Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4
Summary
- Beckett Mariner is a complex character who excelled academically in Starfleet but self-sabotages on the USS Cerritos' lower decks to avoid loss and maintain her comfort zone.
- Mariner's journey throughout the series involves addressing her destructive behaviors and learning to trust her superior officers while uncovering her mysterious past and facing familial tensions.
- Mariner's commitment to her friends, family, and fellow crew members is unwavering, as she embodies Starfleet's ideals and strives to do good in the face of vulnerability and fear.
Star Trek: Lower Decks introduced the animated, chaotic, and capable character Lieutenant Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), who serves on the USS Cerritos' lower decks with her courageous and hopeful shipmates. Serving under the command of her mother, Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), with her father among the admiralty, Beckett Mariner navigates the unexpected, unusual crewmembers and familial tensions and dedicates herself to embodying Starfleet's loftiest ideals and missions of peace. Mariner's loud and ungoverned countenance, however, masks a profound and very raw vulnerability – distrust of authority and a fear that the people she cares about will ultimately leave. These qualities are prevalent in significant Mariner episodes.
Beckett Mariner excelled in Starfleet Academy and served in various positions – including space station Deep Space Nine – before finding a home amid the Cerritos' lower decks, where she spends significant effort to self-sabotage and avoid promotion, avoiding loss. Following a brief reassignment to Starbase 80 and subsequent resignation, and with the assistance and insistence of Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell), Mariner begins to address her behavior. By the end of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, Mariner's mysterious past slowly unfolds as tragic loss and old connections resurface. Here's a look at Beckett Mariner's best episodes in Star Trek: Lower Decks.
