Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 3 Episode 9 ”Trusted Sources”

Finally, Captain Freeman's initiative for "follow-up" missions is getting underway. The Cerritos is headed to the planet Ornara (where Picard made first contact 17 years prior) to, you know, see how they're doing. If it goes well, it could become an initiative for all California class ships.

And the admiralty is so stoked about it that they're sending an FNN news anchor to cover this maiden voyage of the program. 

 

Freeman is free-ked out about a reporter seeing how bonker the Cerritos can be. It sends her into a tizzy. At the same time, Mariner is getting the cold shoulder because she seems like the source of much of the "shenanigans".

 

Things come to a head, but it's penultimate episode of the season, so we're sure everything is gonna work out fine...