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JAN 11

First Contact: ‘The Inner Light’ Season 5 Episode 25

After doing some space stuff to bulk out the Captain’s log, the Enterprise encounters a probe of unknown origin. It emits a pulse which hits Captain Picard. He awakens on an unfamiliar world and is told his name is Kamin, an iron weaver recovering from a fever on a pre-warp planet called Kataan, and he’s married to Eline. Picard is initially is reluctant to accept this as truth but finds the people to be peaceful and friendly. As the years pass, he comes to accept his new life, has children with his wife and finds solace in playing his flute, but he has concerns about the future of the planet due to the ongoing drought. Over the years, he investigates the cause all while losing friends and family. He eventually discovers that the planet is dying due to the changes in its sun. A probe is launched… the probe the Enterprise encountered right at the beginning of the episode. Picard wakes up back on the Enterprise with a lifetime of memories, forever a changed man… until next week. More First Contact season 5 episodes ‘Darmok’ ‘Ensign Ro’ ‘Silicon Avatar’ ‘Disaster’ ‘The Game’ ‘Unification’ ‘A Matter of Time’ ‘New Ground’ ‘Hero Worship’ ‘Violations’ ‘The Masterpiece Society’ ‘Conundrum’ ‘Power Play’ ‘Ethics’ ‘The Outcast’ ‘The First Duty’ ‘Cost of Living’ ‘The Perfect Mate’ ‘Imaginary Friend’ ‘I, Borg’ ‘The Next Phase’ The post First Contact: ‘The Inner Light’ Season 5 Episode 25 appeared first on The Spoilist.

Jan 11

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44 min
04/19/2025

First Contact: ‘I, Borg’ Season 5 Episode 23

While scouting a system for colonisation, the Enterprise here’s a distress call. Upon answering, they find a lone surviving Borg, Third of Five. Against protests, Crusher insists on trying to help him, eventually bringing him on board the Enterprise. Troi thinks Picard may experience trauma with a Borg on board but he insists that he’s fine, but decides to use the Borg to send a virus into the collective and wipe them out for good. However, while studying him, Geordi bonds with him, even naming him Hugh, and he begins to show signs of becoming an individual and understanding life beyond being a Borg. Even established Borg hater Guinan starts to think he’s a fairly decent dude. Can they really send him back to his demise? Or even worse, to return in a disappointing season six episode? More First Contact season 5 episodes ‘Darmok’ ‘Ensign Ro’ ‘Silicon Avatar’ ‘Disaster’ ‘The Game’ ‘Unification’ ‘A Matter of Time’ ‘New Ground’ ‘Hero Worship’ ‘Violations’ ‘The Masterpiece Society’ ‘Conundrum’ ‘Power Play’ ‘Ethics’ ‘The Outcast’ ‘The First Duty’ ‘Cost of Living’ ‘The Perfect Mate’ ‘Imaginary Friend’ The post First Contact: ‘I, Borg’ Season 5 Episode 23 appeared first on The Spoilist.

04/19/2025

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45 min
09/22/2022

First Contact: ‘A Matter of Time’ Season 5 Episode 9

While the Enterprise tries to save a planet suffering from an environmental disaster, a historian, apparently from the future, arrives on the Enterprise to observe the events. His eccentric manner infuriates some of the crew, except Doctor Crusher, but I’m not sure what they were trying to do there. Anyway, they save the planet with some phasers and deflectors because they can solve all problems and the time guy is revealed to be a con artist from the past. And that’s about it. More First Contact season 5 episodes ‘Darmok’ ‘Ensign Ro’ ‘Silicon Avatar’ ‘Disaster’ ‘The Game’ ‘Unification’ The post First Contact: ‘A Matter of Time’ Season 5 Episode 9 appeared first on The Spoilist.

09/22/2022

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33 min
11/01/2021

First Contact: ‘Darmok’ Season 5 Episode 2

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 intention. While the Enterprise crew attempt to rescue their Captain, the Tamarians are more than a match for them as they aim not to escalate to a battle. Picard begins to understand Dathon, his species talks in metaphors, every situation references a story from their past. In their history Darmok and Jalad bonded over fighting a beast at Tanagra and Dathon has placed Picard in the same situation. When the captain finally understands, it’s almost too late as the beast fatally wounds Dathon. But on returning to the ship, Picard is able to use their form of language and begin communications. Listen to the previous episode ‘You Must Remember This: Season 4’ here. The post First Contact: ‘Darmok’ Season 5 Episode 2 appeared first on The Spoilist.

11/01/2021

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31 min
04/08/2018

First Contact: ‘You Must Remember This’ Season 3

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 remember even the most basic details of something that he spent a significant amount of his time doing. Listen to the previous episode ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ here. FIRST CONTACT WILL RETURN. The post First Contact: ‘You Must Remember This’ Season 3 appeared first on The Spoilist.

04/08/2018

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31 min
05/13/2018

First Contact: ‘The Best of Both Worlds, Part II’ Season 4 Episode 1

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 Borg once again. An audacious series of manoeuvres sees the Enterprise recapture Picard but he remains in the hostile guise of Locutus. While they can’t separate the man from the machine, Data establishes a way to hack the Borg’s collective consciousness, but can he stop them before Earth is destroyed? And can they save Picard? Yes, because this week’s episode is not a cliffhanger. Alex, James and Andrew spend far too long talking about this slow burning sequel to the greatest Star Trek cliffhanger of all time. Listen to the previous episode, ‘You Must Remember This – Season 3’, here. The post First Contact: ‘The Best of Both Worlds, Part II’ Season 4 Episode 1 appeared first on The Spoilist.

05/13/2018

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53 min
07/22/2017

First Contact: ‘Allegiance’ Season 3 Episode 18

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 solution. Meanwhile, Picard’s clone is starting to act erratically, but surely the crew won’t mutiny, or will they? Join Andrew, James and Alex as they try to remember this episode. Listen to the previous episode, ‘Sins of the Father’ here. The post First Contact: ‘Allegiance’ Season 3 Episode 18 appeared first on The Spoilist.

07/22/2017

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35 min
01/30/2022

First Contact: ‘Silicon Avatar’ Season 5 Episode 4

Riker’s awkward seduction is interrupted by the crystalline entity which devastatingly transforms a colony which looks surprisingly like a California park into a matte painting. The survivors wait out the disaster in a cave until the Enterprise eventually comes to rescue them. They are joined by Kila Marr, an expert on the creature who lost her son in the attack by the entity on Omicron Theta, Data’s homeworld. The Doctor initially mistrusts Data, believing him to be working with the entity but later she softens when she asks him to share some of her son’s memories. Despite this, she seems intent on destroying the giant killer space crystal while Picard would rather start a dialogue. While the crew works out a method of communication, Marr uses the same to destroy the creature. She later asks forgiveness from her son through Data, but he offers none. More First Contact season 5 episodes ‘Darmok’ ‘Ensign Ro’ The post First Contact: ‘Silicon Avatar’ Season 5 Episode 4 appeared first on The Spoilist.

01/30/2022

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30 min
01/18/2023

First Contact: ‘Hero Worship’ Season 5 Episode 11

The Enterprise investigates a missing ship in a wibbly purple region of space. The only survivor is a boy named Timothy who data rescues from under a pillar. Those are always falling on people in these situations. Timothy’s way of dealing with trauma is to pretend to be an android and he starts acting like Data which allows us to play the TNG greatest hits of how weirdos in the future deal with grief and Data hanging out with a child. Meaning the crew investigate what caused the accident and work out it’s some weird echoey thing in space which amplifies power into a feedback loop. Or something like that. It doesn’t really matter. The important thing to learn is, don’t go into purple regions of space. More First Contact season 5 episodes ‘Darmok’ ‘Ensign Ro’ ‘Silicon Avatar’ ‘Disaster’ ‘The Game’ ‘Unification’ ‘A Matter of Time’ New Ground The post First Contact: ‘Hero Worship’ Season 5 Episode 11 appeared first on The Spoilist.

01/18/2023

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31 min
05/31/2014

First Contact: ‘The Child’ Season 2 Episode 1

FIRST CONTACT: ‘THE CHILD’ SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 It’s a new season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and that means change. Listen to three men awkwardly discuss the incredible failings of a the season 2 opener and try to work out how this ever got past a first script meeting. Maybe the wise words of Maurice Hurley will provide an answer? Listen to the previous episode, our Season 1 overview here. The post First Contact: ‘The Child’ Season 2 Episode 1 appeared first on The Spoilist.

05/31/2014

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33 min

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