Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 9 – "The Inner Fight"
Summary
- Episode 9 of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 features a search for ex-Starfleet officers targeted by a mysterious starship, including Nicholas Locarno.
- The main story revolves around Lt. Mariner's self-destructive behavior and her lingering anguish over the death of her friend Ensign Sito Jaxa.
- The episode hints at the involvement of Seven of Nine, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and Thomas Riker as ex-Starfleet officers in need of protection. Here are all of their known whereabouts.
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 9 calls out four major characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, but where in the galaxy are they? After months of a mysterious starship destroying non-Federation ships, the USS Cerritos received intelligence that this adversary is now targeting ex-Starfleet Officers who are now civilians. Starfleet assigned the Cerritos to locate Nicholas Locarno (Robert Duncan McNeill) and escort him back to Earth for his own protection.
The main story of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 9, "The Inner Fight," is about getting to the bottom of Lt. Beckett Mariner's (Tawny Newsome) self-destructive behavior. When Mariner, Lt. T'Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz), Lt. D'Vana Tendi (Noel Wells), and Lt. Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) are stranded on Sherbal V, the find the Klingon, Orion, Bynar, Romulan, and Cardassian crews from the destroyed non-Federation ships also on the planet. Mariner confessed to Ma'ah (Jon Curry), a Klingon she fought and befriended, that her recklessness over her promotion and her desire to remain an Ensign is because of her lingering anguish over the death of her friend, Ensign Sito Jaxa (Shannon Fill), a Bajoran stationed on the USS Enterprise-D who was killed in the line of duty in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7, episode 15, "Lower Decks." Meanwhile, someone else Sito and Mariner both knew at Starfleet Academy is the real enemy purportedly hunting the following targets Starfleet is trying to protect.
