Star Trek Lower Decks
Summary
Star Trek : Lower Decks’Dawnn Lewis uproariously draw how she conceived her role , Captain Carol Freeman , as the"love child"of Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) fromStar Trek : The Original Seriesand Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . Freeman is the Captain of the USS Cerritos , the California Class spaceship that specify in Second Contact missions for Starfleet . Lewis ' initial visual sense of the Captain ofStar Trek : Lower Decksis on point becauseCarol Freeman does fuse the bravado of Kirk with the dignity of Sisko .
TrekTalks 3assembled Dawnn Lewis , Michelle Hurd ofStar Trek : Picard , Marian Smothers , and Adele Simmons for a Tomorrow ’s Yesterdays venire host by the Syfy Sistas , which helped raise over $ 109,000 to gain the Hollywood Food Coalition . Lewis , who was hailed for being"fully - pipped"because Carol Freeman was precede inStar Trek : Lower Decksas already a spaceship senior pilot , told the story of her audition process for the enliven comedy . After signing an NDA and not eff her audition as " Captain McDuck " was forStar Trek , Lewis pull out from her own fandom to produce the character reference that won her the role . Check out Lewis ' inverted comma and theTrekTalks 3video at the 1:57:01 prison term stamp below :
I auditioned for it , and I did my unspoiled impression of if James T. Kirk and Avery Brooks had a child . I was the love fry of the surrogate parent if they were devotee and said , ‘ We demand to have a baby . We ’ll have some woman carry it for us ’ … And that was what I did in my auditory sense … Next affair I know , I get the call : ‘ You booked the gig ’ … We get to the table read , and I ’m sit there with Tawny [ Newsome ] , with Jack Quaid , with Noel [ Wells ] … And we turn over our scripts , and it says Star Trek : Lower Decks … And it was everything I could do to maintain my cool … Up until that point , we had no idea what we had been give with . And I was the Captain . I was not Captain McDuck , I was Captain Carol Freeman , and it was everything I could do to contain myself and not winnow myself out of the gig .
How Mike McMahan ’s Lower Decks went from saucy cartoon to some of the very best Star Trek that the modern franchise has to offer .
What Star Trek: Lower Decks' Captain Freeman Being “Fully-Pipped” Means
Captain Freeman did something that evaded Benjamin Sisko and Michael Burnham
Captain Carol Freeman holds the distinction of being"fully - pipped"upon her entry inStar Trek : Lower Decks . Although Freeman is n’t the first Black Captain in a Star Trek series , a honor that goes to Avery Brooks ' Captain Benjamin Sisko onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Carol is thefirst modern Black female Captain who did not take up as a Commander first . Both Ben Sisko andStar Trek : Discovery ’s Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) get their shows as Commanders and were promoted in season 3 of each of their series . In fact , Star Trek : Lower pack of cards ' summer 2020 debut antedate Michael Burnham ’s promotion to Captain at theend ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , which aired in January 2021 .
Carol Freeman is the first Black distaff Star Trek Captain who arrived"fully - pipped"in Star Trek on Paramount+ ’s series , but there is a legacy character reference who predates her . InStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home , Madge Sinclair play thefirst Black distaff Captain ever inStar Trek . Sinclair returned inStar Trek : The Next Generationto play Captain Silva La Forge , the mother of Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) . Meanwhile , Carol Freeman is proving herself to be a capable Captain and theUSS Cerritos has become fabled as the"Enterprise"of the California Class support fleet . Given Carol ’s daughter , Lt . Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) has an aversion to overlook , and her husband Alonzo Freeman ( Phil LaMarr ) is an Admiral , Carol Freeman may remain the only Captain in her family onStar Trek : Lower Decks .
Star Trek : Lower Decksis available to stream on Paramount+ .
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