Lower Dorks: A Star Trek Lower Decks Fan Podcast

Ransom Rant (S5E10) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Lower Decks' last episode! The Lower Dorks hosts cover everything from the excellent animation quality, all the Shrodinger Field ships, character sendoffs (especially Ransom!) and hopes for a spinoff that's definitely coming, right guys? Guys?

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:36 Paramount+ episode description
2:47 No opening credits battle change
3:21 New Klingon, her ship, other Klingon stuff
12:45 Shrodinger Field! Briefing, ship alternates and more
34:16 Shaxs/T'ana closure and continuinty
35:44 Boimler and Mariner
42:20 Tendi and Rutherford... and T'Lyn
52:47 Ransom Rant
1:00:40 Dimensional rift, SB80, Captain Freeman
1:07:26 Mariner's sendoff VO and minor character sendoffs
1:14:22 Dual first officers?! And future for Mariner and Boimler
1:17:55 Overall reaction
1:20:00 Outro 

His Name is Vendome (S5E9) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Only two episodes left! The Lower Dorks host talk about this episode that's chock full of guest stars and awesome animation! Remember to never promote your Harry Kim, but promote your Boimlers as fast as your Vendome.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:36 Episode Paramount+ description
3:04 Boimler Beard Update
4:00 Warp Drive Five intro
5:55 William Boimler, multiverse and the Anaximander
14:55 T'Pol guest star! Plus Curzon
18:32 Garak and Holo-Bashir guest stars!
21:50 Harry Kims guest star!
23:52 Lily Sloane guest star!
25:23 The Beagle and her mission
29:22 The Khwopians
31:38 The multiverse danger solution, was the episode good?
36:47 Character development in the last episode? And other hopes and nonsense
39:15 Outro

Needs More Migleemo (S5E8) | Lower Dorks Podcast

This is not a Halloween episode, but maybe it should be! The Lower Dorks hosts discuss everything about the third to last episode of Lower Decks, including the whole reversal concept, Ransom's switcheroo and... France for some reason.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
3:31 Paramount+ episode description
4:45 Pumpkin carving, Boimler Beard update and metaplot
9:07 Upper decks concept, the setting and space cows?
15:25 Shaxs and sidebar on animation
21:00 Dr. T'Ana and Nurse Westlake
24:31 Billups
29:44 Ransom
34:16 Freeman and Stevenson... and Paris
45:40 T'Lyn's dunk
46:47 But was it good?
48:34 Outro

Micheladas Are Awful (S5E7) | Lower Dorks Podcast

The Lower Dorks hosts have a bad experience making their own micheladas, but still manage to discuss the Purple D too much, and worry about the societal implications of giant produce.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
4:02 Paramount+ episode description
4:51 Episode title
5:36 Boimler and Rutherford beard update, the red PADD and micheladas
13:27 Sex jokes
14:34 Data and the Purple D
19:15 Tendi vs T'Lyn science-off!
23:32 The aliens and their planet, other episode references
29:05 Snell!
30:11 Prime directive violations: hair, giant produce, more
33:25 All about T'Lyn
37:04 But was the episode  good?
41:07 Outro

Ransom Is Into It (S5E6) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Things get all shape-y this episode, with discussion about Cubes and Spheres, the latest on Boimler's beard and just how goofball photonic lifeforms can get! Plus, some kinks that only Ransom is into...

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:56 Paramount+ description
3:15 Boimler beard update
4:18 Orbs, Cubes and Zeus progeny plot
24:28 Boimler's book club joining plot
36:14 Final thoughts
38:37 Outro

SB80 Spin-Off (S5E5) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Let's all go to Starbase 80?! The Lower Dorks host talk about the ill-reputed starbase and hypothesize about the best way to eat corn dogs, and consider this whole episode to be a Starbase 80 backdoor pilot.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:11 Paramount+ episode description
3:27 Boimler beard update
6:06 Exposition: Wetsuits, scatting
8:22 Starbase 80
18:21 Warp Core Four zombie plot
30:48 Freeman/Ransom nav processor plot
35:55 Beluga squeaks?
37:01 Final thoughts
38:24 Outro

Blargh, Bargh, Barf? (S5E4) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Klingons and bird people! The Lower Dorks hosts talk about Dr. Migleemo's character rehabilitation, star-studded VO cameos, Klingon foot spikes and more--plus we can't seem to agree on how to spell Bargh's name.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:33 Paramount+ episode description
3:23 Boimler's character status
6:35 Bird people plot
14:41 Klingon captaincy lot
41:00 Final thoughts
43:22 Outro

Eff Jen & Jet (S5E3) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Jet and Jen are back, along with the Lower Dorks hosts, who actively despise both! Just, you know, in a really loving way. The hosts also cover Ransom's command style, comment on the possibility of tiny starships, and everything else having to do with The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel!

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:40 Paramount+ episode description
5:32 The Cosmic Duchess
8:15 Warp Drive Five
9:01 Boimler cannon fodder plot
34:04 Jeriner and nanite plot
51:24 T'Lyn conspiracy and other stuff
1:01:09 Outro

Billups's Sex Tape (S5E1+2) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Another dual episode drop to start off season 5! The Lower Dorks hosts bring up the Paramount+ episode descriptions, then go to town on them, asking key questions like "Is prime T'Lyn a doppelganger?", "Can V'ger be heard during the opening credits?" and "Where is Billups's sex tape?"

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:33 Paramount+ Episode Synopses
7:05 Opening credits updates
11:40 Dos Cerritos episode discussion
56:28 Shades of Green episode discussion
1:18:18 Outro

Season 5 Trailer Trash | Lower Dorks Podcast

One last episode before season 5 starts airing! This time we take a deep dive with all the Lower Decks pre-season marketing, including the Star Trek Day 2024 exclusive clip, the season's teaser trailer and an in depth look at the season's full trailer!