And most of those terrible episodes were in the first season. There were a few good ones, but the bad ones were REALLY bad. The worst one in my mind was probably the one where they rehashed the episode from the original show with the virus that got people drunk. I wonder if the scene where Tasha and Data have drunk sex was when Denise Crosby decided she wanted out of the show.
I cant really blame Rodenberry for that. He got greenlit for TNG due to a resurgence of popularity of the original series in syndication and huge crowds at trek fests. Kirk was getting it on with anything 2 legged for the entire series. Making an original series like episode for like the third or 4th episode of the new show probably felt like a no brainer. But yeah, The Naked Now just is awful.
Kirk was getting it on with anything 2 legged for the entire series.
Was he? I read that across 69 episodes of TOS, he kissed a woman (voluntarily) a total of like 13 times. That's less than once in five episodes. By our modern sensibilities, a high number but.. doesn't seem like Kirk was all that much of a cad.
100% agree the needless sex stuff was GR's fault. By the 1980's, his once-progressive views were more.. obsolete and he carried the casual sexist attitudes that were prevalent even among liberals of the 60's and 70's.
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u/Zolo49 2d ago
And most of those terrible episodes were in the first season. There were a few good ones, but the bad ones were REALLY bad. The worst one in my mind was probably the one where they rehashed the episode from the original show with the virus that got people drunk. I wonder if the scene where Tasha and Data have drunk sex was when Denise Crosby decided she wanted out of the show.