This week brings us to the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ second season — don’t worry, Season 3 is already in the works! — and we’ve got a new set of images from the year-ending “First First Contact” today!

While Ensign Boimler (Jack Quaid) prepares to celebrate Captain Freeman Day — a play on the Enterprise-D schoolchildren’s Captain Picard Day — the Cerritos is called into help a fellow Starfleet vessel on a first contact mission.

Here are seven new images from this week’s episode, which not only features a starship  that looks like an Excelsior-class refit into more Sovereign-class styling, but also the return of a Star Trek: The Next Generation former lower-decker: Sonia Gomez (Lycia Naff), now a Starfleet captain.

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Series showrunner Mike McMahan took to Twitter today to share that the new ship is an Obana-class starship inspired by the Excelsior-class.

It’s likely there’s much more to this season-ending episode, as the episode’s trailer features precious little bearing on the episode’s official description — there may be a larger story yet to be revealed, just like how last week’s “wej Duj” had no hint of Pakled involvement ahead of it’s public release.

There’s still a few scenes from the Lower Decks mid-season trailer we haven’t seen yet, including some dangerous-looking asteroids, likely to be part of this week’s finale:

Finally, here’s the trailer for the episode, released this weekend on social media.

FIRST FIRST CONTACT — In the season two finale, the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked to aid an Excelsior-class starship on a first contact mission.

Written by Mike McMahan. Directed by Jason Zurek.

Star Trek: Lower Decks returns for its season finale on October 14 with “First First Contact”) on Paramount+ in the United States and CTV Sci Fi Channel in Canada, followed by Amazon Prime Video (in select international regions) on October 15.

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