Explore every episode of the podcast First Contact: The Next Generation Introcast

The Enterprise is exploring a nebula when it runs into a plot from an 80s children’s show.

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The Enterprise is transporting a Kriosian ambassador and his cargo to negotiate peace with their distant relatives, the Valtians...

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The writers sat around thinking, you know what? It’s been awhile since an alien entered Troi’s quarters in the night, we better do some kind of psychic violation storyline.

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It hasn't been that long since we watched all of these episodes but how much can TNG newcomer Alex remember?

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Andrew, James and Alex discuss the first season finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Can Picard and his crew defeat a mysterious force in the Federation? Can we please finish this season?

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Star Trek takes on Casablanca. What could possible go wrong?

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Tasha Yar finally gets some character development giving the First Contact team something to talk about

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There are some highs (and lows) in this drug themed episode of TNG

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Is there anything wrong with selling weapons? TNG ponders this deep question with its usual subtlety and nuance

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The time has come for Worf to get a back story

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Does Wesley have what it takes to make us care about his plight and his future? Surprisingly yes

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Everyone is acting suspiciously at a terraforming colony but why is terror forming?

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The Enterprise investigates a missing ship in a wibbly purple region of space.

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Somebody help, they've kidnapped the children...and Wesley

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Too Short a Season? You've got to be kidding

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The team discuss the problems of getting mysterious aliens to upgrade your starship

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Star Trek: The Next Generation's take on feminism is a great success, provided you're an idiot

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The crew pass Omicron Theta and decide to investigate Data's origins and discover his evil twin lore. Then he summons a giant crystal to attack. Save us Wesley!

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Picard explores the Holodeck for the first time and Andrew, James and Alex can't believe that it malfunctions. What are the chances?

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Andrew, Alex and James discuss the first appearance of Star Trek's favourite matriarch, Lwaxana Troi

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Q has something for Riker and it's not a good pun

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The Ferengi present Picard with his old command, The Stargazer. I bet they're up to something

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TNG considers the philosophical implications of Justice and then gets distracted by nipples

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The Enterprise is helping a scientist with a new form of propulsion, a soliton wave, which offers warp travel without a drive.

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Is this the most tedious episode yet?

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Our podcast arrives at the other side of the universe

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Andrew, Alex and James return to talk about the Federation's first contact with the Ferengi

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We take a break from our regular format as Andrew and Alex review Star Trek Into Darkness in depth and with spoilers

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We reach a controversial chapter in the history of Star Trek: The Next Generation

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We're back with our second Star Trek The Next Generation Introcast looking at 'The Naked Now'

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It's the debut of our Star Trek The Next Generation Introcast, First Contact.

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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.

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Ambassador Spock is missing and it seems he’s gone to Romulus. Could it be that this living legend has betrayed the Federation?

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Riker brings something back from Risa and soon all of the crew have it. Except for Wesley, because as we know, there are some games he doesn’t know how to play.

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Do you like disaster movies like The Poseidon Adventure or The Towering Inferno? Then you’ll like Disaster because it’s basically that but on Star Trek.

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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.

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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

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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....

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A wedding episode? A wedding episode featuring Lwaxana Troi? And Worf’s son Alexander? Stop Star Trek, you are spoiling us.

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We've been watching season 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation for three years now as we cover it for this podcast...

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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....

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The Enterprise is hosting a Federation archaeology symposium and among such prestigious academic company, Captain Picard is nervous to deliver the keynote address...

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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.

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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

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