The 11” x 8 ½” certificate is white with black/silver geometric formal edge decorations, a watermarked Great Seal of the United Federation of Planets and black/silver text. The certificate signed by the President reads in pertinent part: “Certificate / Of Achievement / … / Presented to / John-Luc Picard / For representing the United Federation of Planets / In first contact with 38 new species.”
Seen on the wall in Jean-Luc Picard’s quantum archive in the Star Trek: Picard season one premiere episode #101 “Remembrance,” which aired the week of January 23, 2020. The Starfleet archive was a Starfleet facility near San Francisco. The site contained the Starfleet Archive Museum, which in turn contained a quantum archive where several personal effects of retired Starfleet Admiral Jean-Luc Picard were kept in stasis. Visitors to the quantum archive were served by a hologram called Index. Among the artifacts from Picard’s career stored here were his copy of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works, the Kurlan naiskos gifted to him by Professor Galen, and a banner for Captain Picard Day. In 2399, he visited the archive to examine a painting, Daughter, gifted to him by Data. The 11” x 8 ½” certificate is white with black/silver geometric formal edge decorations, a watermarked Great Seal of the United Federation of Planets and black/silver text. The certificate signed by the President reads in pertinent part: “Certificate / Of Achievement / … / Presented to / John-Luc Picard / For representing the United Federation of Planets / In first contact with 38 new species.” A replica frame completes the display.
