And, in the case of Pike, it’s a historically significant saddle that Boimler was just trying out.
Wait does this guy come back in VOY? I remember he was in a couple episodes of TNG, generally giving mediocre advice
No, in the episode Starship Mine a bunch of criminals want to steal stuff from the Enterprise while it's getting deep cleaned via some deadly beam.
Picard is the last staff on board and pretends he's the barber Mister Mot when spotted by the evildoers. While escaping and sabotaging the criminals' plan, he uses the neck pinch against one of the space gangsters portrayed by Tim Russ, who also played Tuvok in VOY.
