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(Image courtesy of CBS) Ensign Brad Boimler (voice of Jack Quaid) and Ensign Beckett Mariner ( voice of Tawny Newsome) in “Star Trek: Lower Decks.”

(Image courtesy of CBS) Ensign Brad Boimler (voice of Jack Quaid) and Ensign Beckett Mariner ( voice of Tawny Newsome) in “Star Trek: Lower Decks.”

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