Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 9 – "The Inner Fight"
Summary
- Lower Decks season 4 episode 9 reveals that a new enemy has been targeting former Starfleet officers, leading the USS Cerritos to search for former cadet Nick Locarno.
- The crew visits a tavern called Mudds, a reference to the con artist and smuggler Harry Mudd from Star Trek: The Original Series. The Information Broker they encounter resembles a puppet from the TOS episode "The Corbomite Maneuver."
- The callback to Harry Mudd and the puppet-like appearance of the Information Broker in Lower Decks is a fun shout-out to memorable recurring characters and moments from Star Trek's history.
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 9 referenced two classic villains from Star Trek: The Original Series. Throughout Lower Decks season 4, an unknown new enemy has been attacking non-Federation starships. Lower Decks season 4, episode 9, "The Inner Fight," reveals that this enemy has been specifically targeting former Starfleet officers. The USS Cerritos is then tasked with tracking down former Starfleet cadet Nick Locarno (Robert Duncan McNeill) to bring him back to Earth for his own safety.
In their search for Locarno, Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) and her crew travel to a black market on New Axton to find information. They visit a tavern to speak with an Information Broker who supposedly knows Nick Locarno's whereabouts. In a fun callback to Star Trek: The Original Series, the tavern they visit is called Mudds, a reference to Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel), the con artist and smuggler encountered by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the USS Enterprise. The Information Broker himself serves as another TOS reference, as he looks exactly like the puppet seen in the classic TOS episode "The Corbomite Maneuver."
