Star Trek Lower Decks: Moist Vessel

In our continuing trek to bring you the very best of Star Trek coverage, the Agents of Doux present an exciting new experiment. Today, we boldly go to where no review has gone before: The Celebrity Interview format!

Mikey Heinrich: Hello and welcome to the first of our interview reviews of Star Trek: Lower Decks. We're joined today by celebrated Star Trek historian, International Treasure, and fervent support of the Oxford Comma, Billie Doux. Billie, thank you so much for being with us today.

Star Trek Lower Decks: Temporal Edict

Mikey, Samantha and I discuss the third episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Mikey Heinrich: He's got wood! He's got wood!

Juliette's Best of 2023

Being unusually patriotic for me on Coronation Day

This is my twelfth annual Best Of piece for Doux Reviews. Twelfth!!! I started in 2012! I barely have time to write for the site any more, but I still come back every year and do these, because I love this site, and I love doing them.

Also we got to watch an actual Coronation this year, so that was fun. I'm fairly ambivalent about the Royal Family, but I do love a bit of pomp and ceremony. And I had a big birthday, but maybe we won't talk about that one...!

Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Those Old Scientists

"Tough to meet your heroes, huh?"

Crossovers should be fun. And this one was. Honestly, I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

Star Trek Lower Decks: Envoys

The Agents of Doux are covering Star Trek: Lower Decks with "discussion reviews." Mikey starts us off.

Mikey Heinrich: A little over half way through this episode, the Universe reached out personally to the Agents of Doux and gave us the most important moment to occur on a Star Trek show ever.

Star Trek Lower Decks: Second Contact

After successfully completing "discussion reviews" of the entire run of Star Trek: The Animated Series last week, the Agents of Doux are feeling their oats and have chosen their next project: Star Trek: Lower Decks. Starting at the beginning, the pilot episode.

Mikey Heinrich: Okay, that was a lot of fun. It's impressive how much they managed to get into this episode without it coming across as overstuffed. They established all the characters well, got a classic, old school "virus from a strange planet gets aboard and infects everybody" story, and got in an amusing tale of Mariner helping out some farmers.

Star Trek Lower Decks: Second Contact (Pilot)

We're not really elite. We're more like the cool, scrappy underdogs of the ship. You know, we don't wash our hands, we're doing kick flips all the time.

When a second contact brings a virus aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos, it takes the combined efforts of all crew members to save the ship.

Star Trek Lower Decks

Season 1 | Season 2 |
Season 3 | Season 4 |
Season 5 |
Related Links | Cast |

Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020-2024) is an animated series about the lowly grunts quartered below decks of Starfleet's least important starship, the USS Cerritos.

Programming note: Our coverage of Lower Decks is so very incomplete. Would you like to review this show for us? Apply here.

Season One

1.1 Second Contact
1.2 Envoys
1.3 Temporal Edict
1.4 Moist Vessel
1.5 Cupid's Errant Arrow (not yet reviewed)
1.6 Terminal Provocations
1.7 Much Ado About Boimler
1.8 Veritas
1.9 Crisis Point
1.10 No Small Parts

Season Two

2.1 Strange Energies
2.2 Kayshon, His Eyes Open
2.3 We'll Always Have Tom Paris
2.4 Mugato, Gumato
2.5 An Embarrassment of Dooplers
2.6 The Spy Humongous
2.7 Where Pleasant Mountains Lie
2.8 I, Excretus
2.9 wej Duj
2.10 First First Contact

Season Three

3.1 Grounded
3.2 The Least Dangerous Game
3.3 Mining the Mind's Mines
3.4 Room for Growth
3.5 Reflections
3.6 Hear All, Trust Nothing
3.7 A Mathematically Perfect Redemption
3.8 Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus
3.9 Trusted Sources
3.10 The Stars at Night

Season Four

4.1 Twovix
4.2 I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee
4.3 In the Cradle of Vexilon
4.4 Something Borrowed, Something Green
4.5 Empathological Fallacies
4.6 Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place
4.7 A Few Badgeys More
4.8 Caves
4.9 The Inner Fight
4.10 Old Friends, New Planets

Season Five

5.1 Dos Cerritos
5.2 Shades of Green
5.3 The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel
5.4 A Farewell to Farms
5.5 Starbase 80?!
5.6 Of Gods and Angles
5.7 Fully Dilated
5.8 Upper Decks
5.9 Fissure Quest
5.10 The New Next Generation

Related Links

Strange New Worlds crossover episode, "Those Old Scientists" review by Billie Doux
Review of the pilot by JRS
All Things Star Trek: a complete list of everything Star Trek at Doux Reviews

Cast

Tawny Newsome (Ensign Beckett Mariner)
Jack Quaid (Ensign Brad Boimler)
Noël Wells (Ensign D'Vana Tendi)
Eugene Cordero (Ensign Samanthan Rutherford)
Dawnn Lewis (Captain Carol Freeman)
Jerry O'Connell (Commander Jack Ransom)
Fred Tatasciore (Lieutenant Shaxs)
Gillian Vigman (Dr. T'Ana)