I assure you, the Cerritos crew
takes their duties seriously.
Captain Freeman's right.
However, my automated Texas class ships are her superior.
The council has decided to take Admiral Buenamigo's advice
and shutter the California class.
His ships do seem superior to the Cali class.
Well, then, he should prove it.
I challenge you to a mission race.
The finale of of Season 3 is all about automation.
What happens when you remove people from jobs,
and you hand it over to an automated sort of system?
Really quickly, we wanted to say that,
like, Starfleet is the people that are in it.
It's not the job that it's doing.
Everything that brings heart to the California class
will be demolished if the Texas class was to take over.
Captain Freeman's fight,
Captain Freeman's purpose, is to show no,
we're not only not obsolete,
but the human factor is tantamount
to any success that we can have.
The mechanical will always overlook things
for different specifics that have nothing to do
with interconnection,
which is what the Federation is supposed to be about.
It's maybe one of the first times
that you really see how well everybody
when they're really put under pressure that we're like,
"We're gonna do this.
We are going to win.
We are going to cooperate."
Tendi seems to delay their progress,
and instead of everybody getting mad at her,
everybody was like, "You did what you had to do."
Ultimately, it turns out that they did the right thing.
And then they challenge the Texas class to be like,
"Wait a second, you didn't do this."
And then it creates this war.
You are better than this, Les.
I'm really not.
In this episode, we realized Buenamigo is one
of the shadowy faces that we saw earlier
at the end of Season 2 that made the implant happen.
They robbed me of my memories
and it was used to cover up deadly crimes.
But it's so cool!
I love the fact that Rutherford kind of has a lot
of his story figured out, his backstory.
So I would be excited to see
what would happen next with him.
They're still in pursuit, Captain.
We're holding at warp eight, but they're gaining!
It was cool to see Boimler still stick
to the bold Boimler persona,
even though sometimes it doesn't always work out.
I feel like Boimler in the past was a character who,
if something didn't work out,
and didn't lead to him getting promoted,
he would just go, "Okay, I'm not gonna do that anymore."
But just to see him acknowledge that,
"Oh, this is actually building character for me."
I'm fine.
It was fun.
Come on in!
I thought that was really cool.
And then to have Boimler in the finale stand up for Shaxs,
and not really care about getting promoted or anything.
Shut up and listen to Shaxs!
That was really cool to see.
I kind of said we should eject the warp core.
Oh, that's what he always suggests.
When I first read that I was going
to blow up the warp core,
like I had asked two seasons ago.
I recommend we donate the entire warp core, Captain.
What? No!
That one I did not see coming.
I didn't think we were ever really gonna get
a chance to do that.
And Shaxs is just so happy.
'Cause it's really a bad idea, usually.
But now we're in a situation
where we're gonna need something very powerful.
The Aledo survived the blast!
We need to abandon ship, now!
[Mariner] Belay that order!
Season 3 is really tough for Mariner.
She's got the Captain saying,
"I'm not in charge of you anymore.
Ransom's in charge of you."
And then at the end of the season,
she's kicked off the ship.
So you see Mariner go off and she's doing space archeology.
Then at the end of the season, Mariner has a realization
that she's Starfleet through and through,
and that it's gonna be an uphill battle,
but leaving it isn't an option.
Mariner, no!
Get outta here!
You can't help us on your own!
Uh, yeah, I know.
I brought help.
Seeing her come back in the finale,
seeing her get the entire California class fleet to come in
and save her ship is a first step towards really seeing
a change in how Mariner approaches Starfleet itself.
She's back!
Mariner!
Oh, awesome!
At the end when they find out
that she really said all these really lovely things,
and that she loves everyone,
and was very kind of vulnerable and sweet,
I think her having to step back into that
and own that, and own like the niceness and the tenderness,
really allowed for growth between her and Freeman,
and her and the rest of her friends, too.
Because it's easy to stand in front of people and go,
"Oh, I don't care about any of this."
And it's really hard to stand in front of them and go,
"I deeply care about all of you. Please embrace me,"
is like, very scary and vulnerable.
So, the fact that she does that at the end
I think just sets us up in a great place for Season 4
to have a more like, honest representation
of how she really feels about stuff.
Cali class! Cali class!
I am beyond honored to be a part
of this Star Trek family,
but particularly as a Captain, as a leader,
as a mother, also a colleague.
And I love the fact that they have found different ways
to explore Captain Freeman's challenges and her successes.
Wrapping Season 3 of Lower Decks,
it was such a relief because every episode
has to be amazing.
We don't have that 90's, 26 episodes,
this one can be about a ghost in a lamp.
You know what I mean?
Like, every episode has to be great.
I'm not just an actor, I'm also a fan.
And I really, I love Lower Decks
because it is really funny,
but it's also a real Star Trek show.
Like, there's real stories that I find myself caring about
in a way that I did not expect to.
Three seasons in I'm almost like,
"We can do this forever."
I hope we do.
This team has become more of a family.
Has become a real crew.
I'm really proud of the entire crew of the Cerritos.
I mean that from the bottom of my heart, I really do.
We're an important part of the cannon.
We're an important part of Starfleet.
We had to fight for that respect,
we had to earn that respect,
but I think the Cerritos is here to stay.