The Lower Decks finale got some extras when the reality of its ending began

Lower floors‘ The grand final is this week It was less a goodbye and more a reminder of those chapters Begin and end in Star Trek All the time — but it took a while for the cast and crew of the show to truly accept that Season 5 would continue be the last. This process seemed to be reflected in early drafts of the final episode, which didn’t seem “final” at all… until realizations started to sink in.

“Making that episode was really interesting. I felt like there was a little bit of like, ‘Is this?’ truly the end? Because we kept re-recording it. Mike (McMahan, Lower floors“showrunner) kept rewriting it,” Tawny Newsome, who played Beckett Mariner on the show, recently said. diverse. According to the actress, early taping for the finale, “The New Next Generation,” did not include Mariner’s climactic reflection on how far she and her friends have come during their years together on the ship. Cerritos.

“I remember the first time I recorded the episode 13 months ago or whenever, the bar scene wasn’t there. I remember saying at the hearing: “If this is the end, we’re not going to end up with a big serve,” Newsom continued. “It felt like the end of the season. I think there was a little bit (of a feeling), like, well, maybe this isn’t the case, so maybe we’re not really going to end it that way.”

Unfortunately, the closer we get to realizing that this is what will actually happen, the more material is written to provide it Lower floors More solid transmission. But, as Newsom also points out, Lower floors He does not close the books on himself permanently. Appropriately Star Trek-In Ian’s way, the ultimate message of the series is that these adventures will continue, regardless of whether we see them or not. “Mike wrote this really nice letter to Mariner at the end, and I said, ‘Well, that sounds like a good letter Stop To the story. “It’s the end of a chapter,” Newsom concluded. “It could go on. But I was glad he gave us a little button, in case that’s the last we see of them.”

Part of this farewell, of course, is that the finale ends with both Mariner and Boimler receiving a promotion, serving as joint first officer nominees under Cerritos“The newly minted Captain Ransom. “It’s a perfect harmony to have them share that attitude,” Newsom added of the finale. “We’re a real duo, so giving us a shared role in the finale — the role that Boemer has forever dreamed of and that Mariner resisted for so long — “It seems like a very impactful move.”

Fingers crossed this isn’t the last we’ll see of them, but if it is? It’s a very cool way for the show to go out. Star Trek: Lower Decks It is now streaming in its entirety on Paramount+.

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