first contact theme
Two cultures that were previously isolated from each other meet for the first time. This is often feature in science fiction as between human and alien, but could apply to some situation on present Earth too.
25 total · 16 major · 9 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds91x10 | major | Deep Space Nine had the distinction of making first contact with a Gamma Quadrant species known as the Wadi. |
| ent1x03 | major | Enterprise crew make first contact with the androgynous Axanar. |
| ent1x04 | major | Archer and crew attempt to contact new life on earth-like planet. |
| ent2x02 | major | Vulcans made first contact with humans. |
| ent2x22 | major | The Enterprise crew make first contact with a three-sexed species called the Vissians. |
| ldr2019e4x02 | major | The story opens with aliens attempting a peaceful first contact with humans after landing their flying saucer in the Nevada Desert. The encounter went disastrously wrong and quickly escalated into a full-scale invasion and a war with which the rest of the story was concerned. |
| movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | major | The government prepared to make contact with UFO flying aliens at Devils Tower in Wyoming. |
| movie: Contact (1997) | major | The alien made it clear to Ellie that her meeting him was the first in a series of small steps in the development of relations between humans and the aliens. Although it was left open that it was all her imagination. |
| movie: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | major | The survivors of a disintegrated solar system come to Earth, actually land on the White House lawn, in flying saucers to conquer it. |
| movie: Mars Attacks (1996) | major | Much was made of Martians arriving on Earth and the President's science aides even set up a first contact meeting with the Martian ambassador and his minions, but it turned into bloodbath. |