The Naked Now.
When The Next Generation launched, Gene Roddenberry and the
writers wanted to make sure it had its own identity and wasn’t
perceived as a rehash of The Original Series. So for the second
episode, they pulled out a script written in 1967 as a planned
sequel to "The Naked Time" and reworked it a bit to feature the
crew of this new Galaxy Class starship. More fancy water molecules
meant more life-threatening strange behavior, and a story that felt
wildly familiar to the fans TNG was ...
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