First Contact: The Next Generation Introcast

Following a terrorist attack on a Federation outpost near the Cardassian Empire, Ensign Ro, a Bajoran with a bad reputation, is assigned to the Enterprise. While the crew are reluctant to work with someone who got other officers killed, her information proves valuable, and Guinan decides to become her friend. While it appears the Bajorans are behind the attacks, it soon becomes clear that they don...

The Enterprise is on a mission to begin a new relationship with the Tamarians, a race who have been in contact with the Federation but have up until now, not been understood. The trend continues with Picard unable to establish a meaningful dialogue. The Tamarian Captain Dathon beams himself and Picard down the planet, offering Picard a knife. Picard refuses to fight but it is clear that is not the...

We’ve been watching season 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation for three years now as we cover it for this podcast. Do you want to listen to what happens when a man who has only seen these episodes once tries to remember what happened in them? Well, then this is the episode for you.     The post First Contact: You Must Remember This – Season 4 appeared first on The Spoilist .

The Enterprise returns to Kronos so Picard can fulfil his duties as arbiter of the high council and install Gowron as Chancellor. The Captain suggests that Worf should take the opportunity to reclaim his family honour. But there is unrest within the Empire with the Duras family led by Lursa and Betor plotting against Gowron having found a new heir to rule. Worf decides to help Gowron win power in...

After a bad breakup, Lieutenant D’Sora takes a romantic interest in Data as he is kind and attentive in a way her previous partners have not been. Data asks all of the senior staff for advice before deciding to pursue the relationship. In a series of random scenes Data learns that women don’t always mean what they say, that you shouldn’t be creepy and weird and start arguments for no reason, and t...

By Geordi is on his way to Risa on a shuttle when he’s suddenly attacked by Romulans, which came as a great relief to the computer as Geordi was just getting started on his seduction moves. The Romulans use his VISOR interface to show him any image they choose to reprogramme his brain to put him under their control. Meanwhile the Enterprise is dealing with an uprising on a Klingon colony with the...

Doctor Crusher has a boyfriend, Odan, a Trill ambassador who is negotiating between the peoples of two moons, so generic that no one even bothered naming them properly. When going to the planet hosting the talks, he refuses the transporter, instead preferring the shuttle. However, it’s attacked upon leaving the Enterprise leaving him fatally injured. On his deathbed he reveals he is merely a host...

The Enterprise is participating in a scientific mission to help the people of Kaelon II restore life to their failing star. Leading the project is Dr Timicin, who has dedicated his life to this research but is out of his element on the Enterprise, having come from an isolationist world. Lwaxana Troi is also on board visiting her daughter and takes an interest in Timicin, which is eventually recipr...

Following a minor explosion in the warp core, a Klingon exchange officer is found to have been working with the Romulans and sending them classified information. However, he denies sabotaging the warp core. Suspecting a conspiracy on board, Starfleet sends the legendary Retired Admiral Norah Satie on board to investigate. While she and Picard work well together, soon she and her staff begin to use...

The Enterprise is hosting a Federation archaeology symposium and among such prestigious academic company, Captain Picard is nervous to deliver the keynote address. But he’s surprised and delighted to find Vash, his old flame from Risa, among the delegates. And like any show in search of some kind of plot, Q shows up offering to grant Picard a wish because he feels indebted to him following the eve...

Remember Barclay? He was more entertaining than most of the series regulars so when you come up with a good story,  you might as well give it to him. While out repairing the Argus Array, Reg gets knocked out by a weird space ray from a probe but quickly recovers. He’s not the same after, displaying intelligence, insight and confidence. But as his intelligence increases as does his insubordination....

Geordi’s former colleague Lieutenant Commander Susanna Leijten comes on board. She’s worried that all of their former colleagues from a mission to Tarchannen III have deserted Starfleet and disappeared. She begins to act increasingly strangely and wants to go down to the planet’s surface before she begins to transform into a strange alien creature. Doctor Crusher investigates the medical possibili...

The Enterprise discovers the missing science vessel, the USS Brattain, abandoned in space. It turns out all of the crew have killed each other, having gone slowly mad but with no apparent  explanation. When they try to leave, the Enterprise also finds itself stuck and tensions start to rise with the crew succumbing to the same condition that afflicted those on the Brattain. Turns out they are stuc...

The Enterprise discovers a new lifeform, some kind of space whale, and everyone gets excited. But when the Enterprise gets too close, it attacks. Forced to fire phasers to protect the ship, the creature is killed. But no one is sad for too long because it turns out that it was pregnant and the Enterprise delivers the space baby. But it soon hooks on to the ship and drains the power. In the other p...

Riker is injured while undercover investigating the Malcorians, an alien race on the verge of warp technology. Riker tries to escape suspicious medics while Captain Picard makes contact with their chancellor in order to introduce the Federation. He is intrigued by the idea but wary as his society has yet to catch up with their technological advances and fear change. On one side, the administrator...

The Enterprise gets pulled into a wormhole while investigating an unusual M-Class planet and he crew are all knocked unconscious. Data informs them that they were only out for 30 seconds but some things don’t add up – the  planet has disappeared, Doctor Crusher’s moss samples have grown and Worf has a broken wrist but no memory of breaking it. Picard suspects Data isn’t telling the truth abo...

  Someone found an old original series script titled ‘Devil’s Due’ in a box and they changed the names of the characters. Kirk Picard must face off against Ardra, a woman who claims to be a mythical Satan-like entity, who has claimed the planet Ventax II after they apparently made a deal for 1000 years of peace in exchange for the planet. Picard believes her to be a con arti...

The Enterprise is patrolling the Cardassian border when it’s attacked in contravention of the recent peace treaty. The Cardassians reveal that a Federation starship has been destroying their ships without provocation. Picard is ordered to work alongside their old enemy to investigate and to keep the peace at all costs. They track down Benjamin Maxwell, the renegade captain of the USS Phoenix, who...

20 years on from the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Picard is still haunted by dreams of his fallen crewmate and friend Data. Having become disillusioned with Starfleet’s behaviour during the Romulan crisis Picard has retired to the family vineyard and has lost his drive and purpose. But all that changes when he meets a young woman named Dahj who has suddenly developed superhuman abilities. Could s...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘DATA’S DAY’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 11   Data records a podcast about a day in his life for Commander Maddox, that guy who tried to have him taken to pieces in The Measure of a Man. The day revolves around the personal – with Data acting as the father of the bride in the wedding of ship’s botanist Keiko Ishikawa and Chief O’Brien – and the professional with an impo...

We’ve watched a couple of trailers for Star Trek: Picard and now we’re going to talk about them in our usual ill-informed way. Join Alex, Andrew and James as they look forward to the next Star Trek television series coming to CBS All Access in the US and globally on Amazon Prime on 23 January 2020. https://youtu.be/YhBBXHwEsIo   The post First Contact: Star Trek Picard preview app...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE LOSS’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 10 Following some unusual sensor readings, the Enterprise finds it is unable to resume its course with both warp and impulse engines failing to have any impact on the ship’s new course towards a weird purple thing that will probably crush them. Meanwhile Counsellor Troi experiences extreme pain and soon realises she’s lost her empathic abilities. From th...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘FINAL MISSION’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 9 Wesley Crusher has been accepted into Starfleet Academy. Before he does, Picard decides to take Wesley on a mission where’s he’s mediating a mining dispute. For some reason they head out on some wreck of a mining ship with a shifty captain. The ship then crashes on a desert planet right on cue while the Enterprise answers a distress call because a...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘FUTURE IMPERFECT’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 8     After an away mission goes wrong, Riker wakes up following an emergency transport to find 16 years have passed. He’s told a rare brain disease he picked up on the planet means he’s lost all of his memories since that time. In this future, he is captain of the Enterprise, Ambassador Picard is helping to negotiate peace with the Rom...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘REUNION’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 7 K’ehleyr is back with news. Worf’s a father to a tiny little Klingon called Alexander…for some reason. And also the leader of the high council, K’mpec is dying, poisoned by his rivals. K’mpec wants Picard to arbitrate on his successor with Duras and Gowron keen to lead the Empire. Following K’mpec’s very sudden death, Picard delays the process for...