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Set Phasers

Set Phasers: A Highly Illogical Star Trek Podcast

Set Phasers is an uber-mega-nerd Star Trek recap podcast from two musical trekkies, Akie Bermiss and Stevie Manns. Each week they tackle the latest episode of Star Trek, from Picard, Lower Decks, Star Trek Discovery to Strange New Worlds, and talk about how much they love the show - breaking down the plots, discussing the larger themes at play, the volatility of Vulcans and the curious culture of Klingons... and much more! Join us, won‘t you? The ”final frontier” of Star Trek awaits us!

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31:56

Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 3 Episode 2 ”The...

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2022/09/05

It's game night on the Cerritos! The Lower Decks crew is playing Klingon role-playing game with wigs and everything. And that's the whole episode, and we loved it... ...ok, no. That's a lie. The real plot is one in which Mariner is forced to learn how to follow orders (or seem to) even in the face of poor judgment (on the part of Ransom) and Rutherford gets into diplomatic trouble and almost sacrificed to a volcano on a sexy, pleasurey planet. And Boimler decides to say yes to everything and

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34:54

Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 3 Episode 1 ”Grounded”

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2022/08/29

The Cerritos Lower Deckers are back! ...but they are also grounded on Earth while Star Fleet looks into the accusations that Captain Freeman blew up the capital city of Pakled planet. So... it's not great. Nonetheless, the Lower Deckers are making the most of it. Rutherford and Tendi are making the most of it, seeing the sites on earth. Boimler is working hard at his family's *raisin* vineyard. And Mariner... well, Mariner, believing Star Fleet is looking for someone to take the fall for

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44:42

San Diego Comic Con Star Trek News Updates 2022

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2022/07/28

Akie and Stevie get together to discuss all the late-breaking Star Trek news dropped at San Diego Comic Con 2022. From Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds cross-over to the cast announcements from Picard Season 3 to the as-yet-untitled new Star Trek (Kelvin timeline!) movie that might come out in 2023. It was an eventful few days as SDCC – and this is an eventful podcast, replete with at least a few occasions of bursting into song, some tin-foil hat plot theories, and *yet another* plea for Alex

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37:53

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 10...

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2022/07/18

In the season finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Pike travels forward in time to a future where he has avoided the disastrous explosion that the time-crystals of Boreth showed him. He is sent there by his future self to learn how that alteration to the timeline is bad for the universe. How so? Well, let's just say there are varied Romulans involved, a noble commander, a snivelling and duplicitous sub-commander, and a mean ol' Praetor. And on the side of Star Fleet, a confused Pike, his

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39:38

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 9...

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2022/07/04

NO ONE DIES IN THIS EPISODE. I PROMISE. The above statement is a lie. In this penultimate episode of the season, Enterprise is called to an L-class planet to rescue a Federation ship that has crashed there. A landing party goes down, it's icy and cold. they get to the ship, no life-signs. The enter and it's full of blood and strewn body parts. It's not long before they discover that, yes, there are *GORN* (!!!!!!) aboard and the battles for survival begin. An action-packed, heart-wrenching

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35:44

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 8...

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2022/06/29

Sometimes you just need to get away from it all. Sometimes, you're working so hard on a cure for your terminally ill child that you're just worn out to the bone. Sometimes, a noncorporeal god-like entity living inside of a massive nebula makes the story-book fairytale that you read to your daughter come true in the real world and it transforms your starship into a sort-of middle school production of Little Red Riding Hood and all hell breaks loose because the crews minds have been taken over and

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44:00

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 7...

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2022/06/20

So... how do we feel about pirates?!!? Cool pirates with face tattoos and a stunning command of language and charisma who are, incidentally, posing as an aid worker in order to lure Enterprise out of Federation territory and take over the ship and sell the crew in slavery and exchange Spock for a prisoner in a Vulcan rehabilitation center?! Because, if you're OK with that, you're going to be *pretty* happy about this episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It's got everything, folks

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51:28

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 6...

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2022/06/13

Just a routine cartographic survey! Should be pretty boring, actually. Except, the Enterprise comes out of warp and receives a distress signal from a vessel under attack and when they save them and beam the survivors aboard, one of them is old shoulda'/coulda'/woulda' love interest of a young Lieutenant Pike. Also, one of them is a child monarch/deity of the people on the planet Majalis that is destined lead their people through some unspecified sacrifice. And his dad. Needless to say, things

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43:08

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 5...

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2022/06/06

Shenanigans! Rigamarole! HIJINKS!!! That is the basis of this fifth episode of the season. Enterprise is docked at Starbase 1 for some much needed repairs and also much needed R&R for the crew. Spock has big ideas of spending some *quality time* with his fiancee, T'Pring – but work keeps getting in the way. Eventually, in an attempt to share their souls in a Vulcan ritual, they swap katras and can get them swapped back. Didn't i say there was hijinks?! Meanwhile, Number One and La'an are

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42:37

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 4...

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2022/05/31

The Enterprise is off to Finibus 3 just to deliver some much needed atmospheric filtering equipment when the find the scientific installation there abandoned and burning. There's blood all over the place and torn scraps of clothing – but no bodies...?! Then some survivors show up in a cargo ship saying they were attacked but not sure by whom. And that's when La'an talks to a young girl who saw her father get taken and mentions a click noise and we find out it is... dunh dunh dunh! The

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40:58

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 3...

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2022/05/24

Everybody's got secrets! As the Enterprise explores an abandoned Illyrian colony planet for evidence of what happened to the gene-experimenting people, Spock and Pike are trapped down on the planet by an ion storm and the Enterprise is beset by a strange disease that makes people super randy for light and heat. Number One, Una Chin-Riley, appears to be affected by the disease but also not at all affected by it and has to do a lot of heavy lifting to keep the Enterprise under control. Matching wits

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33:46

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 2...

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2022/05/16

Cadet Uhura attends a dinner at the captain's table with a bunch of senior staff and other officers during which she admits that though she beat out several thousand applicants for the job on Enterprise, she might not be "all that Star Fleet." Meanwhile, a comet the Enterprise is observing is on course to destroy a nearby planet with a young, pre-warp culture and when they try to push it off course, they discover that it has some alien tech on it. What follows is an away team (which includes

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45:24

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 1 Episode 1...

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2022/05/11

It all begins with Una (AKA Number One) goes missing on a routine First Contact mission. Pike, who has been roughing it out in the wild with a beard and a lady-friend, gets the call to return to the Enterprise and find out what went wrong. Then he calls Spock who was in the middle of... an adult consenting adults do with his betrothed, T'pring. Despite the inconvenient timing, Spock comes running. Pike returns to an Enterprise that being shipped out a week earlier than planned, reluctant about

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39:28

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episode 10 ”Farewell”

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2022/05/09

Ok, well the Borg-queen/Jurati has absconded with the ship and Picard et al are stuck in the past. But the past still needs saving. Renee Picard needs to go on the Europa mission and Adam Soong is still out there trying to stop it from happening. Thus begins a desperate play to ensure Renee's safety and foil Soong's plans as best the team can. IF they wrap that up, there is only the issue of Soong's final daughter/experiment Kore still on the lam and... Q, i guess?! Also all the many ways that the

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47:18

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episode 9 ”Hide and Seek”

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2022/05/02

Nobody freak-out, ok? It's the penultimate episode of season two of Picard. Everything is going to be fine! Picard has everything under control and the future is in good hands! Now. Are we a little concerned about the full blending of Jurati and the Borg Queen and their ability to turn Adam Soong’s super-soldiers into *Borg* super-soldiers? And that they have remote accessed la Sirena’s transporters and are coming to chateau Picard en masse to overwhelm Picard and his team and take over the ship and

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35:48

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episode 8 ”Mercy”

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2022/04/25

It's Season 2 Episode 8 of Picard! Well, Picard and Guinan are in an undisclosed location, some basement FBI facility, being questioned by the tenacious Agent Wells, who has a real bee in his bonnet about aliens. Meanwhile, Borg/Jurati (AKA "Borgati") is running rampant through LA. Raffi and Seven are on her trail, but catching up to her has disastrous consequences. They are, however, able to figure out what she's up to– namely building nanoprobes to start assimilating folks. Borgati heads to

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37:45

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episode 7 ”Monsters”

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2022/04/18

Recapping Star Trek Picard Season 2 Episode 7 "Monsters" A funky little episode. We spend most of the time romping around in Picard's subconscious. Meeting his mother, Yvette, whom he stylizes as a queen, and his father, Maurice, whom he calls a monster. And also young Jean-Luc, a little prince. Tallinn uses her Watcher technology to go in there with young Picard and they navigate a literal metaphorical dungeon of dangers and monsters and darkness. Eventually, we learn that the monsters without

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50:29

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6 ”Fly Me...

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2022/04/17

A lot transpires at this halfway point of season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. Firstly we meet the Watcher. It's not Laris. She calls herself Tallinn. Her job is to watch one person and make sure their movement through time is protected. That person is Renee Picard! And Renee is supposed to leave on the Europa mission in three days times. And would except that she struggles with inner demons. And, also, her therapist appears to be actively encouraging her not to go on the mission. When Picard and

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38:32

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episodes 3 & 4...

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2022/04/14

The crew of La Sirena manages to fend this alternate-reality magistrate and his soldiers, only to be pursued by more ships of the "Confederation" of Earth. Things seems dicey, but then the hook the Borg Queen up to the ship, she converts the whole thing over to Borg and sends them back to the year 2024. Which is before whatever timeline divergence took place. So. Ok. But Elnor got shot in the chest. And he died....(DUN DUN DUN) Now everyone is on edge. They crash-land at an abandoned Picard

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50:42

Star Trek: Picard | Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 ”The...

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2022/04/11

And we're back with a brand new season of Picard! Meet Jean-Luc. He's a formerly disgraced and retired, now reinstated, Star Fleet officer. He has just been named chancellor of the Star Fleet Academy. His friends are doing pretty all right, actually. His buddy Rios is back in Starfleet as a captain, and his buddy Raffi is back in Starfleet, and his buddy Seven-of-Nine is saving people in the galaxy as a Fenris ranger, and his buddy Elnor just graduated from Starfleet Academy! Hey, even

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