History Recap / StarTrekPicardS3E06TheBounty

* TheLastDance: Non-combat variation with the ''Enterprise''-F during Frontier Day. With the current Federation flagship set to be decomissioned following the holiday, the ''Enterprise'''s role as the "Master of Ceremonies" and representation of the ''Enterprise'' lineage on the 250th anniversry of the NX-01 is an honorable final sendoff for the latest ''Starship Enterprise''.

** Of course, the mortal remains of James T. Kirk would have had to be disinterred from Veridian III, where Picard buried them (''Film/StarTrekGenerations''). It's long been {{fanon}}, particularly from the not-precisely-canon Creator/WilliamShatner novel ''The Return'', that leaving anything on the surface -- Kirk's body, Soren's rocket launcher, ''half of the USS freaking ''Enterprise -- would violate the AlienNonInterferenceClause, and Starfleet was obligated to retrieve all of it. Let's just say that this will become canon later in the season.

Aboard Daystrom Station, Riker, Worf and Raffi work their way to the central mainframe, observed by the promised super-advanced defense AI. It incorporates Moriarty (''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E11ShipInABottle Ship In A Bottle]]") to slow them down, but Moriarty confesses he has an EarWorm stuck in his head. Riker, the jazz musician, recognizes it as "Pop Goes the Weasel," and has {{flashback}}s to when he whistled it to Data during the ''Enterprise''[='s=] first mission. At the station's central core, they find another synth golem: the last work of Altan Inigo Soong, who has had a BusCrash since the first season. Soong claims to have poured a number of personalities -- Data, Lore, Lal, B-4, himself and more -- into the golem, which is also tempered with both the wisdom and appearance of age. The golem is not only the super-advanced defense AI, it is also the station's WetwareCPU and knows what the Changelings stole. Riker decides to have the golem beamed back with them, even though the personalities are not precisely integrated.

Of course, they can't beam back; basically the instant the ''Titan'' showed up, additional Starfleet starships arrived to apprehend it. Picard orders the ship to the Athan System, where Starfleet keeps its Fleet Museum, which is currently run by Commodore Geordi La Forge. Though he's glad to see his friends, Geordi is upset at the idea of his family being dragged into danger, and exhibits RefusalOfTheCall. Meanwhile, Jack and Seven check out the ships of the Museum -- an original Constitution-class called the ''New Jersey''; Kirk's NCC-1701-A; the tough little ship herself, the USS ''Defiant''; the HMS ''Bounty'', the Klingon Bird-of-Prey Kirk commandeered [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock in 2285]]; and USS ''Voyager'', NCC-74656 -- before Jack has a brainwave and asks both Sidney and her sister Alandra whether they're interested in a bit of petty larceny. Both Picard and La Forge are then surprised when the ''Titan'' suddenly grows an InvisibilityCloak.

'''Picard''': Geordi, I would never deceive you, and I would never steal from... (''thinks it through'')\\
'''Picard''': Jack.\\
'''La Forge''': Sidney.

With La Forge now onboard to stabilize the cloaking device, ''Titan'' returns to Daystrom Station, and Worf, Raffi and the synth golem come home, their mission accomplished. Jack meets Picard again with somewhat more complimentary tone: while he knows he got some bad genes from his father, he has also learned to recognize that his bravery, loyalty and discernment comes from him as well.

-->'''Seven''': Oh, you are ''definitely'' your father's son. He too has a knack for the, um, poetic drive-by observation. It can be ''very'' annoying ... but it can also make a person feel seen.

* EarWorm: As an extension of the Daystrom AI (i.e. Data's amalgamated consciousnesses), Moriarty has the melody of "Pop Goes the Weasel" stuck in his head.

* AllThereInTheManual: Kinda. David Blass' [[https://mobile.twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1641118176183197696 Twitter feed]] presents an in-universre tour guide for Fleet Museum visitors, explictly identifying each of the other ships in the collection.

* BaitAndSwitch: InUniverse, when Captain Shaw expresses his admiration as a former Engineer for Geordi, he responds by criticising how beat up the ''Titan'' is from its misadventures before saying he'd like geek out with Shaw about how he's keeping it running.

* AscendedFanon: Kinda. ''Star Trek IV'' has always been known among fans as "The One With the Whales". In-universe, Jack refers to the Probe Incident as 'The Whole Whale Thing'.

** While the ''Defiant'' and ''Voyager'' had been previously rendered in CGI during their respective shows' runs, digital technology's advanced by leaps and bounds over the last 20 years (to say nothing of the original mdels having been rendered for standard definition TV). 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.
** Inverted with the ''U.S.S New Jersey'' and the ''U.S.S. Enterprise-A''. With the updated design of the Constitution-Class starship, which debuted in ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Discovery]]'' and shown at length in ''[[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]'', it would make sense that the ''New Jersey'' would share this design. However, possibly because this would mean the ''Enterprise-A'' would ''also'' have to updated as well, as it would need to be an update to ''this'' design, and both ships are more recognizable with the original design, the VFX team chose to go with the original design, even if it doesn't make sense from a timeline-standpoint.

*** For that matter, there's also the ''Enterprise''-A, the ''Defiant'', the Klingon Bird-of-Prey from ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', and another TOS-era Bird-of-Prey.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Geordi is initially cold and unfriendly towards his former shipmates, being that they've put his daughter in danger. However, he ''is'' genuinely happy to see Beverley again after more than 20 years and hugs her.

* {{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.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed, but a variation with Data's personality and perspective within the Data golem. Since this is the copy of Data's memories and personality that were downloaded into B-4 during ''Nemesis'', Data initially still believes it's 2379 and he's aboard the ''Enterprise''-E (ex. still addressing Picard as Captain rather than by post-''Nemesis'' RankUp). From his perspective, Data has for all intents been thrown decades into the future and is confused by the now-much older appearances of Picard and Geordi (or Worf and Beverley).

* KansasCityShuffle: Worf and Raffi share their conclusions about how the Daystrom theft was actually one. Upon reviewing the evidence, Beverley and Shaw concur with their assessment. The investigation and break-in at Daystrom proves they're correct, as the Portal Technology was cover for really stealing Picard's mortal remains from the end of Season One.

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: As a former engineer, Shaw has to summon every ounce of his professionalism not to be completely giddy about having ''the'' Geordi [=LaForge=] on his ship.

* 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 Lal within an archive) are on the ''Titan''-A, while Riker and Troi are on the ''Shrike''.

* SpinOffspring: While we've already met Sidney [=LaForge=], Geordi's other daughter Alandra debuts in this episode.

* AesopAmnesia: Worf and Raffi know from Altan Soong's final log that Lore's personality was among those housed inside the Data Golem. Having dealt with him along with the other ''Enterprise''-D alums, Worf knows all too well how dangerous Data's "brother" is (and how much Lore hates their guts and would ''love'' to make his sibling's friends suffer). Yet, neither he or Geordi or anyone else think to secure the Data Golem just in case it's Lore's personality that winds up in the driver's seat when the Golem's activated. Frankly, they got lucky Lore wasted time mocking them and lost his brief control over the Golem to B-4.

*** Riker passes by an advanced version of the [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Genesis torpedo]] and the phasing cloak from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E11ThePegasus The Pegasus]]".

*** The Kataan probe, the Pup probe, and as a gag, the Oscillation Overthruster from ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension Buckaroo Banzai]]'', and more.

** Geordi notes that the ''Titan''-A fielding a cloaking device is a treaty violation (presumably still the Treaty of Algeron), as it was in "The Pegasus".
** Riker tries to get Worf to call him [[FirstNameBasis Will]] similar to how Kirk attempted to Picard in ''Generations''.
* ContinuityPorn: Geordi's office at the Athan Fleet Museum contains [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock a model]] of an ''Excelsior''-class ship, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries a 23rd Century-era United Federation Planets pennant]], and a miniature replica of [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Zefram Cochrane's statue]]. The Cochrane statue is also the same replica type that [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Jonathan Archer]] had in his Ready Room aboard the NX-01 (and given this ''is'' the Fleet Museum, it's possible it may very well be Archer's statue).

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed, but a variation with Data's personality and perspective within the Data golem. Since this is the copy of Data's memories and personality that were downloaded into B-4 during ''Nemesis'', Data initially still believes it's 2379 and he's aboard the ''Enterprise''-E (ex. addressing Picard as Captain since his promotion ot Admiral came after the Shinzon crisis). From his perspective, Data has for all intents been thrown decades into the future and is confused by the now-older appearances of Picard and Geordi.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed, but a variation with Data's personality within the Data golem. Since this is the copy of Data's memories and personality that were downloaded into B-4 during ''Nemesis'', Data initially still believes it's 2379 (ex. addressing Picard as Captain as he hadn't been promoted to Admiral yet). From his perspective, Data has for all intents been thrown into the future and is confused by the now-older appearances of Picard and Geordi.

* AesopAmnesia: Worf and Raffi knew from Altan Soong's final message that Lore's personality was inside the Data Golem. Having dealt with him along with the other ''Enterprise''-D alums, Worf knows all too well how dangerous Data's "brother" is (and how much he hates Data's friends and would love to make them suffer). Yet, neither he or Geordi think to secure the Data Golem just in case it's Lore's personality that ends up in the driver's seat when the Golem's activated. Frankly, they got lucky Lore wasted time mocking them and lost his brief control over the Golem to B-4.

* 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, Lal and Noonien Soong within an archive) are on the ''Titan''-A, while Riker and Troi are on the ''Shrike''.

The ''Titan'' has given Vadic the slip, and it's less than 72 hours until Frontier Day. After [[BadBoss blowing away a mook who dared point this out]], Vadic demands her crew check Wikipedia for all of Picard's known associates, intent on finding where he went to ground.

** Riker passes by a [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Genesis torpedo]] and the phasing cloak from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E11ThePegasus The Pegasus]]".
** There's a genetically-modified "attack Tribble" at Daystrom. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Worf is still not a fan]].

** It makes sense that Starfleet would recover Kirk’s remains from Veridian III. This presumably occurred while the ''Enterprise''-D Saucer Section was being salvaged. After all, rescuing the ''Enterprise'' survivors was the more immediate priority at the end of ''Generations''. Plus, Starfleet ''would'' have had to come back to Veridian anyway to remove technological/biological samples – samples like the Saucer Section ''and'' Kirk’s body -- due to the Prime Directive and the pre-Warp civilization on Veridian IV. Kirk's also the most famous and accomplished Human Starfleet Captain since Jonathan Archer; the Federation would ''want'' to honor one of its greatest heroes and not leave him rotting in the middle of nowhere. However, Kirk ''did'' also spend nearly a century inside one of the most unique and powerful phenomena Starfleet’s ever encountered; it makes sense his remains would be studied to try and further understand the Nexus. It would also not be surprising if his remains ''were'' publicly recovered for a memorial, but then privatelty and quietly removed (or not even really interred at all) to further study them.

** It makes sense that Starfleet would recover Kirk’s remains from Veridian III. This presumably occurred while the ''Enterprise''-D Saucer Section was being salvaged. After all, rescuing the ''Enterprise'' survivors was the more immediate priority at the end of ''Generations'. Plus, Starfleet ''would'' have had to come back to Veridian anyway to remove technological/biological samples – samples like the Saucer Section ''and'' Kirk’s body -- due to the Prime Directive and the pre-Warp civilization on Veridian IV. Kirk's also the most famous and accomplished Human Starfleet Captain since Jonathan Archer; the Federation would ''want'' to honor one of its greatest heroes and not leave him rotting in the middle of nowhere. However, Kirk ''did'' also spend nearly a century inside one of the most unique and powerful phenomena Starfleet’s ever encountered; it makes sense his remains would be studied to try and further understand the Nexus. It would also not be surprising if his remains ''were'' publicly recovered for a memorial, but then privatelty and quietly removed (or not even really interred at all) to further study them.

** It makes sense that Starfleet would recover Kirk’s remains from Veridian III. This presumably occurred while the ‘’Enterprise’’-D Saucer Section was being salvaged. After all, rescuing the ‘’Enterprise’’ survivors was the more immediate priority at the end of ‘’Generations’’. Plus, Starfleet would’ve had to come back to Veridian anyway to remove technological/biological samples – samples like the Saucer Section ‘’and’’ Kirk’s body -- due to the Prime Directive and the pre-Warp civilization on Veridian IV. Kirk is also the most famous and accomplished Human Captain since Jonathan Archer; Starfleet would ''want'' to honor one of its greatest heroes and not leave him in the middle of nowhere. However, Kirk ''did'' also spend nearly a century inside one of the most unique and powerful phenomena Starfleet’s ever encountered. It makes sense his remains would be studied to try and further understand the Nexus. It would not be surprising if his remains were publicly recovered for a memorial, but privatelty and quietly removed (or not even interred at all) to further study them.

* It makes sense that Starfleet would recover Kirk’s remains from Veridian III. This presumably occurred while the ‘’Enterprise’’-D Saucer Section was being salvaged. After all, rescuing the ‘’Enterprise’’ survivors was the more immediate priority at the end of ‘’Generations’’. Plus, Starfleet would’ve had to come back to Veridian anyway to remove technological/biological samples – samples like the Saucer Section ‘’and’’ Kirk’s body -- due to the Prime Directive and the pre-Warp civilization on Veridian IV. Kirk is also the most famous and accomplished Human Captain since Jonathan Archer; Starfleet would ''want'' to honor one of its greatest heroes and not leave him in the middle of nowhere. However, Kirk ''did'' also spend nearly a century inside one of the most unique and powerful phenomena Starfleet’s ever encountered. It makes sense his remains would be studied to try and further understand the Nexus. It would not be surprising if his remains were publicly recovered for a memorial, but privatelty and quietly removed (or not even interred at all) to further study them.

* BrainUploading: Before Altan soong died, he uploaded his mind into Daystrom Android M-5-10 along with the personalities of Data, Lore and Data's daughter Lal. While the process wasn't what Soong considered "complete", his mind is shown to be intact within M-5-10 and is able to assert control over the android for brief periods.

** ''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 in face of unimaginable odds -- 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 over half 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'' would almost certainly have been too structurally compromised to remain in active service regardless.