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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 Federation about his and Riker’s shenanigans.  Picard prepared to take the blame only to discover the person sent to investigate is none other than forme...

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, they will band together (as Starfleet crews do) to win the day. Seven-of-Nine will hunt down the changeling saboteur on board, Picard will connect with h...

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 Riker. Riker and Picard then face off about whether to fight or run. It's *pretty* intense on the Titan.   Meanwhile, Raffi meets Worf and they have t...

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 and her heavily armed ship (the Shrike!) and give them one hour to turn Jack over or be annihilated.   Meanwhile, Raffi continues to hunt down the missi...

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 weapons on M'talas IV. Seven of Nine is working as first officer (under a pig-head of a captain) on the USS Titan.   As for Jean-Luc? He is moving house...

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 Trek goodness you need! From Pt’ach to ponfar! Join us as we uncover the easter eggs, the plot twists, the Trek tropes and more in our after-show, Set Ph...

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 Star Trek. In this meditation you head to Ten Forward for an after-shift beverage, are served by none of than Guinan herself and enjoy the musical 'styli...

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, she challenges him (and the USS Aledo) to a “mission race.” Meanwhile, Mariner tries to uncover what mystery benefactors are behind her new gig as...

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 initiative for all California class ships. And the admiralty is so stoked about it that they're sending an FNN news anchor to cover this maiden voyage...

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 own wacky plot after learning that his transporter clone, William, is dead. And yet, the adventure continues, nevertheless.   Other things to not...

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 Peanut Hampers do.   There's some romance, some flying snakes, some more *explicit* romance, a bunch of secret places shared, and a big reveal (or...

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 negotiations.   ...And when those negotiations go terribly wrong (because of, you guessed it, Quark!), it's just a good thing the right people were...

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 control of Rutherford's body and it leads to some brief shenanigans on the ship. Who will win out in the end? Only a deadly space race will give...

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 a lottery for a handful of luxury rooms on the first deck.    And where "usual: is: just after Captain Freeman has been possessed by a cursed mask...

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?!   These are all things that appear in S3E3 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Believe us, it makes sense. Eventually. Well, sorta.    Join us to go more bol...

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 sac...

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...

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...

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 dupl...

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, the...

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...

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 *pr...

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...

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 an...

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 h...