Naked Lunch with elements of Burroughs' life, creating a hybrid film about the writing of the book rather than the book itself. Peter Weller starred as William Lee, the pseudonym Burroughs used when he wrote "Junkie". Naked Lunch Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a novel by American writer William S. Burroughs, originally published in 1959. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The reader follows the narration of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to
The Naked Now basis, he turned to the "" episode "The Naked Time." Executive producer Rick Berman described "The Naked Now" as "a[n] homage, not a copy" of "The Naked Time," while director Paul Lynch described it as "slightly more adult and a lot more comic than the original". "The Naked Now" is based on an incomplete teleplay by Roddenberry for "The Next Generation," titled "Revelations." The first few scenes remained largely similar, but in "Revelations" La Forge infected Yar while making unsuccessful sexual advances toward her. "Original Series" writer D.C. Fontana wrote a new draft of the teleplay with several further changes