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With The First Link: A Star Trek TNG Podcast

Trek Geeks

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Frequency: 1 episode/28d. Total Eps: 51

Two aspiring Social Justice Klingon Warriors recap and review every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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15/06/2026
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22/07/2025
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3.02 - The Ensigns of Command

Season 3 · Episode 2

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 • Duration 01:25:52

TNG: SEASON 3, EPISODE 2

Data is sent to facilitate the relocation of a human community that the Enterprise is shocked to discover resides outside of Federation territory. When Data arrives, he is met with resistance from the community's leadership - but an also an admiring ally.

Ruthie and Matthew talk about the importance of place, home, land, and tradition as this episodes themes of forced displacement reminds us of the current conflict in the Middle East.

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3.01 - Evolution

Season 3 · Episode 1

Sunday, February 11, 2024 • Duration 01:16:09

It's SEASON 3 of TNG and the series seems to have gotten a bit of a revamp with new uniforms, new opening sequence, and new lighting on the sets! Did our 80's Star Trek just become 90's Star Trek!? We think so! Also Dr. Crusher is back!

Join us as Wesley Crusher accidentally creates a new microscopic civilization, Doctor Paul Stubbs is willing to sacrifice the Enterprise just to make the history books, and Ruthie and Matthew talk about the darker side of success obsession.

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2.14 - The Icarus Factor

Season 2 · Episode 14

Thursday, January 19, 2023 • Duration 01:16:45

When a special envoy to the Enterprise turns out to be Commander Riker's father, some hard hitting blind martial arts fighting ensues as both men need to have it out in the ring. Riker has a hard decision about taking a promotion to leave the Enterprise. A grumpy Worf needs some acupuncture - Klingon Style - and Ruthie and Matthew talk about decision making, ambition, and how we know staying in a place or leaving is right for us.

And remember that TREKtalks 2 is Saturday January 14th - an all-day telethon with your favourite Star Trek actors in support of the Hollywood Food Coalition hosted by the Trek Geeks network. The event (both live stream and recording afterward) can be found at Trektalks.net. AND Matthew will be in the event for the TREKtivism panel joined by Jonathan Frakes, Armin Shimerman, John Billingsley, Kitty Swink, and Heidi Roddenberry to talk about how fandom can catalyze social change! Matthew will have a chance to share a recent example - the Star Trek community fundraiser for Esther's Echo, his non-profit organization supporting a school for women and girls in Sierra Leone. So be sure to tune in!

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2.13 - Time Squared

Season 2 · Episode 13

Thursday, August 11, 2022 • Duration 01:08:31

The Enterprise encounters a derelict shuttle craft which appears to be from the future. But when the shuttle is determined to be one of the Enterprise's own containing a second version of Picard, the crew fear the premonition of doom the craft contains.

Ruthie and Matthew talk about how we sometimes become trapped in a cycle of poor decisions and how we can face a version of ourselves we may not like to escape the cycle.

Please also consider donating to Matthew's Star Trek community fundraiser for his non-profit organization, Esther's Echo. Esther's Echo supports Sierra Leone community leader Esther Kanu who founded and operates a school for vulnerable women and girls called the Women in Action Development Program.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/esthers-echo-star-trek-fundraiser

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2.12 - The Royale

Season 2 · Episode 12

Friday, August 5, 2022 • Duration 55:58

Riker, Worf, and Data become trapped in a recreation of "The Royale" a hotel featured in an Earth novel of the same name written in the 21st century. But why is this novel, with its cliché setting and characters, being played out in the frozen layers of a gas giant planet surrounded by debris from an ancient Earth NASA spacecraft!?

Ruthie and Matthew talk about which fictional worlds they would most want to be trapped in and those they would definitely NOT want to be trapped in.

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2.11 - Contagion

Season 2 · Episode 11

Thursday, July 14, 2022 • Duration 01:08:59

The Enterprise responds to a call for help from Galaxy Class sister ship U.S.S. Yamato. But when the Yamato suddenly explodes the Enterprise crew must determine if the ship's destruction is caused by Romulans or by the relics of a long lost civilization.

Data gets to do some physical comedy, Romulans are terrible bluffers, and the city of Toronto is featured as an alien space building. Ruthie and Matthew talk about the coolness of space archeology but also the destructive effects of colonial archeology and anthropology in our own history.

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2.10 - The Dauphin

Season 2 · Episode 10

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 • Duration 01:03:45

Wesley falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Salia who is destined to lead her world out of a civil conflict. But when Wesley gets too close, Salia's guardian demonstrates a power that may threaten the safety of the whole ship. Will Wesley's love threaten the Enterprise as well as the peace of Salia's homeworld?

Ruthie and Matthew talk about love, abusive parenting in the episode, and ways in which Salia's species raises questions around fluid identity and what it means to be your "true" form.

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2.09 - The Measure of a Man

Season 2 · Episode 9

Friday, June 17, 2022 • Duration 01:25:23

Data's sentience and freedom of choice is on trial when he refuses orders to undergo a dangerous procedure. Ruthie and Matthew talk about parallels from this episode to the present-day crisis of body autonomy and how society excludes some humans when considering human rights.

With the First Link is excited to cover this first of the "classic" TNG episodes in our review of the series. Join us as we get into the deep metaphysical stuff while also stopping to throw shade at the ultimate TNG entitled whiner - Bruce Maddox.

Main Cover art by Nathan Nun, www.nathannun.ca
Theme Music by Flame Lion Studios

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2.08 - A Matter of Honor

Season 2 · Episode 8

Thursday, May 12, 2022 • Duration 01:05:11

Crew members are going on officer exchange! Riker eats Gagh in anticipation of serving aboard a Klingon Bird of Prey, Ensign Mendon almost starts an interstellar War by over-analyzing space bacteria, Matthew and Ruthie also swap roles while talking about how it feels to be out of place.

Main cover art by Nathan Nun, www.nathannun.ca

Theme Music is An Amazing Adventure by Flame Lion Studios

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2.07 - Unnatural Selection

Season 2 · Episode 7

Thursday, April 28, 2022 • Duration 01:46:51

In this episode, the scientists at a genetic research station all suffer from rapid onset geriatric phenomena. But when Pulaski tries to save their genetically created children, she finds out that they are, in fact, the cause of it! Matthew and Ruthie talk about aging and try to figure out the difference between genetic engineering and genetic creation, and Ruthie interviews an actual real scientist about DNA and the immune system!

Main cover art by Nathan Nun, www.nathannun.ca

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