Lower Dorks: A Star Trek Lower Decks Fan Podcast

Dealing with promotions is the name of the game in this week's episode of Lower Decks, and the Lower Dorks hosts are in the weeds, discussing Boimler's performance, the out of hand hazing ritual and the intrinsic coolness of ringworlds.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:51 Episode synopsis
3:40 The ringworld and Captain Freeman
12:24 Boimler's mission
27:03 Anomaly room and Mariner/Tendi/Rutherford's haze
43:52 Final thoughts
45:52 Outro

Season 4 is here! The Lower Dorks hosts cover everything from the first two episodes, including T'Lyn reactions, the fate of the macroviruses and the usual hero worship for Ransom and Rutherford.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:25 Episode synopses

Twovix
4:59 New opening credits
7:26 Boimler holodeck sequence
9:49 T'Lyn
12:08 Voyager secret mission and station
14:33 Voyager appearance and detail
17:34 Macrovirus plot
26:16 Twovix plot
33:59 Promotions and Ransom, plus trailer edits
36:34 Mysterious threat epilogue

I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee
44:49 Romulan cold open and title discussion, plus bloodwine
46:36 Shaxs and T'ana's relationship, plus the stretchy scene
48:25 Boimler apartment shopping plot
55:39 Rutherford Promotion (and Tendi) plot
1:00:58 Menagerie (with Mariner and Ransom) plot
1:13:00 Last minute observations
1:15:39 Outro

In the last episode  before Season 4, the Lower Dorks hosts take a look at all all the cold opens from seasons 1-3 and talk about which ones are the best per season and which one is the best overall!

0:00 Intro
1:52 Season 1 drink
2:59 Season 1 cold opens, ranked
11:17 Season 2 drink
12:41 Season 2 cold opens, ranked
26:12 Season 3 drink
27:29 Season 3 cold opens, ranked
34:00 Top overall cold open from Seasons 1-3
39:31 Top overall drink flavor
40:40 Outro

Season 4 is coming soon, and the trailer is out with Comic-Con! Lower Dorks host take a shot-by-shot look at the trailer and dissect it for the smallest details.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:16 In-depth look at Season 4 trailer
49:22 Outro

Season 4 trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCQwncbQx04

The crossover episode is here! The Lower Dorks hosts cover everything about this one, from the intro sequence to apology limericks... and we even try the internet's attempt at an Orion Hurricane!

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
3:33 Episode synopsis
4:12 OK, but was it good?
5:16 Frakes's direction
8:28 Animated vs live action and Mariner/Boimler appearances
18:30 Animated opening sequence
23:17 Breaking the fourth wall
28:30 Enterprise homages and the drinks
33:56 Boimler screams in live action, in-universe hero worship
37:58 Pike can't stand Boimler
45:22 One-liners
46:51 Ensign in charge of time portal missions, horonium fuel
49:00 Holocamera from Voyager
50:42 Number one calling herself Number One
51:45 Setlik system, Boimler's possible guilt, Cardassian knowledge
57:05 Commbadge log entries return
58:37 The Riker
58:59 Tritriticale reference
59:31 Nausicaan portrayal
1:01:17 Conversation with Pelia
1:04:19 Enterprise shuttlebay look
1:06:39 Apology limerick and NX-class piece
1:08:38 Pin-up poster and ad astra per aspera continuation
1:12:13 Tech-y-ons
1:13:00 Outro

Orion Hurricane recipe: https://twitter.com/TheScorch1701/status/1683146996826210309

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

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

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

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

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