• Fencing
• Archeology
• Horsemanship
• Playing Flute

Bok tells Picard that he is returning the Stargazer to the Federation as a simple act of goodwill. In the haste to abandon the ship during the "battle" Picard has left many of his belongings on board and now Bok invites him to return to the ship and retrieve them. Bok has planted a mind-altering device in Picards trunk. The device is capable of putting Picard back in the Stargazer during the "battle" and experiencing it the way that Bok is convinced that it happened.

Bok creates new Stargazer logs to reflect that the Stargazer fired on an innocent Ferengi vessal and is therefore guilty of war crimes. No one on the Enterprise believe any of this for a moment and use the technology at their disposal to prove that Daiman Bok is setting up a scam.

Although in all fairness, Bok is deeply wounded by the loss of his son, and vengeange is not unknown to any species in the galaxy.

Not too surpriseingly it is Wesley who discovers patterns in Captain Picard's brain scan that match the low intensity transmissions being picked up by the Ferengi ship. This leads Riker to the device but at this point Picard has beamed over to the Stargazer and is reliving the fight one more time. This time, however, Picard thinks the enemy is the Enterprise. He ultimately tries to perform his famous "Picard Maneuver" with which he had won the battle of Maxia.

Data devises a strategy to seize the Stargazer with the Enterprise's tractor beam. Picard fighting the effects of the device, obeys Rikers command to use his phaser to destroy the it. Boks first officer takes him into custody because he has done all of this to exact revenge and not to exact a profit. Earlier he offered to give the Stargazer to the Federation. I would have thought that at time time the first officer would have noticed something strange going on.

The USS Stargazer NCC-2893 was thought to have been destroyed at Maxia Zeta, but it was salvaged by the Ferengi. Captain Picard was courtmartialed for losing the ship, but he was absolved of all charges.
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Service Record Summary

Served aboard USS Trieste.
Decorated by Starfleet Command for gallantry, received the Medal of Honor with clusters, the Legion of Honor, and the Star Cross.
2363 - Became second officer on board the Enterprise-D.
2368 - Assigned temporary command of Starship Sutherland during the Federation blockade of the Klingon Border.
He was created by Dr. Noonian Soong on Omicron Theta IV. He came to the attention of the Federation when they answered a distress call from that doomed colony after they were attacked by the crystalline entity. Data was the only survivor and he was taken aboard the USS Tripoli. Attending the Starfleet Academy he took the Turing Test and was declared, on the basis of the results, to be a sentient being.
The Turing Test was first formulated in the 1940's by Alan Turing at a time when the viability of AI's was being hotly debated. His response was that he would put a computer in one room and a human in another, and not knowing which was which, ask them both questions. If he could not tell which room held the computer and which the human then the computer would pass the test. Data has a cat named Spot to whom he has been known to write poetry. He likes Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes and playing poker with the guys. One of the best episodes was when the astrophyicist Stephen Hawking was a guest, and in his role he played poker on the holodeck with Data, Einstein and Newton. He won of course. Hawkin was responsible for a lot of the numbers you heard tossed around the bridge concerning cosmic strings, the velocity needed to escape an event horizon and so forth.

Commander William T. Riker has had a distinguished career in Starfleet, and had already been offered on numerous occasions a command of his own. But his former aspiritions of having the shortest time of reaching the rank of Captaincy have been squashed to the bottom of his priority list while serving on the Enterprise.
Apparently he had become too fond of the ship and its crew to care about breaking Kirk's old record. The crew have certainly become fond of him as well, especially the female side of it. Riker saved Earth from the Borg in the year 2366, after taking command when Picard was kidnapped. He also met his own double 8 years after a freak transporter accident. Riker enjoys poker, jazz music, and physical activities. The latter with the exception of Worf's training excercises.

Career Summary
2362 - Educational leave for advanced career study, Betazed
2364 - As lieutenant commander, assigned as ship's counselor, U.S.S. Enterprise under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
2370 - Promoted to commander; passed Bridge Officers' Exam
2372 - Transferred with remainder of Picard's senior staff to Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise.
Troi was ship's counselor for the U.S.S.Enterprise. Troi's race is known for its inter-species telepathy and its emotional empathy with most other species. Troi uses her abilities to assist Captain Picard in his making command decisions, especially on first-contact missions.
In the episode, A Fistfull of Datas Troi got to act out her fasination with the old American west. As a child her father would read western stories to her and sing, Down in the Valley among other western songs.

In 2370, she discovered that she had a sister Kestra, older than her by six years who had drowned. In grief and guilt her parents moved away, and upon Ian's death Lwaxana deleted all mention of Kestra in personal logs.

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101 MORE reasons why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk.
101. Two Words: better voice.
100. Picard's ship's counselor traded in her miniskirt for that great low-cut neckline.
99. Kirk fought over women. Picard had women fight over him.
98. Picard fires both photon torpedoes AND phasers at the same time when in battle.
97. Picard's ship is better than Kirk's -- better, faster, stronger.
96. Picard hates children -- Kirk once rescued a bunch of patricidal little maniacs, tried to console them, and almost lost his ship and crew in the process.
95. Picard was responsible for Beverly Crusher's husband dying, berated her son constantly in her presence, yet still manged to make her fall for him.
94. Though admittedly he's seldom a patron, Picard's ship actually has a BAR.
93. Kirk fought others himself, Picard has others do his fighting for him.
92. When nurse Chapel re-appeared as Troi's mother, she fell for Picard.
91. In seven years, Picard never developed a gut like Kirk's.
90. Picard was never killed by his first officer.
89. Picard's family made alchoholic beverages for a living.
88. Kirk kept losing security guards throughout each season; Picard has kept Worf for seven years.
87. No member of Picard's crew was EVER based on a member of the Monkees.
86. Two words: better actor.
85. Picard can do better impressions of his first officer.
84. Picard single-handedly saved the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and all of humanity while still a lowly captain.
83. Picard's a better musician than Kirk, while admittedly that's not saying much.
82. Picard's crew members sleep with one another on a regular basis.
81. Picard's crew gambles.
80. Picard's engine room has that neat warp coil that glows.
79. Picard's ship has better control panels instead of a series of Lite-Brite boards.
78. Picard would never star in a show like "T.J. Hooker."
77. Picard would never have allowed Charlie X aboard his ship.
76. No sideburns. 'Nuff said.
75. Picard's first officer never seized control of the ship to transport a former captain anywhere.
74. Despite the Borg incident, Picard is still welcome back at Starfleet HQ. Kirks name is an anathema to Starfleet HQ and alien races alike.
73. Picard never ordered his ship to self-destruct as a bluff; when he orders it to do so, he MEANS it.
72. Picard's ship was never taken over by its own computer and made to attack other Starfleet vessels.
71. Picard has never been made into a bad Filmation cartoon.
70. Picard was able to bring Denise Crosby back from the dead. Need we say more?
69. Picard infiltrated Romulus, posed as an intergalactic mercenary, and was tortured extensively after capture by the Cardassians -- and never broke a sweat.
68. Picard has never been demoted.
67. Picard has never had his body taken over by a former lover.
66. Picard has never developed amnesia and thought he was an Indian.
65. Picard has never encountered aliens from wierd planets like "Zatar."
64. Picard's quarters have a window.
63. Nobody ever back-slaps Picard.
62. Picard was never involved in any hokey shootouts at the OK corral.
61. Picard is a caffiene addict. (All that Earl Grey tea.)
60. One word: Leadership.
59. Kirk is not a sex symbol. Never was, never will be.
58. If Picard had a son, he wouldn't lose a fight to a Klingon whose commander was Christopher Lloyd.
57. Speaking of losing, Picard has never lost a first officer to a man who once made a career out of selling Chrysler Cordobas, either.
56. Picard would never be so stupid as to go rock climbing without equipment and rely on an overweight first officer with rocket boots to save him.
55. Picard would never stand for playing "Row Row Row your boat" around a campfire.
54. When Picard enters a room, people fall silent; when Kirk enters one, they keep on drinking.
53. Picard has that cool, futuristic artificial heart.
52. When Picard has an alternate reality experience, it's worth watching and caring about.
51. Picard never expects the impossible from his engineer.
50. When Klingons are aboard Picard's ship, they don't go rampaging about with 17th century weaponry.
49. Picard has more class than Kirk ever had.
48. If poor judgement were bricks, Kirk would be a housing project.
47. Picard had the chutzpah to admit when he screwed up instead of putting on a face which only made things worse.
46. Picard doesn't rely on the Organians to help him settle intergalactic squabbles.
45. Picard gets along with the aliens aboard his ship.
44. It's unlikely Picard ever contracted a sexually-transmitted disease.
43. One word: diagnostic (Never heard it on the old show.)
42. All that cool technical jargon (Also never heard on old show.)
41. Picard has hair on his chest.
40. Picard can actually make being bald, middle-aged, and scrawny look sexy & macho.
39. Kirk sat alone in the middle of his bridge; Picard kept counselor Troi within easy reach and view at all times.
38. Picard has never mutinied or had his crew mutiny against him.
37. When Picard gets drunk, he tracks mud all over the house and gets in a fight. When Kirk gets drunk, he passes out.
36. Picard hired Whoopi Goldberg to work in his bar.
35. Picard is not afraid to mind-meld.
34. Picard's ex kept his name even after the divorce; Kirk's kept it a secret even from her son.
33. Picard like solving mysteries; Kirk couldn't figure one out if he tried.
32. Picard has never messed up with the transporter.
31. Picard has never been bitten by a mugatto. Nor has he ever allowed shape-shifting salt vampires aboard his ship, either.
30. Picard has never aged prematurely.
29. Picard wasn't afraid to take on Satan.
28. Picard knows Gilgamesh & is able to recite it.
27. Picard argues with his captors while being tortured, Kirk merely screams in agony.
26. Picard never brought a woman back from the 20th Century only to have her blow him off in front of the entire Federation assembly.
25. When Picard talks, people listen.
24. If Picard were a late-night talk-show host, he'd be Dick Cavett. If Kirk were a late-night host, he'd be Chevy Chase.
23. NO ONE laughs when Picard's Doctor says, "He's dead, Jean-Luc."
22. Picard has never kissed a Romulan.
21. Picard has never crashed in San Francisco bay in a pirated spacecraft.
20. Picard would never have brought "Nomad" aboard his ship.
19. If Khan came aboard Picard's ship, Picard would have had the common sense to restrict what technical manuals he would've been allowed to review.
18. If Picard found a huge glowing sphere in the middle of outer space only to discover it was controlled by a child with an ugly puppet, he'd be pissed.
17. Picard would never ATTEMPT hand-to-hand combat with a gorn.
16. Picard would never have dropped the charges against Khan.
15. Kirk actually tried to defend the idea of intergalactic war with the Klingons.
14. When Kirk went back in time, he frequently messed with history to suit his own ends.
13. Picard probably would have found the Galileo 7 in less time than it took Kirk.
12. Three words: Better costuiime variety.
11. Kirk tries, usually unsuccessfully, to respect other cultures. Picard tries, usually successfully, to get other cultures to respect him.
10. Kirk's occasional game of choice is 3-D chess, Picard's is poker.
9. "Picard" has more syllables than "Kirk."
8. Can't forget those neat collar insignias.
7. Picard's not afraid to deal with more advanced cultures & has done so on a number of occassions.
6. Picard's been on both Klingon birds-of-prey AND the heavy cruisers (and lived to tell about it).
5. When Picard goes undercover, he makes it look easy.
4. Though Picard has contempt for aliens like the Cardassians, he doesn't let it show.
3. Kirk wears boots -- Picard wears shoes. And as we all know, it's gotta be the shoes...
2. Assimilating has never been a problem for Picard.
1. Picard has never trashed Gene Roddenberry.

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