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Warning : contains spoilers forStar Trek : Defiant Annual 2024 !
Star Trekhas at last break Captain Picard ’s bidding between theStargazerand theEnterprise . A good portion of Jean Luc Picard ’s life and career have been chronicled on - CRT screen , but gaps still survive . One of the most burning questions fans have had about Picard is answered inStar Trek : Defiant Annual 2024 : what was he doing between the loss of theStargazerand make command of theEnterprise ?
Star Trek : Defiant Annual 2024is save by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Ramon Rosanas . Commander Sela is drop back in fourth dimension , coming brass to front with her female parent Tasha Yar , who is helping a Starfleet delivery effort . A number of Caitians have been taken hostage , and Starfleet has come to free them .
Fans check that one of the captain helping coordinate the stand-in crusade isJean Luc Picard , skipper of theUSS April .
A Decade of Captain Picard’s Life is Unaccounted For–Until Now
This snatch of info bring to a nigh one ofStar Trek’sbiggest mystery . After graduating from Starfleet Academy , Picard bounces around assignments , at long last becoming helmsperson on theStargazer . When theStargazer’scaptain was killed , Picard assumed command , a role he would hold for many twelvemonth . Roughly a decade before the start ofStar Trek : The Next propagation , theStargazerwas lostin an plan of attack by the Ferengi . What Picard was doing between theStargazerand theEnterprisehas been a mystery . It was known he had another ship , but that was all .
It is meet that Picard would captain a ship namedApril . TheAprilwas most probably make for Captain Robert April , the first captain of theUSS EnterpriseNCC-1701 . He would serve one five - year military mission aboard the ship before being promoted and replace by Captain Christopher Pike . April has been see inStrange New Worldsand is regarded as a Starfleet legend . April is one of Starfleet ’s greatest captains – just like Picard . Therefore , it isonly meet that Captain Picard , who would pick out himself as captain of theEnterprise , command a ship refer after one of its first police captain .
In Star Trek : Picard ’s Academy # 2 , Mister Spock tries to impart an of import life lesson on the cadet , but conk out miserably at it .
Picard’s Time Aboard theUSS AprilNeeds to Be Explored
While it is potential thatPicard ’s time between theStargazerand theEnterprisewill never be explored on - screen , comics are the perfect berth to search this chartless domain . After theStargazer’sdestruction , Picard is subject to a tribunal - martial … and that is the last fans see of him ( in the timeline ) until the first episode ofStar Trek : The Next contemporaries . This leaves a decade of Picard ’s life unaccounted for , and there are no doubt compelling report from that era to tell . Picard ’s time as skipper of theUSS Aprilis new and exciting soil for theStar Trekfranchise .
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Star Trek : Defiant Annual 2024(2024 )
