Nudity Nudity refers to not having any clothes on . Most species must be naked to have sex ual relations . Human s and Vulcan s considered nudity to be somewhat risqué and titillating . The Edo considered nudity a normal part of everyday life , however . ( ) In 2266 , on Planet Exo III , the android Ruk locked Captain James T . Kirk nude onto an android duplicator to aid Dr . , the long lost fiance ' of nurse Christine Chapel , to create an of Kirk in order to take over the to further Korby ' s plan to populate the universe with other androids . ( ) Betazoid wedding ceremonies were traditionally held in complete nudity , including the participants and the guests . Lwaxana Troi arrived to her wedding to Campio aboard the in 2368 in the nude , over the protests of Campio ' s Protocol Master , Erko . ( ; ) Ferengi females were not allowed to wear clothes . ( ; ) When Q was stripped off his powers by the Q Continuum he appeared nude on the bridge of the . ( ) Data , an android , had no concern with nudity when he was first activated , as his programming led him to see no practical necessity to wearing clothing as he did not suffer from the elements . This led his creator , Doctor Noonian Soong , to add a modesty subroutine to his programming . ( ) In 2366 , when Data was kidnapped by Kivas Fajo , he refused Fajo ' s demand that he wear a specific set of clothes instead of his Starfleet uniform . Fajo destroyed the uniform with finoplak , triggering Data ' s modesty subroutine and forcing him to change into the clothes . ( ) Tuvok slept in the nude and dreamed of forgetting to put on his uniform before reporting for duty . ( ) A line in " Henry V " stated , " " For though I speak it to you , I think the king is but a man , as I am . The violet smells to him as it doth to me , in his nakedness he appears but a man . " " ( ) In 2369 Captain Jean - Luc Picard was stripped of his clothes by the Cardassian Gul Madred as part of his torture and interrogation . Miles O ' Brien also suffered a similar situation when he arrested by the Cardassians . ( , ) On Deep Space 9 , in the week s leading up to the Dominion War , Morn went berserk after hearing Quark ' s prediction of the coming doom . He hit Quark with a barstool , and ran out of his Quark ' s Bar and through the Promenade , screaming " " We ' re all doomed ! " " He then ran into the Bajoran shrine , stark naked , and began crying to the Prophet s for protection . ( ) One of the more risqué fantasies of The Doctor involved painting Seven of Nine in the nude . When Captain Kathryn Janeway observed his fantasies in 2376 on the holodeck as part of an attempt to fix an error in his programming , she commented that he drew Seven ' s hand s very well . Later , after the problem was resolved , Seven gave him a kiss , but told him that it was a platonic gesture and that he should not expect her to pose for him . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Gene Roddenberry originally intended for his vision of Earth to be a civilization of nudists . ( " Star Trek is . . . " ) The episode marks the only time , in any " Star Trek " series or film , that actor Leonard Nimoy is seen on camera not wearing a shirt . ( " " ) William Shatner however , appeared shirtless twelve times , and in a ripped shirt seven times . According to the " , " for the episode , " " the Darwin ' superchildren ' were originally to have appeared nude and the extras were asked to shave from the neck down . But the use of transparent furniture quickly nixed that idea , and costumes were hastily made as the extras endured stubble itch . " " The Parallax colony ' s mud bath that Lwaxana Troi , Alexander Rozhenko , Deanna Troi , and Worf use in is implied to be done in the nude . The episode also ends with the second bare female bottom , namely Lwaxana ' s , to appear in " Star Trek " , after the art model in . The scene in ' s where Worf walks in on Leeta and her Risian companion in the purple mesh tank top , Leeta was originally naked and in a bath tub . This is evident in the original thirty - second promotional spot , available at . The butterfly dancers in ' s premiere premiere episode , , wore little more than seven layers of foul - smelling latex , which took nine hours to be painted . Diane Klimaszewski , who played the blue butterfly dancer , passed out and vomited due to the appliances . Despite these physical reactions to the latex , she considered the episode as being worth the discomfort . Regarding the experience of creating the scene in which she herself and twin sister Elaine Klimaszewski played the pair of aliens , Diane recalled , " " We each had our own trailer and we were filming by the beach , near a water treatment plant . I had my trailer door open , so passers - by would look in and freak out to see this alien ! " " ( ) As originally filmed , the famous " love scene " between Tucker and T ' Pol in the episode featured a look at actress Jolene Blalock ' s naked posterior . Two versions of this scene exist , however , depending on where and how the episode is watched ; US audiences watching the original broadcast on UPN , or later on the Sci - Fi Channel , were shown a version in which the frame was " enlarged , " enabling the network to crop the picture just above Blalock ' s bare bottom . Canadian viewers , however , were treated to the scene as it was originally shot – with Blalock ' s bottom shown ( see the picture to the left ) . The " unedited " version of this scene is intact on the DVD release of the episode , HDNet ' s broadcast , and streaming video providers such as Netflix and Hulu . The episode aired ten days after the " " during halftime at Super Bowl XXXVIII , which may have resulted in the alternate versions . This is the third time a bare female bottom was in " Star Trek " , though it was the first time more than one " cheek " was shown . The episode was the first " Star Trek " episode or film to show female frontal nudity on - screen , in the form of the Klingon L ' Rell ' s nipple s , albeit briefly in ' s flashback / nightmare .