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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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Friday Aug 26, 2022
Friday Aug 26, 2022
Season 3 is back and we're here to eat raisins! Lower Dorks hosts cover everything from S3E1, from catching all the details from the newscaster announcements in the cold open to asking why autopilot sucks. Also, is the mystery of Boimler's hair finally put to rest??
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:15 Plot synopsis
1:36 Warp Core Four
2:00 Star Trek IP intro on Paramount+
2:57 Newscaster details
5:46 Lower Decker's place in the Pakled plot
7:46 Admiral Freeman, his friend and the Golden Gate Bridge
9:59 Opening credits changes
10:45 Boimler's raisin farm
11:53 Sisko's Kitchen scene
13:44 Transporter facility
16:16 Bozeman theme park, Gavin, music and Cochrane
24:10 Boimler's logs
27:40 Drydock guards gag
28:32 Autopilot issues
29:41 Captain Bateman and Tuvok
32:03 Mariner handed off to Ransom
33:45 Phasers clean stuff again
34:45 The end of Captain Gavin?
36:14 Lower Decks' Phoenix model
36:44 Where's the season going?
37:12 Outro
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Get Decked with the hosts of Lower Dorks! With season 3 coming soon, Stavros and Aaron have made it through a rewatch of Season 1 while sampling several cocktails from Star Trek Cocktails: A Stellar Compendium. In fact, far too many cocktails. Follow along, if your liver is up to the task!
Buy Star Trek Cocktails: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Cocktails-Stellar-Compendium/dp/1858759684/
0:00 Meta-intro
0:50 Intro and cocktails announcement
3:22 S1E1/Lime Directive
9:00 S1E2/Klingon Bird-of-Prey
13:55 S1E3/Ice Planet
20:34 S1E4/Mind Meld
27:39 S1E5/Q-Pid
33:18 S1E6/Guinan Fizz
42:41 S1E7/Samarian Sunset
50:58 S1E8/Buck's Fizzbin
58:25 S1E9/Distress Call
1:02:59 S1E10/Drink free-for-all
1:10:18 Outro
Friday Aug 05, 2022
Friday Aug 05, 2022
The drought of Lower Dorks is over! With fresh news about season 3 (and a trailer), the Lower Dorks hosts recap everything dropped during 2022's San Diego Comic-Con, along with some other recent Lower Decks tidbits.
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:47 Season 3 poster
3:48 Lower Decks: The Badgey Directive
4:05 IDW comic book series
5:42 Ready Room vineyard teaser clip
7:39 Comic-Con coverage overview
8:03 Entertainment Weekly
12:52 Hall H panel
24:45 Season 3 Trailer in-depth look
1:16:23 Outro
Links:
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
We might be in the middle of winter and season 3 is still months away, but that doesnt mean we cant think about it! Pick up a hot cocoa and join the Lower Dorks hosts in reviewing Reddit's season 3 predictions.
0:00 Intro
1:40 Captain Freeman's arrest
3:32 Admiral Freeman's visit and Mariner's abandonment
5:13 Jennifer and Mariner
7:26 Rutherford conspiracy
9:55 Tendi's backstory
11:19 Boimler fails at leadership and learns things about Ransom
14:07 Boimler is genetically engineered
17:16 All four of the main cast end the season with ensign rank
19:56 Badgey vs Peanut Hamper
22:27 Secondary character returns
30:20 Outro
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Having trouble keeping Pandronians and Vendorians apart, or maybe you just haven't watched The Animated Series in the last 20 years? The Lower Dorks hosts have rewatched TAS and cover the biggest references that have appeared in Lower Decks so far.
0:00 Intro and drink announcement
1:16 General Animated Series reactions
2:59 Those Old Scientists (LD: No Small Parts)
4:46 Vendorians (LD: Envoys; TAS: The Survivor)
7:36 Spock 2 (LD: Kayshon, His Eyes Open; TAS: The Infinite Vulcan)
12:24 Pandronians (LD: I, Excretus; TAS: BEM)
15:01 Aurelians/Skorr (LD: An Embarassment of Dooplers; TAS: Yesteryear, Jihad)
18:55 Nasat (LD: An Embarassment of Dooplers; TAS: Jihad)
21:46 Kzinti (LD: The Spy Humungous; TAS: The Slaver Weapon)
30:52 Outro
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
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/
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
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
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
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
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
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
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
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