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A new podcast for Star Trek: Lower Decks. Hang out with Stavros and Aaron as they discuss the latest Lower Decks episodes, favorite characters, cameos and behind-the-scenes gossip.
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Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
It's a little known fact that the Lower Dorks hosts are TTRPG afficionados... and with a Lower Decks themed expansion to Star Trek Adventures coming out this summer, it's a perfect time to talk about it! Don't know what a TTRPG is, or why you should care? We talk with Modiphius experts on the project (Project manager Jim Johnson and writer Al Spader) to fill in the blanks! (We also do play a fill in the blanks game in this episode too).
0:00 Intro and guest introductions
8:54 What is Star Trek Adventures?
12:30 New to the Lower Decks TTRPG experience, range of content in STA
19:00 Lower Decks Campaign Guide details, celebs, narrative focus
29:36 Collaboration with Paramount, getting the Lower Decks flavor
41:28 Al's favorite contributions
44:08 Random elements in the Campaign Guide
48:08 Other Lower Decks STA content: crew packs, Lurkers standalone adventure, mission briefs
58:10 Sandbox elements, courtroom dramas
1:07:18 Game: We build our own Lower Decks mission brief!
1:17:00 Outro
Modiphius site: https://www.modiphius.net/
Lower Decks Campaign Guide: https://www.modiphius.net/en-us/products/star-trek-adventures-star-trek-lower-decks-campaign-guide
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
The Lower Dorks hosts resume our in depth chat with Star Trek ship expert Thomas Marrone, discussing the ships of season 3. We only get sidetracked into ship history a couple of times, and ultimately lament the lack of a purchasable California class model.
0:00 Intro, re-introduction of Thomas Marrone, drink announcement
2:06 Deep Space Nine, "Hear All, Trust Nothing"
9:47 Karemma ship, "Hear All, Trust Nothing"
13:08 Drookmani shuttle, "Mathmatically Perfect Redemption"
16:13 Areore ships, "Mathmatically Perfect Redemption"
23:02 Valdore variant, "Crisis Point II"
29:38 Sovereign-class, "Crisis Point II" and "The Stars at Night"
31:58 Temporal Research Lab, "Crisis Point II"
36:40 Batriss freighter, "Crisis Point II"
43:43 Section 31's Defiant-class, "Crisis Point II"
49:14 Type 15 Shuttlepod, "Trusted Sources"
53:35 Breen Interceptor, "Trusted Sources"
55:54 Texas class, "Trusted Sources"
1:05:44 The Free Spirit, "Trusted Sources" and "The Stars at Night"
1:19:51 All California Class ships, "The Stars at Night," "Mining the Mind's Mines"
1:19:34 Closing thoughts
1:21:39 Outro
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
The Lower Dorks hosts love ships, and Season 3 had a lot of them! We're joined once again by Star Trek ship guru Thomas Marrone to discuss all the ships that made an appearance! There are so many ships that we had to split our talk into two episodes, woah!
0:00 Intro and Thomas Marrone's (re-)introduction
10:56 Drink announcement
13:32 Freeman's fake ship, "Grounded"
15:06 Vulcan playground ship, "Grounded"
18:13 Phoenix, "Grounded"
26:06 Drydock, "Grounded"
28:58 Gary's Space Station, "Grounded"
31:53 Starfleet security ships, "Grounded"
37:37 Akira-class and alien ship, "Grounded"
44:54 Olympic-class, "Grounded"
50:37 Dulaine's orbital lifts, "Least Dangerous Game"
53:22 USS Hood, "Mining the Mind's Mines"
56:47 Dove and other ships, "Room for Growth"
1:05:33 Sampaguita and Delta Flyer, "Reflections"
1:11:59 D'deridex, "Reflections"
1:14:58 Outro
Federation Attack fighter model, Hangar B productions: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/federation-attack-fighter-e8a4ee7b6a7d43218bfad55b64030ff0
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
While other Trek shows are in full swing, we're here talking about Lower Decks season 3! We get into a discussion/argument about Warp Core Four's character development, talk cameos and even discuss the seasonal outlier starring Peanut Hamper! Also, one of us continues to get upset at the Boimler hair dye reveal.
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:12 Warp Core Four character development
20:05 Arc vs standalone episodes
23:43 Lots of ships
27:07 The outlier episode: A Mathmatically Perfect Redemption
30:10 Cameos: a whole lot
38:15 Favorite character update?
40:51 Favorite gags
45:44 Favorite episode
49:53 Aaron's random feedback: Episodes out of order, Mime-ing the Mime's Mimes details, breakable screens
54:38 Boimler's hair color reveal
55:54 Season 5 announced
56:53 Outro
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Lower Decks has a comic! Hosts Stavros and Aaron are joined by Star Trek Lower Decks comic series artist Chris Fenoglio to discuss everything about 2022's Lower Decks comic miniseries, and Stavros has a few too many inane opinions about capes and castles.
0:00 Intro and drink announcements
3:29 Details on the comics, Chris's introduction
5:45 Our comic book experience, Chris educates us
15:04 Art style
21:07 Catullans and Stavros's torpedoed theory
25:10 Cover art tease on issue #2
30:12 The skant's triumphant return
34:39 Plot discussion
40:47 The cape and Boimler's association
45:31 Would the Qvanti ruse work?
48:38 Yentoa castle is a castle
50:46 The Barclay chair and other details
56:16 Dracula's Cape and castle
1:01:12 Mariner and the MSD spread
1:05:34 Rutherford and the not-exocomp
1:08:10 Ransom and his office
1:13:50 Freeman and her commbadge log entries
1:14:32 Dr. T'ana and Shaxs
1:19:16 Qvanti and other alien designs
1:20:00 Reworking aliens, new CGI and Star Wars?
1:25:36 Stavros's wrong opinions about collars
1:26:00 Holodeck sets (Enterprise bridges and ships!), Dixon Hill office
1:34:43 Sequels in the works?
1:35:34 Looking like the show
1:40:21 Outro
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
We're still in the gap between seasons, but it's the perfect time to talk about how Lower Decks fits in with the five (!) total Star Trek shows currently "on the air"!
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
4:04 Lower Decks
9:22 Prodigy
19:53 Discovery
28:35 Strange New Worlds
39:59 Picard
49:23 Consistent production value, opening credits deep dive
1:01:12 How does Lower Decks fit in?
1:07:27 Outro
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Season 3 draws to a close with one of the strongest episodes of the season! Revelations include Towel Guy's name, Badmirals and only a few Star Trek non sequiturs!
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:49 Episode synopsis
2:25 Episode title origin
3:28 Douglas Station exterior shot
4:46 Mariner's archaeology
10:33 Admiral Buenamigo and his motives
18:33 The Texas Class
21:27 The Lower Deckers react, Towel Guy, Boimler's imitations, phaser maintenance
26:27 The California/Texas challenge, crew readiness, command staff
32:34 Rutherford's conspiracy
35:09 The last battle, Maximum Warp Me, Shaxs's defining moment
43:35 California finale: Names, paint jobs and more
50:25 T'Lyn makes her appearance
55:08 Rutherford's obliviousness
55:52 Final thoughts
58:48 Outro
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
The Lower Dorks hosts get the scoop on S3E9 and ask if Buenamigo is a badmiral, revel in the look of Starbase 80 and get really upset that literally nobody backs Mariner up when she's in trouble.
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
3:06 Plot synopsis
4:26 Project Swing By and the Breen
14:56 Admiral Buenamigo's pet project
19:10 Ship to the rescue trope
20:36 Reporter and the red herring
23:08 Ransom's role
24:36 Mariner's attitude: more red herrings
26:01 Mariner's friends don't help!
27:47 Petra Aberdeen and her ship
29:12 Pie eating contest: Mariner's filling, Rutherford's pie problem and uniform tear, Ponn Farr annual event?
33:37 Starbase 80!
35:19 Other details: Migleemo is still the worst, "On your way, Lower Decks" lieutenant, return of Towel guy, 10 frowns
39:06 Final thoughts
40:22 Outro
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Episode sequels continue in Season 3, and now it's Boimler's go! We cover everything from wanting our own Knickknac episode to the Boimler psychological trauma resolution and Tendi's new character development.
00:00 Intro and drink announcement
00:55 Episode synopsis
01:13 Episode opening
04:27 About the writer
05:43 Back to the Opening
06:14 Stavros goes on about clothing again
07:30 Still more opening
15:18 Voice actor planet
17:08 Tenderford adventure time!
31:18 Boiminer Soul Searching time!
41:35 Safety Protocols
45:01 Cliffhanger, Sans Sylvester Stallone
48:53 Final Thoughts
54:56 Outro
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Everyone's favorite exocomp is back, but the Lower Dorks hosts get hung up talking about possible ancient bird people that seeded avian races throughout the galaxy. Also, f**k Peanut Hamper!
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:22 Episode synopsis
1:48 Last time... and opening credits
4:26 Peanut Hamper's escape sequence and SOUND IN SPACE
6:51 Drookmani
8:05 The Areore, their planet, and galactic genetic seeding tangents
15:20 Peanut Hamper's plot and failed redemption
23:28 JG Hertzler cameo
25:12 Quality of the battle animation
27:41 Captivity, Jeffrey Combs cameo and the greatest villain teamup of Lower Decks
31:09 Final thoughts
33:09 Outro