a haystack.", "DATA", "(puzzled)", "Why should anyone wish to expend", "their time in such a search?", "RIKER", "Correction, Data, I should have", "said proverbial needle in a", "haystack.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "20.", "43", "CONTINUED:", "DATA", "Ah, a human proverb! As in", "folklore, or an historical", "allusion, or tribal memories,", "or...", "RIKER", "(interrupting)", "That's it! Historical! I", "remember now that I was reading", "a history of all the past", "starships named Enterprise.", "Data takes over the console, quickly tabbing in commands", "as:", "DATA", "Enterprise history. Aberrant", "behavior. Medical cross", "reference...", "44", "ANGLE TO INCLUDE TURBOLIFT", "as Picard ARRIVES, CROSSES toward his Bridge position.", "Riker sees him, calls:", "RIKER", "Captain, I believe we've got the", "answer to what happened over", "there.", "45", "ANGLE AT VIEWER", "where Data continues refining the information he's", "getting. Riker is watching over his shoulder as Picard", "moves in to examine the information too.", "PICARD", "The Constitution class Enterprise,", "Captain James T. Kirk", "commanding...", "RIKER", "(indicates viewer)", "Similar conditions. They were", "monitoring a planet that was", "breaking up, not a collapsing star", "as in this case, but there were", "the same huge shifts in gravity...", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "21.", "45", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD", "(peers closely)", "... which somehow resulted in", "complex strings of water", "molecules which then acquired", "carbon from the body and acted", "on the brain like alcohol!", "(to Data)", "Mister Data, download that", "information immediately to", "medical.", "DATA", "Aye sir, downloading.", "Picard and Riker both study the information on the", "viewer.", "PICARD", "Fascinating! Their entire crew", "going out of control...", "RIKER", "Like intoxication but worse.", "Judgment almost completely", "impaired...", "PICARD", "Until they found this formula,", "barely in time.", "(moves to his own", "console)", "Picard to Doctor Crusher, come", "in.", "After a moment:", "BEVERLY'S COM VOICE", "This is Crusher; go ahead Captain.", "PICARD", "You can relax, Doctor. The answer", "to all this is feeding into your", "medical banks now... including a", "cure.", "A long beat, then:", "BEVERLY'S COM VOICE", "Are you certain, Captain?", "PICARD", "Absolutely!", "Data has looked up with a slight pained expression at", "Picard's \"absolutely.\"", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "22.", "46", "INT. TROI'S QUARTERS - ON TROI", "Troi's quarters are tastefully decorated, including a", "scattering of art objects that may be Betazoid in origin", "-- perhaps a wall hanging, a unique piece of pottery", "or statuette, or paintings. At the moment, there are", "also a number of lovely dresses and gowns draped over", "the furniture. Troi ENTERS and stops inside the door,", "staring.", "TROI", "Tasha?", "47", "INCLUDING TASHA", "She is somewhat agitated and has a light sheen of", "perspiration as she holds one of Troi's gowns against", "her, judging it for color. The size, of course, would", "be all wrong for her.", "TROI", "(continuing)", "What're you doing?", "TASHA", "I need your advice. That's why", "I came to your quarters.", "TROI", "Of course. Anything I can do ---", "TASHA", "(interrupting)", "On clothes. You always wear such", "beautiful clothes off duty. And", "your hair's so nice all the time.", "I want to change my image.", "(holds up dress)", "What about this color?", "TROI", "Not for you. Tasha, I feel you're", "very uncertain... that you're", "fighting something.", "She reaches out to take Tasha's hand comfortingly.", "TROI", "(continuing)", "What is it?", "Tasha pulls her hand away, tosses down the dress, and", "moves to the door as:", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "23.", "47", "CONTINUED:", "TASHA", "Never mind. I'll find what I need", "myself. Ship's Stores will have", "it.", "TROI", "Tasha, wait ---", "Tasha LEAVES. Troi immediately touches the com panel.", "TROI", "(continuing)", "Troi to Captain Picard.", "48", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ON PICARD", "PICARD", "Picard here.", "TROI'S COM VOICE", "Sir, I think Tasha's been", "infected, too. She's just left", "my quarters...", "PICARD", "It's not actually an \"infection,\"", "Counselor.", "TROI'S COM VOICE", "Yes sir, it's more like", "intoxication, but whatever it is,", "she's got it.", "49", "ANGLE TO INCLUDE RIKER AND DATA", "PICARD", "Thank you, Counselor.", "(to Riker)", "Number One, our security chief", "has the equivalent of a snootful.", "DATA", "(to Picard)", "Inquiry, sir... 'snootful?'", "PICARD", "Forget it!", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "24.", "50", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ANGLE ON BEVERLY", "She is checking the lab report on Geordi against", "information on her viewscreen when:", "WESLEY (V.O)", "Mom, Look what I can do...", "She turns, gets to her feet in alarm and hurries into", "the treatment room.", "51", "INT. SICKBAY - INCLUDING WESLEY AND BEVERLY (OPTICAL)", "Wesley again has the tractor beam on and is balancing", "several medical instruments in mid-air all at the same", "time. We can also SEE he's perspiring a bit.", "WESLEY", "(continuing)", "I've been able to widen and", "strengthen the beam, just like", "I told you last night ---", "BEVERLY", "Do me a favor, Wes? There's", "something happening on this", "ship...", "(shrugs)", "Just to be safe, I'd like you to", "stay in our quarters until it's", "solved.", "WESLEY", "(slightly silly grin)", "Right, Mom, right. Your wish", "is my...", "BEVERLY", "Now, Wes.", "Wesley lowers the floating instruments and turns off", "the little tractor beam as:", "WESLEY", "(another grin)", "You could be stunting my emotional", "growth, you know.", "(wipes forehead)", "Why's it so hot in here, anyway?", "He heads for the door. Beverly pauses, thinking about", "his words a moment, then has to forget it as:", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "25.", "51", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "Picard to Crusher. Have you made", "a test injection yet? We're", "getting indications that this", "condition is spreading.", "BEVERLY", "No test yet, Captain, but very", "soon.", "52", "INT. CORRIDOR - CLOSE ON A VERY SHAPELY REAR END", "moving down the corridor with a most provocative sway.", "CAMERA PULLS BACK TO REVEAL the shapely rear end belongs", "to Tasha, and she is moving with the sexiest walk", "imaginable -- quite unlike her usual straightforward", "stride. Her whole expression has acquired a sexy pout.", "She approaches an intersection where several crewpersons", "are passing. Then, we HEAR GIGGLES, then a woman's", "LAUGHING SCREAM.", "TRANSPORTER CHIEF", "Come to Papa; come to Papa... !", "MORE LAUGHTER as A CREWMAN chases a CREWWOMAN around", "the corner and into the other corridor. Other crew", "odd behavior.", "53", "WIDER ANGLE", "From the reactions of the crewpersons in sight it is", "obvious that some have been infected and some not.", "Another CREWMAN is coming from the other direction and", "pauses as he sees Tasha swaying sexily toward him,", "openly flirting. She stops in front of him.", "54", "TASHA AND CREWMAN", "She reaches out to pull him a little closer and plants", "one hell of a kiss on him. As he returns it:", "55", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - FULL SHOT", "As Picard returns to his chair, Data moves toward him.", "DATA", "Captain, in another forty-one minutes", "will see the information from the", "Tsiolkovsky downloaded to us.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "26.", "55", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD", "Why so slow?", "DATA", "Slow, sir? The Tsiolkovsky has", "been eight months in accumulating", "it.", "PICARD", "(indicates viewer)", "How much danger from that star?", "Worse case.", "56", "ANGLE ON MAIN VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)", "The collapsing star centered on the screen in the midst", "of very slow motion surface explosions.", "DATA (V.O.)", "Like a full collapse, sir?", "57", "BACK TO TWO SHOT - PICARD AND DATA", "DATA", "(continuing)", "Any stellar material it threw this", "way we could still outrun on half", "impulse power.", "58", "ANGLE AT MAIN VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)", "as before, the slow surface explosions on the collapsing", "star continuing from the last viewscreen SHOT.", "59", "INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE - FULL SHOT", "CHIEF ENGINEER SARAH MACDOUGAL and her ASSISTANT CHIEF", "JIM SHIMODA are working in the office at their consoles.", "They both glance up as the BOSUN'S WHISTLE SOUNDS, then:", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "Picard to Engineering. Chief", "engineer report to the bridge.", "MacDougal shakes her head, EXITS the office. Shimoda", "turns back to his console.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "27.", "59", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "(continuing)", "Assistant Chief Engineer Shimoda", "report to Medical.", "Shimoda hesitates, looks around the empty office. A", "beat... then Wesley ENTERS the office, carrying the small", "flat portable machine we saw earlier.", "We should also SEE the small tractor beam device with", "tube and fiber optic wire attachment.", "WESLEY", "Hi, Jim. Was that the captain", "sending you to Medical?", "SHIMODA", "Which would leave no one on duty", "here. The chief was just", "summoned to the bridge.", "WESLEY", "What about me? I could call your", "chief on the bridge if anything", "happens.", "He smiles at Shimoda... and wipes some sweat from his", "brow.", "60", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON PICARD AND", "MACDOUGAL", "Picard looks around curiously as MacDougal approaches", "the command chair:", "MACDOUGAL", "Reporting as ordered, sir.", "PICARD", "What?", "MACDOUGAL", "You ordered me to report to the", "bridge, sir.", "PICARD", "I did no such thing. I want you", "down in the Engine Room in case", "we need to move out of here.", "Interrupted by a Bosun's WHISTLE ALERT:", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "28.", "60", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "Attention all decks, all", "divisions. Effective", "immediately, I have handed over", "control of this vessel to", "Acting Captain Wesley Crusher.", "61", "CLOSE ON PICARD", "Sheer disbelief.", "PICARD", "Acting Capt...", "WESLEY'S COM VOICE", "Thank you, Captain Picard, thank", "you. And with that order dawns", "a brave new day for the", "Enterprise.", "FADE OUT.", "END OF ACT TWO", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "29.", "ACT THREE", "FADE IN:", "62", "EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)", "PICARD (V.O)", "Captain's log, Stardate 41209.3.", "The strange contaminant that led", "to the deaths of the Tsiolkovsky", "crew is now aboard the", "Enterprise... and our Engineering", "Section has been commandeered by", "young Wesley Crusher...", "63", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - EMPHASIZING PICARD", "PICARD", "(continuing)", "Number One, MacDougal -- get that", "boy out of Engineering.", "Riker and MacDougal turn and head for a turbolift as:", "64", "ANGLE ON WORF", "Worf at Ops, Data at the Conn station. Worf turns", "around toward Picard, concerned.", "WORF", "Sir, I'm getting very strange", "reports from all decks --", "PICARD", "Such as?", "WORF", "Such as the ship's training", "division ordering all officers", "to attend a lecture on", "metaphysics.", "PICARD", "Metaphysics?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "30.", "65", "INCLUDING DATA AT CONN", "DATA", "Confirmed, sir. And there is a", "rather peculiar limerick being", "delivered by someone in the", "shuttlecraft bay. I am not sure", "I understand it...", "(quoting)", "There was a young lady from Venus", "whose body was shaped like --", "66", "EMPHASIZING PICARD", "PICARD", "(interrupting)", "Captain to Security, come in!", "DATA", "(to Worf)", "Did I say something wrong?", "WORF", "(shrugs)", "I don't understand their humor", "either.", "SECURITY COM VOICE", "(lazy, uninterested)", "Yeah, Captain?", "PICARD", "Where's my security chief?! Get", "me Lieutenant Yar.", "SECURITY COM VOICE", "Keep your britches on, Captain.", "TASHA'S COM VOICE", "Captain Picard...", "PICARD", "Yar, where are you?", "TASHA'S COM VOICE", "I'm in my quarters and pretty busy", "right at this moment, Jean-Luc.", "PICARD", "(gathering self", "together)", "All right, Lieutenant, just stay", "right there.", "(MORE)", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "31.", "66", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD (Cont'd)", "(turning)", "Data, please go to Lieutenant Yar", "and get her down to Sickbay.", "DATA", "Yes, sir.", "PICARD", "(into console)", "Security, I want all your senior", "supervisors to report to the", "bridge immediately.", "67", "INT. ENGINEERING (OPTICAL)", "A FORCEFIELD SHIMMER at the entrance to the Engineering", "Office, barring the way inside. Beyond the FORCEFIELD", "inside the office stands Wesley who is grinning at", "several Crewpersons, all of them clearly contaminated,", "who stand outside the FORCEFIELD. Assistant Chief", "Engineer Shimoda ENTERS, grinning and weaving slightly,", "walks up to the FORCEFIELD as:", "WESLEY", "... and a dessert course shall", "henceforth precede and follow", "every meal. Including breakfast.", "CHEERS from the onlookers.", "CREWMAN", "Hurray for the acting captain!", "68", "ANGLE ON SHIMODA (OPTICAL)", "SHIMODA", "Never got as far as Sickbay, Wes.", "I feel too good for that.", "BUZZ SOUND as Shimoda walks into the FORCEFIELD and is", "thrown back.", "SHIMODA", "(continuing)", "Incredible! How did you do that?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "32.", "68", "CONTINUED:", "WESLEY", "(indicating)", "Hooked my model tractor beam into", "ship's power. Now its a repulser", "beam too.", "(eyeing Shimoda)", "Want in?", "Shimoda nods, raises his right hand as in oath.", "SHIMODA", "Swear to be faithful to you,", "Captain!", "69", "INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE (OPTICAL)", "Wesley picks up a small control device, aims it at the", "FORCEFIELD which disappears. Shimoda steps inside, then", "Wesley turns the forcefield on again.", "70", "INT. TASHA'S QUARTERS - AT DOOR", "The living space is low lit, provocative shadows. There", "is a CHIME, a beat, then the door slides open. Data", "stands there, hesitant, steps in. He looks around, not", "quite sure of himself.", "DATA", "Lieutenant Yar?", "TASHA'S VOICE", "Here, Data.", "71", "ANGLE ON TASHA", "in the door to her bedroom. Her hair is provocatively", "arranged... her makeup is especially dramatic and", "attractive... and she wears a pale blue diaphanous", "Theiss creation that promises revelations that will get", "us thrown off the air. Her voice quality has changed", "too... sultry, like a Louisiana summer night.", "TASHA", "(continuing)", "You wanted me?", "72", "TWO SHOT", "Tasha moves languidly toward Data, almost floating.", "Data doesn't quite know how to react to this Tasha.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "33.", "72", "CONTINUED:", "DATA", "Captain Picard ordered me to", "escort you to Sickbay, Lieutenant.", "TASHA", "Did he say when?", "DATA", "(considering it, then)", "I am sure he meant \"now.\"", "(indicates)", "So you need time to get into", "uniform...", "TASHA", "But I got out of uniform for you,", "Data. Do you know how old I was", "when I was abandoned?", "DATA", "Chronological age? No, I am afraid", "I am not conversant with your ---", "TASHA", "Five. Five years old, but I", "survived. I learned how to stay", "alive, how to avoid the rape", "gangs. I was fifteen before I", "escaped.", "DATA", "I am sorry. I did not know...", "TASHA", "And what I want now is gentleness.", "And joy. And love.", "She reaches out and caresses his face. Data shifts his", "weight, not sure what to do.", "TASHA", "(continuing)", "From you, Data. You are fully", "functional, aren't you?", "DATA", "Of course, but...", "TASHA", "How fully?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "34.", "72", "CONTINUED: (2)", "DATA", "In every way, of course. I have", "been programmed in multiple", "techniques, a broad variety of", "pleasuring...", "TASHA", "You jewel! That's exactly what", "I hoped.", "Her smile is provocative, full of promises; and Data", "tentatively smiles back. As the bedroom door CLOSES", "behind them:", "73", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "In b.g., then collapsing star begins slowly to GLOW", "BRIGHTER.", "74", "INT. ENGINEERING - ON RIKER", "He is standing near a communications computer panel.", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "What have you learned, Number", "One?", "RIKER", "Captain, the ship's engines are", "cut off from the bridge. And I", "have the reason. The assistant", "chief engineer pulled out the", "isolinear optical chips from", "command and all engines are", "off-line.", "75", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON SHIMODA AND WESLEY (OPTICAL)", "Shimoda is sitting on the floor near an opened console,", "playing happily with a pile of isolinear chips (small", "colored slabs, rather like Chiclets), tossing them in", "the air or juggling them, staring at the pretty colors.", "Wesley looks with an air of pride and satisfaction at", "his portable TRACTOR BEAM which is emitting a beam wide", "enough to block the entire opening into the Engineer's", "Office.", "76", "INT. ENGINEERING - ON RIKER AND MACDOUGAL", "as the Engineer COMES IN beside Riker.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "35.", "76", "CONTINUED:", "RIKER", "(continuing)", "Wesley's hooked some kind of", "tractor beam into ship's power", "and has it aimed at the door.", "We can't get past it to get at", "the computer.", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "Can you short out the power?", "Riker looks to MacDougal. She shrugs.", "MACDOUGAL", "Maybe.", "(considers)", "Yes, I can. But it's going to", "take time.", "77", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - CLOSE ON PICARD", "Concerned.", "PICARD", "Do it!", "78", "INT. ENGINEERING - ON RIKER AND MACDOUGAL", "as they pull a panel off the console opposite the", "Engineer's Office entry, and MacDougal starts to reach", "inside. From their right, there is the SOUND of", "turbolift doors and:", "TROI'S VOICE", "Bill...", "79", "INT. CORRIDOR TO ENGINEERING", "as Riker comes to her.", "RIKER", "Deanna, what -- ?", "She reaches for him before he can stop her, holds him", "tight.", "TROI", "So many minds on this ship,", "Bill... all free... released...", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "36.", "79", "CONTINUED:", "Her hands move sensuously on his back, her body closer", "to his.", "RIKER", "Deanna --", "TROI", "I can feel them all... what they", "feel... what they want... I feel", "a side of humans I've never felt", "before.", "RIKER", "Come on, I'm getting you to", "Sickbay.", "He catches her up in his arms, carries her toward the", "turbolift as:", "TROI", "Wouldn't you rather be alone with", "me -- with me in your mind...", "80", "INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON BEVERLY", "She has a large beaker or futuristic-shaped container", "from which she is loading a hypo-spray. The hypo-spray", "filled, she moves across to where Geordi La Forge lies", "still strapped on the hospital bed. He is awake now,", "his face a picture of desolation. Beverly administers", "the hypo-spray and steps back to observe.", "BEVERLY", "The medical records we found say", "this works almost instantly.", "Geordi lies still, staring at the ceiling. Then:", "GEORDI", "I've never seen a rainbow, Doc.", "Sunset. Sunrise. None of those.", "This is going to help me?", "Beverly stares at Geordi, horrified as realization", "comes. It doesn't work.", "81", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY AND DWARF STAR", "(OPTICAL)", "No movement at all.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "37.", "82", "INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON RIKER AND TROI", "as he carries her into the treatment area, lays her down", "gently on a bed next to Geordi's.", "RIKER", "Doctor Crusher...", "He turns, looking for Beverly. She does not appear.", "He hurries into her office.", "83", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY AND RIKER", "She is sitting at the desk, desolate. Riker COMES IN", "behind her, puts a hand on her shoulder to shake her", "slightly.", "RIKER", "Didn't you hear me? Deanna needs", "your help.", "BEVERLY", "The formula from the old", "Enterprise didn't work.", "RIKER", "What?", "BEVERLY", "This water-carbon complex may", "induce the same symptoms, but it's", "different somehow. Maybe it's", "mutated. I'll have to isolate", "it... analyze it...", "RIKER", "We don't have that kind of time.", "She suddenly snaps around, realizing something.", "BEVERLY", "You brought Deanna in?", "RIKER", "She's infected with it, too.", "He heads for the door. Beverly is on her feet", "anxiously.", "BEVERLY", "You touched her? Oh, God, you", "touched me.", "(then)", "You can't leave here --", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "38.", "83", "CONTINUED:", "RIKER", "If we don't get our command", "computers back on-line soon, this", "-- whatever this is -- won't", "matter. We'll all be dead.", "On Beverly's despairing face:", "FADE OUT.", "END OF ACT THREE", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "39.", "ACT FOUR", "FADE IN:", "84", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE, TSIOLKOVSKY, DWARF STAR", "As before with very slow (at this distance) flaring from", "the star.", "PICARD (V. O.)", "Captain's log, supplemental.", "It is no longer an inconvenient", "childish prank. Young Wesley", "Crusher...", "(beat; softening)", "Admittedly a victim of the", "Tsiolkovsky \"infection\"...", "85", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON MAIN VIEWER (OPTICAL)", "Showing a SHOT of Wesley in the Engineering office.", "Also at the Bridge are Worf at the Ops position and", "crewman at Conn.", "PICARD (V. O.)", "(continuing)", "... is now in control of my", "starship. How he acquired the", "engineering information and", "knowledge he is using, I have no", "idea.", "86", "ANGLE ON PICARD", "staring up at Wesley's IMAGE on the main viewer.", "PICARD", "(continuing)", "Wes, this is Captain Picard. Do", "you see me?", "87", "VARIOUS ANGLES (OPTICAL)", "as Wesley looks up and around, focuses his attention", "onto camera (the captain). Although showing the same", "contaminant symptoms as others, he speaks respectfully.", "WESLEY", "Yes sir?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "40.", "87", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD", "You will now return all control", "of this vessel to the bridge where", "it belongs. Now.", "WESLEY", "I'm sorry, sir. Why don't you", "just tell me what you want done", "and I'll...", "PICARD", "(interrupting)", "Because ship captains control", "their own vessels, young man!", "WESLEY", "But, sir, you don't do it", "yourself. You give the orders,", "someone else does it. What's", "wrong with giving me the orders", "to do it?", "Worf and Conn have exchanged looks during this although", "Conn has begun to perspire and appears uncomfortable.", "Worf sees something unusual on his console, interrupts", "Picard.", "WORF", "Captain, getting unusual readings", "now from the dwarf star... !", "PICARD", "Stand by a moment on that.", "(toward main viewer)", "Wesley... !", "(softens it)", "Wes... are you aware that you're", "acting strangely... that a kind", "of \"infection\" was brought back", "from the Tsiolkovsky that acts", "like intoxication?", "WESLEY", "(considers it)", "Are you saying that's why I feel", "so... so \"hot,\" so strange?", "Picard wants to shout back \"of freakin' course!\" but he", "controls himself.", "PICARD", "That's a very adult bit of", "reasoning, Wes...", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "41.", "87", "CONTINUED: (2)", "WESLEY", "Are you saying I'm \"drunk?\" I", "feel strange but also good.", "PICARD", "Because...", "(corrects his tone of", "voice)", "Because you've lost the capacity", "for self-judgment. Alcohol does", "that but this contaminant we've", "brought back does it even more", "so.", "WESLEY", "What would you do if you got your", "ship back?", "PICARD", "It's very important I do because", "we must immediately put a tractor", "beam on the Tsiolkovsky, then tow", "it out of...", "WESLEY", "Tractor beams are my specialty,", "Skipper! I'll contact you when", "that's done; Wesley out!", "With which the VIEWER GOES DARK, and then is replaced", "with a view of the dwarf star. It is in the midst of a", "gigantic FLARE.", "PICARD", "Wes!", "Conn gets up from his position now, weaves toward the", "turbolift.", "PICARD", "(continuing)", "Conn, where are you headed?", "No answer. Conn will EXIT by turbolift as:", "WORF", "Sir!", "(indicating viewscreen)", "The star; it's beginning to", "collapse.", "PICARD", "What the hell is happening in", "Engineering?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - Rev. 6/26/87", "42.", "88", "INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE - ANGLE ON WESLEY AND", "SHIMODA", "Wesley is working some controls on one of the consoles,", "singing:", "WESLEY", "Lock on, Tsiolkovsky, lock", "on... lock on, Tsiolkovsky, lock", "on...", "Behind him, Shimoda still sits on the floor, playing", "something like \"jacks\" with the isolinear optical chips", "from the computer, scooping up the chips in orderly", "groups -- 1, 2, 3, etc.", "89", "INT. ENGINEERING - ON MACDOUGAL AND RIKER", "They work together at the console opposite the entrance", "to Engineer's Office, probing deep into the guts of the", "console. A small array of tools lies between them, which", "they share.", "MACDOUGAL", "You got the logic probe?", "(he hands it to her)", "Thanks.", "RIKER", "Where's the sonic driver?", "She grunts and gestures at the spread of tools. Riker", "looks, finds it, dives into the console again. MacDougal", "works quickly, steps back.", "MACDOUGAL", "There. Let's see if this'll cut", "out his tractor beam power.", "She reaches inside the console and switches something.", "She and Riker both turn to look behind them.", "90", "ANGLE THROUGH WINDOW INTO ENGINEER'S OFFICE", "(OPTICAL)", "Wesley grins cheerfully. The TRACTOR BEAM is STILL AIMED", "AT THE DOOR.", "91", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY", "She grimly works at a futuristic microscope, then", "becomes aware that she is wiping perspiration from her", "face.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "43.", "91", "CONTINUED:", "BEVERLY", "Oh no! No, I must find the answer.", "Find the answer. Have to find", "the answer.", "She reaches for another slide but handles it confusedly.", "92", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "as a tractor beam appears.", "93", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON WORF", "still at Ops. No one at Conn. He whirls around.", "WORF", "Captain -- tractor beam! We just", "locked onto the Tsiolkovsky!", "PICARD", "Bridge to... to Wesley.", "(waits; then)", "Wesley Crusher, come in!", "One of the turbolift doors HISSES OPEN and Data ENTERS", "the Bridge. Picard whirls to him.", "PICARD", "(continuing)", "Data! At least you're", "functioning.. !", "DATA", "Fully, Captain, fully.", "But it obvious from the look on his face and his weaving", "movements that Data is not at all himself.", "PICARD", "Data, intoxication is a human", "condition. Your mind is", "different, it's not the same...", "DATA", "We are more alike than unlike,", "my dear captain.", "94", "EMPHASIZING DATA", "He is examining the backs of his hands with great", "interest.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/1/87", "44.", "94", "CONTINUED:", "DATA", "(continuing)", "I have pores. Humans have pores.", "(turns hands over)", "I have fingerprints. Humans have", "fingerprints. My chemical", "nutrients are like your blood.", "(looks appealingly at", "Picard)", "If you prick me, do I not leak?", "95", "ANGLE TURBOLIFT", "which opens and Beverly Crusher ENTERS the Bridge.", "PICARD", "If this can possibly wait,", "Doctor...", "BEVERLY", "May I see you in your Ready Room?", "It's a private matter... well,", "actually an urgent one...", "PICARD", "I'm busy, Doctor. Impossible.", "But Beverly EXITS Bridge into Ready Room. Picard", "FOLLOWS.", "PICARD", "(continuing)", "Damn!", "95A", "INT. CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM", "Picard ENTERS, finds Beverly waiting. She has a slight", "smile on her face.", "BEVERLY", "I believe I'm infected myself.", "Beverly steps toward Picard, suddenly GIGGLES. It's the", "same high pitched sound we've heard from some others.", "PICARD", "Do you know what the infection", "is? Hurry!", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "45.", "95A", "CONTINUED:", "Picard realizes that Beverly is beginning to smile at", "him a bit sexily. She tries to stop doing so. All this", "is complicated for her by the fact she has begun lately", "to find this man increasingly attractive.", "BEVERLY", "Sorry.", "(wipes off smile)", "It is definitely like alcohol", "intoxication, the same lack of", "good judgment...", "(smiling sexily again)", "For example right now, I find you,", "well, extremely...extremely...", "(stops)", "Of course we haven't time for that", "sort of thing...", "PICARD", "What sort of thing?", "BEVERLY", "(eyeing his body)", "Oh God would I love to show you.", "PICARD", "Doctor, there must be a cure!", "Some formula, similar to the old", "one...", "BEVERLY", "(holding Picard's hand)", "Dammit... dammit, dammit, my dear", "captain. You owe me something.", "You do realize that, don't you?", "I'm a woman; I haven't the comfort", "of a husband, a man...", "PICARD", "Not now, Doctor, please...", "Then he's alarmed to find himself GIGGLING, wiping", "moisture from his forehead.", "96", "ANGLE EMPHASIZING WORF", "On the Bridge, Ready Room door in b.g. He turns", "as Picard and Beverly EMERGE from the Ready Room.", "Beverly ENTERS the nearby Turbolift, turns and waves", "\"bye-bye.\" Picard fights the urge to giggle, waves", "back. The doors close. Picard, very irritated at", "self, regains control. Worf presses his intercom.", "WORF", "(low)", "Bridge to Riker, urgent!", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "46.", "97", "INT. ENGINEERING - RIKER AND MACDOUGAL", "He looks up, his hands still deep in the console.", "RIKER", "Riker here.", "WORF'S COM VOICE", "Sir, regret to inform you that", "the captain appears to be", "infected. And Data, and...", "RIKER", "(all he needs)", "Thank you, Lieutenant. I'm coming.", "(to MacDougal)", "You'll have to handle this.", "MACDOUGAL", "Are you saying you'll handle that?", "98", "EXT. SPACE - DWARF STAR FOREGROUND (OPTICAL)", "In the midst of a great flaring surface explosion, slow", "at this distance but obviously enormously powerful.", "99", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE - EMPHASIZING WORF", "Reacting as he sees the results of this on his readouts,", "then whirls to the Main Viewer. Red alarm lights flash.", "100", "MAIN VIEWER (OPTICAL)", "The star's surface clearly changed by this great flaring", "explosion.", "101", "ANGLE AT COMMAND POSITION", "Picard very concerned at what he is seeing; Beverly", "reacting to his concern; even the bemused Data watching", "it with some interest. Beverly turns, CROSSES toward", "the turbolift where she will EXIT. As Riker ENTERS.", "Meanwhile:", "WORF", "What we're seeing, sir, is a huge", "chunk of the star's surface blown", "off, heading for us!", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "47.", "101", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD", "Take us...", "(wipes perspiration)", "RIKER", "Are you alright, sir?", "PICARD", "Worf, you know what to do. Take", "us out of here.", "Worf works controls, gets nothing, leaps over to the", "Conn panel and works something and then comes back to", "Ops and does more. Still nothing.", "WORF", "Sir, the controls are still off-line!", "PICARD", "Override!", "WORF", "(tries, then)", "Same result, sir.", "102", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - EMPHASIZING SHIMODA", "Wesley watches while Shimoda attempts to put together", "a structure (like LEGOS) composed of the isolinear", "optical chips. They both ignore:", "RIKER'S COM VOICE", "Wes, come in please. Wesley", "Crusher, this is Riker. Come in.", "This is urgent!", "103", "INT. ENGINEERING - MACDOUGAL", "Red alarm lights are flashing. MacDougal twists", "something inside the open panel.", "104", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON WESLEY AND SHIMODA", "(OPTICAL)", "The forcefield disappears. Wesley looks up, slightly", "disconcerted.", "105", "INT. ENGINEERING - MACDOUGAL", "MacDougal rushes for the Engineer's Office.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "48.", "106", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - FULL SHOT", "MacDougal surges in. Wesley and Shimoda merely look", "at her. Wesley's very sad. Game's over.", "RIKER'S COM VOICE", "Engineering, urgent. We must have", "ship's power...", "MacDougal ignores him, pushes past them toward the", "computer consoles. The optical chips go flying as", "Shimoda dodges out of her way.", "MACDOUGAL", "Oh, no, those are control", "chips... !", "(finds a com button)", "Bridge from Engineering...", "RIKER'S COM VOICE", "The star is still collapsing;", "we're directly in the path of...", "107", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE", "Both Picard and Data fighting against the contamination", "as Riker mans the main console.", "MACDOUGAL'S COM VOICE", "I can't help you, bridge!", "Someone's yanked out all the", "control chips here...", "WESLEY'S COM VOICE", "It was an adult who did it!", "WORF", "I estimate fourteen minutes until", "that mass gets here... !", "MACDOUGAL'S COM VOICE", "No way to replace chips in", "fourteen minutes, sir. I'd guess", "two hours, maybe three...", "WESLEY'S VOICE", "Data could assemble them back", "faster.", "Picard seems to come out of it a bit. He looks up:", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "49.", "107", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD", "What's that?", "(hits a com control)", "What's that Wesley?", "WESLEY'S COM VOICE", "They're just simple isolinear", "chips, sir. To Data, anyway.", "He could shuffle them like cards.", "RIKER", "(overlap)", "Come on Data. Hurry!", "FADE OUT.", "END OF ACT FOUR", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "50.", "ACT FIVE", "FADE IN:", "108", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "still tied by the tractor beam, motionless. Riker's", "voice reveals the strain he is under.", "RIKER (V.O.)", "Ship's log, First Officer Riker.", "The star has begun disintegrating.", "Enterprise will be destroyed", "unless it can be moved out of the", "path of the star material", "hurtling...", "109", "EXT. SPACE - EXPLODED MASS OF MATERIAL (OPTICAL)", "It is large, irregularly shaped, moving very fast as it", "was hurled off the star's surface with more power than", "a hydrogen bomb. To gain a sense of size, it should", "BLOCK OUT A WHOLE SECTION OF THE STARFIELD as it PASSES", "CAMERA.", "RIKER (V.O.)", "(continuing)", "... toward us. Our only hope is", "for Lieutenant Commander Data in", "the time we have left, to regain", "his senses and reconnect engine", "power to the Bridge.", "110", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON MACDOUGAL", "She is on her knees on the floor, vainly trying to sort", "out which optical chips belong where.", "111", "ANGLE ON RIKER AND DATA", "as they ENTER FAST. MacDougal looks up at Riker,", "helplessly indicates the chip chaos. Data smiles at", "Wesley, who grins back cheerfully. Both are still", "smashed.", "WESLEY", "Hi, Mister Data.", "DATA", "Nice to see you, Wesley. What... ?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "51.", "111", "CONTINUED:", "RIKER", "(overlapping; urgently", "indicating)", "Data! We need the engines on-line", "in a hurry, remember?", "Meanwhile, Riker is now beginning to perspire like", "others who have been \"infected.\"", "WESLEY", "Oh yes, I remember too.", "(to Data)", "So, Data, if you don't mind...", "RIKER", "(fast; to Wesley)", "We've no time for courtesy!", "(fast; to Data)", "Get those damned control chips", "back in place, Data! In the", "correct order!", "Data hesitates, surprised at Riker shouting at him.", "RIKER", "(continuing)", "NOW!", "WESLEY", "(to Data)", "It's like a game of 'how fast can", "you do it?'", "DATA", "Ah, a game!", "Data begins selecting chips, beginning to move more and", "more rapidly. Wesley moves to the Engineering Room", "viewer, adjusts the controls there.", "WESLEY", "I think I can switch this to the", "main viewer, sir...", "112", "ANOTHER ANGLE - VIEWER (OPTICAL)", "as it switches to a SHOT OF THE STAR MATERIAL IN", "DISTANCE BUT RACING TOWARD THEM.", "113", "ANGLE EMPHASIZING RIKER", "turning from viewer to Data.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/30/87", "52.", "113", "CONTINUED:", "RIKER", "We've got eight or nine minutes,", "at most, Data. Can you finish", "by then?", "114", "ANGLE EMPHASIZING DATA", "If necessary, UNDERCRANK CAMERA now to show Data's hands", "are moving very fast. He seems to be calculating Riker's", "questions, then shakes his head without looking up:", "DATA", "No. This will take slightly more", "time than we have, sir.", "Riker becomes aware that his hand is wet, realizes he is", "\"infected\" too.", "RIKER", "Dammit, NO! I can't afford to", "get it!", "He stands, sways, grabs for support.", "115", "EXT. SPACE - MASS OF MATERIAL FROM STAR (OPTICAL)", "hurtling through space -- too fast.", "116", "INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ANGLE ON BEVERLY", "She has a batch of blue liquid made up and is examining", "it. Picard ENTERS on the run.", "PICARD", "Beverly...", "BEVERLY", "Yes, Jean-Luc?", "PICARD", "You will address me as Captain!", "They too still show signs of the \"intoxication.\" Beverly", "has begun to fill a hypo-spray with the blue liquid.", "BEVERLY", "In which case, dear Captain, you", "will address me as 'Chief Medical", "Officer' or 'Doctor.'", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "53.", "116", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD", "(befuddled; then)", "That's true; I started off calling", "you 'Beverly,' then naturally,", "you...", "(shakes head)", "I'm still not thinking straight!", "Having filled the hypo-spray, Beverly turns with it to", "go somewhere but forgets where.", "BEVERLY", "Likewise. Where the hell was I", "just headed?", "PICARD", "(indicates hypo)", "If that's something you wanted", "to test...", "BEVERLY", "(suddenly remembering)", "Yes, yes, on Geordi!", "Weaving a bit, she hurries off with Picard following in", "the same way.", "117", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - THREE SHOT", "Riker and MacDougal standing over Data, who concentrates", "on the chips. Wesley has moved to his school project", "tractor beam, eyes it proudly.", "WESLEY", "Did you see how I reversed fields", "on this, Commander? Made it into", "a repulser beam.", "Riker ignores the question, watches Data, concerned.", "118", "CLOSE ON DATA AND HIS HANDS", "UNDERCRANK CAMERA. His hands are flying -- almost a", "blur. More and and more of the isolinear optical chips", "are set in the command computer board.", "DATA", "If we had just a minute more,", "sir...", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "54.", "119", "ANGLE ON WESLEY", "He looks up toward Engineering Room viewer.", "120", "CLOSE ON VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)", "The mass of star material closer, hurtling toward them.", "121", "WIDER ANGLE", "Wesley reacts at the nearness now of the star material.", "Then looks at his tractor device.", "WESLEY", "If this were a hundred times more", "powerful than it is...", "122", "INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON GEORDI", "as Beverly administers the hypo to Geordi with Picard", "looking on.", "BEVERLY", "I made this a broader based", "remedy... I hope. But it's still", "close to the formula from the old", "Enterprise's records...", "PICARD", "Decades ago, light years away...", "BEVERLY", "But almost exactly the same", "conditions as here.", "GEORDI", "What was in that, Doctor? My", "head's beginning to clear...", "Both react to the sight of Geordi beginning to sit up", "alertly. Beverly whirls, injecting Picard... then", "herself. She presses the hypo on him.", "BEVERLY", "Take this to Engineering. I'll", "make up more hypos for the others.", "123", "INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE", "as before but with Riker gloomy now. Data and Wesley", "continuing work. But Wesley is struck with an idea,", "leaps to the Engineering Room control board.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 6/26/87", "55.", "123", "CONTINUED:", "Eyes it, then:", "WESLEY", "Why not try it with the real", "thing?!", "(to MacDougal)", "Why not reverse fields on this,", "Ma'am? If we only need an extra", "minute...", "MACDOUGAL", "It would take weeks of laying out", "new circuits...", "124", "EMPHASIZING WESLEY", "studying the Engineering Room board.", "WESLEY", "But why not just see it in your", "head?", "(thinks, presses", "switches)", "Come off the main lead, split at", "the force activator,", "then...then...", "(puzzled)", "If I could just think straight", "about this...", "125", "WIDER ANGLE", "as Picard bursts in, presses his hypo against MacDougal,", "then Riker, then another person, etc.", "RIKER", "We didn't make it, Captain. If", "we had just a minute or so more...", "126", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE, TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "with the star material looming large as it rushes down", "upon them.", "127", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON WESLEY", "His fingers begin to dance on the panel.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "56.", "127", "CONTINUED:", "WESLEY", "Yes, then reversing power leads,", "back through the force", "activator... repulser beam hard", "against the Tsiolkovsky...", "128", "EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE, TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)", "The Tsiolkovsky now begins drifting to one side,", "beginning to spin clear with the Enterprise moving away", "from it.", "129", "INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - WIDE ANGLE", "Riker eyes the viewer in surprise.", "RIKER", "We're pushing away!", "Data lifts his hands from the command computer board.", "The isolinear optical chips GLOW on the board.", "RIKER", "(continuing; into", "communicator)", "Bridge, engage engines!", "130", "EXT. SPACE - TSIOLKOVSKY AND MASS OF MATERIAL", "(OPTICAL)", "The mass of material crashes into the Tsiolkovsky. Her", "warp and impulse engines EXPLODE SIMULTANEOUSLY on", "impact in a mighty BLAZE OF LIGHT. But Enterprise is", "accelerating out of trouble.", "131", "INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - FULL SHOT", "Geordi at Conn now. Relief. Beverly is there still", "administering hypo injections. The red alarm lights", "have stopped.", "GEORDI", "Sir, something seemed to move us", "aside at the last minute.", "WORF", "(into his com)", "Do we owe our thanks to Commander", "Data, sir?", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "57.", "131", "CONTINUED:", "PICARD'S COM VOICE", "Yes. And... Wesley may have given", "us a few seconds, too.", "WORF", "Did he say Wesley? The boy?", "Beverly nods with a pleased look.", "BEVERLY", "He said Wesley.", "132", "INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE", "Picard sees Riker smiling at him. He scowls, begins", "to EXIT.", "RIKER", "It is only fair to mention Wesley", "in a log entry, sir.", "PICARD", "(stops; nods)", "Fair is fair. And let's credit", "his science teacher, too.", "Picard EXITS; Riker follows him.", "133", "thru", "OMITTED", "134", "135", "INT. MAIN BRIDGE - PANNING", "Picard, Riker and Data ENTER from the Turbolift and", "move toward their positions. Worf at Ops and Geordi", "at Conn positions turn with pleased expressions.", "GEORDI", "Congratulations, sir.", "PICARD", "To many people.", "During which Troi and Tasha also ENTER from Turbolift", "now, move to their positions. Tasha is back to normal,", "wearing her regular duty uniform, hair and makeup as", "stringent as usual. Data sees, nods.", "STAR TREK: \"The Naked Now\" - REV. 7/2/87", "58.", "135", "CONTINUED:", "Data starts to turn away but Tasha has colored, turns", "toward him.", "TASHA", "Data! I'm only going to tell", "you this just once... It never", "happened.", "Data gives her a very puzzled look, goes to position", "still puzzling over it.", "136", "OMITTED", "137", "ANGLE EMPHASIZING PICARD", "as he sits in his position, looks around the Bridge.", "PICARD", "I put it to all of you we may end", "up with a fine crew... if we keep", "working at it.", "(nods for emphasis;", "then)", "So let's get to our next job,", "Number One.", "RIKER", "Aye, sir. Helm, stand by for warp", "three. Heading two-hundred", "ninety-four mark thirty-seven.", "GEORDI", "Warp three, two-hundred", "ninety-four mark thirty-seven,", "sir.", "RIKER", "Engage!", "138", "EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE", "Accelerating into WARP SPEED.", "FADE OUT.", "THE END", "", "", "", "", "                                                      "]