History Recap / StarTrekPicardS3E06TheBounty

** Data's reactivation and reunion with his old crew-mates is reminiscent of [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Spock's own resurrection and reunion with the 1701 crew]].

** Data's reactivation and reunion with his old crew-mates is reminiscent of [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Spock's own resurrection and reunion wuith the 1701 crew]].

** Despite the risk of the ''Titan'' being a beacon due to the extensive use of fleet integration, taking one of the ships at the museum would've been even more dangerous as "preserved in a museum" does not mean "spaceworthy and mission-ready". Restoring one of those starships to anything resembling spaceworthy would've taken more time and resources than they had. However, taking a preserved cloaking device and retrofitting it to the ''Titan'' is much faster and safer, though still not without an element of risk.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: With the reveal that Daystrom Moriarty is not the same self-aware Hologram from TNG, it leaves open the question of what's become of the Professor's Tech Cube since "Ship in a Bottle". It's possible Daystrom ''does'' have the Cube (and if so, that it would be in the Institute's [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E07WherePleasantFountainsLie Evil AI Vault]] back on Earth). It's also possible the Cube was destroyed with the ''Enterprise''-D stardrive section during ''Generations''.

* CrisisCrossover: Downplayed example. But Worf and Raffi's arrival aboard the ''Titan'' marks the very first time that lead characters from TNG, [=DS9=], VOY, and PIC have all been gathered in a single scene/locale and interacting at once. All four live-action series of the 24th Century era are thus represented and now officially teaming up to stop the existential threat the Changeling conspiracy poses to the UFP and Starfleet.

* CrisisCrossover: Downplayed example. But Worf and Raffi's arrival aboard the ''Titan'' marks the very first time that lead characters from TNG, [=DS9=], VOY, and PIC have all been gathered and interacting at once. All four live-action branches of the 24th Century era are represented and now teaming up to stop an existential threat to the UFP.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: With the reveal that 'Moriarty' is not the same self-aware Hologram from TNG, it leaves open the question of what's become of the Professor's Tech Cube since "Ship in a Bottle". It's possible Daystrom ''does'' have the Cube (and if so, that it would be in the [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E07WherePleasantFountainsLie Evil AI Vault]] on Earth). It's also possible the Cube was destroyed with the ''Enterprise''-D stardrive section during ''Generations''.

** ''Voyager'' being decommissioned and ending up in the Fleet Museum following "Endgame". ''Voyager'' went from being one of the inaugural ships of the ''Intrepid''-class to one of the most important vessels in Federation history. Preserving it for future generations would thus be a top priority for Starfleet historians. As ''Voyager'' returned in the aftermath of the Dominion War, there would also be PR value in making the ship -- a symbol of Starfleet's mission, bravery, and heroism -- available to Federation citizens while trying to rebuild post-War morale. An honorable retirement was also certainly mandated from an engineering perspective -- and not just to evaluate the alien technologies they'd brought home. While the ''Intrepid''-class was built for long-term exploration, its designers also obviously never anticipated something like the Delta Quadrant. After spending nearly a decade without access to drydock facilities and under near-constant stress, battle, and exposure to God knows what else to get its crew home, ''Voyager'' was probably too structurally compromised to remain in active service regardless.

* CanonImmigrant: Aspects of David Mack's ''Literature/StarTrekColdEquations'' (part of the now non-canon ''Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch'') are formally canonized with Data's resurrection. B-4's copy of Data's memories are, just as in the novel, part of the basis for resurrecting Data. Similarly, it's not Data ressurrected, but a completely new and distinct being that's an amalgam of Data and Soong (or at least Altan, rather than Noonien).

** Data had been setting up this code by a musical melody that keeps breaking down until Riker recognizes it as "Pop Goes the Weasel", the tune Data was trying to work on the very first time he met Riker.
** The crow that appeared in [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E15Birthright Data's very first dreams]] also returns as part of the Daystrom AI's holographic avatars. It's also an intentional in-universe callback; Data's personality is trying to communicate with Riker and clue him in by using an incident from their days aboard the ''Enterprise''-D. Riker eventually realizes its significance and notes the callback to Worf and Raffi.

** Despite the risk of the ''Titan'' being a beacon due to the extensive use of fleet integration, taking one of the ships at the museum would've been even more dangerous as "preserved in a museum" does not mean "spaceworthy and mission-ready". Restoring anything to anything resembling spaceworthy would've taken more time than they had. However, taking a preserved cloaking device and retrofitting it to the ''Titan'' would have been faster and safer, though still not without an element of risk.

* TheReveal:
** Jack has Irumodic Syndrome, which he inherited from his father.
** Downplayed, but it's explicitly confirms (after having been previously implied) that it ''was'' indeed Vadic who oversaw and executed the Daystrom heist.
** Vadic is, in fact, a full Changeling after all.
** The item even more dangerous than the portal technology is the corpse of Jean-Luc Picard.
** A minor note from ''Prodigy'', but after the show left the ''Defiant'' to UncertainDoom, it's revealed she was taken out of service and placed in the Fleet Museum.

* TheBusCameBack: Besides Geordi, we get to see the ''Enterprise-A'', ''Enterprise NX-01'', ''Voyager'', ''Defiant'', ''Excelsior'', and even the ''H.M.S. Bounty'', all of which have been preserved at the Fleet Museum. The ''NX-01'' is even in a refit configuration.
* BusCrash: Altan Soong is revealed to have died in the interim since the end of Season One.

** While not a professional musician, Riker ''is'' still a long-established jazz aficionado and trombone player. So, Riker knows basic music theory and would thus be able to recognize the specific music notes Moriarty's playing over the Daystrom speakers. It's also what allows Riker to piece together that Moriarty's actually playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" -- and to realize this is an intentional in-universe callback to "Encounter at Farpoint" (and therefore what and who the Daystrom AI ''must'' be).

** Once the Probe Incident had been resolved, it makes complete sense that Starfleet would recover the HMS ''Bounty'' from San Francisco Bay (and not simply to memorialize it for its role in saving Earth). Similarly to modern maritime wrecks, leaving a sunken vessel with active antimatter systems and weapons a stone's throw away from a populated locale like San Francisco (let alone Starfleet HQ) would've been too hazardous. More, recovering the ''Bounty'' would've given Starfleet unprecedented access to then-cutting edge Klingon technology and weaponry. Such an evaluation and reverse engineering would've been invaluable during those final years of the Federation-Klingon Cold War.

* RagnarokProofing: The ''Bounty'''s cloaking device must be exceptionally robust to still work properly, almost 120 years after being stressed to its limits while visiting the 20th century in ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome The Voyage Home]]'', and then getting [[KillItWithWater dunked in San Francisco Bay]] upon the ship's crash-landing for an extended period of time until Starfleet managed to find and recover the ship.

** There's a genetically-modified "attack Tribble" at Daystrom. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Worf is still not a fan.]]

** Riker tries to get Worf to call him "Will", just as Kirk asked Picard to use a FirstNameBasis in ''Generations''.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: The ''Titan''-A crew arrives at the Fleet Museum, and learn from the [=LaForge=] family that all modern Starfleet ships have integrated beacons that automatically link up with other starships; ''any'' proximity to Starfleet vessels or installations will alert Starfleet. As it happens, none of the vessels at the Museum are up to modern standards, so it's not out of the realm of possibility they could have borrowed one of them to hide. Jack in particular looks at the ''H.M.S. Bounty'', and both of Geordi's daughters seem to have the same idea...but they're not stealing the ''Bounty''. Rather, they "borrow" her cloaking device.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Amusingly subverted as Riker becomes acquainted with the now-pacifistic Zen Master Worf. Over the course of the episode, Riker becomes increasingly unhappy and frustrated with how much Worf's changed since ''Nemesis'' (i.e. moving beyond this Trope) and how his [[VitriolicBestBuds old playful dynamic]] with the Klingon thus isn't the same.

** Riker tries to get Worf to call him [[FirstNameBasis Will]] similar to how Kirk attempted to Picard in ''Generations''.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: The ''Titan''-A crew arrives at the Fleet Museum, and learn from the [=LaForge=] family that all modern Starfleet ships are integrated; there's no way they can go anywhere without being tracked. As it happens, none of the vessels at the Museum are up to modern standards, so it's not out of the realm of possibility they could have borrowed one of them to hide. Jack in particular looks at the ''H.M.S. Bounty'', and both of Geordi's daughters seem to have the same idea...but they're not stealing the ''Bounty''. Rather, they "borrow" her cloaking device.

* ArtEvolution: While the ''Defiant'' and ''Voyager'' had been previously rendered in CGI during their shows' runs, digital technology's advanced by leaps and bounds over the last 20 years. So, the new CGI models for the beloved ''Defiant'' and ''Intrepid''-class ships are much more detailed and in high definition compared to their earlier CGI predecessors.

* AscendedFanon: Kinda. ''Star Trek IV'' has always been known among fans as "The One With the Whales". In-universe, Jack reveals the Probe Incident's actually now, if colloquially, also known as 'The Whole Whale Thing'.

** Riker tries to get Worf to call him "Will", just as Kirk asked Picard to use a FirstNameBasis in ''Generations''.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: The ''Titan''-A crew arrives at the Fleet Museum, and learn from the [=LaForge=] family that all modern Starfleet ships have integrated beacons that automatically link up with other starships; ''any'' proximity to Starfleet vessels or installations will alert Starfleet. As it happens, none of the vessels at the Museum are up to modern standards, so it's not out of the realm of possibility they could have borrowed one of them to hide. Jack in particular looks at the ''H.M.S. Bounty'', and both of Geordi's daughters seem to have the same idea...but they're not stealing the ''Bounty''. Rather, they "borrow" her cloaking device.

** Riker tries to get Worf to call him [[FirstNameBasis Will]] similar to how Kirk attempted to Picard in ''Generations''.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: The ''Titan''-A crew arrives at the Fleet Museum, and learn from the [=LaForge=] family that all modern Starfleet ships are integrated; there's no way they can go anywhere without being tracked. As it happens, none of the vessels at the Museum are up to modern standards, so it's not out of the realm of possibility they could have borrowed one of them to hide. Jack in particular looks at the ''H.M.S. Bounty'', and both of Geordi's daughters seem to have the same idea...but they're not stealing the ''Bounty''. Rather, they "borrow" her cloaking device.

Picard and crew plan a heist of Daystrom Station, but an unexpected interruption by Starfleet forces a detour to the Fleet Museum to seek help from an old friend.

** Moriarty's opening words are "I think, therefore I am."

** Geordi transporting onto the ''Titan''-A is accompanied by an excerpt of Jerry Goldsmith's "The Meld and A Good Start" from "The Motion Picture".

* LivingMacGuffin: Daystrom's computer core and AI security are a single being: Data. Or, to be more precise, Data, Lore, B-4, and Altan Soong all stored in a single synthetic body like Picard's.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Amusingly subverted as Riker becomes acquainted with the now-Zen Master Worf. Over the course of the episode, Riker becomes increasingly unhappy and frustrated with how much Worf's changed since ''Nemesis'' (i.e. moving beyond this Trope) and how his [[VitriolicBestBuds old playful dynamic]] with the Klingon thus isn't the same.
-->'''Riker''': You used to poke back [at my jokes]! What happened to you?!
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Figuratively, while they are not all in the same room, this is the episode that has all of the TNG characters in the same episode. At the end of the episode, Picard, [=LaForge=], Beverly, Worf and Data (intermixed with Altan Soong, Lore, B-4 and Noonien Soong within an archive) are on the ''Titan''-A, while Riker and Troi are on the ''Shrike''.

** ''Voyager'' being decommissioned and ending up in the Fleet Museum following "Endgame". ''Voyager'' went from being one of the inaugural ships of the ''Intrepid''-class to one of the most important vessels in Federation history. Preserving it for future generations would thus be a top priority for Starfleet historians. As ''Voyager'' returned in the aftermath of the Dominion War, there would also be PR value in making the ship -- a symbol of Starfleet's mission, bravery, and heroism -- available to Federation citizens while trying to rebuild post-War morale. An honorable retirement was also certainly mandated from an engineering perspective -- and not just to evaluate the alien technologies they'd brought home. While the ''Intrepid''-class was built for long-term exploration, its designers also never anticipated something like the Delta Quadrant. After spending nearly a decade without access to drydock facilities and under constant stress, battle, and exposure to God knows what else to get its crew home, ''Voyager'' was probably too structurally compromised to remain in active service regardless.
** For that matter, the ''Defiant'' and the ''Enterprise''-A probably suffered enough structural stress in battle that also justified their own retirements. Fortunately, they were still intact enough (unlike the original ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701, and the ''Enterprise''-C and -D) to preserve in the Fleet Museum for posterity.

** While not a professional musician, Riker is still a long-established jazz aficionado and trombone player. So, Riker knows basic music theory and would thus be able to recognize the specific music notes Moriarty's playing over the Daystrom speakers. It's also part of how Riker pieces together that Moriarty is actually playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" from "Encounter at Farpoint".

* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. Like Kirk, Spock, and the ''Enterprise''-A, Picard and the ''Titan'' have been framed for murder by a conspiracy at the top levels of Starfleet. The ''Titan'' is now on the run and trying to clear their names and expose the shadowy cabal while planning a break-in to one of the most secure facilities in the Quadrant.