Lower Dorks: A Star Trek Lower Decks Fan Podcast

Ships of Season 2 ft. Thomas Marrone | Lower Dorks Podcast

I hope you like ships, because this episode is full of them! The Lower Dorks hosts are once again joined by Star Trek Online's lead ship artist Thomas Marrone for an in depth look at all the ships that showed up in Lower Decks season 2!

0:00 Intro and thematic drink announcement
2:14 Strange Energies holodeck sequence: Miranda variant, Vengeance-class Romulan ship from FASA, many more... and who owns the rights to TOS era ships?
17:43 Embarassment of Dooplers starbase shot: Andorian cruiser, Daedelus class, Delta Flyers, Vanguard-type starbase fanon
28:50 Mugato Gumato conman ship
32:38 Where Pleasant Fountains Lie's The Monaveen
41:36 wej Duj's Vulcan cruiser Sh'Vahl, Federation member planet navies
49:23 First Contact's U.S.S. Archimedes and realistic space physics
57:56 Season 2's U.S.S. Cerritos redesign and new features: Hull plating separation, rubber duck room, cetacean ops, captain's yacht
1:25:10 Kayshon His Eyes Open's collector ship
1:28:24 Additional U.S.S. Titan details
1:32:12 Outro

Referenced links:
FASA: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/FASA
Masao Okazaki's Starfleet Museum: https://www.starfleet-museum.org/

Season 2 Retrospective | Lower Dorks Podcast

Season 2 is over, but the Lower Dorks hosts have a lot to discuss! Favorite characters have changed, best episode has been chosen and Star Trek's boundaries have been pushed. Also, why are there so many eye patches?

00:00 Intro and Drink Announcement
01:01 Production Values
03:33 Favorite Character
08:58 Visual Updates
10:08 Characters! (Not just Ransom)
11:23 Cameos!
14:30 Animated Series, Phase II
17:42 Best of! (Episodes)
22:41 Your show is bad and you should feel bad
24:04 Joke's on you
28:50 Yeet-Yoinkers
29:32 Pushing Boundries
32:10 Hopes for the Future
36:48 Alien Eyepatch Association
39:48 Outro

Freeman‘s Big Promotion (S2E10) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Season 2 has to come to a close, and Captain Freeman faces a special kind of promotion that the Lower Dorks host cover. Remember to bring your Starfleet beach balls!

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:30 Episode synopsis
2:34 Starbase opening details: Ships, Starfleet strata
9:30 USS Archimedes, Captain Sonya Gomez
15:43 First Content and rescue mission plot, plot holes, DARKNESS
35:52 Mariner and Jen!
40:47 Boimler and Mariner's progress, Lower Decker family
46:19 Captain Freeman's "promotion" and Rutherford's unwilling involvement
54:45 Tenderford forever!
59:51 Tendi's progession, who the f**k is Jadzia Dax?
1:02:44 New locations: Captain's Yacht, Rubber Duck Room, Cetacean Ops
1:11:22 Koalas, Bajoran patient
1:12:45 Season 3 wishlist
1:14:51 Outro

No Time for Pottery on Bajor (S2E9) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Klingons, Vulcans and Starfleet, oh my! One of the best episodes of the series presents itself near the end of Season 2, and the Lower Dorks hosts are here to talk about it.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:45 Plot synopsis
3:30 Plot A on board the Cerritos
18:03 Plot B on board the Che'Ta'
24:34 DAMMIT MIKE - Klingon blood color
26:19 Back to Plot B
28:11 Plot C on board the Sh'Vhal
36:16 Convergence of A+B+C Plots
38:15 Pakleds comedy and plot
40:54 Cadets and their uniforms
41:54 RITOS shirt
42:32 Quick visual freeze-frame gags
45:02 The Borg Lower Decks
46:24 Will Captain Freeman be okay?!
48:12 Outro

”Warp Me” Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad (S2E8) | Lower Dorks Podcast

One of the strongest episodes for season 2 so far! The Lower Dorks hosts take a fine tooth comb to everything in this episode, from the history of the Pandronians in Trek canon and Andorian last names to Mariner's inability to tolerate Naked Time and Boimler's likely permanent post-assimilation damage.

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
0:54 Plot synopsis
1:14 Cold open and "Warp Me"
3:30 Pandronians and the Drill Instructor: Shari Yn Yem
6:54 Jen's last name and Boimler's photo
9:41 List of all seen drills!
12:12 Alice Krige cameo!
12:32 Back to the drills
20:40 Lower Deckers role reversal
22:27 Mariner's Mirror Universe Sim, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
24:45 Mariner's Naked Time Sim
28:10 Tendi's Medical Ethics Sim
29:40 Mariner's Old West Sim
30:41 Boimler's Borg Sim, his Borg name and mental fortitude
38:32 Mariner and Freeman team up, Crystalline Entities
40:24 Black hole TMP FX
41:14 Marc Evan Jackson cameo
42:42 Crate stacking
43:53 Outro

Get Boimed (S2E7) | Lower Dorks Podcast

The Lower Dorks host are excited to discuss the show's best/only Billups episode! Buckle up for a chat about Jeffrey Combs's guest role as Agimus, random details about the Hysperians and even cover the origin of the episode's name!

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:12 Episode synopsis
2:24 Source of the episode title
5:35 Billups episode!! And sex jokes
8:50 Hysperians
14:10 DAMMIT MIKE: Why can't we have a dragon?
15:32 Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael
16:14 Jeffrey Combs is back as Agimus!
20:12 Mariner/Boimler relationship
23:18 What's better about phaser rifles anyway?
24:28 Sickbay's window?
25:10 L. Playa and crew deaths
27:09 More food motifs!
29:57 Outro

Taffy, Honey, Shrimp, Soda, Chicken Nuggets, Crispy Lemon Rock Candy, Chili, Gravy, Chocolate Sundae - HOT! (S2E6) | Lower Dorks Podcast

The Pakled plot continues in Lower Decks S2E6! The Lower Dorks hosts cover everything there is to know about all 3 plots in this epsode - the Pakled negotiations and spy, the Redshirt Club and cleaning up Science Trash!

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:02 Plot synopsis
1:23 The Pakleds - Culture, ships, plot arc and more
7:41 Science trash - Whose trash is it, best items and Tendi's development
17:13 Redshirt Club - Boimler's appearance, imitative command style, improv comedy/command
28:51 Boimler's replicator order
30:23 Ransom and Kayshon, plus the Gift Shop!
31:42 Writing kudos, clean plot resolutions
34:07 Not everything has to be a reference
35:04 The episode's message
36:04 Outro

Your Pagh is Weak (S2E5) | Lower Dorks Podcast

The Lower Dorks host descend upon Starbase 25 and take a look at everything S2E5 has to offer, from the updated dress uniforms to Rutherford and Tendi's relationship and why Quark's business makes models of ships like the Cerritos!

0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:08 Episode announce and synopsis
1:46 Ransom's the hero?
2:06 Doopler actor and alien concept
5:00 Rutherford and Tendi have bigger things to deal with!
6:29 Where is Kayshon!? 
7:40 DAMMIT MIKE: Who runs Starbase 25?!
9:07 More about Starbase 25 and references found there - Security, parked ships, interior look, barber shop, aviary
15:54 Bar scene references and hypotheses
24:12 Boimler and Mariner make up, abandonment theme
26:21 Malvus and his shop
28:26 Uniforms - Dress uniforms and Cerritos differences
31:01 Model Cerritos, Quark's model business
36:42 Other references: Captain Shelby, Shelby's Number One, Okona
39:40 The message of the ending
40:42 Outro

Domo Arigato, Mr Mugato (S2E4) | Lower Dorks Podcast

Throwback to Those Old Scientists are full on in this episode that features Mugatos and their various other pronounciations, and the Lower Dorks hosts are all over it! Don't miss the new DAMMIT MIKE segment.

00:00 Intro and drink announcement
2:08 Episode synopsis
3:10 Denobulans!
3:55 Everything Mugatos
4:24 DAMMIT MIKE: Why make Mispronounciation of Mugatos Canon?!
6:37 Back to Mugatos
8:04 Mariner's history fakeout
10:33 Aussie Tellarite and blood
11:11 Rutherford/Boimler team up and their solution
16:46 Tendi's medical coat
17:41 What is Kayshon's job??
19:23 Bronze pineapple
20:03 Alien scammer and tractor factors
22:30 Billups snubbed, again
23:03 Starfleet black ops
23:40 Parks shuttle names
24:23 Kzinti return!
25:42 Board game introduced: Diplo-math
26:53 T'ana and Shaxs: an item?
28:31 Outro

Eulogy for Cody (S2E3) | Lower Dorks Podcast

The Lower Dorks hosts attack all three (!) plots in the S2E3 episode, and hopefully only  Rutherford is the one coming out of it all with existential horror. And we didnt even get around to talking about Lt. JG Cody!

00:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:31 Episode synopsis
2:33 The return of Shaxs!
4:25 Everyone hates Jen
4:59 What's going on with Boimler and Boimler's plate? (B plot)
8:51 Tom Paris's PTSD
10:43 Girls' adventure! (A plot)
21:06 Rutherford's curiosity (C plot)
25:26 Paris and Torres: still an item?
26:47 Outro