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While scouting a system for colonisation, the Enterprise here’s a distress call. Upon answering, they find a lone surviving Borg, Third of Five.

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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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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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The Enterprise heads to Earth so Picard can deliver the commencement address to Starfleet Academy, but before they arrive, they receive news that Wesley has been involved in an accident during flight training which means we get to have one of those trial episodes.

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'Cause and Effect' is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation all about a time loop. A time loop? Yes, a time loop.

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The Enterprise is called in to render assistance to the J’naii after one of their shuttles disappears down a weird space hole.

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While playing a game of find the plastic melting radiation, some barrels fall on Worf, leaving him paralysed. Crusher invites a neurological specialist, Doctor Toby Russell, to assess his condition and she offers a miracle

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The Enterprise answers a centuries old distress call solving the mystery of an early Federation starship that disappeared. But Troi senses life so an away team take a shuttle down to investigate

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The crew of the Enterprise have lost their memories but still remember how to push all the buttons. Using the ship’s systems, they find their personnel files and their mission.

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While carrying out the Starfleet’s primary mission, following big rocks in space, the Enterprise realises that this one is heading for a previously unknown human colony. While Picard offers assistance, the colonists are resistant. They

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

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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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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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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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The Enterprise discovers the missing science vessel, the USS Brattain, abandoned in space. It turns out all of the crew have killed each other...

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The Enterprise discovers a new lifeform, some kind of space whale, and everyone gets excited. But when the Enterprise gets too close, it attacks.

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Riker is injured while undercover investigating the Malcorians, an alien race on the verge of warp technology.

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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

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  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

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The Enterprise is patrolling the Cardassian border when it’s attacked in contravention of the recent peace treaty.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Join the First Contact podcast team as they review Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4 episode, Future Imperfect.

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K’ehleyr is back with news. Worf’s a father to a tiny little Klingon called Alexander...

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In the latest First Contact podcast, the team reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4 episode Legacy, which sees Tasha Yar's sister causing trouble.

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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...

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The Enterprise answers a distress call and finds a training ship with four young Talarians on board...and one human.

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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

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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 ...

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After the Enterprise’s plan to fire a burst from the deflector fails, the Borg set a course for Earth with a fleet of 40 ships engages the cube at Wolf 359...

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