Originally, in 2370, the Narisian Garamet located the bird-of-prey and used it to escape from Narisia along with her brother Wahlkon, fleeing from the overlord Proctors. The two pushed the couplers beyond their limits and the vessel stalled out; they were forced to switch to a Federation shuttlecraft, where they sounded a distress call and attracted the attention of Scott and the Goddard. Scott used the Narisian's shuttlecraft to draw away the pursuing vessel and located the bird-of-prey. He offered to drop the Narisians off at the nearest starbase, but kept the bird-of-prey himself, naming it the Bounty II.