Tawny Newsome credited as playing...
Ensign Beckett Mariner
- [In the captain's ready room, Captain Freeman and Ensign Mariner are discussing that their secret -- that they're mother & daughter -- has been revealed to the whole crew]
- Captain Carol Freeman: Ugh. Why did we ever keep this a secret in the first place?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Ugh! I just wanted to fly under the radar!
- Captain Carol Freeman: And I didn't want anyone to know the most demerited officer in the fleet was my daughter.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [Ransom enters ready room] Well, Wesley Crusher worked with his mom. Maybe everyone'll be cool about it.
- Commander Jack Ransom: Captain, captain's daughter... Uh, I mean Mariner.
- Captain Carol Freeman: Oh, what is it, Jack?
- Commander Jack Ransom: Captain, I'm putting together a list of candidates for the Sacramento promotion. I'd love your input. May I just say
- [turning to Mariner]
- Commander Jack Ransom: I am very sorry if I ever treated you with anything other than admiration.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Oh, shut up, Ransom! You're such a suck-up!
- Commander Jack Ransom: From now on, I'll make sure to give you special attention.
- Captain Carol Freeman: No! Be as hard on her as you always are!
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Yeah, be hard on me!
- Commander Jack Ransom: I'm only hard on you when you make me hard! I mean, I'm - I'm not hard right now! I mean, I could... I could get hard, if I wanted to, but I'm not hard right now. I'm so sorry! You're both great!
- Captain Carol Freeman, Ensign Beckett Mariner: Ugh!
- [Riker, an old family friend of Captain Freeman and Ensign Mariner, approaches Mariner in a starbase bar]
- Capt. William T. Riker: Hey, how about you buy me a drink? You know, since we're even? Remember? The thing with the aliens where I saved your ass?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: We are not even, and we don't use money. What's happened to you, man? You used to be sharp.
- [Mariner has beamed down to the surface of Beta III to hand out art supplies to the children, so that they won't start worshiping Landru again]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [to children] Art supplies! Get your art supplies! We got paints! We got brushes! We got a spiky, pencil, twirl-around thingy. Boost your creativity! Express yourself! Stop praying to a computer!
- [sees Boimler walking up]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Hoo boy, incoming lecture in five, four...
- Ensign Brad Boimler: [grabs some supplies from Mariners container] Who wants crayons? Here you go, kid. Way better than the red hour.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Since when do you break protocol?
- Ensign Brad Boimler: [takes off uniform top, which still has his communicator pin on it] I'm just tired of you getting to do all the good stuff while I stick to the rules.
- Commander Jack Ransom: [through Boimler's communicator] Ensign Boimler, do you read?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Whoa-ho-ho, look at Brad Boimler being cool for once. *gasp* Wait, is this because of my teachings?
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Okay, you don't teach. You just instigate chaos.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Exactly! Helpful, character-building chaos.
- Commander Jack Ransom: [through Boimler's communicator] I can hear you, can you hear me?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [on Cerritos's bridge, through open comm line] Aw, Boims! I thought you were gonna get stuck in middle management,
- [back on Beta III]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: like this pathetic little fly in amber, like --
- [on bridge]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Oh, like Ransom!
- Commander Jack Ransom: I am not a little fly in amber!
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [on Beta III] What did it, huh? My constant mockery? My non-stop prodding? My downright-dangerous hazing?
- Ensign Brad Boimler: No, no. Look. If you have to know, I found out about your secret.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: You mean never eating after 7:00? It's a miracle, right? I mean, it does work, you should try it.
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Captain Freeman is your mom.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [angrily] Yeah, I don't, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Oh, come on, Mariner. The captain's your mom.
- [on bridge comm, where everyone can overhear the planetside conversation]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Your dad's an admiral. You're basically Starfleet royalty.
- [Rutherford and Tendi exchange surprised looks]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: How cool is that?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [on Beta III] Shut the fuck up right now, Boimler. Shut your fucking mouth!
- Ensign Brad Boimler: This is a good thing! Now we can both do some good and you'll just, you know,
- [on bridge, through comm]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: keep us out of trouble with your mom...
- [Captain Freeman is getting very upset]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: What? No, that is not how...
- Ensign Brad Boimler: I just don't understand why it's such a secret. I'd be telling everyone.
- Captain Carol Freeman: [shoving ops officer out of his seat] Move!
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Dude, I do not want people knowing my mom is my mom!
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Okay, okay. I'm not gonna tell a soul.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: I'm being serious! Shut up!
- Ensign Brad Boimler: [teasingly, with his eyes closed] So, uh, does Captain mommy give you, uh, sweet little captain kisses?
- [Mariner and Boimler are being beamed up, though Boimler doesn't notice]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: *kiss* *kiss*
- [notices he's now on the bridge of the Cerritos]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: *SCREAMS*
- [Capt. Freeman is placing the late Lt. Shaxs's Bajoran earring in a memorial box, then places the box on a folded UFP flag in her display case]
- Captain Carol Freeman: *sigh* I can't even begin to imagine how I'm going to replace him.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Well, wherever he is, I'm sure he's full-throat screaming in someone's face and ejecting a warp core.
- Captain Carol Freeman: I'd like to think you're right. pause
- [officiously]
- Captain Carol Freeman: Ens. Beckett Mariner, beamed down to Beta III without authorization.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Oh, what, seriously?
- Captain Carol Freeman: Contraband hidden throughtout the ship. Illegal weapons, illicit drugs, a tribble?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Yeah! That's for personal use.
- Captain Carol Freeman: I've got a whole year's worth of your insubordinations right here.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Well, without those insubordinations, we'd all be dead right now.
- Captain Carol Freeman: I know. Did you know Starfleet considers Beta III a known culture? They had no idea the Betans had regressed. And the Pakleds? Well, the Pakleds murdered the entire crew of the Solvang because everyone assumed they were a joke.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Yeah, well, that's Starfleet. Good at observing and bad at maintaining. You know, we can't just assume people are gonna keep doing the right thing a generation down the road.
- Captain Carol Freeman: I agree. But as captain, I can't ignore protocol. I'd lose my command. You, on the other hand... you see a problem, you can solve it.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Wait, are you saying work together for a change?
- Captain Carol Freeman: Might be useful to have a captain on your side, you know? Instead of up your ass. What do you say?
- [offers her hand]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [taking hand and shaking] Uh, I think we're both getting thrown in the brig.
- Captain Carol Freeman: *chuckles* Let's not tell your father.
- [Boimler wants Mariner's recommendation for a promotion to the USS. Sacramento]
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Wait. No one would know me on the Sacramento. I'd be a nobody again, like you!
- Ensign Brad Boimler: I'm not a nobody. I...
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Maybe *I* should apply to the Sacramento.
- Ensign Brad Boimler: [sarcastically] I don't know. They might be looking for someone a little less criminally insubordinate.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: [officiously] Good call. I'd better start adjusting my attitude, sir.
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Ew. Don't call me "sir"
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Yes, sir.
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Don't.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: You technically outrank me, sir.
- [rolls down her sleeves, then restyles her hair to be more uniform compliant]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: What are you doing? Stop it.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Is that an order?
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Yes. I mean, no.
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Permission to go to my station, sir?
- Ensign Brad Boimler: You have a station?
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Ha, ha. Good one, sir. Mm-hmm.
- [walks away from their hallway bunks]
- Ensign Brad Boimler: Nobody's gonna fall for that.
- [after it's revealed that Mariner is the captain's daughter, everyone is kissing up to her]
- Lundy: Mariner! Looking good, girlfriend,
- Ensign Beckett Mariner: Get phased, Lundy!