Stardate 41723.9 A Ferengi captain, Bok, offers to return the Starfleet vessel Stargazer, the ship which was Captain Picard's first command. Strangely, Bok asks for no compensation for the vessel which Captain Picard had abandoned during the battle of Maxia. However, Bok's ulterior motive is revenge on Picard for the passing of his son during that battle. Bok tells the crew that the Stargazer's log show that Picard really fired on an unarmed Ferengi ship in the famous "Battle of Maxia".
Bok has also planted a mind control device on the Stargazer. The device causes Picard, after he beams back to the Stargazer, to believe he is back fighting the battle of Maxia, and believing the Enterprise is the opposing Ferengi vessel.
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".
In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.