29 points

Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn’t know why.

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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.

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I think we should do a letter writing campaign. It worked for TOS.

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7 points

Nope, we are going to get Academy instead! You’ll like it, wether you want it or not.

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6 points

Admittedly I’m skeptical of it, but finding out Robert Picardo is involved makes my ears perk up.

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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.

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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.

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5 points

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).

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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.

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I hear her treatment was kind a crap, so I get her reticence to say yes to returning.

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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.

Saved you a click.

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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

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Ha! “Cuz she asked.”

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“Oh, Murray, one small thing. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Jolene.”

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