Tawny Newsome is about to put her stamp on Star Trek with her work on Star Trek’s next two series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and Star Trek’s first-ever live-action half-hour comedy. Newsome voices Lt. Beckett Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks, which is about to enter its fifth and final season on Paramount+. Tawny’s sharp comedic mind and versatility nabbed her a spot in the writers’ room of Starfleet Academy, with Star Trek executive producer and co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman praising Newsome as “a stone-cold assassin” at San Diego Comic-Con.
Screen Rant was at STLV: Trek to Vegas where Tawny Newsome joined her Star Trek: Lower Decks co-stars Dawnn Lewis, Eugene Cordero, and Gabrielle Ruiz for a lively panel moderated by Star Trek: Prodigy’s Bonnie Gordon. Newsome hinted at the “blending of tones” in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, where Tawny “got to be the comedy clown” in the writers’ room. Newsome also hinted at the Star Trek live-action comedy she is co-creating with Justin Simien, which Tawny calls her “dream of dreams.”
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Newsome also appeared in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Tawny Newsome has quickly become one of the most prolific voices of Star Trek on Paramount+. As Lt. Beckett Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Newsome helped lead Star Trek’s successful foray into animated comedy. Tawny’s endearingly chaotic performances turned Mariner into one of Star Trek’s best new characters. Newsome and Jack Quaid, who plays Lt. Brad Boimler, then made Star Trek history by jumping to live-action in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ comedic crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Tawny Newsome and Star Trek will thankfully be two peas in a pod for years to come.
Newsome calls playing Mariner her favorite job ever, and it’s tragic that Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending on Paramount+. But Tawny continues to be a crucial voice for comedy and canon in Star Trek’s next two series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and Star Trek’s first-ever live-action comedy Newsome is creating with Justin Simien. It’s unclear whether Tawny will reprise Mariner in live-action again or perhaps play a new role in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy or her upcoming comedy, but Tawny Newsome and Star Trek will thankfully be two peas in a pod for years to come.