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 This script is not for publication or reproduction.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