See Lower Decks Stars Compete In A Star Trek Game Show
The cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks made an appearance on After Midnight, playing Star Trek-themed game show games. The CBS show that airs after Late Night With Stephen Colbert hosts various celebrities and invites them to compete in a prizeless game show on pop culture topics. The game show categories feature a spooky séance, a t-shirt slogan contest, and a space TV show renaming competition, and the guests from the cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks get to do a few interview questions with Taylor Tomlinson.
While the contest is fake, the jokes are real, and the players come through with Star Trek-appropriate humor and commentary for the crowd.
The stars from Star Trek: Lower Decks are wrangled into a series of challenges by the host of After Midnight, Taylor Tomlinson. Tawny Newsom and Eugene Cordero who play Mariner and Rutherford respectively get into the spirit of the game, thanking fans for their enthusiasm and answering some tough Vulcan vs. Romulan questions. Jerry O’Connell, who plays Ransome contributes a spot-on Robocop impression in lieu of a robot impression, for which he is disqualified as well as rewarded with some points.
After Midnight has the contestants competing for Taylor Bucks, a fictional currency that’s worth less than the paper it’s printed on as they address a series of challenges from host Taylor Tomlinson. The cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks receives approval in the form of an undefined amount of points per question to see who can make Taylor and the audience laugh the most. While the contest is fake, the jokes are real, and the players come through with Star Trek-appropriate humor and commentary for the crowd.
The combination of fake game show/talk show gives the show’s guests a chance to compete for laughs as well as letting the audience get to know them a little better, and the result is a glimpse at the talented ensemble skills this unique cast of voice actors have.
Special guest-host Rebecca Romaine joins the Star Trek: Lower Decks crew to join her hubby, Jerry O’Connell and lead the contestants in some game show shenanigans. Even with some help from Rebecca Romain, Jerry gets cut before the final round, leaving costars Tawny Newsome and Eugene Cordero to finish out the game. The team gives us a rousing few rounds of the joke game show before retreating to the talk show finale with Taylor Tomlinson.
To find out the backstories of all the Star Trek: Lower Decks actors, there’s a mid-episode break where After Midnight covers each actor’s first TV gig. The combination of fake game show/talk show gives the show’s guests a chance to compete for laughs as well as letting the audience get to know them a little better, and the result is a glimpse at the talented ensemble skills this unique cast of voice actors have.
The upcoming finale season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will be available on Paramount+ on Thursday, October 24.
It’s a very lighthearted, casual, and weird format that allows Newsome, Cordero, and O’Connell to improvise a little without getting too far into the weeds.
The upcoming finale season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will be available on Paramount+ on Thursday, October 24. If you want to catch a glimpse of some of your favorite actors from the series before the new season, their episode of After Midnight is a chance to see them in an unscripted format. The voice actors do some really good and some really bad impressions and generally give the audience a good time.
