If First Contact is when two cultures first meet each other, and if Second Contact is, as suggested by Star Trek: Lower Decks, when the bureaucrats of the two cultures start hashing out the nitty gritty of the treaties, then we suggest that Third Contact is when people start having lunch together. Or tea. Or jam sessions. Whatever. When the cultures start interacting on a personal level.

‘etekeyerrinwuff and Earth haven’t had Second Contact yet. We’re putting that off as long as possible, for a number of reasons. But for those of us who have had First Contact, we’ve started Third Contact rituals already.

These are the conversations we’ve had that haven’t made it into any of our books. Mostly between Sarah and Goreth and the people of the Sunspot.

You might want to read the Tunnel Apparati diaries first, for context.