Lower Dorks: A Star Trek Lower Decks Fan Podcast Aaron and Stavros

With a bit of time between season 4's finale and a ways to go before season 5, the Lower Dorks hosts take us back through the highlights of this past season. We discuss the metaplot, character progression for all of the Warp Drive Five, best jokes and episodes, and more!
0:00 Intro and drink announcement2:31 How did our predictions do?5:51 Locarno metaplot10:47 Main character arcs (plus T'lyn! And Ransom!)45:39 Best gags of the season58:33 Best episodes of the season1:07:38 Random thoughts: Chewing gum, Ransom's door chime response, Caitians ate Betazoids, Dominion War memorial and Mariner's trauma, Badgey's wholesome ending, Agimus and Peanut Hamper progression, Goodgey, new plots in season 5, what about Rutherford?, Wrath of Khan re-creation, SHIPS1:23:41 Outro

The Lower Dorks hosts are very into the last episode of the season! We talk about Locarno and how he makes for an awesome villain, panic at all the cool new ships that we wish we had time to talk about (especially the Orion ones!) and lament the changes to Tenderford. And how many towel-clad lower deckers ARE there, anyway?
We've also learned after we recorded this episode that the ship Mariner pilots in this episode is a new ship type is a small version of the Steamrunner class, the Sabrerunner! Aaron still doesn't like it, though.
0:00 Intro and drink announcement2:29 Episode synopsis2:30 Orion battleship aside4:43 Directing and writing credits7:13 Last time on Lower Decks7:57 Starfleet Academy flashback16:05 Locarno and his fleet31:30 Mariner's escape and the genesis device42:20 Locarno's galactic message and other lower deckers45:21 Freeman, Tendi and the Orions subplot54:37 Sarcastic Steamrunner (Sabrerunner) computer voice aside56:30 Tendi cliffhanger!1:01:29 End of season brief thoughts1:04:15 Outro

The Mysterious Threat is finally coming into focus, but the Lower Dorks hosts are all about the details revealed about Mariner's past in the penultimate episode of the fourth season!
0:00 Intro and drink announcement2:09 Episode synopsis4:21 Writing and directing credits6:15 Cold open11:36 Captain Freeman and co B-plot30:08 Mariner's backstory A-plot43:45 Metaplot hypotheses52:05 Random other details: Bynar dialog, Lucarno's ship54:26 Outro

Take off your pants with the Lower Dorks hosts and phaser some poopy diapers as we discuss everything about caves, Vendorians and conspiracy theories. Just remember that the Vendorians just want us all to get along...
0:00 Intro and drink announcement2:10 Episode synopsis3:31 Director credit3:54 Planet names4:51 CAVES11:18 Vendorians15:47 Boimler's story23:34 Rutherford's story35:03 Mariner's story40:29 Tendi's story44:23 What it all means and random theories48:50 Outro

While this Lower Decks episode is all about AIs, Lower Dorks provides a definitely, completely necessary human look at the episode, including close analysis of the power of friendship and dadship, a metaphysical look at prison systems and hypotheses of the metaplot's direction!
0:00 Intro and drink announcement1:23 Episode synopsis2:27 Bynar intro, grappler, briefing scene5:59 Badgey plot24:53 Agamus/Peanut Hamper plot44:55 Metaplot updates46:58 Outro

TENDERFORD PERSEVERES! When the Warp Core Four (where's T'lynn?) visits Ferenginar, Tendi and Rutherford have a little will-they-won't-they, and we're here for it! We cover the other plot threads too, then discuss what we should call incompetent admirals.
0:00 Intro and drink announcement2:27 Episode synopsis and title5:37 Director credit5:58 Cold open11:36 Negotiation plot20:55 Intro to other plots, Ransom's influence23:45 Ferenginar details28:35 Mariner's plot41:24 Boimler's plot45:19 TENDERFORD PLOT55:31 Uncle Quark's Youth Casino, Vassery's unpreparedness57:52 Final thoughts59:39 Outro