Summary
Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid became the best friends theirStar Trek: Lower DecksLieutenants, Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler, are inStar Trek’s animated comedy.Star Trek: Lower Decksseason 5 premieres October 24, which marksLower Decks' final season on Paramount+.Star Trek: Lower Decksseason 5is the end of Mariner, Boimler, and the USS Cerritos’s voyages (for now), but Tawny’s friendship with Jack will endure afterLower Decksconcludes its run on Paramount+.
Screen Rantwas atSTLV: Trek to VegasforStar Trek: Lower Decks' panel featuring Tawny Newsome, Dawnn Lewis, Eugene Cordero, and Gabrielle Ruiz, hosted byStar Trek: Prodigy’s Bonnie Gordon. Answering a fan question, Newsome spoke eloquently about howplaying Mariner and Boimler for five years onStar Trek: Lower Decksmanifested a real life, brother-and-sister, love and friendship between Tawny and Jack Quaid. Check out Tawny atSTLVin the video below:

Something Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Creator Said Gives Me Hope Season 5 Isn’t The End
Star Trek: Lower Decks is gearing up for its final season on Paramount+, but is it over? Mike McMahan’s words give me hope there can still be more.
What Are Tawny Newsome & Jack Quaid’s Star Trek Futures After Lower Decks Ends?
Tawny is staying in the Star Trek universe, but what about Jack?
AfterStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 5,Tawny Newsome will put an even greater stamp onStar Trek.Star Trekexecutive producer Alex Kurtzman considers Newsome"a stone-cold assassin"as a writer, and he recruited Tawny for the writers' room ofStar Trek’s next series,Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.But Newsome’s comedic voice will find an even greater medium inStar Trek’s first-ever live-action half-hour comedy, Tawny’s “dream of dreams"job she is developing with Justin Simien.
It’s possible Tawny Newsome will cast Jack Quaid in her Star Trek comedy show.

Jack Quaid doesn’t have a newStar TrekgigafterStar Trek: Lower Decksends. One of the stars ofOppenheimer, Quaid is an A-lister juggling multiple projects such as the fifth and final season ofThe Boysand the third season of the animatedMy Adventures of Superman. However,Jack Quaid lovesStar Trekand Boimler, and he would surely reprise his purple-haired Starfleet optimist if given the opportunity. Perhaps Mariner and Boimler will return in a new iteration ofStar Trek: Lower Decks, and it’s possible Tawny Newsome will cast Jack Quaid in herStar Trekcomedy show. After all, what are friends for?