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 she is unwilling to give that information to the crew because she thinks it will put them in danger. Enter Dr. Kovich to help figure out what is going on there.
Meanwhile, at the assembly things breakdown along the lines of dealing with thing. One faction wants to make a show of strength and strike back, destroying the anomaly; the other faction wants to try and established first contact before jumping to any conclusions. Book and Michael find themselves on opposites sides of the debate.
So. Will the Federation attack? will they make peaceful overtures? Will Zora hand over the coordinates to the crew of Discovery? Will she be determined a sentient AI and be forcibly expunged from DISCO's computer?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?!?!?!?!?
We'll answer *most* of those questions in this episode of Set Phasers: A Highly Illogical Star Trek Podcast.
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