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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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42:36

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 13 ”Coming Home”

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2022/03/28

Now we come to end, my friends. The End! Tarka has locked Book up and taken over his ship to gain access to the DMA controller so he can go universe hopping, DISCO is trying to get out of their bubble and get after them, and – meanwhile, at Earth – Admiral Vance and Tilly are running the evacuation effort, hopeless though it may be, for as many people as they can get out before the DMA debris hits the planet. This episode has up and downs. People under stress, near-death experiences, beautiful

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38:22

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 12 ”Species 10C”

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2022/03/14

Finally, we are at the hyperfield bubble of Species 10C! The whole season has been leading up to this! Will Michael, President Rillak, et al be able to find a way to communicate with this vastly advanced species and get them to stop mining the alpha quadrant and accidentally destroying whole planets?! With the help of Dr. Harai and Saru and a few members of the bridge crew, they *are* able to figure out the beginnings of a "bridge language" and the 10C send a silver egg sphere to the loading bay

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34:02

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 11 ”Rosetta”

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2022/03/09

Closer and closer to the object of all this season's fussing about – but not quite there yet. Convinced that they need to do a bit more research before entering the "hyperfield" and trying to establish first contact with species 10C, Captain Burnham takes Discovery to a former gas giant planet where it is theorized species 10C may have originally come. While she and the away team look for clues, Book and Tarka are busy trying to hitch a sneak-ride on DISCO's hull without Zora getting wind of it

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32:07

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 10 ”The...

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2022/02/28

Things are really heating up as the first contact task force heads to the Galactic Barrier. DISCO is the ship that will carry them out to species 10C's weird energy/Dyson sphere and there is no time to waste as the new DMA is bigger and badder (and perhaps slightly less predictable) than the old one. So DISCO heads out. A bunch of the delegates that were on their way are unable to make it and so folks have to improvise. Also, President Rillack hands power over to her Vice President so that she can

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29:34

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 9 ”Rubicon”

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2022/02/21

Well, it's time for the rubber (or starship nacelles) to meet the road (or hard vacuum). Michael and the crew of DISCO attempt to ambush Book and Ruon Tarka as they are building the explosive isolytic device (using the tracker Michael planted). The Federation, concerned about Michael's closeness to Book, put someone on the bridge that will make the hard choice if she can't do it when the time arises. And it's none other than Commander Nhan (back from her Barzan rumspringa)! Of course, when they

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37:16

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 8 ”All In”

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2022/02/14

....and we're back at the DISCO! Since Book and Ruon Tarka took matters into their own hands and decided to steal the next generation spore drive and go build their own isolytic bomb and take a punch at species 10C on their own, the Federation is in a shambles. Michael has been told that she and DISCO cannot go after Book (the president feels she is too close to it), but then in private Admiral Vance asks her to very try to go after Book. What's an enterprising Star Fleet captain to do but

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54:56

BONUS EPISODE: Star Trek Jeopardy

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2022/02/07

This week as Discovery is on hiatus for just one more week, Stevie was asked to join some other Trek podcast hosts to take part in a Star Trek Jeopardy... Akie (our champ) was unfortunately busy being a cool musician guy so Stevie stepped up, how do you think they did? Check out Keeping up with the Cardassians and Star Trek Podcast: Trek Cast Discovery resumes so normal Set Phasers service will also resume next Monday! In other news join our Patreon and our next Netflix watch party February 13th

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01:55:29

Star Trek Movie Watchalong ”Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan”

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2022/01/31

So, this is it. Finally, we are doing a watchalong of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. A regular contender for the "best Star Trek movie of all time." And it does not disappoint. From the sartorial splendor of Kirk's wardrobe, to increasingly slower and slower chase scenes with higher and higher stakes, to – let's just call it like it is – Ricardo Montalban's chest and pretty much every line he delivers in this. You'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll have a strange hankering for popcorn (if you're

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02:02:16

Star Trek Movie Watchalong ”Star Trek: Beyond”

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2022/01/23

Another watch-along monday! We screwed our courage to the sticking place and made valiant effort to watch the third of the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies – Star Trek: Beyond. High was the anticipation for this film when it came out in 2016, but alas, it proved to be well below most people's expectations. Why? Who can say? Maybe because Abrams didn't return to direct this one because he was already wrapped up in making the new Star Wars trilogies. Maybe it was because the storyline was hard to follow

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02:07:17

Star Trek Movie ”Star Trek: Into Darkness” Watchalong

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2022/01/17

And we're back! The DISCOVERY hiatus continues, as does our series of watchalongs. We continue with the 2013 follow-up to Star Trek entitled Star Trek: Into Darkness. Kirk et al are hoping to start their five-year mission when, because of his flaunting of the rules, Kirk's command of the Enterprise is revoked and Spock (who dropped dime on him) is transferred to another ship. How will Kirk become the captain we know he can be? How can he and Spock have the friendship we know they must have? And what

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02:06:02

Star Trek Movie ”Star Trek (2009)” Watchalong

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2022/01/10

The year was 2009. Barack Obama was president in the United States. The economy was tanking. ands JJ Abrams had made a new Star Trek movie. It had Kirk and Spock and Bones... Uhura, Sulu, Chekov... the *whole* gang. And, for many, it is was jump started this new era of Star Trek shows. So... we did a watchalong. Akie and Stevie start with the movie that (re)started it all. the blandly titled "Star Trek." That said, apart from its title, there is very little bland about it. From the fight scenes,

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43:24

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 7 ”...But to...

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2022/01/03

It's the mid-season finale of Star Trek Discovery. What it's all be leading up to (before, you know, the rest of the season). The Federation has called together an assembly of all the major worlds and races, Federation and otherwise, from all four quadrants of the galaxy to discuss what must be done about the DMA and "Species 10C." At the same time, Zora (Discovery's erstwhile computer), has used all the data from the subspace rift to find out the coordinates of whoever made and sent the DMA – but

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39:52

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 6 ”Stormy...

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2021/12/27

DISCO has been ordered to go into the subspace rift made by the DMA to gather any readings or information they can about the anomaly. Things are going nominally at first, but when the ship gets inside, there is nothing to be found. They are in a data-less void. Zora, the AI that lives in and runs the ship, is having a rough day with no data to crunch. There is an invisible barrier closing in, about to chew the whole ship and crew into smithereens. Book is having deep hallucinations about his

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36:00

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 5 ”The Examples”

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2021/12/20

A fairly straightforward day on the DISCOVERY. The ship is sent as part of a rescue mission to a string of asteroids that are about to get his by the crazy dark matter anomaly in that is tearing through the quadrant. there's only a couple of hours to get everyone off the planet before the gravitational situation send everything haywire. So its hard work Meanwhile, Stamets is working with Dr. Ruon Tarka, the person in charge of the 2nd generation spore drive, on making some progress on the DMA,

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41:14

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 4 ”All Is...

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2021/12/13

What is happening?! Michael and Saru get called down to the surface of Ni'var to help President Rillak close the deal with Ni'Var joining the Federation. Tilly goes to Starfleet academy, with Adira in tow, to run some critical team building exercises. Book sits down for a therapy session with Dr. Culber. I guess it's gonna be a pretty chill episode. Except, Book is really resistant to confronting his trauma no matter what Culber does... and Tilly and the bickering cadets crash land on the wrong moon

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35:47

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 3 ”Choose To...

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2021/12/06

When a rogue Qowat Milat sister goes, well, rogue and starts knocking over Starfleet ships delivering dilithium to planets in need (and, incidentally, kills a Starfleet officer in the process), Ni'Var, the Federation, and the Qowat Milat have to team up to hunt her down. Yes, Michael's mother is the Killer-Romulan-Warrior-Nun representing the order and, yes, Michael's representing the Federation. And yes, Tilly is along for the ride. And–YES–they have to give up their phasers in favor of

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34:22

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 2 ”Anomaly”

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2021/11/29

So. There's a space anomaly about five light-years in diameter that is chewing up solar systems like a swarm of piranha. No worries! Discover jumps in to take some measurements and can't get close enough to get good readings. Pas de problem! Booker, who is definitely somewhat out of sorts because his entire planet was the last victim of the anomaly, wants to take his ship in. Stamets, with whom he does not get along, is going along for the ride as a holo. So, it's awkward. No sweat. Then,

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37:39

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 4 Episode 1 ”Kobayashi...

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2021/11/22

It's a beautiful day in the galactic neighborhood of the 32nd century. The Federation is back, Starfleet no longer needs to hide behind a cloak, and there's *plenty* of dilithium to go around. Michael and the crew of Discovery are just humming along with the pace of progress. So the new Federation President and Michael aren't getting along so well; and so Saru is still on the planet Kaminar taking his leave of absence from Star Fleet; and so not every planet is super excited to join up with the Fed

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27:12

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 10 ”First...

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2021/10/18

In the season finale of Lower Decks, the Cerritos is headed to the Laaperian system to assist the USS Archimedes in a first contact mission. Things go awry when a solar flare causes an unstable planetoid to blow and completely knocks out power on the Archimedes. The Cerritos must devise a miraculous plan to save them, all hands on deck! But, also, just before the mission started Mariner overheard that Capt. Freeman is getting a promotion to a better ship and going to have to leave the crew of the

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28:26

Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 2 Episode 9 ”wej Duj”

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2021/10/11

It's a long warp for the crew of the Cerritos, 12 hours. So Captain Freeman is giving folks the day off. To chill and hang. Boimler is excited to spend time with the gang but they're all hanging out with various "bridge buddies." He wonders if life is as dull on lower decks of other ships. Well, we get a look at life on the lower decks of other ships: Klingon, Vulcan, Pakled... And also, something strange is afoot. Strange energy readings! Perhaps a convergence of these disparate groups is in the

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