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Episodes

March 27, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E6 ”The Bounty”

The USS Titan is on the run! Not only from Starfleet but from a still-kicking Vadic on the Shrike. Things are getting pretty intense, but at the same time: it is an episode of reunions (keep your tissue box close). Worf and Geordi and Raffi and Seve...

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March 20, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E5 ”Imposters” Audio Recap

The plot thickens. The USS Titan has returned to Federation Space after the brutal battle with the Shrike in the nebula. Effecting repairs to their ailing vessel. Riker gives control of the ship back to Captain Shaw — who has already notified the Fed...

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March 13, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E4 ”No Win Scenario”

Well, the USS Titan has far too many captains (and would-be Captains on it). It isa falling into the gravity well of mysterious nebula, it is being pursued by a warship captained by a psychopath, and everybody is mad at everybody.   Nevertheless, the...

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March 6, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E3 ”Seventeen Seconds”

With the USS Titan delving deeper into the nebula and the Shrike on its tail, tensions heat up on the ship. Picard and Beverly confront each other about Jack. The surly captain Shaw, injured in one of the Shrike's attacks, gives the command codes to...

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Feb. 27, 2023

Star Trek Picard: S3 E2 ”Disengaged”

A real romp in the offing now, as things heat up in the nebula. Picard, Riker and Jack Crusher are narrowly saved from complete destruction by a reluctant Captain Shaw of the Titan -- only to then have the mercurial Captain Vadic introduce herself an...

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Feb. 26, 2023

Set Phasers A Highly Illogical Star Trek Podcast Trailer

Calling all Star Trek fans! Do you love deep dives inside the latest episodes of Star Trek? Do you long to nerd out over the best parts with other fans? You’re in luck, on Set Phasers, we will fill your Klingon blood wine goblet with all the Star Tr...

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Feb. 21, 2023

Star Trek Picard S3 E1 ”The Next Generation”

So, how's things in the 25th century? Well, Dr. Beverly Crusher is vaporizing baddies trying to board her beleaguered ship and sending coded messages to Picard -- whom she has not spoken with in 20 years. Raffi is working undercover to find stolen we...

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Dec. 5, 2022

Bonus: Star Trek Immersive Meditation - Ten Forward

One of our patrons jokingly asked for a Star Trek style meditation after Akie and I were messing around during an episode, and so here it is! The first of a bonus mini-series of immersive Star Trek styled soundscape to put YOU inside the world of Sta...

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Oct. 31, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks S3 E10 ”The Stars At Night”

Mariner’s gone; the Cerritos is in dry dock; and the new Texas-class ships are all the rage.In a meeting with the admiralty, Freeman learns of Buenamigo’s plans to scrub all the Cali-class ships and replace them with automated Texas class. In response, s...

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Oct. 24, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks S3 E9 ”Trusted Sources”

Finally, Captain Freeman's initiative for "follow-up" missions is getting underway. The Cerritos is headed to the planet Ornara (where Picard made first contact 17 years prior) to, you know, see how they're doing. If it goes well, it could become an init...

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Oct. 17, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks S3 E8 ”Crisis Point 2: Paradoxis”

It's time for the big movie episode of Lower Decks! How about a sequel?! Crisis Point 2?! Time travel? Mysterious super-beings?! Romulan baddies?! Sounds like fun. Weirdly, though this sequel was written by Boimler, he seems uninterested in following his...

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Oct. 11, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks S3 E7 ”A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

A very peculiar episode of Lower Decks. Well, we find out what happened to the exocomp Peanut Hamper after they abandoned the crew of the Cerritos at the end of Season One. They wandered around for a bit, found their way to pre-warp planet, and do what P...

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Oct. 4, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks S3 E6 ”Hear All, Trust Nothing”

We're on Deep Space Nine, people. This is not a drill! We are on DEEP. SPACE. NINE!  Yes, the Cerritos is headed to that tacky Cardassian eye-sore, just next to the Bajoran Celestial Temple / Wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant to help with some diplomatic ne...

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Sept. 27, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks: S3 E5 ”Reflections”

This episode is all about the Ruthefords, baby. Because there are two of him! One is the original Samathan – and the other is *EEEVIL!?*   Or, really, is an amalgam of the erased memories of Rutherford ten years past. They spend the episode fighting over...

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Sept. 19, 2022

StarTrek Lower Decks S3 E4 ”Room For Growth”

In third episode of the fourth season, the Lower Deckers are getting back to business as usual. Where "business" is: crawling through jeffries tube in order to be their mortal enemies, Delta Shift, to a hidden terminal that will determine the winners of ...

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Sept. 13, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks S3 E3 ”Mining The Mind’s Mines”

Remote science planet. Glowing orbs that make your fantasies come to life. A hidden spy-plot. Klingon clowns with bat'leth's for arms. An amorous Dr. Leah Brahms. A guy gets his foot cut off with a chainsaw. Oh, and remember the Zaldan race from TNG?!   ...

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Sept. 5, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks: S3 E2 ”The Least Dangerous Game”

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 ...

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Aug. 29, 2022

Star Trek Lower Decks: S3 E1 ”Grounded”

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 th...

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July 28, 2022

San Diego Comic Con Star Trek News Updates 2022

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 (Kelv...

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July 18, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E10 ”Quality Of Mercy”

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 t...

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July 4, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E 9 ”All Those Who Wander”

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...

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June 29, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E8 ”Elysian Kingdom”

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-...

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June 20, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E7 ”The Serene Squall”

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 t...

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June 13, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E6 ”Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot R…

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'/c...

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