WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 6 - "The Bounty".The USS Titan-A paid a visit to the Athan Prime Fleet Museum in Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 6, "The Bounty", and it hosts an impressive array of classic Star Trek ships. The Fleet Museum had been teased back in the season 3 premiere, "The Next Generation", when Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) pondered donating his portrait of the USS Enterprise-D to the museum's curator, Commodore Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton). Viewers finally got to see the museum realized on-screen in all its glory when Jean-Luc sought help from his former engineer.
The starships on display in Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 6 provided "The Bounty" with its second Easter egg hunt. Captain Worf (Michael Dorn) finally made it to Daystrom Station alongside Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) and Captain William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and passed by several classic Star Trek weapons, scientific devices, and even corpses. The Athan Prime Fleet Museum is the final resting place of every legendary Starfleet ship, and here's every classic Star Trek ship that was on display.
8 The USS Enterprise-A
The USS Enterprise-A was the second ship to be commanded by Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner). It's no surprise that the ship that hosted the historic meeting between Kirk and Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) that led to the cessation of hostilities between the Klingon Empire and the Federation has become a museum piece. Surprisingly, Jack Crusher (Ed Speelers) was particularly taken with Kirk's Enterprise-A and its "perfectly clean retro lines" before he declared himself to be a "Constitution-class man."
7 The USS Defiant
Commander Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) began quizzing Jack on his knowledge of starships by showing him the USS Defiant. The legendary ship was commanded by Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) during the Dominion War and, in his absence, Sisko's Executive Officer Worf. However, this is the second Defiant, as the original NX-74205 was destroyed in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 7 and replaced by the USS Sao Paulo, which was renamed "USS Defiant." The Defiant was last canonically seen in Star Trek: Prodigy's 2-part season 1 finale, "Supernova." As Star Trek: Picard season 3 tackles the fallout from the Dominion War decades after it ended, it makes perfect sense to feature the USS Defiant as an exhibit at the Fleet Museum.
6 The USS Voyager
As the Fleet Museum is the final resting place for legendary Starfleet ships, Seven of Nine delivers a perfect eulogy to the USS Voyager. "She made her name farther out than any of those other relics had ever gone" Seven tells Jack, whose exceptional knowledge of classic starships has a Voyager-shaped hole in it. Touchingly, Seven also states that she was "reborn" there, in reference to the guidance and support she received from Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) that led Seven to a career in Starfleet.
5 The HMS Bounty
Another legendary Star Trek ship on display is the Klingon Bird-of-Prey hijacked by the Star Trek: The Original Series crew in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Seven of Nine reveals what happened to Kirk's Klingon ship, explaining that Starfleet spent a long time trying to retrieve it from the bottom of San Francisco Bay due to the cloaking device having been triggered. The story of the stolen Klingon ship and its cloaking device inspired Jack Crusher's unorthodox solution to avoiding the Changelings and Starfleet.
4 The USS New Jersey
Although it looks like a TOS-era starship, the USS New Jersey is an original creation exclusive to Star Trek: Picard season 3. The ship is a tribute to Picard showrunner Terry Matalas who was born in the Garden State in 1975. The USS New Jersey's designation of NCC-1975 reflects the year of Matalas' birth. Now that the starship has been introduced into Star Trek canon, there's every possibility that it could cross paths with Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
3 The USS Excelsior
Although not seen on-screen, Star Trek's USS Excelsior has also been laid to rest at the Athan Prime Fleet Museum. The Excelsior is mentioned in the closing credits to each episode of Star Trek: Picard season 3, which displays its name on the Fleet Museum manifest alongside Voyager and the USS Pioneer from Star Trek: Online. As the Enterprise-A is stored at Athan Prime, it's only fair that the historic ship, commanded by Captain Sulu (George Takei) also sits alongside it.
2 The Enterprise NX-01 Refit
The first Starfleet ship to bear the name Enterprise appears during a very brief flyby of the museum as Altan Inigo Soong (Brent Spiner) explains the returns of Data and Lore. This is the updated refit version of the NX-01 that was briefly seen in model form at Château Picard in Star Trek: Picard season 2. The Enterprise NX-01, previously commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), is seen alongside a Klingon K'Tinga class battlecruiser that may be Kronos One, the flagship of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
1 Other Star Trek Starships At The Fleet Museum
As well as storing many classic starships, Star Trek: Picard season 3's Fleet Museum is actually one big Star Trek Easter egg. When the Titan arrives at Athan Prime, Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) refers to it as "the old space dock." The space dock Shaw's referring to is the one from which Kirk and the crew stole the USS Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. As the site of such a historic rogue action by some of Starfleet's biggest legends, it makes to repurpose the space dock as an orbital museum.
There are a couple of other ships glimpsed in the overhead shot of the Fleet Museum that are notable in Star Trek history. A TOS-era Romulan bird of prey can be seen housed in one of the museum's bays. Furthermore, there's a Constellation-class starship that may be the USS Stargazer, Jean-Luc Picard's first command, as seen in the TNG episode "The Battle". As Star Trek: Picard season 3 is set to conclude the story of the legendary Jean-Luc Picard, it makes sense for his ship to be featured in the collection of the Athan Prime Fleet Museum.
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