Episode Guide
The Macross Saga
Episode 11: First Contact
While performing their mission,
Lisa, Rick, and Ben are captured by the Zentraedi. Max Sterling managed to
escape. They are interrogated by Breetai, Exedore, and Dolza, the supreme
commander of the Zentraedi armada. In the course of the questioning, the
Zentraedi officials demand that the Micronians tell them what they know about
protoculture – something the humans protest they have never heard of. The
Zentraedi want to learn about Micronian customs and are shocked to learn that
human children are born from a female parent. Rick and Lisa provide an example
of the affection humans demonstrate for each other by kissing. The Zentraedi are
so shocked that they have the prisoners removed to other quarters.
After they are gone, Dolza tells Breetai and Exedore that the Zentraedi were
once the same size as the Micronians and that both sexes lived together before
they abandoned the custom and evolved through the use of protoculture. Dolza
described protoculture as “the essence of Robotechnology developed by our
ancestors” and, although those secrets have been lost, he suspects that they
are somehow stored within the SDF-1. That is why the battlefortress must be
regained!
Next Episode: The Big Escape