First First Contact

"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.

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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

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

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

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

Captain Freeman Day • Varuvian bomb

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.

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"

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"

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