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Jean-Luc Picard

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Universe : Prime Timeline
Name : Jean-Luc Picard [1]
Species : Humans

Early Life

Jean-Luc Picard was born in Labarre, France [2] in 2305. [3] As a child he was an excellent student who frequently won academic prizes. He was not greatly interested in the family business of wine making, instead dreamed of adventures in faraway places. [4]At a young age he suffered from Shalaft's Syndrome, a rare condition which left him highly sensitive to any sound. Although the condition was treated [5], he retained acute hearing and could for instance detect a Starship's torque sensors being misaligned by as much as three microns just by standing on the bridge and listening. [6]

Picard failed at his first attempt to enter the academy, but reapplied the following year and gained admittance. [7]

Career

Picard's time at the academy was somewhat difficult. He would later think of himself as being undisciplined and not fully committed to his studies. [8] He failed a semester of Organic Chemistry because of the distractions provided by "A.F.", a friend of his. [9] His friendship with Boothby helped him to focus his efforts. [10]

Graduating in 2327, Picard was on Starbase Earhart awaiting his first posting when he became involved in a fight with some Nausicaans. He was stabbed through the heart and had to undergo emergency surgery to have an artificial unit installed. [8]

In 2333 Picard was serving aboard the USS Stargazer when the Captain was killed, prompting Picard to take control of the ship. His actions led to a promotion to captain of the Stargazer. [8] Picard would later comment that although the Enterprise-D was far superior in every way, there were times when he would give anything to command the Stargazer again. [11]

Picard's time aboard the Stargazer included a stint on the Cardassian border during the war with the Federation. At one point he was sent to make peace overtures to a Cardassian vessel. Picard lowered his shields as a sign of good faith, prompting the Cardassian ship to attack. Although damaged, the Stargazer managed to escape. [12]

In 2355 the Stargazer encountered an unknown vessel in the Maxia Zeta system. The vessel attacked, badly damaging the Stargazer. Picard invented the "Picard Manoeuvre" on the spot, using a burst at warp speed to confuse the enemy and then firing all weapons at point blank range. Although he was successful, the Stargazer was abandoned and believed destroyed. [13] Picard's actions were the subject of a court martial in which prosecutor Phillipa Louvois attempted to convict him of negligence. Picard always felt that Louvois had gone beyond simply seeking the truth about the incident and instead pushed for conviction at any cost, something she vehemently denied. He maintained a dislike for her for more than a decade afterwards as a result. [14]

In 2364 Picard was assigned to command the NCC-1701-D USS Enterprise, the new Galaxy class ship. His first mission was to investigate the mysterious Farpoint base which had been constructed on Deneb IV. En route the ship encountered the Q for the first time when a member of the continuum threatened to deny Humanity any further space travel. Fortunately Picard was able to resolve the matter. [1]

Only a few months after taking command of the Enterprise Picard was offered a promotion to Admiral and the post of commandant of Starfleet Academy. He declined the offer. [7]

In 2365 Picard made first contact with the Borg after Q flung the Enterprise into Borg space. Unable to escape, Picard begged Q to return the ship but worried that the Borg would eventually reach Federation space [15] This fear proved well founded and in the following year a Borg vessel did indeed launch the first major attack against the Federation. Picard was abducted and assimilated by the Borg, apparently intended as a sort of official spokesperson dubbed Locutus. [16] As Locutus Picard assisted the Borg in winning the Battle of Wolf 359, a disaster in which 39 Starfleet ships were lost. [17] Some brilliant improvisational tactics by Commander Riker enabled the Enterprise crew to recapture Picard and eventually to use him to infiltrate the Borg command systems and destroy the Cube. [18] Although apparently recovered, his experiences with the Borg would haunt him for months [4] and even years afterward. [19] At lest some of the officers who served at Wolf 359 blamed Picard for the defeat, in spite of his unwilling participation on the Borg side. For many years Ben Sisko, who served as first officer on board the USS Saratoga during the battle, blamed Picard for the loss of his wife. [20]

In 2371 the Enterprise-D responded to a Romulan attack on the Amargosa observatory. Picard uncovered a plot by Dr Tolian Soren to destroy two star systems as part of his efforts to reach the Nexus, a spatial anomaly which was a gateway to a trans-dimensional realm. Within the Nexus Picard discovered James Kirk, who had been absorbed into the anomaly when the Enterprise-B had attempted to rescue some El-Aurian ships trapped in it in 2293. Picard enlisted Kirk's help to defeat Soren, but Kirk was killed in the effort. Picard buried Starfleet's most famous officer in a simple stone cairn on a mountaintop on Veridian III. Unfortunately the Enterprise-D was also lost during this mission when a Klingon vessel commanded by renegades Lursa and B'Etor managed to find a way to penetrate the ship's shields. [21]

In 2372 Picard and his senior officers transferred to the Enterprise-E, a Sovereign class starship newly built. They conducted a year-long shakedown cruise of the ship, which was at the time the most advanced in Starfleet. When the Borg launched another invasion of the Federation in 2373, Starfleet felt that Picard's experiences as a victim of assimilation made him unsuitable to join the fight, but he disobeyed orders to intercept the Borg Cube at Earth and was instrumental in defeating it. He also managed to defeat an attempt to alter Earth's history by preventing first contact between Humanity and the Vulcans in 2063. [19]

Although Picard was a strong supporter of Starfleet, he was willing to violate Starfleet regulations when he felt it was appropriate. [22] He amassed no less than nine violations of the Prime Directive by 2367 [17], including rescuing Sarjenka's planet from destruction [23] and attempting to correct an accidental case of cultural contamination by bringing a Mintakan aboard the Enterprise and explaining the true nature of Starfleet. [24] In 2365 he refused to allow Commander Maddox to experiment on Lieutenant Commander Data's positronic brain, fighting a court case which established for the first time that androids have rights within the Federation. [14] In 2366 he disobeyed a direct order from Admiral Haftel to turn the android Lal over for experimentation on the same grounds. [25]

Picard's most notorious violation of orders came in 2375 when he actively fought against the joint Federation/Son's mission to remove the Ba'ku from their planet so that the healing properties of the planet's metaphasic radiation could be harnessed fully. Picard sent the Enterprise-E to reveal the conspiracy to the public whilst he battled the Son'a on the planet. [6]

In 2379 Picard took the Enterprise-E to Romulus on the orders of Admiral Janeway, seeking to establish relations with the new government after the coup which was staged by Shinzon. Shinzon proved to be a clone of Picard created by a former Romulan government; they intended to use the clone to replace Picard with a spy of their own. When the government changed the plan was abandoned, and Shinzon was sent to Remus to die. Instead he prospered, becoming a highly successful leader during the Dominion war. Shinzon used a Thalaron weapon to eradicate the Romulan senate and had planned to do the same to Earth; he needed Picard in order to repair faults in his own genetic makeup. In a pitched battle between the Enterprise-E, and Shinzon's flagship the Scimitar, Picard was eventually able to board the enemy ship and kill Shinzon. Picard's life was saved by Data, who transported him back to the Enterprise before firing on the Thalaron weapon, sacrificing himself to destroy the Scimitar. [5]

In 2380 the Borg began sending cubes into the Alpha Quadrant to attack the Federation and other powers. Picard, realising that the Borg intended to finally bring their full might to bear on the Quadrant with the intention of obliterating all of the major powers there, became increasingly withdrawn and depressed, coming to regard the situation as hopeless. [26]

Locating the Azure Nebula as the source of the Borg incursion, the Enterprise-E and the USS Aventine explored a series of subspace tunnels which the Borg were using to arrive in Federation space. Picard wanted to destroy the tunnels, though many of his officers and Captain Dax of the Aventine disagreed, and were subsequently proved right when aalysis of the tunnels showed that their collapse could cause catastrophic consequences. The major powers all sent large fleets to attempt to blockade the nebula instead. Whilst investigating the tunnels the Enterprise-E and Aventine missed the arrival of a massive Borg armada which destroyed the fleet and began the process of annihilating the Quadrant. [27]

The disaster sent Picard deeper into depression, and he began to believe that resistance to the Borg was indeed futile. He began to oppose the efforts of the USS Aventine and USS Titan to fight the Borg, considering their plans too dangerous. He was also dubious of the attempts to involve the Caeliar in the fight, instead ordering LaForge to start construction of Thalaron weaponry to fight the Borg - an order which LaForge flatly refused to obey under any circumstances. This action and conversation with Captain Riker convinced Picard that he needed to re-asses his approach, and together the three crews were able to convince the Caeliar to intervene and destroy the Borg for good. This finally freed Picard completely of the residual effects of his abduction, a very emotional moment for him. [28]

By 2385 Picard had been promoted to Admiral. He was heavily involved in the Federation mission to relocate the Romulans when their planet was threatened by a supernova. When Mars was attacked by synthetic lifeforms the Federation withdrew its support for the Romulan rescue mission. Picard tried a last ditch attempt to get Starfleet to continue by threatening to resign. Unfortunately, the plan backfired when Starfleet accepted his resignation. [29] At which point he retired to his vineyard in France where he ran the family wine business. [30]

In 2399 Picard was approached by a young woman, Dahj, who had seen him on a news broadcast and felt a deep connection to him. She had seen a vision of him after she was attacked by assassins in her flat. She had somehow managed to fight off and kill the assassins despite having no training in self defence. Picard discovered a painting of a young woman identical to Dahj, which was painted by Data before his death. Picard surmised that Dahj was an andoid with some connection to Data. Before he could prove this she was attacked and killed by more assassins. In order to make sense of the events Picard visited the Daystrom Institute in Okinowa, Japan, in search of Bruce Maddox. There he met Doctor Agnes Jurati a colleague of Maddox. He told her of his suspicions and asked if such a thing was possible. She told him that Bruce was working on that principal before his disappearance and that his work would have resulted in a pair of twinned androids. On discovering this Picard decided to mount a mission to find and save the second android. [30]

In order to mount his rescue mission Picard approached the Startfleet Commander in Chief to obtain a ship. He was, however, turned down. Picard decided to go anyway and contacted an old friend and colleague Raffaela Musiker in order to obtain a ship prepared to take on his mission. [31] Raffi was not pleased to see Picard at first but eventually agreed to help, putting him in touch with Cristobal Rios, an ex-Starfleet officer who now owned his own cargo vessel. [32] Raffi had tracked Maddox to a planet called Freecloud and Picard, Agnes and Raffi all set out to locate him. This marked the first time Picard had left Earth since his reitrement, almost 14 years previously. [32] Prior to visiting Freecloud Picard paid another visit to Vashti in order to enlist the help of a Qowat Milat to help on the mission. The sisters turned him down but Elnor, then a grown man, agreed to assist him. Whilst on Vashti Picard was attacked by former Senator Tenqem Adrev and a group of others from the Romulan Rebirth movement. It was only due to intervention from Elnor that Picard survived. With Elnor joining the group they proceeded to Freecloud where they rescued Maddox using a very contrived plan. Maddox, however, died soon after. Although it was not known at the time he was killed by Agnes, but not before he revealed that the second android, called Soji, was currently on The Artifact. [29]

Assisted by Raffi, Picard obtained permission to visit The Artifact. When he arrived he was quite disturbed to be back on board a Borg Cube once again. It brought back horrible memories and left him upset and confused, to the point at which he nearly fell from a high walkway and was only saved by ex-Borg who were in the area. He went on to meet with Hugh a former Borg that he met when the USS Enterprise discovered a crashed Borg vessel. Hugh gave him a tour of the Borg reclamation facilities that he was in charge off. These helped free former Borg, removing many of their implants and providing them with as normal a life as possible. Picard was very impressed with the breadth and scale of the work. He told Hugh of the real reason for his visit and Hugh assisted him in finding Soji. When the Romulans attempted to kill Soji, Hugh assisted Picard in rescuing her and transported them both to the distant planet, Nepenthe, using assimilated Trajector technology located on the Cube. [33]

Picard had chosen the planet Nepenthe because it was home to his old friends and colleagues Will Riker and Deanna Troi together with their daughter Kestra. There he explained to Soji what had happened to her sister and what he believed her history to be. Deanna attempted to help her to come to terms with the revelations, but it was Kestra that provided a novel teenage perspective that made her realise that it wasn't all bad news to discover that she was an android. [34] Once Picard's ship arrived at the planet they were able to continue on their journey. With the help of some recovered memories Soji was able to guide them to the planet where she was constructed. Enroute Picard contacted Starfleet CIC and updated her with the information they had discovered. Picard insisted she provide a fleet to defend the android homeworld, to which she agreed. [35]

Although they were initially greated warmly by the androids on the planet they eventually felt threatened by the imminent Romulan attack and confined Picard to his room so he could not interfere with their plans to contact the higher androids. Agnes remained free by promising to help them in their goal. [36] Agnes freed Picard and together they held off the whole Romulan fleet with their single cargo vessel and a gadget that allowed them to present fake duplicates of their ship. After their ruse was discovered the Federation fleet arrived to take over the defence. It was after he had convinced Soji that she didn't need to summon the higher androids to protect her people that Picard finially succumbed to his brain anomaly, causing him to die shortly after beaming to the planet's surface. [37]

Following his death Altan Soong, Agnes and Soji were able to transfer Picard's consciousness to a massively complex quantum simulation that had been built to house Data's consciousness. There he was able to talk with Data and thank him for his sacrifice. [37]

Soon after he was transferred to the body of a Golem, an android form which allowed him to continue to live his life. The Golem had been programmed to have much the same life expectancy as Picard had he not had the brain anomaly. Picard followed Data's wish for the simulation he was contained in to be terminated. Following the revelations from Picard's mission the Federation ban on synthetic life was lifted, allowing Picard and Soji to explore the universe together with the rest of the crew of La Sirena. [37]

Following the events on Coppelius, Picard rejoined Starfleet as an Admiral and became Chancellor of Starfleet academy. [38]

In 2401, he was called to the USS Stargazer when a message from the Borg claimed that they wished to join the Federation, specifically requesting he lead the negotions. When the Borg queen beamed onto the bridge of the Stargazer and attempted to assimilate the ship, Picard ordered the vessel be destroyed, using the ships self destruct system. At the moment of the ships detonation Picard found himself back at his chateau, but it was not as he remembered it. Q then appeared and told him that his trial had never ended. [38] Q revealed that, in this timeline, he was the vicious General Picard and responsible for the enslavement of the Romulans and eradication of the Cardassians, Klingons and many other species. [39]

Abandoned by Q, he searched and was able to connect with Seven of Nine, Raffi, Elnor and Rios who had all been brought over along with Picard. Together they were able to discover, with the help of the Borg Queen, that this reality was caused by a change made in the past by Q. The Queen claimed to be able to assist them in locating that point in time that the change occured and help them time travel to the required period. Implementing the plan Elnor is mortally wounded, however the team is able to reach the desired time period, crash landing at Picard's chateau, which is abandoned at this point in time. [39] Soon after arrival, Elnor dies from his injuries. [40]

Told by the Borg Queen that they need to find "The Watcher", [40] Picard beams to Los Angeles in order to contact Guinan, who has yet to meet him by this time, but who he hopes will have the information he needs. She hasn't heard that term but knows of a "Supervisor" who acts as a "Guardian Angel" for someone on Earth and she puts him in contact. The "Superviser" turns out to be called Tallinn and looks exactly like laris. [41] Tallinn explains that she is watching over one of Picard's ancestors, Renée Picard, who is important to Human history. When looking at Renée's therapy session, Jean-Luc immediately recognises her therapist as Q, he explains to Tallinn that Q is using Renée to change history. Picard knows that Renée is destined to find a microrganism on Jupiter's moon Io and it is essential to the future of humanity. This makes it vital that she goes on the mission. The team, including Tellinn, plan to attend the pre-flight gala so they can keep an eye on Renée. [42]

Once at the gala Jean-Luc is spotted by Adam Soong, who reports him to security. He manages to evade them long enough to talk to Renée and reassure her that she will do a good job, despite her misgivings. When Soong sees this he attempts to run Renée down in his car, Jean-Luc pushes her out of the was and is hit instead, ending up in a coma. The team take him to Teresa's clinic and Tallinn uses a device to enter his mind, hoping to help him to wake up. [43]

Inside his mind Tallinn relives memories from his childhood where his father is abusive to his mother. Eventually, they piece together memories that show that his mother suffered from mental illness, with periods of darkness. His father, it turned out, was only attempting to protect his mother and Jean-Luc from coming to any harm. Picard wakes from his coma. [44]

Picard returns to Guinan and asks her to attempt to summon Q, which she does, however, they are instead taken into custardy by an FBI agent. [44] Agent Wells is convinced that Picard and Guinan are aliens, which Picard categorically denies. With help from Guinan, Picard discovers that Agent Wells is driven by an encounter he had as a teenager. He had witnessed Vulcan's on Earth and they had attempted a mind meld to erase his memory. Picard is able to explain this to him and he and Guinan are released. [45]

Picard and the team return to the chateau, but are attacked by the Borg Queen, who has taken over Agnes, and a squad of mercenarys, provided by Adam Soong and turned into Borg drones. A battle ensues and eventully the team is able to kill the drones and make peace with the Borg Queen, who is convinced by Agnes to change their method of working away from assimilation to cooperation. During the battle Picard remembers one final thing from his past. As a young child he had released his mother from a room his father had locked her in and she had hung herself in the conservatory. The Queen leaves them with a parting message, in order to succedd there must be two Renées, the one who dies and the one who lives. [46]

Tallinn believes that this means that she must impersonate Renée and allow Adam to kill her. Picard disagrees but she goes ahead with the plan anyway. Dying in Picard's arms afterwards. Picard meets with Q and they discuss the puropse of the trial. Q hopes that he has learned to accept love. [47]

Q returns them to their own timeline and they prevent the detonation of the Stargazer. Picard allows the Queen to take over the ship and she reveals that she is Agnes Jurati, she has come to prevent a disaster that would destroy a Federation planet. Picard assists her and they succeed. He grants the Borg provisional membership in the Federation. Picard and the team go to Guinan's bar on Earth to celebrate their return and the restoration of the timeline. After a few toasts Picard says there is somewhere he has to be. He returns home just in time to find Laris with her bags packed and about to leave. He talks to her and asks for a second chance for them to be together. Laris agrees. [47]

Relationships

Picard's relatives included his parents Yvette and Maurice [2], his brother Robert and sister in law Marie and his nephew Rene. Picard was never close to his father, largely because his father frowned on what he saw as Jen-Luc's rejection of his strongly traditionalist lifestyle. [4] He felt that his father never understood him, and saw his academy Archeology instructor Professor Richard Galen as a father figure. [48] He was in turn something of a father figure to many of his officers, creating an atmosphere of family aboard the ship. [7] He never had children of his own, although in the fictional life which he experienced as a result of the Kataanian probe he had both wife, children and granchildren. [49] Robert and René Picard burned to death in a fire at the family home in 2371. [19]

His friends included Walter Keel [50] and Jack Crusher [22] but his closest non-romantic relationship was with Guinan. The precise nature of their relationship was somewhat mysterious, but Picard trusted Guinan implicitly [51] and she once described their bond as being "beyond friendship, beyond family." [18]

Picard had relatively few romantic relationships. At the academy he was very fond of a woman known as "A.F." [9] In 2342 he dated a woman named Jenice, and arranged to meet her at the Café des Artistes in Paris. Concerned about the ramifications of their relationship he stood her up and did not see her again for many years. [52] He had a relationship with Miranda Vigo sometime between 2340 and 2350, and at one point believed that they had conceived a son together. [53] He struck up a relationship with Vash whilst on holiday on Risa in 2366. [54], and met her again in 2367 when she visited the Enterprise-D. [55]In 2368 the Enterprise transported Kamala, an empathic metamorph who was capable of sensing whatever a potential partner desired in a woman and becoming that for him. Picard was strongly attracted to Kamala, and she to he, but they could not pursue a relationship since she was to be married to another man as part of a peace treaty which would end the war her people were fighting. [56]

In 2369 Picard had a brief relationship with Nela Darren, the head of Stellar Cartography on the Enterprise-D. The two broke the relationship off when it became clear that it would interfere with their professional relationship. [57] In 2370 he confessed to Beverly that he had been in love with her whist she was still married to Jack, but although there sometimes seemed to be some residual attraction, he claimed that he had gradually come to see her as a friend only. [58] In 2375 he met Anij, a Ba'ku woman. The two were strongly attracted to one another despite her being three hundred years old. Although Picard left the Ba'ku planet after resolving a crisis there, he promised that he would return to spend some of his accumulated leave on the world. [6]

Picard tended to keep something of a distance from his fellow officers, but over time he came to think of them as friends. In 2370 he finally joined the regular poker game for the first time, something he noted that he should have done long ago. [59] He was best man at Riker and Troi's wedding in 2379. [5] Picard was a mentor to Data and encouraged his exploration of the nature of Humanity on many occasions. [22]

After Captain Riker's departure Picard and Beverly Crusher finally ended the long period of unacknowledged romantic feelings between them and struck up a romantic relationship. They were subsequently married after Picard proposed in an idyllic glade on a habitable Jovian moon the Enterprise-E had surveyed. [60] Beverley subsequently conceived a child and was pregnant during the Borg attack on the Federation in 2381. [26]

During his work on the Romulan relocation Picard paid multiple visits to Vashti, a planet in the Beta quadrant. He got to know a group of Romulan Qowat Milat nuns, who assisted in the resettlement efforts. He also got to know a small Romulan child called Elnor and they both became fond of each other. However, when the Federation cancelled the Romulan rescue mission, Picard resigned from Starfleet and retreated to his family vineyard where he stayed for the next 14 years. When he returned to Vashti he found that Elnor had grown into a young man. [29]

After his death Picard's consciousness was stored in a massively complex quantum simulation along with Data's. During this meeting Picard admitted for the first time that he loved Data. Data responded that knowing that Picard loved him formed a small but statistically significant part of his memories. [37]

In 2400, Picard's long time friend Zhaban passed away. Zhaban's wife, Laris, remained at the chateau assisting Picard. Over the next 18 months she grew to love him, however, he rejected her advances. [38]

Following his kidnapping by Q [38] and experiences in the Confederation timeline [39] and 21st century, [40] Picard came to releasise that is father had not been cruel to his mother as he had always assumed, but that she had mental health problems which eventually lead to her committing suicide, hanging herself in the conservatory. [46]

After Q returned him to his own timeline, he asked Laris for a second chance for them to be together and she agreed. [47]

Hobbies / Interests

Captain Picard was something of a "renaissance man" with extremely varied hobbies. He tried his hand at painting, though with limited success according to Data [61] and was fond of horse riding [23] to the extent that he kept his own saddle aboard the Enterprise-D. [62] He also enjoyed fencing [52] and long distance running - whilst at the Academy he became the only freshman ever to win the 40 kilometre marathon run, passing four upperclassmen on the last hill in a victory that Admiral Hanson called "the damndest thing I ever saw". [18] He had a great love of reading, be it the 20th century novels of private investigator Dixon Hill [63] or the works of William Shakespeare, one of his favourite authors. [64]

Picard always had an interest in classical music. When Nagilum threatened to slaughter much of the Enterprise-D crew he chose to set the auto-destruct system and planned to spend his last minutes listening to Eric Satie's "Gymnopedie number 1". [65] His interest took on an additional meaning when he was subjected to an alien probe which the Enterprise-D encountered in 2368. Under the probe's influence he experienced an entire lifetime on the planet in the space of a few minutes; during this experience he learned to play the flute. Picard kept a Ktaanian flute which had been contained within the probe and practiced with it often. [49] He became more confident in his music in 2369 as a result of his relationship with Nella Darren. [57]

Picard was a fairly fluent speaker of latin. [9] He had a profound interest in archeology, partly as a result of his relationship with Professor Galen. [48] He collected many artifacts [53] and in 2367 even gave the keynote address to the Federation Archeology Council's annual symposium. His subject was Tagus III, in whose ancient culture he had great expertise. [55] He regarded the study of philosophy as being one of the most important challenges a person should take on, and was especially keen on William James. [66]

Colour key

Canon source Backstage source Novel source DITL speculation

Associated with

Crew of the Enterprise 1701-D/1701-E
Crew of the La Sirena

Played by

SeriesSeasonActorFilm / Episode Title
TNGPatrick Stewart
TNG6David Tristan BirkinRascals
TNG6Marcus NashTapestry
DS91Patrick StewartEmissary
STD5Patrick StewartRed Directive
STPPatrick Stewart
STP2Dylan Von HalleThe Star Gazer
STP2Dylan Von HalleWatcher
STP2Dylan Von HalleTwo of One
STP2Dylan Von HalleMonsters
STP2Dylan Von HalleHide and Seek
STP2Dylan Von HalleFarewell
Patrick StewartGenerations
Patrick StewartFirst Contact
Patrick StewartInsurrection
Patrick StewartNemesis

References

# Series Season Source Comment
1 TNG 1 Encounter at Farpoint
2 TNG 6 Chain of Command, Part 2
3 Star Trek Chronology Date is speculation on the Chronology's part. It is based on Picard applying for the academy and being rejected then gaining admittance next year as described in "Coming of Age", then graduating in 2327 as established in "The First Duty"
4 TNG 4 Family
5 Star Trek : Nemesis
6 Star Trek : Insurrection
7 TNG 1 Coming of Age
8 TNG 6 Tapestry
9 TNG 5 The Game
10 TNG 4 Final Mission
11 TNG 6 Relics
12 TNG 4 The Wounded
13 TNG 1 The Battle
14 TNG 2 The Measure of a Man
15 TNG 2 Q Who
16 TNG 3 The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1
17 TNG 4 The Drumhead
18 TNG 4 The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2
19 Star Trek : Generations
20 DS9 1 Emissary
21 Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country
22 Various Next Generation episodes
23 TNG 2 Pen Pals
24 TNG 3 Who Watches The Watchers?
25 TNG 3 The Offspring
26 Star Trek : Destiny, Book 1 - Gods of Night
27 Star Trek : Destiny, Book 2 - Mere Mortals
28 Star Trek : Destiny, Book 3 - Lost Souls
29 STP 1 Absolute Candor
30 STP 1 Remembrance
31 STP 1 Maps and Legends
32 STP 1 The End is the Beginning
33 STP 1 The Impossible Box
34 STP 1 Nepenthe
35 STP 1 Broken Pieces
36 STP 1 Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1
37 STP 1 Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2
38 STP 2 The Star Gazer
39 STP 2 Penance
40 STP 2 Assimilation
41 STP 2 Watcher
42 STP 2 Fly Me to the Moon
43 STP 2 Two of One
44 STP 2 Monsters
45 STP 2 Mercy
46 STP 2 Hide and Seek
47 STP 2 Farewell
48 TNG 6 The Chase
49 TNG 5 The Inner Light
50 TNG 1 Conspiracy
51 TNG 3 Yesterday's Enterprise
52 TNG 1 We'll Always Have Paris
53 TNG 7 Bloodlines
54 TNG 3 Captain's Holiday
55 TNG 4 Qpid
56 TNG 5 The Perfect Mate
57 TNG 6 Lessons
58 TNG 7 Attached
59 TNG 7 All Good Things
60 Greater Than the Sum
61 TNG 3 A Matter of Perspective
62 TNG 6 Starship Mine
63 TNG 1 The Big Goodbye
64 TNG 1 Hide and Q
65 TNG 2 Where Silence Has Lease
66 TNG 2 Samaritan Snare
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : Encounter at Farpoint
Series : TNG Season 6
Episode : Chain of Command, Part 2
Book : Star Trek Chronology
Comment : Date is speculation on the Chronology's part. It is based on Picard applying for the academy and being rejected then gaining admittance next year as described in "Coming of Age", then graduating in 2327 as established in "The First Duty"
Series : TNG Season 4
Episode : Family
Film: Star Trek : Nemesis
Film: Star Trek : Insurrection
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : Coming of Age
Series : TNG Season 6
Episode : Tapestry
Series : TNG Season 5
Episode : The Game
Series : TNG Season 4
Episode : Final Mission
Series : TNG Season 6
Episode : Relics
Series : TNG Season 4
Episode : The Wounded
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : The Battle
Series : TNG Season 2
Episode : The Measure of a Man
Series : TNG Season 2
Episode : Q Who
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1
Series : TNG Season 4
Episode : The Drumhead
Series : TNG Season 4
Episode : The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2
Film: Star Trek : Generations
Series : DS9 Season 1
Episode : Emissary
Film: Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country
Series : TNG Season
Episode : Various Next Generation episodes
Series : TNG Season 2
Episode : Pen Pals
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : Who Watches The Watchers?
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : The Offspring
Novel : Star Trek : Destiny, Book 1 - Gods of Night
Novel : Star Trek : Destiny, Book 2 - Mere Mortals
Novel : Star Trek : Destiny, Book 3 - Lost Souls
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Absolute Candor
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Remembrance
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Maps and Legends
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : The End is the Beginning
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : The Impossible Box
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Nepenthe
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Broken Pieces
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1
Series : STP Season 1
Episode : Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : The Star Gazer
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Penance
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Assimilation
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Watcher
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Fly Me to the Moon
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Two of One
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Monsters
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Mercy
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Hide and Seek
Series : STP Season 2
Episode : Farewell
Series : TNG Season 6
Episode : The Chase
Series : TNG Season 5
Episode : The Inner Light
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : Conspiracy
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : Yesterday's Enterprise
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : We'll Always Have Paris
Series : TNG Season 7
Episode : Bloodlines
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : Captain's Holiday
Series : TNG Season 4
Episode : Qpid
Series : TNG Season 5
Episode : The Perfect Mate
Series : TNG Season 6
Episode : Lessons
Series : TNG Season 7
Episode : Attached
Series : TNG Season 7
Episode : All Good Things
Novel : Greater Than the Sum
Series : TNG Season 3
Episode : A Matter of Perspective
Series : TNG Season 6
Episode : Starship Mine
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : The Big Goodbye
Series : TNG Season 1
Episode : Hide and Q
Series : TNG Season 2
Episode : Where Silence Has Lease
Series : TNG Season 2
Episode : Samaritan Snare


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