Jean-Luc Picard

**Jean-Luc Picard** is a 24th century Human man, born in the year 2305. He served in Starfleet and was well known throughout the Federation and beyond for his skills, intellect, command ability and having averted innumerable disasters and crises affecting individuals, starships, planets, interstellar states and the very fate of the universe.

In 2333, Picard was serving as second officer on the Federation starship USS *Stargazer*. He took command of the starship following the death of his captain, and was subsequently promoted to Captain. He commanded the *Stargazer* for 22 years, until she was lost in an attack by unknown aliens, later learned to be Ferengi. Picard was assigned command of the USS *Enterprise*-D from the year 2364 until the vessel's destruction in 2371 and later assumed command of the USS *Enterprise*-E, from 2372 until 2380.

## Personal Info

### Other Relative(s):

Rene Picard (nephew), Marie Picard (sister-in-law), Amarante Lebel (niece)

## Biography

### Early life

Jean-Luc Picard, the second son of Maurice Picard and Yvette Gessard Picard, was born in La Barre, France, on Earth on July 13, 2305. His mother Yvette would steep tea to the robust flavor which he continued to savor as an adult. His aunt Adele also left an impression on his taste in the beverage. From an early age, Jean-Luc and his elder brother Robert Picard fought constantly, but shared friends such as Louis Blanchard and Claude.

Jean-Luc's interest in history and archeology began in 2313, when he was forced to escape to a small parish church to escape the bullying and torment of his brother. He was so captivated by the church that he wanted to know everything about the building.

When he was young, one of Jean-Luc's aunts gave him an astronomy text. Maurice said that it was too advanced for a boy of his age, but the section of color photographs captured his imagination, and Jean-Luc dreamed of being in space "amongst objects of such rare elegance."

As a youth, he auditioned for a school production of *Romeo and Juliet* in order to get closer to the girl playing Juliet. Though hoping to be cast as Romeo, Jean-Luc ended up playing the role of the nurse.

## Starfleet Academy(2323-2327)

Picard first applied for admittance into Starfleet Academy at the age of 17 in 2322. He failed the entrance exam, due in part to his problem with mathematics. Picard's friend Donald Varley convinced a crestfallen Jean-Luc that he belonged in Starfleet. The following year, Picard passed the exam, and was admitted into the Academy as a cadet.

In his first year, Jean-Luc was supervised by Cadet First Lieutenant Ivan Gruzinov, and began taking extra math tutoring at Cal Tech in Old Pasadena with Adrienne Tillstrom. Picard also made good friends with Cadets Marta Batanides and Corey Zweller, and some adversaries, including Cadet Morgan Korsmo. He was the top scorer in his marksmanship course.

At one point during his Academy career, Picard, along with Zweller, risked possible expulsion and imprisonment for bringing the comatose Batanides to the black-market genetics laboratory on the world Yrskatdon, after discovering that the only known cure for Batanides's Fetal Incompatibility Syndrome was a banned genetic resequencing procedure.

Picard was an excellent shuttle pilot at Starfleet Academy.

In 2324, Jean-Luc won the 41st Starfleet Academy Marathon against a number of competitors, and became the first freshmen to win the marathon, beating many favorites, including Fergus McLeod and David Gold.

Picard later credited Ivan Gruzinov as the man who ultimately "drummed *him* into shape."

After graduating from Starfleet Academy in 2327, Ensign Picard and his friends, Batanides and Zweller, awaited their first assignments at Starbase Earhart.

While on the base, Picard was stabbed through the heart and nearly killed after brawling with three Nausicaans after a game of dom-jot. Picard's friend Anson Peters was also there and was the person who did not panic, getting help and performing first aid. "**Jeannie**" - as his friends called him - received an artificial heart at the starbase's medical center.

Looking back at his personal Graduation Day photo, Picard thought of himself as a mischievous "damn fool", even though Beverly Crusher said otherwise and that his youth was what made them lifelong friends and not the man he is today.

On his first shakedown cruise, his department head was Phillip Boom.

### Early career

#### USS Antares(2328-2330)

After a few weeks of recovery, Ensign Picard was assigned to the USS *Antares* with his former supervisor, Ivan Gruzinov.

In 2328, Picard was granted a special shore leave to run an elite, long-distance race on a barren planet in the Elyrion system. Unfortunately, he did not finish in the top five. However, during his time on the planet, he befriended a young Zartani named Nuadra Demmix, and also gained experience with the Ubarrak.

Around this time, as lieutenants, Picard and Robert DeSoto served together and became friends.

In early 2329, Picard was assigned to a starship under the command of Captain Anton Manning, where he was assigned as flight controller. Later that year, Picard attended the wedding of Ambassador Spock and Commander Saavik, of the USS *Armstrong*.

### USS *Stargazer(2332-2333)*

In 2333, Picard was a commander, and First officer of the USS *Stargazer* under the command of Captain Daithan Ruhalter. The *Stargazer*  was monitoring a fight between the Romulans and the Vulcan T'Uerell's ship. As she was vastly outgunned and outnumbered, T'Uerell activated a Borg device, which destroyed an unpopulated planet and caused large pieces of debris to break off from the planetoid and head for the Phidian system, which had a population of hundreds of millions of people. The resulting shockwave from the planetoid's core hit the *Stargazer*, killing Captain Ruhalter. Picard took command and headed to a starbase. After the ship was somewhat repaired, the *Stargazer* took a task force inside the system to destroy much of the debris. Later, the task force saved three heavily populated planets; Phidian I, II and III, with the help of modified sensor pods armed with phasers, which the task force dragged into orbit using tractor beams.

Later, a huge piece of debris broke off the planetoid and headed for Phidian III. Picard realized that he would not be able to break it up with his ship's phasers and photon torpedoes, but could destroy it by using the ship's tractor beam to drag other debris into the larger piece’s path. After obliterating the immense piece of debris, the system was saved from annihilation. Picard was then promoted to Captain and command of the *Stargazer*.

### First tests of command(2333-2355)

*Stargazer* proceeded to Starbase 32, where Picard and Ben Zoma attended a meeting of Starfleet captains and admirals. Admiral Arlen McAteer ordered Picard to find and apprehend the pirate known as the White Wolf, who had been haunting the Beta Barritus system.

The *Stargazer* succeeded in traversing the systems, magnetic vortex belt while tracking White Wolf, but instead encountered the *Constellation*-class USS *Cochise*. Captain Greenbriar of the *Cochise* informed Picard that White Wolf was actually the famed exobiologist Emil Carridine, who was protecting a Prime Directive world. Picard decided not to apprehend Carridine, but returned to Starbase 32 with White Wolf's cargo, which angered Admiral McAteer.

Over the next few months, tensions between Picard and McAteer continued to mount. Following his failure to apprehend White Wolf, McAteer ordered the *Stargazer* to survey the Egreggedor system. Defying orders, Picard diverted the ship to Gnala at the request of his chief engineer, Phigus Simenon. The reptilian Simenon needed to return home so that he could participate in the traditional competition amongst males of his people that allowed the winner to be the one who fertilized the next generation of his clan's eggs.

Picard first met the El-Aurian woman named Guinan while on an undercover assignment in the orbital city Oblivion. In the years that followed, Picard and Guinan would form a friendship that Guinan once described as, "Beyond friendship, beyond family".

McAteer eventually held a competency hearing for Picard a few months later, but he failed to strip Picard of command, and Picard remained in command of the *Stargazer*.

After the competency hearing, Admiral Mehndi assigned the *Stargazer* to a long-term mission of exploration in uncharted regions of space.

#### A seasoned captain

In the early 2340s the *Stargazer* returned to Earth for an extensive overhaul and refitting. While nominally still in command, Picard was given a temporary assignment in Paris, where he met and courted the future Jenice Manheim. On 9 April 2342, the day before the *Stargazer* was due to depart spacedock, he arranged to meet her at the Café des Artistes, but in the end he never showed up.

In 2343, Picard first met Lieutenant Elias Vaughn of Starfleet Intelligence. The two would meet several times over the coming years, including a coup on the planet Darnak VII.

In late 2343, Picard was forced to order the *Stargazer* to retreat after an intense battle with a vessel from the newly aggressive Cardassian Union.

In early 2344, the *Stargazer* underwent several weeks of repairs and upgrades following the Cardassian battle at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars. It was during this time that Picard first made the acquaintance of Beverly Howard, the fiancée of his good friend and shipmate, Jack Crusher.

Soon after, the *Stargazer* rescued Ambassador Spock, who was undergoing *pon farr* and had escaped from the Romulans with the help of a Romulan defector, Subcommander Ruanek.

In 2345, while en route to Alpha Pensura, the *Stargazer* received a priority message from a Gorn ship. The Gorn requested that the starship divert to Vontalimar IV. Arriving at the planet, Captain Picard met with the Gorn leader, Keeyah, who declared war on the Federation, because of their expansion in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

Not wanting to drag the Federation into a war with the Gorn, Picard challenged Keeyah to talk and negotiate through their differences instead. Picard's challenge was successful and war was averted, for the time being.

In 2345 or 2346, Picard became romantically involved with Miranda Vigo. It apparently was not an exclusive relationship (at least on her part), and after they parted ways she bore a son, Jason, for whom Picard was not the only possible father. However, Picard was completely unaware of this development until 2370.

In 2348, Picard attended the wedding of Jack and Beverly Crusher in San Francisco. It was here that a Romulan spy named Manathas gathered the genetic material from Picard that was eventually used to grow the Picard-clone, Shinzon.

In 2349, the *Stargazer* was ordered to the Debennius system after a series of terrorist attacks threatened to destabilize the region. The *Stargazer*s response to the attacks resulted in the death of Thallonian terrorist, Mendan Thul, son of General Gerrid Thul, who vowed revenge against Picard.

In 2353, the *Stargazer* was dispatched to the planet Xenex to talk with the Xenexians in an attempt to stop further bloodshed against the Danteri, who were seeking Federation membership. Picard and Jack Crusher met with a 19-year old warlord named M'k'n'zy of Calhoun. Picard was very impressed with M'k'n'zy, and he encouraged him to enter Starfleet Academy.

Shortly after the assignment to Xenex, the *Stargazer* was the first Federation starship to encounter the Nensi phenomenon, a ball of energy and matter thought to have its origin in a special category of supernova. The encounter caused multiple systems failures and began an overload in the ships starboard warp field generator.

In order to save the ship, Picard reluctantly ordered Jack Crusher and chief of security, Peter "Pug" Joseph to sever the starboard warp nacelle from the ship with laser rifles before it could explode.

When communications went dead, Picard went out to investigate. He found his two officers apparently rendered unconscious after successfully detaching the nacelle. Unfortunately, he only had time to bring one officer back to the ship before the nacelle exploded. He chose Joseph, who was closer.

Picard later traveled to Earth to personally deliver Jack Crusher's body to Jack's widow, Beverly, and their son, Wesley.

#### The Battle of Maxia

In 2355, while exploring the Maxia Zeta system, the *Stargazer* was approached by an unidentified vessel (later revealed to be Ferengi). The vessel attacked the *Stargazer* causing severe damage, and the *Stargazer* crew was only saved when Picard performed what became known as the Picard Maneuver, which destroyed the Ferengi vessel. The *Stargazer* was so badly damaged that the crew was forced to abandon the ship and leave it for dead.

This became known as "The Stargazer Incident."

Following the loss of the *Stargazer*, Picard faced a brutal court-martial hearing by JAG officer Phillipa Louvois. Picard and Louvois were romantically linked at the time and Picard in fact, asked for Phillipa to be his defense attorney but he found that she was already assigned as assistant trial counsel for the prosecution and as such, she was ruthless in her prosecution of Picard. In fact, she was so relentless that after using a bedroom confession against Picard in court, *(which left Picard absolutely stunned as to her betrayal)*, Louvois was removed from the case and she promptly resigned from Starfleet before she could be formally censured. Nonetheless, the grueling hearing found Picard innocent of any negligence, however his relationship with Louvois was ended. As a result of his actions at the Battle of Maxia, Picard was awarded the Grankite Order of Tactics on Stardate 38946.2

### Interim years(2355-2364)

Following the court-martial hearings, Picard, who was feeling at ends following the destruction of the *Stargazer*, began to wonder if starship command was really for him. He decided to visit his former second officer Elizabeth Wu on the Hydra IV colony. Wu had left the *Stargazer* in 2336, but Picard had kept in touch with her over the years, and desired the perspective of someone who had been in Starfleet, but left it behind.

Picard's craft crash-landed on an uncharted and unexplored planet. There, he encountered a group of Rhitori, whose ancestors owed their freedom to the *Stargazer* responding to their distress call over 20 years prior. The incident made Picard realize all the good that he had done, and could continue to do, as a starship captain. Picard decided to remain in Starfleet.

Soon after, Picard began guest lecturing at Starfleet Academy, as well as transferring between numerous assignments.

Picard also enrolled as a Ph.D. student in archaeology at the University of Alpha Centauri in 2355. Three years into this program, he was teaching an introductory class in archaeology when Guinan paid him a visit, and questioned whether he really wanted to avoid going back to commanding a starship.

During his time at the University of Alpha Centauri Picard assembled a group of archeologists who wanted discovered some survivors of the ancient race of Manraloth. Picard fell in love with the first survivor they were able to rescue from a time stasis field. Not remembering her past, she accepted the name "Ariel". Picard and Ariel spent many months together putting together a team of Starfleet specialists who would eventually search for other Manraloth. Knowing that he could achieve their goal only with the help of Starfleet, Picard rejoined the fleet and was given command of the *Miranda*-class USS *Portia*. For this mission he recruited Lieutenant Data as his science officer.

After they found other survivors, Picard realized that Ariel (who in the meanwhile regained her memory, and remembered her true name: Giriaenn) had tricked him by using his feelings for her.

Before moving back into a starship command role in 2364, Picard served as the special liaison officer to the Federation President.

### The USS *Enterprise*-D

#### 2364

Picard was ferried from Starbase 52 and assumed command of the *Enterprise*-D on stardate 41124.0 in 2364, on the order of Rear Admiral Norah Satie. Also assigned to the *Enterprise* as chief medical officer was Jack Crusher's widow, Beverly Crusher.

Upon arriving on the *Enterprise*, he was greeted by his second officer Lieutenant Commander Data, who escorted him to the bridge. Upon arriving on the bridge, he informed the ship's computer that he was taking command of the ship, and began the Captain's log of the *Enterprise*.

During his first day as Captain of the *Enterprise*, Data interrupted Picard 12 times with questions or requests regarding starship operations. Picard eventually asked Data if he intended to check with him before breathing, and told Data that he was not a Captain that needed to be made aware of or approve every little detail involved with running the ship.

Soon after taking command of the *Enterprise-D*, Picard and crew had their first encounter with omnipotent being known as Q. Q accused Picard and the humanity he represented as being unworthy of further access to the stars and put Picard and members of his crew on trial. Picard challenged Q to allow his crew to be tested as a barometer of humanity's progress. After Picard solved the mystery of Farpoint Station, Q agreed to let the *Enterprise*, and by extension, humanity itself continue its explorations. Q warned them, however, that the trial wasn't over.

In mid 2364, the *Enterprise* met with a Ferengi vessel in the Xendi Sabu system commanded by DaiMon Bok, who presented the long-lost *Stargazer* as a gift to Picard. Bok claimed to have found the starship adrift. He was actually the father of the Ferengi DaiMon defeated by Picard at Maxia-Zeta nine years earlier, and his 'gift' was actually part of an elaborate plan of revenge. Bok was arrested by his own crew for engaging in such an unprofitable venture as revenge.

The *Enterprise* was present when the Romulans returned to the galactic stage in late 2364, after a fifty-three year absence, since the Tomed Incident of 2311.

#### 2365

In early 2365, the *Enterprise* was ordered to chair negotiations between the Klingons and the Kreel, after the Kreel had taken over an uninhabited planet designated DQN 1196 that contained a stash of advanced weaponry, and had begun attacking Klingon ships. The situation was very intense, as relations between the two adversaries were never good, but Picard and the Klingon Ambassador, The Honorable Kobry, managed to keep the situation on an even keel for the most part.

In the end, the weapons, and thus the point of contention, vanished when the weapons creators, the advanced race known as the Cognocenti, finished their tests on the species involved in the affair and moved on.

Soon after, the *Enterprise* was summoned to the planet Raimon to attend the death ceremony of the planet's Primarch, Sarlis Gaspadral, an old friend of Picard's. When the Primarch was murdered, Picard was accused of the crime. Commander William T. Riker fought in Picard's place in the societies traditional trial by combat, and was nearly killed himself before the identity of the true killer, Lutina, the Primarch's daughter, was revealed.

When the USS *Yamato*, under the command of Captain Donald Varley was destroyed by an Iconian computer virus in 2365, Picard and the *Enterprise* raced to find Iconia and stop the virus from destroying his own ship, and as it turned out, a cloaked Romulan warbird that had been stalking them.

Picard and the *Enterprise* first encountered the Borg in System J-25 of the Delta Quadrant after a tense argument with Q. The *Enterprise* barely survived the encounter, and it was only with Q's help that the starship returned to the Alpha Quadrant.

#### 2366

The *Enterprise* was assigned to transport Ambassador Sarek to Legara IV, in order to conclude his negotiations with the Legarans, which took nearly 100 years to complete. During the voyage it was discovered that Sarek had contracted Bendii Syndrome, and that his emotions were starting to control him. Picard volunteered to mind meld with Sarek, so that he could act as an emotional anchor for the Vulcan as he concluded the talks, which were successful.

The Borg kidnapped and assimilated Picard in late 2366. The Borg intended the Picard-drone, designated as Locutus, to act as a liaison between the Borg and humanity. Using Picard's knowledge of Starfleet procedures, Locutus led the Borg at the Battle of Wolf 359 which resulted in the loss of 11,000 lives and 39 starships.

The Borg were stopped when Picard's first officer, William T. Riker, captured Locutus and managed to use Locutus' link to the collective against the Borg.

#### 2367

In early 2367, the former surviving crew of the *Stargazer* gathered aboard the *Enterprise* to travel with Captain Morgen, the hereditary leader of the planet Daa'V, to his coronation ceremony. During the voyage, attempts were made on the lives of both Morgen and Captain Ben Zoma. Evidence was planted implicating Idun Asmund as the killer, and she was confined. Enterprise Chief of security Worf investigated further, and discovered that the would-be killer was actually Dr. Carter Greyhorse. Greyhorse had grown despondent since the death of his lover, Idun's twin sister Gerda Asmund. Greyhorse was seeking revenge on those he believed to be responsible for Gerda's death.

Later that year, the Borg launched a renewed assault on the Federation, sending several ships into the Alpha Quadrant. The Borg were defeated by the woman known as Delcara, who had commandeered an ancient Doomsday machine built by a long-forgotten race. Delcara used the weapon viscously in her personal vendetta against the Borg. In the end, Delcara proved to be as big of a threat as the Borg. Delcara vanished, never to return, after attempting to use her vessel to break the Warp 10 barrier.

#### 2368

In 2368, Picard was disabled by an alien probe while onboard the *Enterprise*. He woke up as a resident of the planet Kataan, being called by his wife as "Kamin". During a time period of approximately 20 minutes, Picard lived as Kamin during the planet's final decades. After five years since his first experience on Kataan, he accepted his life as a Starfleet officer had actually been some kind of illusion created by his own mind. During his life as Kamin, Picard devoted most of his time on playing flute. He was married to Eline and later had two children, daughter Meribor and son Batai, and one grandson, Kamie.

One day, Kamin was called by his family to witness "the launching", which only he seemed not to know about. As he witnessed the event, he recognized that the probe being launched from the planet's surface was actually the same probe that disabled him during his time on the *Enterprise*decades ago. Kamin's family then explained to him that that probe was launched so the Kataanian people would not be forgotten after their planet was destroyed. Picard then regained consciousness on the bridge of the *Enterprise.*Shocked and disoriented, Picard realized he had lived an entire lifetime in only a few real-time minutes. After the *Enterprise* is able to examine the probe's interior, they find a flute inside, the same one which Picard played while living as Kamin. He kept the flute for himself so he would always have a memory from his experience as Kamin.

In this same year, Picard went undercover on Romulus to investigate the activity of ambassador Spock on the planet. Following this mission he returned to the Enterprise to find correspondence from an old friend, Dr Marjorie Devarona, inviting him to join an expedition to recently discovered ruins on the planet Rajatha Prime. Picard gladly accepted and left Commander Riker in charge of the Enterprise for a week whilst he joined the expedition.

Shortly into his visit the team discovered a collection of harmonic diamonds, unknown to them at the time the gems stimulating areas of the brain associated with primitive emotions, including anger, envy, and greed, they soon began to affect the team. By the next morning the expedition’s comm. had been sabotaged and Dr Devarona had been killed. Picard had not touched the diamonds himself so remained unaffected but the rest of the group consumed by greed and suspicion gradually killed each other through the day. In short time only Picard and the first person to touch the gems, Gest, survived. As Gest made her move to attack Picard an away team from the Enterprise arrived, alerted by the lack in communications from the expedition. Per Dr. Devarona's last wishes Picard had the valuable diamonds invested in funding archaeological digs across the quadrant.

#### 2369

In 2369, Captain Picard met with Benjamin Sisko, who had been assigned to Deep Space 9 to assist the Bajorans in joining the Federation. Sisko was initially wary of Picard due to Jennifer Sisko having been killed aboard the USS *Saratoga* when Picard led the Borg at the Battle of Wolf 359 as Locutus. Following Sisko's encounter with the Prophets in the Bajoran wormhole, Sisko seemed to forgive Picard.

Picard decided to act as a secret benefactor for Jake Sisko after reading that Jennifer Sisko had died at Wolf 359.

#### 2370

At some point, Picard and the *Enterprise* received a report from Captain Buck Stratton of the USS *Yandro*, indicating that retired Captain Scotty had responded to a distress call; Scott and the *Goddard* contacted the *Enterprise* directly, asking if Picard's offer to share their library computer was still available. While Scott was aboard, Guinan met with him and found herself uneasy about his presence and told her suspicions to the Captain, who agreed to speak with him only to discover the *Goddard* had departed. The shuttlecraft boarded a Klingon bird-of-prey and headed for the Arhennius star and appeared to be preparing for a gravity slingshot back through time. Guinan insisted they must follow, and when they emerged, they found themselves in 2293, and realized Scott intended to save his former commanding officer, James T. Kirk.

Guinan offered no further assistance, and Picard became cross with her; without her guidance, they decided to head towards Earth. En route, they came to Andor and found it surrounded by a Borg fleet, slowly assimilating the planet; Guinan revealed that they would find Earth similarly assimilated and the Collective entrenched in the Alpha Quadrant. A vessel, the *D'Zidran* hailed them, revealing the alternate versions of Tal and Guinan. When asked to explain their presence, Picard explained they were from an alternate reality, but lied that they were searching for alternate universes where the Borg had been destroyed.

Picard met with the alternate Guinan, who then convinced Tal to issue a fleet-wide alert for Scott. A vessel, the *Wisdom* had located the time traveling engineer and contacted the *Enterprise*, revealing the Sarek of this universe, now leader of the interstellar Alliance, who agreed to rendezvous with the *Enterprise*. While waiting for the *Wisdom*, while trying to sleep, Picard experienced the whispers of the Borg Collective, and he discovered a Borg spy amongst Sarek's crew, but could not determine their exact identity. Picard convinced Sarek to allow them to beam over and scan the *Wisdom*'s crew, and the spy - a Narisian named Baltior now possessed by the Borg Queen - attacked when she realized she was revealed.

With the Borg aware of their presence, and the Queen remembering false visions of seeing her own death at his hands, the Borg moved to destroy Picard and the *Enterprise*. Sarek logically but incorrectly assumed that the Borg would not deviate from their typical behavior of ignoring all starships that did not engage the Borg directly, but Kirk convinced Picard to act rather than delay when a Borg cube came for them. After this cube was destroyed via a secret weapon of the Alliance, the sensor shield around the Sol system lowered and they could see Earth assimilated, the cradle of the Borg in the Alpha Quadrant, as thousands of cubes emerged. Picard set a course for the Nexus, but Kirk instead convinced them to head for Gateway to utilize the Guardian of Forever. Suspecting that Kirk himself was the key to the altered timeline, he offered to kill himself, but Guinan insisted he could not, but must be returned to the Nexus, and the *Enterprise* doubled back for the energy ribbon. The *Enterprise* was successful in returning Kirk to the anomaly and the timeline returned to normal.

At stardate 47111.1 the *Enterprise* was involved in the discovery of the Unity Device. Captain Picard worked together with the Garidian Captain Pentara and the Chodak Admiral Brodnack to send the Device into the future, feeling that the galaxy was not ready for such advanced technology.

In late 2370, the *Enterprise* was sent to the Gorn homeworld to attend a peace summit with the Gorn. Enroute, the *Enterprise* encountered a long-abandoned alien station. When the starship approached, the station's systems became active and transported Captain Picard back in time to Cestus III in 2267, four days before it was attacked by the Gorn.

On arrival at the outpost, Picard gave the false name of Dixon Hill to the commander of the outpost, Commodore Travers. In his time on the base, Picard was successful in preventing the base's reactor from exploding and witnessed first hand the brutal attack made on the outpost by the Gorn. Picard was eventually recovered from the past by the same transporter technology that sent him there. Following Picard's return to the 24th century, the *Enterprise* continued on to the Gorn homeworld.

At stardate 47993.3 Picard, with the research assistance of Data discovered a conspiracy within Starfleet that was using findings reported in the *Enterprise*'s logs to create offensive weapons and tip the political scales in the Federation's favour. Picard somehow tracked this conspiracy to a secret complex on Earth and sent an away team of his senior staff to infiltrate it and reveal the conspiracy to the rest of Starfleet, with orders to destroy it as a last resort if necessary.

Meanwhile Picard contacted Admiral Nechayev to inform her of his findings but received a cold reply warning him off taking the matter further. Picard (correctly) suspected the admiral might be involved in the conspiracy and went to talk to Mr. Boothby to ask his opinion on her and the conspiracy. Boothby confirmed rumours of a shady group within Starfleet, but was not sure whether or not Nechayev could be trusted.

Just as Boothby departed to go back to bed Picard found himself under attack, from a Tellarite lurking in the shadows. He made a dash through the flower beds but was unable to avoid the assassin’s phaser beams. Fortunately just as a beam pierced his torso he was beamed away.

He materialised within the conspirator's complex, and was greeted by one of the conspirators. After a brief debate on both mens' ethics Picard’s away team arrived to rescue him, but in response more of the conspirators beamed in to even the numbers. At an apparent stalemate Picard ordered Geordie to activate the explosive charges the team had set, but they failed to detonate - the conspirators had deactivated them moments after the away team set them. The conspirators then beamed away leaving Picard empty-handed.

#### 2371

After the destruction of the *Enterprise-D* at the world of Veridian III, there was a brief hearing at Starfleet Command, in which Picard was cleared of any negligence or wrongdoing. It was announced that there would be another starship *Enterprise* built, the USS *Enterprise*-E, and it was assumed that command of the ship would be given to Picard. Picard also sent word to Ambassador Spock on Romulus about Kirk's body. After the Ambassador removed Kirk's body from the Veridian gravesite, Picard met him at a place of burial in Iowa, and both men interred Kirk there.

### The USS *Enterprise*-E

The USS *Enterprise*-E, was launched in early 2372, but Picard wasn't offered the command as expected. Instead, command of the *Enterprise* went to Captain Morgan Bateson. Picard was ordered to go into Cardassian space and confront Gul Madred and negotiate for the release of Federation prisoners.

En route to Cardassia Prime, Picard relived some adventures of the USS *Enterprise*, under the command of James T. Kirk, on the vessel's holodeck. Kirk's adventures persuaded Picard that negotiation would be useless. Picard began planning to kidnap Madred and demand the prisoners' release. His move was successful and all Federation prisoners were released into Picard's custody.

Picard and the prisoners were later successful in regaining control of the *Enterprise*-E after the ship had been captured by the Klingon renegade Kozara, who attempted to use the ship to invade Cardassia. Following the *Enterprise*-E's recapture, Morgan Bateson turned the ship over to Picard's command.

#### Old loyalties

In early 2373, Picard was reunited with Marta Batanides and Cortin Zweller, when the *Enterprise*-E was ordered to Chiaros IV to find the missing USS *Slayton*. The *Enterprise*-E was tasked to complete the *Slayton*s mission to convince the Chiarosians to join the Federation instead of the Romulan Star Empire.

Enroute to Chiaros, the *Enterprise*-E rendezvoused with the USS *Thunderchild* and took aboard Admiral Batanides and Ambassador Aubin Tabor. Upon reaching Chiaros, Ambassador Tabor was killed in the first diplomatic meeting. Afterward, Captain Picard learned that the first diplomatic team from the *Slayton*, led by Commander Zweller, had been taken prisoner by Chiarosian rebels.

The *Enterprise*-E crew managed to rescue the prisoners and learned that the *Slayton* had been destroyed after discovering a cloaked Romulan experimental facility that was studying a subspace singularity near Chiaros IV. The singularity was a huge potential supply of energy to whoever controlled it.

Picard soon discovered that Zweller was an agent of rogue intelligence agency Section 31, and that Zweller's true mission on Chiaros was to make sure that the planet joined the Romulan Star Empire. In return from the Romulans, Zweller was to receive a list of all Tal Shiar agents currently operating in the Federation.

Picard allowed Zweller to complete his mission and Chiaros joined the Romulans. However, Picard, Data, and Lt. Sean Hawk managed to sneak aboard the secret Romulan facility in a stolen scout ship and destroy the base and the singularity it was studying, depriving the Romulans of their prize.

Picard felt betrayed by Zweller and handed him over to the USS *Tian An Men* to face charges, but those charges were cleared by Admiral Connaught Rossa. Picard strongly protested, but he was powerless to do anything. Afterward, Batanides swore that she would do everything in her power to bring down Section 31

#### Making first contact

In early 2373, the Borg returned to the Alpha Quadrant and attacked Earth with a single cube. Picard, taking command of the Federation's fleet, destroyed the Borg cube, but not before it sent a small vessel into the past to change Earth's history by preventing Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight in 2063.

Picard and the *Enterprise* followed the Borg to 2063 where Commanders Riker and Geordi La Forge assisted Cochrane with his historic flight.

On the *Enterprise*-E, Picard confronted the Borg Queen, and fought off a Borg attempt to assimilate the ship and crew. After being assured that the timeline had been saved, The *Enterprise*-E returned to the 24th Century.

After the *Enterprise*-E's return to 2373, she was docked at McKinley Station, and the crew was quarantined, scanned, and decontaminated for any possible Borg infections. While the *Enterprise*-E orbited Earth, Captain Picard and Lt. Commander Ranul Keru took a shuttlecraft to Bradbury City on Mars to return to personal effects of Lt. Sean Hawk, who was killed in the battle with the Borg, to his parents.

#### Collapse of the Thallonian Empire

In late 2373, the Thallonian Empire in Sector 221-G collapsed and thousands of refugees were yearning to escape. The *Enterprise* was one of the first ships on the scene and was responsible for transporting refugees to Deep Space 5.

On arrival at DS5, a meeting was held aboard the *Enterprise*, between Admirals Alynna Nechayev and Edward Jellico, Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Thallonian prince Si Cwan, and Danteri Ambassador Ryjaan. The meeting was to discuss the future of Thallonian space, to which all parties had different ideas. Captain Picard and Admiral Nechayev's suggestion was that a single Federation starship be assigned to the region, and with some negotiation, the plan was implemented.

At Picard's suggestion, command of the ship in question, the USS *Excalibur*, was given to former Starfleet officer, Mackenzie Calhoun, whose commission was reinstated with the rank of captain. (

#### The Dominion War

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In early 2374, the *Enterprise* saw extensive action along the front-line in the Dominion War. After extensive battles with Jem'Hadar forces, the *Enterprise* received a distress call from the *Ambassador*-class, USS *Aurora*. They proceed to the scene and engaged several Cardassian vessels, which they dispatched, but not in time to save the *Aurora*. During the battle, the Bajoran vessel *Orb of Peace*, containing Maquis refugees, including Ro Laren\*, arrived and aided in the battle.

Picard had the Maquis beamed aboard and Ro informed him that the Dominion was using slave labor in Sector 283 to construct an artificial wormhole. Completion of the project would allow the Dominion access to the Alpha Quadrant without needing to use the Bajoran wormhole. Picard agreed that they should investigate, and they left in the *Orb of Peace* donning Bajoran disguises. Meanwhile, Commander Riker took the *Enterprise* to be repaired at Starbase 209, and left Lt. Commander Data behind in the shuttlecraft *Cook* to monitor the captain's process.

After dodging several patrols, the *Orb of Peace* made it to the OK Corral station in the Badlands. In the Badlands, the crew liberated slaves from the Cardassian tanker *Tag Garwal*. The slaves were mining corzanium from a black hole for the Dominion, for the construction of the wormhole. Among the survivors are former *Enterprise*-D personnel, Sam Lavelle and Taurik.

As they proceed to Sector 283, the progress of the *Orb of Peace* was impeded by a Changeling who had taken the form of Taurik. Data managed to rescue the *Orb of Peace* and destroy the artificial wormhole by using the shuttle's escape pod as a meteoroid. The crew was later rescued by the *Enterprise* and proceeded to Deep Space 9, which has recently been liberated by Captain Benjamin Sisko and a large task force.

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In mid-2374, the *Enterprise* arrived at Betazed and took aboard Professor Lem Faal and his family. The *Enterprise* was assigned to transport Faal to the edge of the galaxy, so that Faal could conduct experiments based on his life-long research to break through the galactic barrier using a specially designed wormhole probe.

Just before the test was about to be implemented, Q arrived on the *Enterprise*, along with his mate and child, q. He immediately vanished with Picard and took him through time to view his own personal history, and view its relevance to the current situation. Meanwhile, the *Enterprise* came under attack by the Calamarain, a species that had a grudge against Q.

When Picard and Q return to the *Enterprise*, Professor Faal (under the control of 0, another omnipotent being), launched the wormhole torpedo into the barrier and allowed 0 to return to the galaxy. 0 immediately hunted down Q, but Q was able to unite with the Calamarain and defeat 0.

In late 2374, Starfleet Command dispatched Captain Picard and the *Enterprise* to the Gorn Hegemony, to gain their support in the Dominion War. On arrival at the Gorn homeworld, the *Enterprise* crew discovered that the Black Crest faction had staged a coup and overthrew the government.

The Black Crest aimed to expand Gorn territory and launched several attacks on Federation outposts. Thankfully, Commander Riker and a Klingon task force were defending the outposts, and the attack was repelled. Meanwhile, Picard remained behind on the Gorn homeworld to try and solve the situation.

##### The Battle of Betazed

In early 2375, the *Enterprise* was fighting Dominion forces deep inside Federation territory following the invasion of Betazed in late 2374. The *Enterprise* had suffered damage following the Battle of Rigel, but managed to dock at Starbase 133 for repairs.

A few weeks later, while docked at the starbase, Commander Elias Vaughn boarded the *Enterprise* on a top-priority assignment. Vaughn told Picard that the *Enterprise* was to lead a small Starfleet task force, comprising the USS *Defiant* and three *Saber*-class vessels, the USS *Tulwar*, USS *Katana*, and USS *Scimitar*, to attack the Dominion station, Sentok Nor in orbit of Betazed. While Vaughn was to lead a small team to the prison facility on Darona to free the murderer, Hunt Tevren, whose skills were needed by the Betazed resistance.

The attack on the station proved a success, and the *Enterprise* managed to rescue a large number of Betazoid slaves before the station self-destructed. However, the *Katana* was lost in the battle.

Vaughn's team was also partially successful, they managed to find Tevren, but he later died in battle with Jem'Hadar soldiers. Fortunately, before he died he taught some of his telepathic secrets to Commander Troi. Using the information gleaned from Troi, the most powerful members of the Betazed Resistance used their telepathic powers to empathically overload the minds of the Jem'Hadar occupation forces. Betazed was liberated; however, 1,200 Betazoid telepaths died from the strain of the attack.

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In mid 2375, the *Enterprise* proceeded into the Briar Patch to the planet Ba'ku, after Commander Data had appeared to have malfunctioned and sabotaged a joint Starfleet-Son'a duckblind mission on the surface. Eventually Picard and the *Enterprise* crew learned that Ba'ku's metaphasic rings were like a fountain of youth, and Admiral Matthew Dougherty and the Son'a leader, Ru'afo were determined to have the planet. Picard and the crew staged an insurrection and stopped the 600 Ba'ku from being transplanted from the planet, and discovered that the Son'a are actually Ba'ku.

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The *Enterprise* was at the forefront of the allied forces at the Battle of Ricktor Prime in 2375. It was one of only four of the six allied ships at that battle to survive, though the day was won. After the battle, while en route to meet with a Klingon civilian, the *Enterprise* received a distress call from a Cardassian *Akril*-class vessel, the *Pakliros*.

The ship had suffered catastrophic engine damage, and there were only two survivors: Glinn Driana and Gul Madred. Driana died of radiation poisoning; Picard had Madred placed in the brig, and insisted on conducting the interrogation himself, over the objections of Troi and security chief Lieutenant Padraig Daniels.

Despite their positions being reversed from what they had been on Cardassia six years prior, Madred continued to manipulate Picard, including trying to get him to use his desire to see Driana against him. Eventually, with Troi's help, Picard ceased speaking to Madred, and stopped allowing the gul to continue to victimize him.

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In 2375, Picard was on Earth visiting his niece, Amarante Lebel, when she graduated from the Academy and the *Enterprise* was on a short-range mission. At the same time the Breen Confederacy launched an attack on Starfleet in San Francisco, destroying Starfleet Headquarters. Then, Picard led a group of newly graduated officers into Bunker SF-Zero-One, which housed backup controls for headquarters, then coordinated between the *Enterprise* and *Columbia* in an effort to stop the ships still pounding San Francisco, but they were engaged by DP-7, a weapons platform responsible for the defense of North America. Picard determined that there was someone aboard the platform, so he beamed aboard, stunned the Breen agent, and disabled the platform; allowing *Enterprise* and *Columbia* to destroy the Breen ships.

#### Post-war crises

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In late 2375, the *Enterprise* was due to conduct a low-gravity survey of planet Primus IV, when they were summoned to Gemworld, home planet of Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, who was temporarily assigned to the *Enterprise*. Upon arriving on Gemworld, Captain Picard and the crew discovered that a dimensional rift was streaming dark matter onto the planet and destabilizing the artificial planet's support program.

Picard and the crew needed to obtain the crystal key shards from all of the races on Gemworld that were required to power down the planet's protective shell, and allow the *Enterprise* to power the force fields. The Alpusta seized control of the *Enterprise* and attempted to use its phaser banks to destroy the rift. The plan is thwarted, and the situation is resolved when Counselor Troi managed to contact an entity in the rift and convinced it to close the rift.

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In early 2376, while attempting to rescue a Federation cargo hauler that had become stranded in the Romulan Neutral Zone, the *Enterprise* was the first of many ships across the galaxy to encounter a warp dead zone. Captain Picard soon learned that the dead zones were affecting the entire galaxy, and took aboard Ambassador Spock and the infamous Romulan mass-murderer, T'sart.

Spock believed that T'sart held vital information about the phenomena. However, T'sart was poisoned by a Klingon governor named Kalor before he could talk. Picard suspected that they needed to travel into Romulan space, so he sent Commander Riker, Counselor Troi, and Data in the runabout USS *Kaku* into Romulan territory to obtain a sample of barantium from a Romulan station to mask the *Enterprise*'s warp trail. However, Commander Folan of the IRW *Makluan* anticipated the action and rigged the station to explode.

Ambassador Spock managed to convince Commander Folan of the threat of the dead zones and he allowed the *Enterprise* to travel to the Caltiskan system. Upon reaching Caltiskan, the *Enterprise* (along with several other *Enterprise*s from around the multi-verse) penetrated the alien sphere that was responsible for the dead zones and shut the sphere down.

#### Confrontation with T'Uerell

In 2380, Picard and the *Enterprise* headed into a final confrontation with the Vulcan T'Uerell, a Vulcan who had been working with the Borg, inciting conflicts throughout local space, for two hundred years. Picard, with the assistance of Admiral Kathryn Janeway and her old starship, the USS *Voyager*. met with T'Uerell and learned of her true intentions; She planned to conquer the Alpha Quadrant with the Borg. She believed that everything she had done, including the deaths of many Starfleet personnel, have been for the greater good. Picard and Janeway attempted to convince her otherwise, but she refused. Janeway left the system and told Picard that "[she'd] be back with some friends" and ordered Picard to defend Federation colonies from assimilation. Picard succeeded, and then ordered that the ship be taken to Deep Space 9.

T'Uerell and the Borg cubes made their way to Bajor and Deep Space 9 where Picard and his task force helped defend the Klingon and Romulan forces under threat of attack. With the loyalty Picard garnered, the Romulan and Klingon starships placed themselves under his flag. The forces engaged T'Uerell and her Borg allies and were victorious. With that, T'Uerell escaped with the *Enterprise* in hot pursuit.

T'Uerell fled to a star system with many Borg vessels, with Janeway noting that she would not be able to leave, because of all the ships surrounding her. After destroying a Borg tactical cube, the Federation/Klingon/Romulan forces, along with the *Enterprise* and its task force, engaged T'Uerell. After destroying the strain that protected her, all ships opened fire. T'Uerell's ship could not stand the intense weapons fire and was finally destroyed, thus bringing to an end 221 years of unending conflict. Picard heard T'Uerell calling out to him in her final minutes, though could not tell whether it was the Vulcan or the Borg in her who was calling.

### Admiralty

2380, Picard left the *Enterprise*-E and was promoted to Admiral

## Personal life

Picard was an amateur archaeologist from an early age, and the interest would last all his life. Even as a Starfleet Captain, he often pondered what his life as an archaeologist would have been like; his knowledge of ancient artifacts and cultures often proved valuable during his command of the *Stargazer* and *Enterprise*.

During his younger days, Picard enjoyed flying solar sail spacecraft. He sailed the near-Earth courses at Lambda Scorpii and L2 Puppis, among others, and almost qualified with a crew for the three-kilometer cup.

In his youth Picard was dissatisfied with life as a farmer and never wanted to help around the vineyard. Later in life he expressed disappointment that he never got involved, and he relished the opportunity to help work the land when he visited The Armada, an agricultural colony, in 2365.

## Personal Timeline

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