It was the Captain to a race of lizard-person-eating rat people after Mariner liberated the lizard people from their oppressors. One of the first handful of episodes in S01, I think. Something along the lines of, "if we give you replicators, will you stop eating the lizard people?"
Edit: It was further along than I thought; S01E09 - Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta. Link:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Crisis_Point_(episode)
It was the Captain to a race of lizard-person-eating rat people after Mariner liberated the lizard people from their oppressors. One of the first handful of episodes in S01, I think. Something along the lines of, "if we give you replicators, will you stop eating the lizard people?"
Edit: It was further along than I thought; S01E09 - Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta. Link:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Crisis_Point_(episode)
The scene is in the cold open.