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 episode of Star Trek is what follows. And though things worked out in the end, I, Akie, may still be somewhat in denial... At least Uhura decided to stay. There's that. Join us for a zoom hang at the end of July http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 episode of Star Trek is what follows. And though things worked out in the end, I, Akie, may still be somewhat in denial...   At least Uhura decided to stay. There's that.   Join us for a zoom hang at the end of July <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

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

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 they believe that they are who the are cast as – and the only person you can trust is the cantankerous engineer who isn't affected by the entity but has been cast as a powerful wizard and is... sorta taking to the role. That's *if* you're Dr. M'Benga of the Enterprise in this week's episode of Strange New Worlds. JOIN US for bowtie madness at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 they believe that they are who the are cast as – and the only person you can trust is the cantankerous engineer who isn't affected by the entity but has been cast as a powerful wizard and is... sorta taking to the role.  That's *if* you're Dr. M'Benga of the Enterprise in this week's episode of Strange New Worlds.   JOIN US for bowtie madness at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

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

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! Swashbuckling adventure, turnabouts, a phaser shootout on the bridge, a pirate mutiny, star-crossed lovers, AND Spock and Chapel do some HEAVY *kissy-kissy*. 'twas a serene squall, indeed! Join us on patreon at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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! Swashbuckling adventure, turnabouts, a phaser shootout on the bridge, a pirate mutiny, star-crossed lovers, AND Spock and Chapel do some HEAVY *kissy-kissy*. 'twas a serene squall, indeed!   Join us on patreon at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

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

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 get hairy. There are crosses and double-crosses, there is romance, and intrigue. And there is a critical moral quandary at the center of things. Finally, Cadet Uhura is doing her crew rotations in security with La'an Noonien-Singh. She's learning a lot, as usual. And also, breaks the whole things wide open when it counts! Join us for more in our Patreon community! http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 get hairy. There are crosses and double-crosses, there is romance, and intrigue. And there is a critical moral quandary at the center of things.   Finally, Cadet Uhura is doing her crew rotations in security with La'an Noonien-Singh. She's learning a lot, as usual. And also, breaks the whole things wide open when it counts!   Join us for more in our Patreon community! <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

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

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&amp;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 wandering the empty decks of the Enterprise wondering why people think they aren't fun – when they discover the game of "Enterprise Bingo." Nurse Chapel finds her casual relationship has taken a serious turn and has to extricated herself from the poetry-spouting Lt. Devers, even while giving Spock advice on his more serious relationship. Oh, also, there is a SUPER important diplomatic thing going on with the R'ongovian Protectorate, where the Federation really needs to get a deal together as they own the only safe route through Klingon and Romulan space. But, you know, I'm sure this will all make sense one day. Join us on patreon for hijinks! http://patreon.com/setphasers

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&amp;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 wandering the empty decks of the Enterprise wondering why people think they aren't fun – when they discover the game of "Enterprise Bingo." Nurse Chapel finds her casual relationship has taken a serious turn and has to extricated herself from the poetry-spouting Lt. Devers, even while giving Spock advice on his more serious relationship.   Oh, also, there is a SUPER important diplomatic thing going on with the R'ongovian Protectorate, where the Federation really needs to get a deal together as they own the only safe route through Klingon and Romulan space. But, you know, I'm sure this will all make sense one day.   Join us on patreon for hijinks! <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E5 ”Spock Amok”

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 GORN!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THERE IS NO ESCAPE, THERE IS NO WAY OUT! WE ARE THE PREY. THEY ARE GOING BITE US OPEN AND FEED US TO THEIR HATCHLINGS. ...unless, Pike, Spock, La'an and crew can figure a way out of this pickle that involves a dying star with a black hole at its center. but what are the chances of that?! Join us at http://patreon.com/setphasers to join in the fun with Akie and Stevie!

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 GORN!!!!!!   AAAAAAAAAAHHH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THERE IS NO ESCAPE, THERE IS NO WAY OUT! WE ARE THE PREY. THEY ARE GOING BITE US OPEN AND FEED US TO THEIR HATCHLINGS.   ...unless, Pike, Spock, La'an and crew can figure a way out of this pickle that involves a dying star with a black hole at its center. but what are the chances of that?!   Join us at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a> to join in the fun with Akie and Stevie!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E4 ”Memento Mori”

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 with Doctor M'Benga, engineer Hemmer, AND chief of security La'an. Meanwhile, Pike and Spock are dealing with weird ghosts/entities down on the planet that are trying to break into their little shelter.  Secrets are revealed, lives are saved, and friendships tested and renewed. Strawberries! Join us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 with Doctor M'Benga, engineer Hemmer, AND chief of security La'an.   Meanwhile, Pike and Spock are dealing with weird ghosts/entities down on the planet that are trying to break into their little shelter.    Secrets are revealed, lives are saved, and friendships tested and renewed. Strawberries!   Join us on Patreon at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E3 ”Ghosts Of Illyria”

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 Cadet Uhura on her first away misson) that goes to the comet and gets trapped by a force-field and has to learn to sing to a giant egg to get free. Meantime, the Enterprise is getting shook down by "shepherds" of the comet who think of the away team as a desecration. And it all comes down to clever math and translations, fancy flying from Ortegas, sneaky-sneakiness from Spock, and nerves of pure steel from Captain Pike. Can they pull it off? Will they pull it off?! and will Uhura stay with Star Fleet?! No telling! Join us for more BTS nerdy fun on http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 Cadet Uhura on her first away misson) that goes to the comet and gets trapped by a force-field and has to learn to sing to a giant egg to get free. Meantime, the Enterprise is getting shook down by "shepherds" of the comet who think of the away team as a desecration.   And it all comes down to clever math and translations, fancy flying from Ortegas, sneaky-sneakiness from Spock, and nerves of pure steel from Captain Pike. Can they pull it off? Will they pull it off?! and will Uhura stay with Star Fleet?!   No telling!   Join us for more BTS nerdy fun on <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E2 ”Children Of The Comet”

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 returning to space after having glimpsed his own death ten years in the future, and meets a crew of new, young, very capable people. They go to the planet to find Number One and, of course, all hell breaks loose.  And that is just the beginning (the VERY beginning) of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Strap in, folks! Join us for more nerd fun at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 returning to space after having glimpsed his own death ten years in the future, and meets a crew of new, young, very capable people.   They go to the planet to find Number One and, of course, all hell breaks loose.    And that is just the beginning (the VERY beginning) of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Strap in, folks!   Join us for more nerd fun at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Strange New Worlds S1 E1 ”Strange New Worlds”

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 team has screwed with the timeline. And, finally, how or if they'll ever get home? Also, it would be nice if Elnor wasn't dead. We really liked him. Is there any way to wrap ALL this up in a single episode?! Well. We get by with a little help from our friends, don't we just?Join us why don't you http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 team has screwed with the timeline. And, finally, how or if they'll ever get home? Also, it would be nice if Elnor wasn't dead. We really liked him.   Is there any way to wrap ALL this up in a single episode?! Well. We get by with a little help from our friends, don't we just? Join us why don't you <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Picard S2 E 10 ”Farewell”

Set Phasers is an uber-mega-nerd Star Trek podcast from two musical trekkies (Akie Bermiss and Stevie Manns) with a lot of time on their hands. 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 stats, 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!

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 go fly to the Delta Quadrant and build-up an immense Borg army to fight the Confederation of Earth forces from the evil timeline?! …yes. But, I really do think that if Picard can just unlock the suppressed memories of his youthful trauma, and Raffi and Seven can work out their differences and work together, and Rios can say good-bye to Dr. Ramirez in with the just most perfectly smoldering smooch – I really do think that everything will be fine!What's that you say? Q? Q who?! Join us on patreon for all of the video fun, zoom hangs and early access http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 go fly to the Delta Quadrant and build-up an immense Borg army to fight the Confederation of Earth forces from the evil timeline?! …yes. But, I really do think that if Picard can just unlock the suppressed memories of his youthful trauma, and Raffi and Seven can work out their differences and work together, and Rios can say good-bye to Dr. Ramirez in with the just most perfectly smoldering smooch – I really do think that everything will be fine!What's that you say? Q? Q who?!   Join us on patreon for all of the video fun, zoom hangs and early access <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Picard S2 E 9 ”Hide and Seek”

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 the house of Adam Soong and sweet talks him into helping her with visions of personal grandeur. He is entirely susceptible because his daughter/experiment has just walked out on him with Q's blue-serum that allows her to endure sunlight and dust, i guess.  And otherwise, Rios is making kissy-kissy with Dr. Ramirez on La Sirena while her son Ricardo eats too much cake. Little do they know, Borgati and Soong and a couple recently proto-assimilated super-soldiers are about to drop in on them and let loose the dogs of war. Joiin our patreon at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 the house of Adam Soong and sweet talks him into helping her with visions of personal grandeur. He is entirely susceptible because his daughter/experiment has just walked out on him with Q's blue-serum that allows her to endure sunlight and dust, i guess.    And otherwise, Rios is making kissy-kissy with Dr. Ramirez on La Sirena while her son Ricardo eats too much cake. Little do they know, Borgati and Soong and a couple recently proto-assimilated super-soldiers are about to drop in on them and let loose the dogs of war.   Joiin our patreon at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Picard S2 E8 ”Mercy”

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 were actually monsters within and that Yvette was hounded by some sort of illness that made her prone to episodes of intense darkness and mania. Also, Picard's dad died young but got to keep all his hair. And we *almost* get to the bottom of what darkness makes Picard tick... before we leap back into the real world.While all that is happening, Rios is taking Dr. Teresa Ramirez and her son, Ricardo, to visit La Sirena (in direct contravention of all the rules about time travel) *and* Seven and Rafi are scrambling across LA in search of Dr. Jurati who is being piloted by a vengeful and ambitious Borg queen.Finally, Picard wakes up. Goes to visit Guinan for help. And they both wind up getting arrested by the FBI.Fun! Join us on patreon at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 were actually monsters within and that Yvette was hounded by some sort of illness that made her prone to episodes of intense darkness and mania. Also, Picard's dad died young but got to keep all his hair. And we *almost* get to the bottom of what darkness makes Picard tick... before we leap back into the real world. While all that is happening, Rios is taking Dr. Teresa Ramirez and her son, Ricardo, to visit La Sirena (in direct contravention of all the rules about time travel) *and* Seven and Rafi are scrambling across LA in search of Dr. Jurati who is being piloted by a vengeful and ambitious Borg queen. Finally, Picard wakes up. Goes to visit Guinan for help. And they both wind up getting arrested by the FBI. Fun!   Join us on patreon at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Picard S2 E7 ”Monsters”

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 Talinn look in on a session and see the therapist – it's Q. What else? Adam Soong is here, driven as all Soongs appear to be, into a mindless pursuance of his goals. He has a "daughter" Kore that is 100% like Soji, but not from the good future and confused or whatever. This is apparently what happened. He gets approached by Q who wants him to take out Renee Picard in return for Q helping to save Kore, who suffers from a genetic defect that makes sunlight poison to her. What else? The gang breaks Rios out of ICE detention, the Borg Queen calls the police, Jurati shoots the queen with an ancient musket, the Borg Queen puts assimilation feelers into Jurati's face. The gang party-crashes a gala for Europa mission, Picard talks Renee into following her destiny, Soong tries to run them over with a car, Doctor Jurati is an incredible singer, but that let's the Borg Queen completely take over her body... and we end up back at Dr. Teresa Ramirez's clinic with Picard on the table in a coma.  So, things are going pretty poorly, I guess. And Elnor is still dead!

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 Talinn look in on a session and see the therapist – it's Q.   What else? Adam Soong is here, driven as all Soongs appear to be, into a mindless pursuance of his goals. He has a "daughter" Kore that is 100% like Soji, but not from the good future and confused or whatever. This is apparently what happened.   He gets approached by Q who wants him to take out Renee Picard in return for Q helping to save Kore, who suffers from a genetic defect that makes sunlight poison to her.   What else?   The gang breaks Rios out of ICE detention, the Borg Queen calls the police, Jurati shoots the queen with an ancient musket, the Borg Queen puts assimilation feelers into Jurati's face. The gang party-crashes a gala for Europa mission, Picard talks Renee into following her destiny, Soong tries to run them over with a car, Doctor Jurati is an incredible singer, but that let's the Borg Queen completely take over her body... and we end up back at Dr. Teresa Ramirez's clinic with Picard on the table in a coma.    So, things are going pretty poorly, I guess. And Elnor is still dead!

Star Trek Picard S2 Eps 5 & 6 ”Fly Me To The Moon” & ”Two of One”

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 chateau, and folks go into LA to find this "watcher" that the Borg Queen was talking about. Meanwhile, Doc Jurati and Picard hook her up to the Queen to get her back online. Tragedian-level antics ensue. There are pratfalls, car jacking, car chases, and arrests. A trip to the hospital for Rios. A trip down Jurati's subconscious for Picard and the Queen. And straight-up trip for Seven and Rafi, as they try to find the watcher and then try to find Rios. Notable Mentions: a young Guinan, a new nickname for Rios, and you'll NEVER guess who the Watcher is! Join us on Patreon for zoom hangs, early access and MORE http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 chateau, and folks go into LA to find this "watcher" that the Borg Queen was talking about. Meanwhile, Doc Jurati and Picard hook her up to the Queen to get her back online.   Tragedian-level antics ensue. There are pratfalls, car jacking, car chases, and arrests. A trip to the hospital for Rios. A trip down Jurati's subconscious for Picard and the Queen. And straight-up trip for Seven and Rafi, as they try to find the watcher and then try to find Rios.   Notable Mentions: a young Guinan, a new nickname for Rios, and you'll NEVER guess who the Watcher is!   Join us on Patreon for zoom hangs, early access and MORE <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Picard S2 Eps 3 & 4 ”Assimilation” & ”Watcher”

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 doctor Agnes Jurati is doing... fine. Things are great! Except, Picard is awkward in love. *And* there is a big rift in spacetime calling his name. He goes to it. He tries to contact it. Things get messy. Things blow up. Meet Jean-Luc. He's a bloody thirsty general for the Confederation of Earth. He keeps the skulls of his enemies on pikes in his office. Seven is the president of the confederation. Rios is killing Vulcans. Elnor is a terrorist. Things have gone very sour indeed. Enter Q... and that's when the whole thing really get interesting. BECOME A PATRON and join us for all things Trek, BTS, community zoom hangs and MOREhttp://patreon.com/setphasers

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 doctor Agnes Jurati is doing... fine. Things are great!   Except, Picard is awkward in love. *And* there is a big rift in spacetime calling his name. He goes to it. He tries to contact it. Things get messy. Things blow up.   Meet Jean-Luc. He's a bloody thirsty general for the Confederation of Earth. He keeps the skulls of his enemies on pikes in his office. Seven is the president of the confederation. Rios is killing Vulcans. Elnor is a terrorist. Things have gone very sour indeed.   Enter Q... and that's when the whole thing really get interesting.   BECOME A PATRON and join us for all things Trek, BTS, community zoom hangs and MORE <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Picard S2 Eps 1 & 2 ”The Stargazer” & ”Penance”

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 speeches, crazy new aliens, certain-death situations, and many, many, many bitter tears. But surely it will all be right in the end?! Captain Burnham et al will find a way. They must, mustn't they? And Tarka will realize the error of his ways? And Earth won't be smashed to smithereens? And Michael and Book will get back together?!  Oh please, oh please, oh please. Let it be so. For the end (of season 4) cometh! Join us on http://patreon.com/setphasers for all of the access all areas and hangtime with us and fellow nerds!

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 speeches, crazy new aliens, certain-death situations, and many, many, many bitter tears.   But surely it will all be right in the end?! Captain Burnham et al will find a way. They must, mustn't they? And Tarka will realize the error of his ways? And Earth won't be smashed to smithereens? And Michael and Book will get back together?!    Oh please, oh please, oh please. Let it be so. For the end (of season 4) cometh!   Join us on <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a> for all of the access all areas and hangtime with us and fellow nerds!

Star Trek Discovery S4 E13 ”Coming Home”

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 with a door. Michael, Rillak, T'rina, and Saru go aboard to make a case for the civilizations of the milky way galaxy.  I mean... this could really work, people! EXCEPT, Tarka and Book are still planning a desperate mission to grab the DMA controller and power down the DMA so that Tarka can use it to go parallel universe hopping. And they took Jett Reno hostage and she is able to spy on Tarka's calculations and sees that if they take the controller it will cause a catastrophic implosion destroying the hypersphere and the 10C and sending a subspace rift caroming back to the alpha quadrant. That's a lot of lives being snuffed out for Tarka's ambition, but he gets the better of Book, lock him up with Reno and makes a run for the DMA controller. So... maybe this won't work at all. Join us for the month of March for Access All Areas at all levels at http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 with a door. Michael, Rillak, T'rina, and Saru go aboard to make a case for the civilizations of the milky way galaxy.    I mean... this could really work, people!   EXCEPT, Tarka and Book are still planning a desperate mission to grab the DMA controller and power down the DMA so that Tarka can use it to go parallel universe hopping. And they took Jett Reno hostage and she is able to spy on Tarka's calculations and sees that if they take the controller it will cause a catastrophic implosion destroying the hypersphere and the 10C and sending a subspace rift caroming back to the alpha quadrant. That's a lot of lives being snuffed out for Tarka's ambition, but he gets the better of Book, lock him up with Reno and makes a run for the DMA controller.   So... maybe this won't work at all.   Join us for the month of March for Access All Areas at all levels at <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Discovery S4 E12 ”Species 10C”

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. That means they have to sneak on the ship and add some code to the system. While there, Book attempts to enlist in the help of a new ally. The away team comes back, after some harrowing experiences, with some theories on how to proceed; DISCO takes off for the hyperfield; and Book returns to his ship to discover that Tarka was in a tight spot and had to take a hostage. Jett Reno. Oops.Join our Patreon for the month of march for $3 a month and receive ALL TIER BENEFITS FOR ONE MONTH! Try before you buy with us. Watch Parties, Zoom hang outs, Early episode access, Exclusive Video access and MORE! http://patreon.com/setphasers

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. That means they have to sneak on the ship and add some code to the system. While there, Book attempts to enlist in the help of a new ally.   The away team comes back, after some harrowing experiences, with some theories on how to proceed; DISCO takes off for the hyperfield; and Book returns to his ship to discover that Tarka was in a tight spot and had to take a hostage. Jett Reno. Oops. Join our Patreon for the month of march for $3 a month and receive ALL TIER BENEFITS FOR ONE MONTH! Try before you buy with us. Watch Parties, Zoom hang outs, Early episode access, Exclusive Video access and MORE! <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 11 ”Rosetta”

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 attend the mission as the ambassador representing the Federation.  Meanwhile, Book and Tarka haven't given up the fight. They go searching for programmable antimatter on the planet where all of Tarka's secrets are buried. Buckle up for FLASHBACKS. And so there is no safe place – in space or in memory – where one can shrug off the heightened stakes are we careen into these final episodes of Season four of Star Trek: Discovery. Join our Patreon for the month of march for $3 a month and receive ALL TIER BENEFITS FOR ONE MONTH! Try before you buy with us. Watch Parties, Zoom hang outs, Early episode access, Exclusive Video access and MORE! http://patreon.com/setphasers

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 attend the mission as the ambassador representing the Federation.    Meanwhile, Book and Tarka haven't given up the fight. They go searching for programmable antimatter on the planet where all of Tarka's secrets are buried. Buckle up for FLASHBACKS.   And so there is no safe place – in space or in memory – where one can shrug off the heightened stakes are we careen into these final episodes of Season four of Star Trek: Discovery.   Join our Patreon for the month of march for $3 a month and receive ALL TIER BENEFITS FOR ONE MONTH! Try before you buy with us. Watch Parties, Zoom hang outs, Early episode access, Exclusive Video access and MORE! <a href="http://patreon.com/setphasers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://patreon.com/setphasers</a>

Star Trek Discovery S4 E 10 ”The Galactic Barrier”

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