Star Trek has another nomination for 2025, and another for Lower Decks. Once again the NAACP is recognizing the work of Dawnn Lewis, who voices Captain Freeman on the animated comedy.
Freeman’s IMAGE recognized
The NAACP has announced nominees for their 56th NAACP Image Awards, honoring outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in arts, entertainment, and culture. Dawnn Lewis (Captain Carol Freeman) was nominated for Outstanding Television Character Voice-Over Performance. She is going up against Angela Bassett (Orion and the Dark), Cree Summer (nominated twice for The Legend of Vox Machina and Rugrats), and Keke Palmer (The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy).
Fans can vote for Lewis online at vote.naacpimageawards.net.
L-R: Jack Quaid as Boimler, Jerry OíConnell as Jack Ransom, Eugene Cordero as Rutherford, Fred Tatasciore as Lieutenant Shaxs, Dawnn Lewis as Captain Carol Freeman, Gabrielle Ruiz as T’Lyn, and Tawny Newsome as Beckett Marine in episode 1, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+
This is the first IMAGE Award nomination for Star Trek since 2021, when Lewis was nominated for this same award. In 2000 Lewis won an IMAGE Award for her work in the stage play The Marriage. She has also won a Grammy and other awards for her musical career.
The fifth and final season of Lower Decks has also been nominated for a Saturn Award.
In the video below, Lewis talks to Atlanta News First about her final season as Captain Freeman.
Winners will be revealed Friday, February 21, 2025 at the 56th NAACP Image Awards Creative Honors Ceremonies on naacpimageawards.net and during the award ceremony on Saturday, February 22nd at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, airing live on BET and CBS.
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Heh heh heh.
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Actually I was gonna post a gif but the site doesn’t support embedding them.
Love this!!!
Go Dawn Lewis and go Lower Decks!!!!
AND GIVE US THE STARBASE 80 SPINOFF SHOW STARRING FREEMAN PARAMOUNT!!!
I reeeeeeally want Starbase 80. Yes please. It would be such a good continuation in the spirit of Lower Decks with endless potential thanks to the interdimensional rift.
Exactly. They can have so much fun and you know how crazy they can go with it.
I love LDS so much but a Starbase 80 show can really distinguish itself.
Only if Mike McMahan does it. I’d watch it.
Yeah, that’s a must. He’s earned my faith in him.
For sho! 👍
I only trust McMahan to play in this universe and with thesd characters
Dawnn Lewis is great! I hope she wins.
Congratulations to Dawnn Lewis on her nomination, a much-deserved honor.
I almost voted for Angela Basset just because I love her, but Lewis gets the vote for such excellent voiceover work that elevated Lower Decks in my estimation. I’ll miss it!
Glad for Lewis, hope she wins this award!
proof that better writing matters. ie Lower Decks vs Discovery
Yep!👍
Let’s be happy for Dawnn Lewis and Lower Decks without the need to diss Discovery just because you don’t like the latter (I assume).
Based on IMDB, Lower Decks has been nominated for 31 awards and won 4 of them (this does not yet include Dawnn Lewis’s nomination here).
On the other hand, Discovery has been nominated for 92 awards and won 22 of them. This includes multiple nominations (and wins actually) for actors on the show.
Wait LDS won 4 awards before?? I didn’t know it won any. Awesome!! 😎🖖
Yep, wouldn’t be a post about Star Trek if someone didn’t bash Discovery.
smh sadly.
STOP!
There’s no need for them to stop if that is their opinion. You can simply stop reading the comments if they bother you. They’re on-topic and welcome.
Well deserved and hope she wins!
(And gotta say, the “Engage” line, “Warp Me!” is just all kinds of awesome.)
Love her, love the character of Carol Freeman.