Grade school Grade school , primary school , or elementary school were all terms used to describe the primary education al facility where adolescent pupil s learned . Such facilities would typically found on board Federation starship s or starbase s that had families . Charles Tucker III recalled a grade school teacher who was once certain that he had stolen a pencil off her desk , and wouldn ' t let him go on a field trip to Pensacola unless he apologized . ( ) Gary Mitchell had some grade school interest and ability in elementary magician ' s tricks . ( ) Captain John Harriman recalled reading about the missions of James T . Kirk , Montgomery Scott and Pavel Chekov while in grade school . In noting at the launch of the , he inadvertently ' dated ' the three who were already regretting retirement , in his excitement of having the " group of living legends " aboard for their maiden voyage . ( ) In 2368 , Wesley Crusher and Alexander Rozhenko both attended the primary school on board the where Miss was the teacher . ( ) Grade levels . First . After Uhura had her memory wiped by " Nomad " , Nurse Chapel assisted in her reeducation . Early in the process of her learn Chapel noted to Doctor McCoy that Uhura was on the first grade reader , and that she seemed to have an aptitude for mathematics . ( ) While the other children in Julian Bashir first grade class , in 2347 , were learning how to read , write and use a computer , ' Jules ' was still trying to tell a dog from a cat and a tree from a house . Years later , Bashir remained bitter towards his parents for this because they decided he was a failure in the first grade . ( ) Third . Ash Tyler ' s mother was a third grade teacher at Issaquah Elementary . ( ) When young Harry Kim in the third grade , he had to memorize the greeting recorded aboard " Friendship 1 " . Tom Paris also had to memorize it in the third grade , later recalling that he had even built a model of the probe too . ( ) Fourth . In 2151 , ' s nephew was in the fourth grade . That year , his class sent a number of drawings and letters to the crew of as a means of showing the crew how excited people on Earth were about the ship ' s mission . The crew of " Enterprise " later recorded a video thanking the students of Ms ' s fourth grade class at the Worley Elementary School in Kenmare , County Kerry , Ireland for their transmission . ( ) The journey aboard the to Trillius Prime took Travis Mayweather the fourth , fifth and sixth grades to reach . ( ) Fifth . Jean Luc Picard read about ancient Bajoran civilization in the fifth grade , where he learned that they were architect s and artist s , builder s and philosopher s when Human s were not yet standing erect . He recalled this years later as he was about to visit a Bajoran refugee camp where he was to see the unfortunate results of how history had rewarded them . ( ) Eighth . Mary Kim , the mother of operations manager Harry Kim , was a teacher who explained to her son , in 2377 , that he was very popular with her eighth graders . Telling him that , " " It ' s all they ever talk about . " Voyager " this , " Voyager " that . " She later asked if he would " " record a short presentation about what it ' s like to command a starship " " for her class , much to his chagrin . ( ) Ninth . Prior to Jonathan Archer giving his speech at the ceremony for the Coalition of Planets , T ' Pol chided him for waiting until the last minute to finish writing it , so he would have had more time to memorize it . In telling him this , he told her she reminded him of his ninth grade teacher . ( ) Tenth . A Vulcan scientist named Mister Velik , who taught about life on other worlds to Trip Tucker ' s tenth grade biology class was known for saying " " Challenge you preconceptions or they ' ll challenge you . " " . In reciting this to T ' Pol , years later , she told him that " " perhaps it ' s not too late to follow his advice . " " ( )