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Bottom plates‘ grand finale this week it was less of a goodbye and more of a memory than the chapters start and finish in Star Trek all the time, but it still took some time for the cast and crew behind the show to really accept that the fifth season was be his last. This process was apparently reflected in early drafts of the final episode, which didn’t really feel “final” at all… until the realizations started to sink in.
“Doing that episode was really interesting. I felt like there was a little bit like, ‘This is it indeed fine?’ Because we kept re-recording it. Mike (McMahan, Bottom plates‘showrunner) kept rewriting it,” Tawny Newsome, who played Beckett Mariner on the show, recently said. Variety. According to the actress, the first steps of recording for the final episode, “The New Next Generation” did not include the climactic reflection of the Mariner on how far she and her friends have come in their years together aboard the Cerritos.
“I remember the first time I recorded the episode back, you know, 13 months ago or whatever, the scene in the bar didn’t exist. I remember saying in the session, ‘If this is the end, we’re not ending not with a large mandate,” Newsome continued. “It just feels like the end of a season. I think there was a little (feeling of), like, ‘Well, maybe it’s not, so maybe we just don’t have to really end like this.’
Alas, the closer he got to the realization that this, indeed, would be, the more material was written to give it away Bottom plates a more solid shipment. But, as Newsome also notes, Bottom plates don’t exactly close the books on yourself. In an appropriate way Star Trek-ian way, the final message of the show is that these adventures continue, regardless of whether or not we will see. “Mike wrote that really nice speech for Mariner at the end, and I said, ‘Okay, that seems appropriate.’ time out to history. It’s the end of a chapter,” Newsome concluded. “I could go on. But I was happy that he gave us a little button, in case this is the last we see.”
Part of that goodbye, of course, is that the finale concludes with Mariner and Boimler receiving a promotion, as First Officer candidates shared under the Cerritos“Captain Ransom newly minted. “It’s the perfect harmony to share this position,” Newsome added of the end. “We’re a real duo, so it gives us a joint role at the end – the one that Boimer has always dreamed of and one that Mariner has resisted for so long – it feels like a pretty poignant move.
Fingers crossed this isn’t the last we see, but what if it is? It’s a pretty cool way for the show to go out. Star Trek: Lower Decks is now streaming in its entirety on Paramount+.
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