This post contains spoilers for the season 4 finale of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."
I remember finishing the pilot for "Star Trek: Lower Decks" and having one overriding thought: "I might be in love with Beckett Mariner."
Okay, well more accurately, I might be in love with voice actress Tawny Newsome, whose charismatic and rambunctious performance, treading the line into sardonic while never being insincere, gives me life in every episode of "Lower Decks" that I watch. That's not to say Mariner depends only on her actress to be a star. She's complex enough to be a real person — even if she's usually just a cartoon — and her contradictions reflect those that make "Star Trek" what it is.
Sure, there are Trekkies out there who think "Star Trek" is only philosophy about the human spirit and morality plays — I do love a good "Darmok" or "In The Pale Moonlight." However, episodes...
I remember finishing the pilot for "Star Trek: Lower Decks" and having one overriding thought: "I might be in love with Beckett Mariner."
Okay, well more accurately, I might be in love with voice actress Tawny Newsome, whose charismatic and rambunctious performance, treading the line into sardonic while never being insincere, gives me life in every episode of "Lower Decks" that I watch. That's not to say Mariner depends only on her actress to be a star. She's complex enough to be a real person — even if she's usually just a cartoon — and her contradictions reflect those that make "Star Trek" what it is.
Sure, there are Trekkies out there who think "Star Trek" is only philosophy about the human spirit and morality plays — I do love a good "Darmok" or "In The Pale Moonlight." However, episodes...
- 11/6/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."
"Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 4, episode 4, titled "Something Borrowed, Something Green," takes place largely on the Orion homeworld, the place where Lieutenant D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) hails from. She is there to attend the wedding of her sister D'Erica but also to face the familial legacy she deliberately left behind when she joined Starfleet. The episode features a lot of lingering sororal resentment and multiple mysterious, violent, sexy figures from Tendi's past.
More important to Trekkies, however, are the numerous details about Orion life. "Something Borrowed" is the first time we've really had a good look at the Orions and what they're like in their element.
Orions, of course, first appeared on "Star Trek" as early as the "Original Series" pilot, "The Cage," when Captain Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) was seduced by a green-skinned woman at a Roman-style orgy.
"Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 4, episode 4, titled "Something Borrowed, Something Green," takes place largely on the Orion homeworld, the place where Lieutenant D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) hails from. She is there to attend the wedding of her sister D'Erica but also to face the familial legacy she deliberately left behind when she joined Starfleet. The episode features a lot of lingering sororal resentment and multiple mysterious, violent, sexy figures from Tendi's past.
More important to Trekkies, however, are the numerous details about Orion life. "Something Borrowed" is the first time we've really had a good look at the Orions and what they're like in their element.
Orions, of course, first appeared on "Star Trek" as early as the "Original Series" pilot, "The Cage," when Captain Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) was seduced by a green-skinned woman at a Roman-style orgy.
- 9/21/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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