Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Having been a moderate fan of Star Trek Enterprise
for the longest time, I grew up under the publicly televised leadership of
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). He's always been the model for
leadership, making decisions with the support of his people, and even sometimes
without. Never known to shirk responsibility for a bad decision, his
screen persona becomes made that much more human.
He really came through to me in Star Trek : First
Contact. Having a personal vendetta with the Borg, he was adamant to
abandon ship and insisted on fighting the Borg to the death. Only after
the extreme intervention, did he see through his mistake. He ordered his
crew to abandon ship, but stayed back to save Data. No, he wasn't putting
Zip discs into the drives! I mean Lt. Cmdr. Data! His
self-sacrificial attitude of putting his crew before himself is rarely found in
local Enterprises. No, not even McDonalds.
Bio-Data
Picard was born on Earth
in 2305 to Maurice & Yvette Gessard Picard. Maurice was a tradition bound
French vintner who tried to discouraged Jean-Luc ambitions of voyaging among the
stars. Jean-Luc was raised on a family farm along with his older brother Robert
Picard. As a boy, he enjoyed building ships in bottles. His collection included
a legendary Promellian Battle cruiser. He would later discover that ship in his
voyages aboard the Enterprise-D. As a boy, Picard visited the Smithsonian Institute
and viewed Zefram Cochran's warp ship (The Phoenix).
Starfleet Academy
Surprisingly,
Picard failed in his first attempt to gain entrance in to Starfleet Academy at
the age of 17, but was admitted a year later. In is first year Picard was able
to become the first freshmen ever to win the Starfleet Academy marathon on
Danula II. Picard won top Honors as well. While at the academy Picard took
guidance from the groundskeeper named Boothby. Picard said that if it wasn't for
Boothby he would not have graduated. Boothby helped Picard to do the right thing
after he committed a serous offence. Picard was on leave with several classmates
at Starbase Earhart, where he was involved in a fight with three Nausicaans. One
of the Nausicaans was able to stab Picard through the heart. Jean-Luc had to
undergo surgery and received an artificial heart. As a young officer, Picard was
romantically involved with the future Jenice Manheim. Although the two had been
strongly attracted to each other, Picard feared commitment and he eventually
broke off the relationship in 2342. For many years Picard regretted losing
Jenice, and the two saw each other again in 2364 after a serious laboratory
accident on Vandor IV. Picard set him self apart from the rest when he led an
away team to Milika III to save an endangered ambassador.
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