Hello, my name is Tawny Newsom. I play Beckett Mariner on Star Trek Lower Decks.

I am Paul F. Tompkins and I play Dr. Migglymo on Star Trek Lower Decks.

But more importantly, we're just a couple of Star Trek nerds who are excited because we finally get to talk about Star Trek again with all of you.

And we will be featuring Deep Space Nine guests to celebrate the show's 30th anniversary.

We're gonna be talking Picard Season 3 with members of the original of the next generation cast.

Listen to Star Trek The Pod Directive wherever you get your podcasts.

Alright folks, we are gonna jump right into this interview. You haven't seen her grace our screens in a while. She has been missed.

She was a firecracker then and I don't doubt that she's a firecracker.

Now six time challenger, Jasmine Renaud, welcome.

Hi guys, thanks for having me. I've been dying to get on that. I'm like, when is it gonna be?

I wish we had this back in the day, girl, so we could hear all the shit, but there'd be so much trauma.

Could you imagine? No, I can't. We didn't have Instagram.

So we weren't we didn't have any of that. So we just were like, you'll see you next season.

I'm not mad at starting a petition to go rewatch all the seasons and do podcasts for every seasons with you guys.

I'm not mad at it. I would be down to their fun. Dig out all of that drama.

Actually, some of it would probably be painful for people, but you know,

sometimes you like to get to the bottom stuff. We just look like idiots for the most part.

I don't think it was some were some were painful, but for the most part, it was just like

still really. We were young. We were young having fun and it's like, hey, I'll just shove some old

stuff. Shit, why not have a little bit of fun. Yeah. Well, now you're older and you're back on the

challenge. Did you see yourself coming back? Oh my gosh, no, I never saw myself coming back. I was like

once I had my first daughter, I was like, this is it. I'm done. Like I'm staying at home mom. Like

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