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Opinion: Star Trek: The Next Generation--"First Contact" external link

Rate   jeffords (Blogspot) | by noreply@blogger.com (Jamie Jeffords) | Thu, Oct 15

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Thu, Oct 15 The powers that be finally broke the mold with “First Contact.” For the first time, we see what a first contact situation when the prime directive no longer applies would look like. What we get is an homage to ’50’s science fiction films in which the aliens are the Enterprise crew. I would call t...

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