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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'First Contact'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 189)<BR><FONT SIZE="2">by Dennis Russell Bailey,<BR>David Bischoff,<BR>Joe Menosky,<BR>Ronald D. Moore<BR>and Michael Piller<BR>Story by Marc Scott Zicree</TD>
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Commander Riker undergoes cosmetic surgery to enable him to blend in with the inhabitants of Malcoria, a newly-discovered planet; but the mission goes wrong, and a wounded and unconscious Riker is taken to a nearby hospital. When the Malcorian doctors realise that that their patient is not from their world, Riker attempts to convince them that his physical differences are merely deformities; however, the doctors ignore his claims, and decide to keep the presence of an alien a secret to avoid a panic amongst the population. Concerned at Riker’s disappearance, Captain Picard and Counselor Troi beam down to the office of Mirasta, the Malcorian Minister of Science, in an attempt to enlist her aid in locating their missing comrade; to prove their claims, they arrange for the enthusiastic Mirasta to beam aboard the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I>, where they reveal that they have been monitoring her people for several years. After Mirasta agrees to help them find Riker, the Malcorian leader, Chancellor Durken, is also beamed aboard the ship; he meets Picard, who eventually convinces him that the intentions of the Federation are not hostile. However, when Durken returns to his planet his Minister of Internal Security, Krola, insists that the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> crew are attempting to infiltrate Malcorian society - and that one of their spies, Riker, has been captured…

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), George Coe (<B>Chancellor Avill Durken</B>), Carolyn Seymour (<B>Mirasta</B>), George Hearn (<B>Berel</B>), Michael Ensign <http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Ensign,+Michael> (<B>Krola</B>), Steven Anderson <http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Anderson,+Steven> (<B>Nilrem</B>), Sachi Parker (<B>Doctor Tava</B>), Bebe Neuwirth (<B>Lanel</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Cliff Bole
<BR>Produced by David Livingston
<BR>Co-Produced by Peter Lauritson
<BR>Executive Producers Michael Piller, Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry
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<BR>18th February, 1991

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<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data 

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