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.
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
Ha! “Cuz she asked.”
“Oh, Murray, one small thing. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Jolene.”
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.
I think we should do a letter writing campaign. It worked for TOS.
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.
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?Is it because it’s animated, then… Put two shows together. Or release episodes further apart.
I agree the credits are basically must watch
When you’re binging one episode after another you don’t need recaps, but that’s not always the case, and even when it’s just a few days or a week I’ll forget what the hell was going on (I’m old, and I think my brain is full and does a poor job adding new information).
Don’t care what anyone else says — she was great on Enterprise.
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.
100% agree
Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn’t know why.
I hear her treatment was kind a crap, so I get her reticence to say yes to returning.
