First Contact
Joe Siegler
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First Contact
This Story: Season 4 Episode 15 (production code 189)
TNG Overall: Episode 89
Trek Overall: Story 188, Episode 191
Airdate: 18 Feb 1991
Teleplay by Dennis Russell Bailey, David Bischoff, Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore, & Michael Piller
Story by Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by Cliff Bole
Notes
- This is the halfway point of the series being episode 89 overall, and there’s 178 episodes total for TNG.
- One guest star in this episode is Bebe Neuwirth, who is rather famous for playing Lilith on Cheers & Frasier. Supposedly, the role she plays was created specifically for her.
- Geordi does not appear in this episode.
- The same guy who submitted the story for this one did for the excellent Deep Space Nine episode “Far Beyond the Stars“.
- Briefly references the events of the episode “Family” when Picard’s brother gave him a bottle of wine.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 89 - The One Where Riker Shags Lilith from Cheers - 18 Feb 1991 1/2 It's really called First Contact - It's an ep that talks about how the Federation deals with First Contact situations - something that new at this point. The twist is it was done from the POV of
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) December 13, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 89 - First Contact - 18 Feb 1991 2/2 the aliens - mostly. Riker is injured and stuck in this planet. The trick of this ep is the crew rescuing Riker without blowing their cover & violating the prime directive. The scene with Bebe Neuwirth was funny as hell.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) December 13, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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