Star Trek: Every Two-Parter Ranked From WORST To BEST

35. First First Contact, Grounded

The first of the animated entries on this list was the first to use 'To Be Continued…' since the Star Trek: Enterprise episode Demons (see later on this list). It was also the first time — we assume — that Captain Freeman had been arrested, and accidentally perp-walked, in front of her crew, providing for quite the jaw-dropping cliffhanger to the second season of Star Trek: Lower Decks.

First First Contact ended on an emotional beat. Grounded picked up to pure comedy chaos as various screens (and potted plants) were turned off Beckett Mariner style, all with a view of the 'impractical' Golden Gate Bridge. The episode then did the smorgasbord of Earth hotspots and self-references — from ketracel-white hot gumbo at Sisko's Creole Kitchen to churros in Bozeman and raisins in Modesto.