Tawny Newsome Interview: Star Trek Lower Decks Season 2
With Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 arriving on Blu-ray and DVD on July 12, Tawny Newsome looks back at her character, Ensign Beckett Mariner's, tumultuous season. The Paramount+ Original Animated Comedy Series left off with a big season 2 cliffhanger where Mariner's mother, Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), is arrested by Starfleet.
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2's Blu-ray and DVD contains all 10 episodes and is packed with over an hour of bonus features including the featurettesA Sound Foundation, Lower Decktionary: Season 2, Animatics, and Easter Eggs. The set also has Audio Commentaries for four episodes with executive producer Mike McMahan, the show's writers, and actors Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Gabrielle Ruiz, Paul Scheer, and Jonathan Frakes.
Related: Star Trek: Lower Decks Brings A Discovery Trend Into The TNG Era
Screen Rant had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Tawny Newsome about her favorite Lower Decks season 2 memories, her real-life friendship with Jack Quaid, finally cosplaying in her Starfleet uniform, and hints at what's to come in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3.
Screen Rant: Lower Decks season 2 was so great. Let’s start at the end with the season 2 cliffhanger. Mariner’s gotta save her mom, right?
Tawny Newsome: Yeah, it's pretty epic, right? It's not just «I gotta save my Captain» and it's not just «I gotta save my mom,» it's «I gotta save both and I'm the person that's gotta do it!» Thankfully, she's got a good crew around her and all of the Lower Deckers seem game to do this. It's an intense way to end the season, that's for sure.
It was very much aTNG cliffhanger with the «To Be Continued» in blue font. It was perfect.
Tawny Newsome: For sure.
Season 2 was a tougher season for Mariner
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