TNG - "The Naked Now"

This is just embarrassing.
It's a rehash of "The Naked Time" from TOS, and it's a terribly stupid episode. This is the first episode after the Enterprise-D crew's introduction, and it couldn't be a worse time to show the characters acting like drunken idiots.

We actually do learn a lot about the characters here. We learn that Geordi truly wants normal human vision, we see Tasha acting feminine (in an extremely creepy way), and we see a very clear attraction between Picard and Beverly. The problem is that it all comes across in a very off-putting way.

Tasha's character moments, in particular, are very odd. A quirk of this episode (and much of early TNG) is the awkward way in which it approaches sexuality. It's as if the show is being written and acted by an entire crew of twelve-year-olds who know nothing about romance or sex beyond... well, watching Star Trek. It's just uncomfortable, and not in the least bit genuine. At the same time, this episode gets closer to truly dealing with sex than any prior Trek story. Tasha straight-up bangs Data (Data? Really? Why not go for Riker, or hell, even Worf?), and we very nearly get a penis joke. But still, it all comes off stiff and weird.

Wesley's subplot actually comes to a somewhat clever conclusion, which is nice. It's one of the few bright spots in this episode.

Overall, though, this definitely goes down in the books as one of the worst episodes of Star Trek, period.