Ok, just to be clear, was it implied that literal orgies were happening in "Naked Now" or am I being malicious?!?

[cooleddie74]

Rocket boots that allow you to hang in midair as if suspended by hidden overhead wires.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Again, the odds of being injured or dying are vanishingly small compared to day-to-day risks we take without a second thought.

And those risks worry me too. I'm very, very careful using crosswalks, and I compulsively double- or triple-check that my doors are locked before I turn in. I just generally have a very heightened risk awareness.

When I was 12 I was curious/reckless enough to touch a downed power line. Five minutes later, I was still perfectly fine, though when I notified repairmen using our neighbor's phone, my voice seemed a bit trembly to me. We even stuck our little fingers into high-power metal fans in the '70s because we could, and the makers never believed we would. I've never been hit by a car either. Today, my height-phobia is so increased I can't will myself to walk two rungs up a long ladder.

In those treehouse days of yore, we had youthful ''orgies'' of damn foolishness.

 

[Maurice]

Rocket boots that allow you to hang in midair as if suspended by hidden overhead wires.

Or wires off you side if the camera is tilted 90°.

 

[PatB1974]

I had the definite feeling that Tasha had intended to hook up with Deanna in her quarters. I think there was a lot of wild stuff going on on that ship. I wonder how many unplanned pregnancies resulted from that episode.

 

[Skipper]

I had the definite feeling that Tasha had intended to hook up with Deanna in her quarters.

Wow wow wow! Are you trying to imply that there were humans in the TNG world who weren't cis-het?!? This is pure insanity!

I think there was a lot of wild stuff going on on that ship. I wonder how many unplanned pregnancies resulted from that episode.

The idea that something like an "unplanned pregnancy" could exist in the 24th century strikes me as completely insane. Unfortunately, Picard showed us that it's entirely possible (which I think it's absurd, but whatever).

 

[DonIago]

^Thankfully all of the unplanned pregnancies that occurred were subsequently mooted in "Genesis".

 

[Christopher]

The idea that something like an "unplanned pregnancy" could exist in the 24th century strikes me as completely insane. Unfortunately, Picard showed us that it's entirely possible (which I think it's absurd, but whatever).

DS9 established that both men and women take birth-control injections. Sisko and Kasidy only had an unplanned pregnancy because the war kept them so distracted that they forgot to get their boosters.

The way Picard did it is utterly ridiculous. There's no way a doctor, of all people, would not be keeping up her contraceptive shots.

And really, given how intense a radiation environment interstellar space is, the smart thing would be for all Starfleet recruits to put their gametes on ice beforehand, get themselves sterilized, and conceive in vitro when they decide to start a family. At least, that's how it's done in a lot of space-based science fiction, although Trek is one of those series that downplay the radiation hazards of space.

 

[Riley]

Roddenberry was many good things, but he was also a horndog and misogynist. He wanted sex in everything. What do you think the point of creating Ilia was? Ira Steven Behr talks about how he had to take a meeting with Roddenberry and just how far Roddenberry wanted Behr to go in the script for "Captain's Holiday," which fortunately got scaled back. I mean, in "Justice," we saw yet another planet of people who were just screwing each other all the time. It was quite the obsession Roddenberry had and only the work of other producers and writers that kept it from being more a part of the show than it was. If he could have done "Game of Thrones" level sex on Star Trek, he would have.

I don't know if you've read it, but Majel Barret tells a story in "The Fifty-Year Mission" that illustrates just how vile Roddenberry could be in their personal sex life. The man had some issues.

 

[NigellaDeanna20]

This is a point that bizarrely came up in the thread Was TNG considered a "family tv show" at the time? And anyway, what does "family tv show" mean?

I jokingly said that it didn't seem like it was really written for children since already in the second episode we had space orgies. To my surprise, someone asked what I was talking about. Now, from my memory, obviously no one had mentioned the orgies (it was the 80s after all!), but hey! The first victims were found naked together in a room. Data and Tasha were doing naughty things. Even Picard and Beverly were all horny. It seemed obvious to me that with the loss of inhibitions in other parts of the spaceship there would be non-stop group sex. But it seems that it was not so obvious to everyone!

So my question is: do you think the writers wanted to make it clear that orgies were happening at that moment on the ship but obviously couldn't say it clearly, or is it just the product of my sick mind?

I'd say that's probably very much open to whatever your own interpretation is. To me, i've never thought of it like that. Bear in mind that was only the second episode of the show and it was still trying to find its feet at that point.