Zefram Cochrane

Dan, that's going to take us to numero 32.

And that is, Zefram Cochran makes the first warp flight in Star Trek First Contact.

And Dan, I chose a look which you often have on your face.

Bewilderment.

we need to have our alcohol be reversible with a hypo spray in case our chief engineer gets pissed yeah or was it like a prescriptive whole society i was just not doing this anymore like one day that the starfleet president got pissed and took a swing at romulan and they were like okay we're just gonna stop this now

Yeah, because I guess there is that thing in First Contact where the Enterprise crew are surprised to find out that Zefram Cochran is a violent alcoholic.

And you'd think that that would be the story that would be told about him.

I imagine Zephyr and Cochran's a lot like Churchill.

But I'm, I, I like the idea of, like, never meet your heroes, right? They're like...

They're eyeballing Zefram Cochrane-

Mm-hmm

... and he's just an absolute drunk and, like, a train wreck of a human being.

... on a pedestal

When they're just humans, right? Um, so I love that.

I love Zefram Cochrane.

Him driving around, so he was at, um...

Yes

... portrayal of Zefram Cochrane.

Yeah.

Um, I guess I've just become softer on that kind of hamminess over the years, but I do remember thinking the first time that this was, like, Vanessa Redgrave, I'm gonna, I'm gonna haul ass to Lollapalooza.

Yeah.

[laughs] Yes.

He's trying to make sure Zefram Cochrane wakes up on time to, to do his, uh, test flight.

But you're right that this is very much a Picard and Data-focused story.

... plus development of warp drive.

Like, it all comes together, Zefram Cochrane, in a satisfying way.

I don't know, maybe I...

Maybe it's just 'cause from when I'm younger, but it feels like this is going back to things that existed in a really good, satisfying way.

Question number 12.

After a failed attempt to assault Earth, the Borg attempt to prevent what tidal activity between humans and Vulcans by interfering with Zefram Cochrane's warp test in the past, in the 1996 installation of the Star Trek movies? The Borg attempt to prevent first contact.

Question number 13.

Both the 1996 and the 1998 films in the Star Trek franchise were directed by what man who also starred as Commander William Riker in Star Trek The Next Generation and hosted Beyond Belief, Fact or Fiction on Fox? That multi-talented man was Jonathan Frakes.