# Picard's unnamed starship (possibly USS *Victory*)

A lightly documented command between the *Stargazer* and the *Enterprise*\-D, identified by some auxiliary historical sources as the USS *Victory*.

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## Service dossier

**Registry / identity**

Unspecified in the primary record; USS Victory NCC-9754 in some auxiliary sources

**Class / type**

Federation starship; possibly Constellation-class if identified as USS Victory

**Picard's role**

Commanding officer

**Recorded period**

Around 2363, before Picard took command of the Enterprise-D

## Why this ship matters

The surviving service record identifies this as Picard's next command after the *Stargazer*, responding to a distress call from colonists in the Carnelian minefield.

That mission is where Picard first encountered Natasha Yar, whose courage later influenced his choice of senior staff aboard the *Enterprise*\-D.

Some auxiliary historical sources identify the ship involved in that Yar rescue as the USS *Victory*, a 24th-century Constellation-class Starfleet vessel registered NCC-9754.

The primary USS *Victory* record names Captain Zimbata as its commanding officer and ties the vessel's name to HMS *Victory*. Geordi La Forge and Susanna Leijten served aboard it in the early 2360s, and in 2362 it investigated the disappearance of the Federation colony on Tarchannen III.

The *Victory* later rendezvoused with the USS *Enterprise*\-D in 2365, was listed on Starfleet operations charts during stellar nuclei population surveys in the 2360s, and reported numerous casualties during the Dominion War in 2374.

Because the Picard command link comes from disputed auxiliary material rather than the primary service record, this archive keeps the page filed as Picard's unnamed starship while noting the USS *Victory* identification as a plausible historical-source attribution.