After five laugh-filled seasons,Star Trek: Lower Decks, has officially come to an end.
Finally, he dished on that heartwarming speech from Mariner that left us all in tears.
you might read our full conversation below.
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MIKE MCMAHAN: Perfect!
Everyone I know is so thrilled that you made Garashir your canon.
What made you decide to finally go there?
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I didn’t do the heavy lifting on that, you know?
I’m very, very careful about what I do with other people’s characters.
I love the doctor fromVoyager, so making Bashir a hologram was a treat for me.
It kind of involves sewing stuff, you know what I mean?
It’s not anewrelationship for them, youre coming into a relationship where they have a pattern.
They all have to be really thoughtful.
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It just was such a cool thing to get to do.
It’s such a good episode.
Curzon is different just because we don’t really hear a ton of him.
I love Jolene [Blalock]’s work inEnterprise.
I love Alfre Woodard, I love Lily Sloane, I loveFirst Contact.
That’s the dream!
That felt really Star Trek to me.
It comes at you so fast, but it’s all there.
It’s all Trek."
It’s so Star Trek.
How did you decide that each of their skills would come together for that finale?
MCMAHAN: It really organically came together.
We allow our characters to grow across every episode.
So, these characters have to learn and grow.
But just like real people, they can slip up.
I love the Cerritos.
Who is he without that?
Then, obviously, Tendi.
You don’t command pirates for months and then not come back a little bit different.
It’s like when somebody who has a semester abroad comes back with a British accent.
But seeing her and TLyn have that moment where they combined to work together just makes you love them.
It makes you want to see more of that stuff, you know?
It comes at you so fast, but it’s all there.
It’s all Trek.
It’s all very thoughtful, and it takes a lot of thought.
Then you get to have fun and put jokes in, too.
We havea behind-the-scenes look at the finale.
I love that you have Jack [Quaid] and Tawny [Newsome] recording the finale together.
How often does their energy in that room change an episode a little bit?
MCMAHAN: We’ve only done it a very, very few times.
Their friendship is growing and you might feel that friendship in their performance.
They’re great performers.
I love Freeman’s all hands brace for weird moment.
How did you go about picking which variants of the ship we would see?
But it was a celebration of Star Trek ships, both fancy and small.
Mariners speech at the end actually had me in tears.
What is the main thing that you hope folks take away fromLower Decksas a whole?
MCMAHAN: That speech makes me cry, too, and I made my wife sob.
It was the last thing I wrote.
I was like, Can I go a little long?
And he was like, Yeah.
Lower Decksisn’t any one thing.
All of it combined isLower Decksbecause Star Trek is big, and Star Trek is a family.
That’s the kind of moment where I’m like, Cool.
So, it’s time to relive it again.
[Laughs]
Exactly!
Well, thank you so much for staying on and chatting with me today.
MCMAHAN: Thank you.
I hope so, too.
It’snotto say, What moron canceled this show?
It’s not to say, How dare you not give us more?
You have to give us more.
Look at who’s going to show up.Theseare people who are going to get more eyes on this show.
Nobody watches a show that somebody goes, I’m so mad!
You know what I mean?
So, I’ll be working on my side to take a stab at get to do more.
If the fandom wants to help me get stuff going, do it in a joyful way.
That would be really helpful.
Just don’t don’t demand it like anybody owes us anything.
That’s just not theLower Decksway to do it.
All episodes ofStar Trek: Lower Decksare now available to stream on Paramount+.
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