A ceramic figurine of the ancient Kurlan civilisation that opens to reveal smaller figures inside, given to Jean-Luc Picard by his former archaeology professor Richard Galen.
The Kurlan naiskos appears in the episode The Chase. Professor Galen arrives on the Enterprise-D and presents Picard with an intact example made some twelve thousand years ago by the artist known as the Master of Tarquin Hill. Picard, who knows how rare a complete one is, is visibly moved.
The top lifts off to show a group of small figures within. The Kurlans believed that an individual was a community of many voices, each with its own outlook.
The gift is meant to tempt Picard to leave Starfleet and join Galen's last expedition. He declines, and Galen is killed soon afterwards. The naiskos stays in the ready room, and is seen among the wreckage there after the saucer crashes in Star Trek Generations.