Season 1, Episode 2: You Never Get a Second Chance to Make First Contact
In this episode, we talk about meeting sentient extraterrestrials: The challenges of communication, what first contact stories say about our own Earthbound society, and why the aliens won’t return our texts.
David’s recommendations:
- “Darmok” (Star Trek TNG)
- “The Inner Light” (Star Trek TNG)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Arrival
- The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Rachel’s recommendations
- “Species 10-C” (Star Trek Discovery)
- Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Attack the Block
- Xenogenesis Trilogy (Lilith’s Brood), Octavia E. Butler
- Blindsight, Peter Watts
