SHIPS HE HAS CAPTAINED
Picard is the captain of the fifth starship Enterprise, science, and interstellar diplomacy. Picard was born on Earth in 2305 to Maurice Picard and Yvette Gessard Picard. Jean Luc was raised on a family farm in LaBarre, France, along with his older brother, Robert. As a boy, Jean Luc enjoyed building ships in bottles. Jean Luc had a illustrious family history. One of his ancestors fought at the battle of Trafalgar, a Picard won a Nobel Prize for chemistry, and Picards were among those who settled the first Martian Colonies. Picard failed in 2322 to gain entrance to Starfleet Academy at the age of 17, but was admitted a year later. As a first year cadet in 2323, Picard became the only freshman ever to win the Starfleet Academy marathon on Danula II. Picard won top academic honors as well. Cadet Picard committed a serious offence while at the Academy. Years later, he credited Academy groundskeeper Boothby with making it possible for him to graduate by helping him to do the right thing. Shortly after graduating from Starfleet Academy with the class of 2327, Picard was on leave with several classmates at Starbase Earhart, where he picked a fight with three Nausicaans at the Bonestell Recreation Facility. One of the Nausicaans stabbed Picard through the heart, necessitating a cardiac replacement procedure, leaving Picard with an artificial heart. Lieutenant Picard was a bridge officer on the USS Stargazer when the ship's captain was killed. Picard took charge of the bridge and for his service in the emergency was offered the command of the Stargazer. Picard commanded the Stargazer for 20 years, until 2355, when the ship was nearly destroyed by an unprovoked sneak attack near the Maxia Zeta star system. The surviving Stargazer crew, including Picard, drifted for weeks in shuttlecraft before being rescued. Jean Luc Picard was appointed captain of the fifth Starship Enterprise in 2363, shortly after the ship was commissioned.
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