Picard, Jean-Luc
Captain
 
Current status
 
Status On duty
Citizenship United Federation of Planets
Domicile USS Enterprise-E
Profession Starfleet officer
   Assignment Commanding officer
   Rank Captain
   Division Command
   Assigned to USS Enterprise-E
 
Personal information
 
Species Human
Date of birth July 13th, 2305
Place of birth

Labarre, France, Earth
Father Maurice Picard
Mother Yvette Picard, nee Gessard
Siblings Brother Robert Picard (dec.)
Marital status Unmarried
Children None
  
Career summary
 
2323-27 Education at Starfleet Academy
Transferred to USS Stargazer
2333 Lieutenant; Temporary command of USS Stargazer during an emergency; subsequent promotion to captain
2333-55 Commanding officer of USS Stargazer
2364-71 Commanding officer of USS Enterprise-D
2369 Temporary relief of command; appointed leader of the covert Celtris mission
2372 Commanding officer of USS Enterprise-E
 
 
Curriculum vitae
 
2305
   Jul 13th Jean-Luc Picard is born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in Labarre, France, Earth.
2322 Picard applies for admittance to the Starfleet Academy, however, he is disapproved. Yet, his performance is so promising that he is allowed to apply again in the next year.
2323 After a new application Jean-Luc Picard is admitted to the Starfleet Academy. During his studies at the Academy, Picard's interest in archeology grows. He is supported by his archeology professor, Prof. Richard Galen, and studies the legendary Iconians among other species.
Shortly afterwards, Picard wins the Academy marathon on Danula II as the first freshman, after he has passed four older cadets at the final hills of the 40 kilometer run. With this performance, he gets the attention of Admiral Hanson, who later becomes a friend of Picard.
2324 During his second year at Starfleet Academy, Jean-Luc Picard encounters the violent Nausicaans for the first time during a visit on Morikin VII.
2327 Graduation from Starfleet Academy. Picard is the valedictorian of his class.
Picard travels to Starbase Earhart to wait for his transfer to a starship. There, at the Bonestell Recreation Facility, a disastrous brawl starts when three Nausicaans attack Picard and his friends Cortin Zweller and Marta Batanides during a Dom-Jot game. Finally, a Nausicaan stabs him with a knife, severely injuring his heart. The quick health care saves his life; he is implanted an articificial heart.
Jean-Luc Picard is transferred to the USS Stargazer. In the following years, he serves as an ensign and later as a lieutenant aboard the ship.
2333 Lieutenant Picard is bridge officer on the USS Stargazer when his captain is killed. Picard temporarily takes over command. After the emergency, he is offered permanent command of the vessel because of his intrepid behaviour. He accepts and is promoted to captain. With only 28 years, he is one of the youngest starfleet officers to have been offered a command.
2342
During shore leave on Earth, Picard has a romance with the future Janice Manheim.
   Apr 9th Picard (intentionally) fails to meet Janice in the Café des Artistes in Paris because he is feared to choose between her and his command. Shortly afterwards, he returns to the Stargazer.
2344 Jean-Luc Picard gets to know Beverly Crusher. Both become good friends, however, since Picard prefers his work as a Starfleet captain, the friendship doesn't develop to romantic relationship, although they feel attracted by each other.
2346 While the Stargazer is in orbit over Earth, Captain Picard spents a two week shore leave on the planet. He meets Miranda Vigo and has a short-lived romance with her.
2355 There is a fatal encounter between the USS Stargazer, and a ship of a race unknown up to that moment in the Maxia Zeta system. The alien vessel later identified as Ferengi cruiser, surprisingly attacks the Stargazer. Picard's ship gets so badly damaged that another hit would destroy the ship. In this emergency situation, Picard invents a completely new maneuver that will bear his name later, taking advantage of the sub-light sensors of the enemy. He suceeds in destroying the Ferengi ship, however, the Stargazer's damage is too heavy so that Picard has to leave her with the survivors of the battle. Together with his crew, he is stucked for weeks in the lifeboats floating in space before they are rescued.
2356 Jean-Luc Picard is court-martialed for the loss of the Stargazer. The prosecuting attorney is Phillipa Louis, who believe he is guilty. Yet, Picard is declared innocent.
2363 After the commissioning of the USS Enterprise-D, Captain Picard is chosen to be the captain.
2364
   SD 41124.0 Captain Jean-Luc Picard assumes command of the USS Enterprise-D.
   SD 41153.7 During the first mission to Farpoint station on Deneb IV, the Enterprise encounters the omnipotent Q, who accuses Captain Picard, his crew and the entire mankind of barbarism. Picard manages to convince Q to test humanity. Since the crew passes this test, solving the mystery of Farpoint station, Picard asks Q not to bother humanity again. 
   SD 41249.3 An energy being, which came aboard during the flight through a nebula in the Beta Renna system, takes over Captain Picard's body and beams back with him to the energy cloud in order to exist united with Picard as pure energy in space. When the meld doesn't work and the being leaves him behind, the crew manages to track and rematerialize Picard with the transporter.
   SD 41416.2 After an extensive check of Picard and his career by Admiral Gregory Quinn he is offered the promotion to Admiral and commandant of the Starfleet Academy. Picard rejects the promotion in order to keep on commanding the Enterprise.
   SD 41697.9 On Vandor IX, Jean-Luc Picard meets his former lover Janice again, who has become the wife of the respected Federation scientist Dr. Paul Manheim. On the holodeck, they activate a simulation of the Café des Artistes in Paris, this time saying good-bye to each other.
   SD 41723.9 The Ferengi DaiMon Bok tells Picard that he has destroyed a Ferengi vessel under the command of Bok's son 9 years ago in the so-called "Battle of Maxia". To prove his assertion, he hands over the wreck of the Stargazer to Picard. Actually, however, he wants to take revenge on his son's death. Using a mind manipulator, he attempts to make Picard believe in his guilt concerning the incident, with the captain reliving the entire scenario aboard the Stargazer. Yet, Bok doesn't succeeds; Picard's crew can save him from the influence of the powerful device.
   SD 41997.9 Captain Picard manages to establish contact with the Jarada when he gives a long and complicated speech in the Jarada lanugage. This was the Jarada's condition for diplomatic contact with the Federation.
2365
   SD 42523.7 On starbase 716, Picard has to face Phillipa Louvois again. She is the judge in the trial over the rights of the android Data as an individuum, while he has to defend his senior officer, a task he manages successfully.
   SD 42609.1 After the destruction of the USS Yamato and the death of his old friend Captain Donald Varley, Picard continues Varley's search for the ancient Iconia, one of his favorite themes as a amateur archeologist. In the Neutral Zone, he indeed discovers an Iconian outpost, which he has to destroy because of a potential abuse by the Romulans.
   SD 42679.2 Picard meets his future self which has been transferred six hours to the past after the destruction of the Enterprise. Because of his decision to kill the future Picard, he can prevent an eternal cycle.
2366
   SD 43173.5 After the disclosure of the Federation observation post on Mintaka III, Captain Picard is worshipped as a god by the inhabitants of the planets, who haven't evolved further than the Bronze Age up to now. Violating the Prime Directive and almost sacrificing his life, he succeeds in persuading the people that he is not immortal or omnipotent in order to prevent the serious cultural impact this event would have.
   SD 43685.2 In the course of the legal procedure against his Klingon bridge officer Worf, which is accused by the High Council because of the alleged crimes of his father on the Klingon homeworld, Jean-Luc Picard accepts the role of the cha'DIch and becomes Worf's defender. He manages to find out the truth, however, he has to yield to the council's decision to keep the lies on Worf's father alive in order to save the Klingon Empire from a civil war.
2371
   SD 48632 With the crew of the Enterprise-D, Picard investigates on the mysterious destruction of the Amargosa observatory when he has to learn of the death of his brother Robert and his nephew René after a fire in their house in Labarre, France, Earth. Suffering, he hardly manages to continue the investigations, leading to Dr. Tolian Soran, who wants to get into the timeless nexus with the controlled destruction of stars, and the Duras sisters, who support the insane scientist.
   SD 48650 Capt. Picard loses his command of the Enterprise-D when the engineering section is destroyed after an attack of the Duras sisters and the saucer section is irreparably damaged by the crash on Veridian III. Despite this loss, he can stop Soran together with Captain James T. Kirk, presumed death, but actually stuck in the Nexus for 80 years and brought back to the present by Picard, foiling his plan to destroy the Veridian sun and therefore all planets in the system when the Nexus arrives.
2372 Picard is appointed captain of the new USS Enterprise-E, which undergoes extensive tests for one year.
2373
   SD 50893 When the Borg invade Federation space again and can make it to Earth without being stopped, Picard takes initiative despite the order to hold position at the Romulan Neutral Zone. He takes the Enterprise-E into battle near Earth, where he manages to destroy the Borg cube with the support of the Federation fleet.
When the Borg that could escape the explosion of the mother ship in a sphere travel back in time to assimilate Earth in the 21st century, Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E travel back as well to the year 2063. They intend to stop the Borg by all means, that beam to the Enterprise shortly before the destruction of the sphere and slowly assimilate the ship, supervising the first warp flight of Zefram Cochrane and the subsequent First Contact with the Vulcans.
2375
   SD 52865 Capt. Picard leads the ceremony making the Evora homeworld an official Federation protectorate when he hears of problems during the sociological examination on Ba'ku his ops officer Lt. Cmd. Data participates. Against the orders of the Admiral supervising the Ba'ku mission, Matthew Dougherty, Picard and the Enterprise travel to the planet in the Briar Patch, where he discovers the dark secret that the Son'a intend to relocate the inhabitents of Ba'ku with the help of the Federation in order to harness the special, rejuvenating properties of the planet's rings. Subsequently, Captain Picard and some of his senior officers put off their uniform and successfully support the Ba'ku in a planetary insurrection against Admiral Dougherty and the Son'a.