The creator of Lower Decks wrote her a letter explaining how important her character was to him and she read the script and enjoyed it. She also asked if she could just go by Jolene in this, which he was cool with.
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She didn’t tell me why, but she was like, ‘I would prefer just to be Jolene in this,’ and we were happy to do it.
The creator couldn’t shed light on why the request was made, but confirmed they honored it, and that’s why Blalock is known simply as “Jolene” in the Star Trek: Lower Decks credits
Don’t care what anyone else says — she was great on Enterprise.
The article says:
she’s well-loved and considered one of the best characters in Enterprise
So I think you might be with the majority on this.
None of the actors were the problem with Enterprise. Except maybe Scott Bakula because he was too well known.
Bakula just hit the Archer casting too perfectly. The man just exudes boy scout, it’s what made Quantum Leap work too.
Can you explain what you are enjoying about it? I just dropped it about 4 or 5 episodes into the final season because I just couldn’t keep slogging through.
Between the baby oil lathering decontamination scenes and overall lack of believable or interesting characters and plot lines, I find it to be the least enjoyable Trek I’ve ever watched (so far) aside from maybe TOS.
Help me see your perspective, where it is enjoyable. And please don’t even mention the intro.
Let me try to explain:
It’s an interesting time capsule from the turn of the millennia. Like The Practice, it’s interesting to see the way society shifted after 9/11 so starkly presented in art.
It’s still got a whif of that 90s star trek energy.
Scott Bakula is a institution.
They really go for it a few episodes, there’s no reservations they just have the male engineer get pregnant or the captain get obsessed with space eggs, or the crew get attacked by the cum monster
Doctor Phlox is great and denobulans are a good addition to the alpha quadrant.
Has a great borg episode.
The xindi are cool, actually.
They nailed the uniforms.
You can simply jerk off during the decontamination scenes until they’re over.
Not parent, but; Enterprise is one of my favorites. Some things that I really like about it:
- The enterprise itself is bare and functional. Not luxurious with nice carpets. This ups the stakes and realism.
- They get beat up a lot and their ship is quite primitive.
- Archer is mostly likable and nicely balanced, although he gets a bit dark in later seasons.
- All main cast have distinct personalities and are well acted and likable. Most of them also grow as member of the crew.
- The crew interactions are well written mostly.
- The tension between Archer and T’Pol is intense.
- I really like the cmdr. Shren storyline.
- Hoshi is hot (and smart) so I didn’t mind the de-con scenes. And besides the eye-candy they did have a story.
These are the things I can think of right now, but I really enjoyed it over all (of course with its ups and downs per episode).
I’m at least slightly okay with the first decontamination scene between Trip and T’Pol. I can appreciate the idea that they planned the whole “starting out with a lot of open disdain for each other but growing together” arc and starting them out with some belligerent sexual tension. Because this is the thirstiest Trek they achieved this with a blue light, some underwear and a can of lotion, but at least there’s an idea there.
The scene that makes me say “okay guys dial it back a bit” is…the crew are locked in their rooms, and Hoshi manages to break out into an air duct in the ceiling, which she falls out of, which somehow tears her top off, so she shows up at Malcolm’s door with her tits in her hands saying “just shut up and give me a shirt.” It’s not really a character moment between the two, it’s not like they’re kinda into each other but because of their ranks they’re trying to stay professional but they keep ending up in each other’s personal space…it’s just “We took one of the lead actresses shirt off. That’s the “””“”““joke””“”“”“.”
The final season got ripped off. They had to rush to try and have an ending.
Can we just keep lower decks going? I hate that it’s been cancelled, it’s such a good show, I’m not really a trek fan at all and I love the hell out of it.
Nope, we are going to get Academy instead! You’ll like it, wether you want it or not.
I want so much to watch it. But it’s only 20 minutes, and the intro plays everytime, and a recap every episode. There’s like 12 minutes of show.
Recaps every episode? I was thrown that there even was a recap before the show finale, because I don’t remember seeing one before on Lower Decks.
12 minutes of show, LOL no. The shortest episodes are ~23 minutes. Bar the intro and credits they’re still 20+ minutes of actual story.
Might be the appliance you’re watching it on? On my Apple TV you can skip the intros, skip the recap, and at the end you can skip the credits to go to the next episode (after seeing who all the guest voice actors were, natch).
I use streamio.
Still, why are they wasting half of the runtime with title credits and recaps. Do we really need recaps for a 15 minute story?
Id it because it’s animated, then… Put two shows together. Or release episodes further apart.
Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn’t know why.
“Oh, Murray, one small thing. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Jolene.”
