With our appreciation for your patience during a summer break, Allie and Sarah return to look ahead at the episode list to see what they remember from this upcoming season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

While waiting for TNG to return, President of the Continuummm and Game Daddy Bruce leads us through the first episode of Star Trek: Adventures (2nd ed. Starter Set), “Puzzling the Will”. It’s been a many years since Sarah or Allie have played a TTRPG, and this one is definitely on par with early seasons of Star Trek.

Join Captain (or Commodore, if we forget) Nella Xen and Commander Xanthus th’Raviq on their first mission as the USS Hood (or Challenger, if we forget) is sucked into a massive alien construct.

The Enterprise saves an alien from death, an alien who turns out to have Space Jesus powers. But when the leaders of his world criminalize him as “a disruptive influence” threatening the natural order, Sarah and Allie recognize the familiar machinery of people in power treating marginalized identities as social contagions.