7.2/10823 votes#1 - First Contact (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/1994
A new planet offers hope to Devon Adair's physically impaired son and others like him. Adair ignores government orders, assembles a crew and embarks on a journey to the unblemished planet 22 light years away.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Michael Duggan, Carol Flint, Mark Levin
6.9/10107 votes#2 - First Contact (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/1994
A new planet offers hope to Devon Adair's physically impaired son and others like him. Adair ignores government orders, assembles a crew and embarks on a journey to the unblemished planet 22 light years away.
Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Michael Duggan, Carol Flint, Mark Levin
6.6/1096 votes#3 - The Man Who Fell to Earth (Two)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/1994
Day 3. As the colonists begin their journey, John Danziger is the first to observe Gaal, who joins the group with the explanation that he was an astronaut explorer lost on the planet for years.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Mark Levin
6.9/1097 votes#4 - Life Lessons
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/20/1994
Two weeks on the planet. Gaal seeks True's friendship but reveals himself as an enemy. Gaal sees young True's lack of attention from the others and turns to her to achieve his evil goals.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Jennifer Flackett
6.9/1093 votes#5 - Promises, Promises
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/1994
Alonzo Solace has often been visited by the Terrians through his dreams. This time it is a Terrian who needs the space pilot's help.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Joe Napolitano
Writer: Carol Flint, P.K. Simonds
6.3/1080 votes#6 - A Memory Play
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1994
Three weeks on the planet. As the pioneers who crossed the American west, the colonists of Earth 2 know they will encounter many dangers and now, memo flashbacks remind them of the Eden Advance spaceship's harrowing final moments in space.
Director: Deborah Reinisch
Writer: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
6.8/1084 votes#7 - Water
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/1994
With the Grendlers stealing reserves, the colonists must scan for bodies of much needed water. Danziger decides to head out in search of water and Devon insists on joining him.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Carol Flint
7.0/1087 votes#8 - The Church of Morgan
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/1994
Day 38. The marriage of Bess and Morgan is threatened. Julia sees Uly's arm sink into the earth and senses an unknown power in him. Frightened he calls his mother, but in her presence the earth remains solid.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Michael Duggan
7.2/1087 votes#9 - The Enemy Within
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/1995
Day 49. Julie continues to experiment with Uly's DNA on orders from Reilly, but her duplicity is discovered by True who now has to convince the rest of the colonists.
Director: John Harrison
Writer: Eric Estrin, Michael Berlin
7.2/1087 votes#10 - Redemption
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/22/1995
Day 51. Julia has been left behind and it weighs on the minds of all the colonists as they move across the harsh terrain. Only Alonzo turns back for her.
Director: Joe Ann Fogle
Writer: Arthur Sellers
6.7/1085 votes#11 - Moon Cross
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1995
Day 61. It is a chilly morning in the high desert as the group begins work. They think winter is their worst enemy but they are wrong.
Director: Sandy Smolan
Writer: Carol Flint
6.9/1087 votes#12 - Better Living Through Morganite (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/19/1995
Day 66. Morganite, a pulsating mineral that glows, causes a great amount of anguish for Yale and frightening problems for the others.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: P.K. Simonds
7.0/10123 votes#13 - Better Living Through Morganite (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/1995
Day 68. At the biosphere, the petrifying geo-lock came within 100 meters of the camp. The colonists need the reversing code. Morgan attempts to reverse geo-lock before all is lost.
Director: Frank De Palma
Writer: P.K. Simonds
6.4/1076 votes#14 - Grendlers in the Myst
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/5/1995
Day 72. Seeking warm clothing, Danziger and other are tracking a fast-moving scavenger Grendler in wintry terrain when they come upon a fur-covered figure. The fleeing man wears a strange steel mask.
Director: Janet Davidson
Writer: Heather MacGillvray, Linda Mathious
5.7/1080 votes#15 - The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/12/1995
Miles from nowhere, Danziger crosses the frozen tundra looking for food, severely unprotected from the harsh weather. Suddenly, a mysterious hooded figure appears.
Director: James Frawley, Mark Levin
Writer: Jennifer Flackett
6.5/1076 votes#16 - Brave New Pacifica
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/26/1995
Inside a cave two eager Grendlers interact as they rummage through an insulated box marked ""Eden Project."" Brushing away spider webs, they see the words ""Human Blood"" printed on the side.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Carol Flint
6.6/1081 votes#17 - After the Thaw
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/2/1995
Day 109. Danziger, Julia and Walman discover and excavate a Terrian corpse frozen in ice and completely preserved. That night, both Alonzo and Morgan are confronted in their dreams by the unfrozen, half-decaying, but very much alive Terrian.
Director: Jim Charleston, Michael Grossman
Writer: Heather MacGillvray, Linda Mathious, Théo Cohan
6.7/1073 votes#18 - The Boy Who Would Be Terrian King
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/23/1995
Day 104. The present and future are mixed as Devon tries to save Uly's life. It is the future and we are in Expansionist Territory. A man and a rebel Terrian tie off explosives lowered into a generator.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Heather MacGillvray, Linda Mathious, Théo Cohan
6.7/1079 votes#19 - Survival of the Fittest
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/1995
Day 117. Danziger surveys an endless, forbidding vista as he returns to the dunerail where Julia, Morgan and Alonzo are waiting. There has been a serious direction error but he wants to go on in spite of Devon and Yale's warnings.
Director: John Harrison
Writer: John Harrison
6.6/1075 votes#20 - All About Eve
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/1995
The colonists come upon a crashed Earth re-entry research module. The open the hatch of the 100-year-old craft and find there is still nuclear power.
Director: John Harrison
Writer: Robert Crais
7.2/1088 votes#21 - Natural Born Grendlers
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/28/1995
Four weeks on the planet. Alonzo in Dreamscape steps from Julia's tent to an open cliff with a huge circular landing pad. A Terrian pulls him back, and Alonzo awakes in the tent, his leg still injured. Devon talks to Yale about their dwindling food rations while Morgan enjoys a five-course meal, courtesy of virtual reality.
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#22 - Flower Child
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/4/1995
Day 130. Scouting in all directions, Danziger, Bess and Morgan come upon colorful flower buds which burst open throwing a golden powder in their faces. The flower pollen carries a sickness that causes them to emit a golden vapor.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Carl Cramer
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Two centuries in the future, when pollution has forced humans to abandon Earth in favor of cramped space stations, scientist Devon Adair hijacks a spacecraft...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"First Contact (1)" is the best rated episode of "Earth 2" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 823 votes. Directed by Scott Winant and written by Michael Duggan, Carol Flint, Mark Levin, it aired on 11/6/1994. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "First Contact (2)".