Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ Tawny Newsome jokes that she plans to appear in every Star Trek series on Paramount+. Newsome already got a big head start in a history-making 2023: before returning as the newly-promoted Lieutenant Beckett Mariner in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, Tawny played Ensign Mariner in live-action along with Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler in Lower Decks‘ comedic crossover episode with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Is this just the beginning of Tawny Newsome’s Star Trek takeover?
Screen Rant caught up with the always-hilarious Tawny Newsome at the 51st annual Saturn Awards red carpet, where Newsome represented Star Trek: Lower Decks, which was nominated for Best Animated Series or Special. When asked about whether she intends to appear in every Star Trek on Paramount+ series, Tawny, who is also a writer of the upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series, laid out her tongue-in-cheek plan to pop up everywhere in Star Trek. Read her quote and watch the video interview below:
Yeah, I’m definitely trying to appear on every single Star Trek series. I’m just going to be in a prosthetic on Discovery. Even though they already finished filming, that’s fine. They’ll put me in. They’ll CG me in. I’m going to definitely show up on Starfleet Academy. I’m writing on Starfleet Academy, so this is just coming from me. I’m going to write myself in, whether the showrunners know it or not. I’ll just show up on set in a full Bolian prosthetic. Who’s going to even know it’s me? This will be my undercover way to just infiltrate every single series.
Tawny Newsome’s Star Trek Projects | Character/Role |
|---|---|
Star Trek: Lower Decks Seasons 1-5 | Lt. Beckett Mariner |
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 7 – “Those Old Scientists” | Ensign Beckett Mariner |
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Writer |
Star Trek: The Pod Directive | Co-host |
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What’s Next For Mariner In Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5?
Mariner is getting used to being a Lieutenant
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 ended with Lt. Beckett Mariner achieving a huge breakthrough. Since Lower Decks began, Mariner has harbored a deep-seated aversion to being promoted above the rank of Ensign and dedicated her tumultuous Starfleet career to being a Lower Decker on the USS Cerritos. Mariner’s promotion to Lieutenant, junior grade, sent her off the deep end, and Beckett’s self-destructive behavior concerned her friends. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 9, “The Inner Fight” revealed Mariner’s hatred of command stems from the death of her friend and idol from Starfleet Academy, Ensign Sito Jaxa (Shannon Fill).
In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4’s finale, Mariner dealt with her inner demons by saving the galaxy from disgraced ex-Starfleet Academy cadet Nicholas Locarno (Robert Duncan McNeill). Of course, Mariner will still be Mariner in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, and Tawny Newsome told Screen Rant that Mariner’s arc is still “weird, chaotic, and stressful” as a Lieutenant. Then again, we wouldn’t want Mariner any other way.
