Summary
- Captain Archer defended Nausicaans in "Fortunate Son" to prevent a conflict and save the Fortunate Son and its crew.
- Jean-Luc Picard was stabbed by Nausicaans and needed an artificial heart in "Samaritan Snare" and "Tapestry."
- Picard's artificial heart no longer matters as he now has a synthetic and positronic body in Star Trek: Picard seasons 2 and 3.
Star Trek: Enterprise's Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) actually defended the same aliens who stabbed Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) though the heart in Star Trek: The Next Generation. About 200 years separate the pioneering 22nd-century voyages of Captain Archer's NX-01 Enterprise and the 24th-century explorations of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's USS Enterprise-D. But one thing both Captains of the Enterprise have in common is encountering the Nausicaans, only with very different results.
In Star Trek: Enterprise season 1, episode 10, "Fortunate Son," Captain Archer's NX-01 is diverted to help the ECS Fortunate Son, a cargo ship that was raided by Nausicaan pirates. The Fortunate Son's Commander Matthew Ryan (Lawrence Monoson) secretly captured a Nausicaan and intended to use him to seek revenge. Archer intervened when he learned a Nausicaan was being held prisoner aboard the Fortunate Son, and the Captain of the Enterprise ended up brokering a truce to return the Nausicaan captive in exchange for the alien pirates not destroying the human freighter and its crew. Archer and Ensign Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery) argued that Ryan had no right to take prisoners and that his attack on the Nausicaans was about personal revenge and not to prevent future attacks on Earth ships.
