Star Trek: 10 Hated Episodes You Grew To Love

10. The Naked Now

The Naked Now is a straight-up copy of The Naked Time, so for quite a while, it sat rather lower in the rankings. It was an early experiment in comedy for The Next Generation, plucking these self-serious officers from their positions and dropping them into farce. Could this be a swing and miss for the next iteration?

Time has been kind to the episode. There are major downsides, like reducing Tasha to that joke, yet drunken Data on the bridge is hilarious. Wesley is admittedly a little grating, while Troi and Riker give us their best puppy dog eyes.

The stars of the episode, in truth, are Crusher and Picard. Their erotic flirting often comes as a surprise, even on rewatch, so overshadowed as it is by the batsh*t events occurring around them. But when one takes the episode as a whole, it's actually a lot of fun. This is an outing that benefits from hindsight, and foreknowledge of where the characters get to, but it remains an oft-quoted riot to this day.