7mo ago

How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name

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The creator of Lower Decks wrote her a letter explaining how important her character was to him and she read the script and enjoyed it. She also asked if she could just go by Jolene in this, which he was cool with.
Saved you a click.
- She didn't tell me why, but she was like, ‘I would prefer just to be Jolene in this,’ and we were happy to do it.
  The creator couldn't shed light on why the request was made, but confirmed they honored it, and that's why Blalock is known simply as "Jolene" in the Star Trek: Lower Decks credits
  
  Ha! "Cuz she asked."
Don’t care what anyone else says — she was great on Enterprise.
- The article says:
  she's well-loved and considered one of the best characters in Enterprise
  So I think you might be with the majority on this.
  
  Sure, but they don't care what anyone says.
- None of the actors were the problem with Enterprise. Except maybe Scott Bakula because he was too well known.
  
  Bakula just hit the Archer casting too perfectly. The man just exudes boy scout, it's what made Quantum Leap work too.
- I'm watching Enterprise right now and loving it
  
  Can you explain what you are enjoying about it? I just dropped it about 4 or 5 episodes into the final season because I just couldn't keep slogging through.
  Between the baby oil lathering decontamination scenes and overall lack of believable or interesting characters and plot lines, I find it to be the least enjoyable Trek I've ever watched (so far) aside from maybe TOS.
  Help me see your perspective, where it is enjoyable. And please don't even mention the intro.
- 100% agree
Can we just keep lower decks going? I hate that it's been cancelled, it's such a good show, I'm not really a trek fan at all and I love the hell out of it.
- Nope, we are going to get Academy instead! You'll like it, wether you want it or not.
  
  Admittedly I'm skeptical of it, but finding out Robert Picardo is involved makes my ears perk up.
- I think we should do a letter writing campaign. It worked for TOS.
- I want so much to watch it. But it's only 20 minutes, and the intro plays everytime, and a recap every episode. There's like 12 minutes of show.
  
  Recaps every episode? I was thrown that there even was a recap before the show finale, because I don't remember seeing one before on Lower Decks.
  12 minutes of show, LOL no. The shortest episodes are ~23 minutes. Bar the intro and credits they're still 20+ minutes of actual story.
  
  Might be the appliance you’re watching it on? On my Apple TV you can skip the intros, skip the recap, and at the end you can skip the credits to go to the next episode (after seeing who all the guest voice actors were, natch).
Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn't know why.
"Oh, Murray, one small thing. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Jolene."
I hear her treatment was kind a crap, so I get her reticence to say yes to returning.

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