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On the subject of Easter eggs, Lieutenant Kayshon is the first Tamarian we've seen in a very long time. It was just so fun to have them run into Cetacean Ops and get to meet those two, and it was like something I've been waiting to see my entire adult nerd life and then I actually got to do it. I think any other Starfleet ship might have their own Cetacean Ops and they always might be a little bit different, like how every ship is a little bit different. What was your favorite Easter egg to include the season?
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This season has had amazing Easter eggs from all corners of the franchise, from The Original Series and The Animated Series onwards. Nothing felt more appropriate for Mariner than taking the person that she ostensibly dislikes the most on the Cerritos and finding out that, of course she's attracted to her because anything Mariner likes, she pushes away. So the themes in the second season about Mariner opening herself up and trusting people and not being afraid about abandonment and not pushing people away all the time, that actually fit into us seeing her in a relationship for the first time. It's about friendship and duty and how she sees herself and Starfleet. In hindsight, I wish we had pushed it just slightly further, because at the end of the day Mariner's story isn't about her being in romantic relationships. But just in a way, while we were finding the first season, it didn't feel like there were a lot of opportunities to highlight that. It just felt right for that to be the tone of Mariner. Now, the difficult thing on Lower Decks is it was always a baseline in my head that Mariner could date a guy, Mariner could date a girl, Mariner could date an alien. And that it's the same thing TOS did when it came to kind of like gender and race that you could expand that into sexuality. I have never been great at this stuff, but something that I always thought about Star Trek with its infinite diversity, and I think something that Discovery does really amazingly, is that that far in the future, part of everybody in Starfleet being the best of us and being the kind of aspirational version of everybody is that stuff isn't as black and white anymore. When was the decision made to have Mariner come out? And why was it important to you to include that? Throughout the season, Mariner dropped hints that she's bisexual, and it culminated in her confessing that she likes Jennifer the Andorian. And in the finale of the second season, we're dealing with the loss, the family breaking up. So, in the first season we were really creating a family, and in the second season we kind of tested them. It's almost like you want to have a better relationship with your family, but do you really want to be working with your family? Once we solve that, it moves on to how does Mariner feel about the family that abandoned her, and came back? How has Boimler changed by his experience of getting everything he wanted? Across the season, we take the kind of family relationship of the crew a little bit more as something that they're all comfortable with, and, as you get more comfortable with it, the thought of losing it gets a little bit scarier. Mike McMahan: In the second season, we start the season with Mariner and her mom working together. By subscribing to the Star Trek newsletter, which may include personalized offers from our advertising partners, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy.