"First First Contact" is the 20th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the 10th episode in the program's second season, premiered on 14 October 2021 on the Paramount+ viewing service.

References

Characters

Amadou • Arjun • Asif • Barnes • Andy Billups • Brad Boimler • Casey • Castro • Dahae • Pon Darra • Dirk • Alonzo Freeman • Carol Freeman • Sonya Gomez • Haubold • Karavitus • Kayshon • Kimolu • Mandel • Jet Manhaver • Matt • Beckett Mariner • Big Merp • Sleepy Merp • Gabers Migleemo • Moxy • Jack Ransom • Sam Rutherford • Shaxs Drazon • Jennifer Sh'reyan • Steve Stevens • T'Ana • Taylor • D'Vana Tendi • Vendome • Wendy • Westlake • unnamed Lapeerians

Referenced only

Jadzia Dax • James T. Kirk • Jean-Luc Picard • Spock

Starships and vehicles

Adonis (Type 6A shuttlecraft) • USS Archimedes • USS Cerritos (California-class) • Nova-class (unnamed) • Oberth-class (unnamed)

Locations

Laap star system • Lapeeria (Lapeeria City) • Pakled Planet

Races and cultures

Andorian • Antaran • Bajoran • Beluga whale • Benzite • Bolian • Caitian • Haliian • Human • Klowahkan • Kzinti • Lapeerian • Merp's species • Moxy's species • Napean • Orion • Pon Darra's species • Tamarian • Tellarite • Trill • Vulcan

Referenced only

Pakled

Other references

Captain Freeman Day • Varuvian bomb

Appendices

Related media

• LD episode: "Crisis Point": Captain Freeman confirms that she does hold the speed record in hydroscooting at Starfleet Academy.
• TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek Into Darkness: Commander Ransom's helmet has a similar HUD screen to Kirk and Khan's helmets when they board the USS Vengeance.

Images

Connections

Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes
season 1	"Second Contact" • "Envoys" • "Temporal Edict" • "Moist Vessel" • "Cupid's Errant Arrow" • "Terminal Provocations" • "Much Ado About Boimler" • "Veritas" • "Crisis Point" • "No Small Parts"
season 2	"Strange Energies" • "Kayshon, His Eyes Open" • "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" • "Mugato, Gumato" • "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" • "The Spy Humongous" • "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie" • "I, Excretus" • "wej Duj" • "First First Contact"
season 3	"Grounded" • "The Least Dangerous Game" • "Mining the Mind's Mines" • "Room for Growth" • "Reflections" • "Hear All, Trust Nothing" • "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" • "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" • "Trusted Sources" • "The Stars at Night"
season 4	"Twovix" • "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" • "In the Cradle of Vexilon" • "Something Borrowed, Something Green" • "Empathological Fallacies" • "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" • "A Few Badgeys More" • "Caves" • "The Inner Fight" • "Old Friends, New Planets"
season 5	"Dos Cerritos" • "Shades of Green" • "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel" • "A Farewell To Farms" • "Starbase 80?!" • "Of Gods and Angles" • "Fully Dilated" • "Upper Decks" • "Fissure Quest" • "The New Next Generation"
comics	"All in a Sea of Wonders": Issue 1 • Issue 2 • Issue 3 • "Warp Your Own Way" • "Go See Cal!" • "Risian Rendezvous" • "Second Contact": Issue 1 • Issue 2 • "Natura Abhorrett" •Issue 4 • Desperate Times • Issue 6 • "Mixed Signals": "Yesterday's Beta Shift" • Issue 8 • "A Pound of Flush" • "A Pound Of Flush," Part Number II • "Again With The Whales" • "Again With The Whales... Again" • "Second Second Contact": "For I Have Seen Both Here & Heaven"• Issue 14 • Issue 15 • "The Illinoian Job" • Issue 17 • "Finalls Sine Titulp" Part II

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: "wej Duj"	Lower Decks episode produced	Next episode: "Grounded"
Previous episode: "wej Duj"	Lower Decks episode aired	Next episode: "Grounded"
chronological order
Previous Adventure: "wej Duj"	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: "Grounded"
Previous Adventure: "wej Duj"	Voyages of the USS Cerritos	Next Adventure: "Grounded"

External link

First First Contact article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.