Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 2 Episode 8 – I, Excretus

We’re back! Brian, Kyle, and LT talk through Star Trek: Lower Decks S2E8, titled I, Excretus. This episode was written by Ann Kim and directed by Kim Arndt. This may be the best episode yet of Lower Decks, as the Cerritos Lower Decks and senior officers switch roles and go through the situations of the past! This one is late in coming. We apologize. In fact…

This actually IS the Patreon version of the episode…

I ran out of time this week, so what you’re hearing is the version of the episode that I published to the Patreon listeners. I did more editing on this Patreon episode than I normally do when I produced this, so you’ll find that it won’t sound all that different from the regular version. The main difference is that you won’t hear the music at the start and end of the episode. Rather than making you wait longer, I decided that the Patreon version was good enough. I’m sorry to make everyone wait so long this week. I just hadn’t made enough progress on the final version that I didn’t want to wait any longer and this version is good enough. We didn’t want you to wait any longer for this one because this was the first great episode of this season, and I called it my favorite episode of the series to date.

Easter Eggs – Courtesy of Yours Truly (Mostly) but I did have some help…

Like the last two weeks, I came up with most of the Easter Eggs myself, but I did get some help from YouTube videos by Jessie Gender and What Culture.

Chapters

00:00:00 STLDP 018 – I, Excretus (Lower Decks S2E8)
00:00:17 Intro
00:03:07 About I, Excretus
00:05:00 Ratings
00:11:45 Yeses
00:41:42 Nos
00:57:46 Not Good Enough
01:07:35 Open Hailing Frequencies
01:17:29 Our Notes
01:20:21 Spot the References
01:39:10 Shipwide Announcements (News)
01:54:44 Wrap Up

For our next episode…

For our next episode, we will be covering S2E9, titled wej Duj. Get in your feedback by Friday, October 8, 2021 (that’s today, at the time I release this), at 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central, unless we extend that to Saturday again.

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