First Contact: The Next Generation Introcast

FIRST CONTACT : ‘REMEMBER ME’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 6 The Enterprise answers a distress call from a Federation freighter which is orbiting the planet Tarkana IV, the home of former security chief Tasha Yar. They race to get there but the ship explodes but their escape pod makes it to the planet. Unfortunately the planet is ruled by two warring factions and the crewmen are being held hostage by the Alli...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘REMEMBER ME’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 5 While docked at Starbase 133, Wesley conducts an experiment with the warp core while Doctor Crusher welcomes on board her old friend and mentor, Doctor Dalen Quaice. But the next day he is gone and there’s no record that he was on ever on board. While an investigation is carried out, it seems no one can remember ever meeting the man. Soon after, Cru...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘SUDDENLY HUMAN’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 4 The Enterprise answers a distress call and finds a training ship with four young Talarians on board…and one human. It turns out this young man has been raised as a Talarian after his Starfleet serving parents were killed in battle. He shows signs of abuse and is reluctant to acknowledge his human heritage. The only person he will respond to...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘BROTHERS’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 3 After his brother plays a practical joke that goes wrong, a child called Willie is left fighting for his life on the Enterprise. Meanwhile Data goes bonkers and steals the ship, locking the computer by doing impressions and entering really big numbers as passwords. Turns out, he’s reacting to a homing beacon sent by his father Doctor Noonien Soongh. Bu...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘FAMILY’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 Following his trauma with the Borg, Picard visits his home village of La Barre in France for the first time in 20 years to reconcile with his brother Robert  and meet his sister in law and nephew for the first time. Meanwhile on the Enterprise, Worf’s human parents pay their son a visit, while Wesley gets an unexpected message from the past. Join James,...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, PART II’ SEASON 4 EPISODE 1 After the Enterprise’s plan to fire a burst from the deflector fails, the Borg set a course for Earth. A fleet of 40 ships engages the cube at Wolf 359 but the Enterprise is unable to join them having burned out the warp core. When they arrive at the site of the battle they find all the ships destroyed but prepare to engage the...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS’ SEASON 3 The First Contact podcast team starting listening to season 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation way back in 2015. Now, three years later, they’ve come back together to see if TNG newbie Alex remembers anything at all about the last 26 episodes or if this podcast experiment was a complete waste of time. Listen in wonder as a man fails to remem...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 26 They’re back! After forgetting about them for a while, the Borg decide to improve Federation architecture by wiping it off the face of a planet. Borg specialist Lt commander Shelby boards the Enterprise to help the crew but ruffles Riker’s feathers with her abrasive and ambitious attitude. When the Enterprise encounters the Borg sphere,...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘TRANSFIGURATIONS’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 25 The Enterprise is exploring an uncharted system (they’re actually exploring guys!) when they find  a  lone survivor of an escape pod crash. Doctor Crusher stabilises him by hooking him up to Geordi’s brain and moving him to the Enterprise. The patient, which they call John Doe, heals remarkably quickly, going from near death to up and walking,...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘MÉNAGE À TROI’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 24  ‘Ménage à Troi’ sees the Enterprise arrive at Betazed for a trade conference, a landmark event with the Ferengi in attendance for the first time. Lwaxana Troi is invited giving her and Deanna a chance to catch up and fight about her lack of husband.  Unfortunately all is not well as the Enterprise begins another dull mission. While Riker and Tro...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘SAREK’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 23 Legendary Ambassador Sarek (Mark Lenard) boards the Enterprise in order to finalise a historic treaty with the Legarans. However, all is not well as he appears to be losing control of his emotions, crying at a Mozart recital. Meanwhile tensions are rising among the crew with apparently random outbursts of anger. Picard and Crusher determine that Sarek is...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE MOST TOYS’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 22 Data is transporting a dangerous chemical required to prevent an environmental disaster on the planet of the week, when his shuttle explodes, apparently killing him. Everyone on the ship is a little shocked but they get on with their mission like good Federation officers do. In reality, Data has been kidnapped and his death faked by Kivas Fajo, a...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘HOLLOW PURSUITS’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 21 What do you do when you get a relatively high profile guest star? You attempt to build a fun episode around them, of course. Dwight Schultz stars as Reg Barclay, a nervous man who is all of us and helps the audience understand that the entire senior staff of the Enterprise are dicks, especially Wesley. He has social anxiety and uses the holodec...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘TIN MAN’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 20 The Enterprise is busy pottering along when it’s diverted on a new mission following an awkwardly chummy encounter with the captain of the Hood. Tam Elbrun, a mission specialist in First Contact situations comes on board with an abrupt manner and a dark past with both Troi and Riker.  The Enterprise’s new orders are to make contact with an ancient livi...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘CAPTAIN’S HOLIDAY’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 19 The crew notice that Picard is feeling stressed and so Doctor Crusher orders him to take a vacation. The Captain is reluctant because he loves to work but eventually agrees to take a trip to Risa when Troi threatens a visit from her mother. While trying to relax he gets embroiled in a plot involving an ancient artefact involving the Fer...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘ALLEGIANCE’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 18 Picard gets kidnapped by a weird sparkly slab and is replaced by a flawed clone. He finds himself in a room with three others – a Starfleet cadet,  a cowardly alien and an angry alien. They all set off together to find the lost city of Oz. No that’s not right. They all respond differently to their imprisonment but try to work together to find a solu...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘SINS OF THE FATHER’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 17 Remember that really fun episode when Riker was the first officer on the Klingon ship? Well this is the opposite of that. The Klingon Kurn becomes first officer of the Enterprise as part of the exchange programme but he has an ulterior motive for being there. Turns out he’s Worf’s brother, who knew? He needs Worf to go home because their fat...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE OFFSPRING’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 16 On returning from a cybernetics conference, Data decides to lock himself away in his lab. Despite Wesley’s lurking, he won’t tell anyone what he’s working on. Turns out he’s been building himself a new android – one that he considers to be his child. He allows Lal to pick a gender and appearance, and they settle on becoming  a human female. She b...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘YESTERDAY’S ENTERPRISE’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 15 The Enterprise encounters a time hole and through it emerges the Enterprise-C and then everything goes wobbly. The departure of this ship from the past has created a new present, one in which Tasha Yar is still alive and is actually given something to do, and the Federation is fighting a losing war against the Klingon Empire. Guina...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 14 Star Trek: The Next Generation does Rashomon via the holodeck after Riker is accused of blowing up a space station and murdering the lead scientist. Is he a fine officer just doing his job or is he a vengeful lothario driven by petty jealousies? Maybe he’s both but it will all be solved in the end through some ridiculous technobabble th...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘DEJA Q’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 13 Q is seeking asylum on the Enterprise having been thrown out of the continuum and stripped of his powers and his clothes. The crew don’t trust him and Picard wants to get some use out of the brig set, so they send him there. In his now vulnerable state, an alien race of energy beings come on board the Enterprise to take revenge on Q for past misde...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE HIGH GROUND’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 12 While the Enterprise is delivering medical supplies to Rutia IV, Doctor Crusher gets kidnapped by a terrorist group. They use a new form of dimensional transporter which makes them impossible to trace. In the meantime the Doctor finds that the terrorists are killing themselves with their new technology and finds some common ground with their ch...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE HUNTED’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 11 The Enterprise is conducting a really thorough investigation into whether a planet  can join the Federation. “Well the Prime Minister seems trustworthy, despite the moustache” remarked Riker to Picard as they walked around the obvious set.  Unfortunately an incident occurs and a dangerous prisoner escapes which is embarrassing for everyone. Since th...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE DEFECTOR’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 10 A Romulan scout ship crosses the Neutral Zone pursued by one of their big green war ship things. On board is a defector with information about an impending Romulan invasion of the Neutral Zone. Can he be trusted? If so, can war be averted? Or is everyone just a pawn in some cosmic game of chess? Join Andrew, James and Alex as they continue their r...

FIRST CONTACT : ‘THE VENGEANCE FACTOR’ SEASON 3 EPISODE 9 Some space bikers are destroying Federation outposts and Picard is fed up and tracks down their planet of origin and brings their sovereign on board to try and negotiate peace with these outcasts. Meanwhile Riker takes a special interest in the monarch’s chef, who appears sweet but is troubled. While negotiations make progress, Crusher disc...