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| Played by: |
Patrick Stewart (13/07-1940)
David Tristan Birkin (As Young in "Rascals")
Marcus Nash (As Young in "Tapestry")
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| Native: |
Human (LaBarre, France, Terra) |
| Birthday: |
13 July 2305 |
| Academy: |
2322 - 2327 |
| Lover: |
Janice Manheim (Long time ago..)
Vash ("Captains Holiday", "Q-Pid")
Nella Daren ("Lessons")
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| Family: |
Mother, Yvette (Dead)
Father, Maurice (Dead)
Aunt, Adele (Dead)
Brother, Robert
Sister-In-Law, Marie
Nephew, Rene
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| Friends: |
Jack Crusher (Died as Picard's first officer on Stargazer.)
Walker Kiel (Died in "Conspirency")
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| Enemies: |
Daimon Bok (Ferengi, Picard killed his son in battle)
Sela (Romulan Commander, daughter of Natasha Yar.)
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| Known as: |
"Picard", "Captain", "Jean-Luc" |
| +: |
Good leader, gives everybody a chance. |
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| Position: |
Captain |
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Profile
Picard had an illustrious Starfleet service record even before his mission
on the Enterprise. Having led the USS Stargazer on a 22-year exploration
mission, Picard has mentioned various events of that ship's voyage,
including a trip to Chalna and having once retreated from a Cardassian warship,
but he was forced to abandon the Stargazer after it was damaged in a Ferengi
ambush. Picard devised what Starfleet Academy cadets later knew as "the
Picard Maneuver" and destroyed the Ferengi vessel (the angry father of the
Ferengi ship's DaiMon later tried to avenge him in "The�Battle") but had to
leave the Stargazer behind, for which he was court-martialed. These events,
said to have occurred nine years before his tour on the Enterprise, have
probably been completely forgotten by now with his many successes since.
Much of Picard's youth has been discussed, chiefly his impetuosity when he
was a teenager at school (as mentioned by his older brother Robert in
"Family") and in Starfleet Academy. When at a recreation facility , Ensign
Picard, then a 21-year old fresh out of the Academy (this story is recounted
in "Samaritan Snare", and finally seen in sixth season's "Tapestry"),
started a brawl with three Nausicaan ruffians. With two fellow cadets,
Picard put up a surprisingly good fight against the aliens, who were twice
as big as any of the Starfleet officerss, but Picard wound up being stabbed
through the back. Rushed to a medical facility, Picard required an
artificial heart since his original heart was damaged beyond recovery. (Q once
gave Picard a chance to change that event in history, but after seeing how
life would have been for him had he always taken it one very cautious step
at a time, Picard decided to restore his personal history and instigate the
fight after all.) Picard also told Wesley Crusher, on at least one occasion,
that he learned his most valuable lessons at Starfleet Academy from Boothby
- the Academy groundskeeper. Little is known what lesson Picard learned,
but on a later visit to Earth and the Academy ("The First�Duty"), it was
apparent that Boothby had once forced Picard to reveal a hidden truth about
something, as Picard later had to convince Wesley to do (see Wes's profile
for more information on the incident in question). What is also known is
that he left Earth for his first tour of duty without saying goodbye to his
girlfriend Janice, who later married scientist Paul Manheim ("We'll�Always
Have�Paris"). Picard's parents were named Maurice and Evette, and he often
credits his Aunt Adele with an impressive number of household cures.
(Maurice and Evette Picard have both been glimpsed in illusions, in
"Tapestry" and "Where�No One�Has�Gone�Before", respectively.)
Picard's voyages on the Enterprise haven't been free of problems either.
As early as the first season, Admiral Quinn and Lt. Commander Remmick
investigated the Enterprise thoroughly, checking to make sure that Picard had not
been taken over by an alien conspiracy. Quinn and Remmick themselves later
fell victim to the same conspiracy, and though Remmick was killed in the
course of stopping the aliens from taking over Starfleet, Quinn was saved.
The conspirators also killed Captain Walker Keel, a close friend of Picard
for many years who had also known Jack Crusher. Of course, later encounters
included Picard's capture by the Borg, which few stories since "The�Best�Of�
Both�Worlds" have mentioned, although the Borg's use of his knowledge of
Starfleet enabled them to destroy a blockade of 39 Starfleet vessels,
killing 11,000 people. Among those dead were all but one member of the crew of
the USS Saratoga. The survivor, Commander Benjamin Sisko, lost his wife in
the battle and then held Picard personally responsible for the outcome of
the Borg attack (as seen in "Emissary," the first episode of "Deep Space
Nine").
Picard's role as the arbiter of succession of the Klingon�Empire was
decided for him by the dying Klingon leader K'mpec, and Picard carried out his
duty to install the new leader of the Empire in Redemption. Picard has had
the distinction of meeting Vulcan's Ambassador Sarek, who mind-melded with
the captain to stabilize Sarek in time for vital negotiations. Picard also
met Sarek's son Spock in Unification, in an attempt to find out why Spock
had traveled to Romulus.
When an alien probe was sighted and locked on to the Enterprise (The�Inner
Light), transmissions from that probe rendered Picard unconscious. In the
space of less than half an hour, Picard lived, in his mind, 40 or more years
in the life of an astronomer, Kamin, of Kataan , a planet whose civilization
would die out in a few decades when the sun in their system went nova. In
actuality, Kataan's parent star had gone nova, erasing all traces of Kamin's
civilization over one thousand years before the Enterprise's discovery of
the probe. Though he realized he was still actually Jean-Luc Picard of the
starship Enterprise, Kamin adjusted and lived - with his wife and children
- into old age, at which point the truth was revealed to him: the probe
surrounds its target's mind with a complete simulation of life on Kataan, in
the hopes that the recipient of the probe's "message" will, in turn, tell
others of the history, the life and the eventual death of the planet. Also
found aboard the probe was the flute owned by the real Kamin - which Picard
could remember how to play after he awake from spending decades in Kamin's
life in twenty-odd minutes.
On a recent occasion, Captain Picard was abruptly relieved of command of
the Enterprise and replaced by Captail Edward Jellico for a special mission
(sixth season's two-part "Chain�of�Command"). Picard led an undercover team
consisting of Worf and Dr.�Crusher deep into Cardassian space, but he alone
was captured by Cardassians. Tortured repeatedly in their attempt to extract
information concerning the strategic defenses of a Federation planet about
which he knew nothing, Picard suffered some psychological damage and
brainwashing which, presumably, he overcame with the assistance of Counselor�Troi
upon his return to the Enterprise.
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