🛸 Star Trek TNG — Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2: “Encounter at Farpoint”
We’re back on the bridge! In this first real episode of USS Sisterhood, sisters Marissa and Lisa dive into Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes 1 & 2, which aired as a two-part premiere called “Encounter at Farpoint.” There’s a lot to cover: courtroom chaos, space jellyfish, aggressive eye contact, and the moral ambiguity of freezing people mid-sentence.
Lisa’s confused (but intrigued). Marissa’s nostalgic (but also confused). Together, they boldly go where thousands of fans have gone before… but for the first time.
🪐 In This Episode:
- Epcot-core aesthetics: is this a TV show or are we just in 1987 Spaceship Earth?
- Meet the crew: Picard journals, Riker beams in hot, and Data can’t whistle
- Q shows up as a Shakespearean space tyrant (with freezing powers and a big bell)
- Our first big moral dilemma: can five humans prove humanity deserves to exist?
- A surprise appearance by... space jellyfish soulmates??
- The hollow deck = space Casa Bonita (with imaginary cliff divers and puppet shows)
- Wesley Crusher: the ultimate early 2000s Tumblr soft boy
- Deanna Troi feels everything and might actually be the most powerful one aboard
- Behind-the-scenes trivia: spandex complaints, Patrick Stewart’s one-week suitcase, and that very old man you didn’t recognize
🧠 Big Themes We Loved:
- Sci-fi as real-world magic: how technology mirrors imagination
- Emotional intelligence as a form of strength and strategy
- The ethics of judgment, progress, and collective accountability
- Representation: from disability inclusion to gender-fluid uniforms to kids on the bridge
🔍 Favorite Quotes:
“This courtroom scene? Giving Renaissance Faire meets Dystopia 2036.”
“Why are those pilots basically reclining in gamer chairs?”
“He’s the pop quiz of the galaxy.” — on Q
“I did not have space jellyfish reunion on my bingo card.”
👯♀️ Sister Takes:
- Lisa’s fave: the guy who aggressively rings the courtroom bell
- Marissa’s fave: Data trying to whistle in a tree on the holodeck
- Shared confusion: was the game of Life spinner actually a jellyfish?
🚀 What's Next:
Next week, the sisters tackle S1E3: “The Naked Now” (and yes, they double-checked—it's Naked Now, not Naked Later).
Future episodes will cover five episodes at a time—this one was a special case to kick things off. Join us as we warp through Season 1 together!
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🖖 Until next time… make it so.