Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard was the commanding officer of the ISS Enterprise-D. An intellectual and cultured man, Picard was also capable of extreme ruthlessness and cold, deliberate cruelty. Picard's concubine was Beverly Crusher, who became his mistress after the death of Jack Crusher.

Early Life
Jean-Luc Picard was born in La Barre, France, Earth in 2305, to the wealthy Picard family. The Picards parleyed their old family wine business into an interplanetary merchant empire, starting in the 2270s. Jean-Luc had an older brother named Robert, whom he despised, who was the destined heir to the family fortune.

Despite having a passion for archeology, and unearthing valuable secrets from the past, Jean-Luc decide to seek his fortune in the Imperial Starfleet. Nevertheless, he would maintain a side-career as an amateur archeologist, never hesitating to take a little leave when he though there was something valuable to find.

He eventually rose to become First Officer of the ISS Starbreaker, after the former First Officer Gilaad Ben Zoma was killed in batttle with the Cardassians in 2333. He quickly assassinated Captain Stol, and assumed command of the ship, defeating the attacking force of several Cardassian ships. His best friend Jack Crusher became his first officer.

Captain of the Starbreaker
One of Picard's first missions, as Captain of the Starbreaker, was an intelligence- gathering operation into the Federation's universe. He brought back some elements of valable technology, which were quickly put into effect. Jack Crusher married Beverly Howard in 2348, but within a matter of months, was being asked by Picard about the likelihood that he'd share Beverly between himself and Picard, who had become fascinated by her and wanted her for himself. Picard halted these queries when Wesley Crusher was born. But renewed them two years later. In 2354, Picard sent Jack with an away team down into a no-win situation, which resulted in the death of all the team, which Picard knew was inevitable. Also in 2348, the Terran Empire began returning to researching trans-dimensional travel, in hopes of making a more stable and effective Trans-D drive than the one they used in the failed invasion of 2285, one that would not be so easily neutralized. Picard's contacts informed him of this, and he began covertly ageling for the position, while establishing himself as one of the most effective military commanders in the Empire.

In 2355, the ISS Starbreaker decisively defeated the Ferengi in the Battle of Maxia.

In 2357, Picard organized the Lagos mission, which resulted in the forced retirement from Starfleet of Beverly Crusher, as part of his long-term plan to make her his woman.

At some point, Georgi Laforge served on the Starbreaker, before being reassigned to Starfleet Headquarters. He was succeeded as Chief Engineer by Reginald Barclay

While the Stargazer was escorting a convoy of Vulcan slave ships from Venus to Titan, overseen by Lieutenants Natasha Yar and Reginald Barclay, the Vulcans on board convoy ships five and six rose up and tried to take control. After Barclay helped Yar get a tactical scan on the convoy ships, Yar blew up the ships, killing over a thousand Vulcan slaves on each, as a show of force.

Later, Yar was killed during an escape attempt by a cptured Cardassian rebel. Inquisitor Deanna Troi was assigned to the Starbreaker as the new Chief of Security.

Picard had the fortune, on one of his missions, to discover the android Data working as a slave in a mining colony. He immediately perceived the potential for Data to be a great asset, and enlisted him into the crew of the Starbreaker as his Operations Officer.

Captain of the Enterprise-D
Following the delivery of a captured Cardassian Galor-class vessel, Jean-Luc Picard, learned about the recently developed, top-secret ISS Enterprise from Data, who hacked into the secury imperial data network. Picard had through the Galaxy Class Project propaganda or a myth.

Picard and his senior staff plotted taking the ship, and Picard gained the allegiance of William Riker, the Ship's first officer, by defeating him. He also enlisted the aid of Geordi La Forge, who put them in touch with Leah Brahms, the enginear in-charge of the Galaxy-class project. She agreed to help them sieze the ship, if she was made Chief Enginear.

Picard and his team, with the help of Riker and Brahms, seized the ship after Captain Jellico came aboard. Only loyal and willing crew from the Stargazer and Enterprise were allowed to remain, and Jellico was spaced. The Enterprise-D launched and ventured beyond the confines of the Sol system.

Picard visited a friend at Neptune Station to gain further intelligence, and left Captain Jellico to be imprisoned tortured with experimental mind-probing technology. In the system's fringes, the Enterprise-D was apprehended by a trio of Imperial starships, led by Captain Walker Keel.

At first trying to defeat Picard, they joined forces against an attacking fleet of the Cardassians.

After executing a fantastic victory over the Cardassians, Picard was confirmed as official commander of the Enterprise-D.

Picard arranged for Beverly Crusher to be reinstated in Starfleet, and made her Cheif Medical Officer on the Enterprise, and Captain's Woman. Because the capture of the Enterprise-D left the crew short-handed, he also had her genius son Wesley Crusher made an ensign and assigened to the post of Flight Controller. Picard knew Wesley hated him, and wanted him in a place where Picard could keep and eye on him.

In his first action as captain of the Enterprise, Picard destroyed Farpoint Station, due to the attack of the alien lifeform.

Shortly afterward, Picard and the Enterprise subjected the southern continent of Ligon II to high levels of gamma-fission radiation, and obtained the vaccine to the deadly Anchilles disease that had plagued Styris IV.

<p class="MsoNormal">Picard's third action was the destruction of a Tarellian plague vessel near the planet Beta Cassius.

<p class="MsoNormal">Picard's fourth action as captain was to retrieve a lost T-9 energy converter that was stolen from the Ferengi. Picard's fifth action involved the terraforming and orbital re-alignment of Ferenginar, so that it orbited the star Gamma Cephei and later resettled by a species approved by the Terran Empire. This act of near genocide effectivly ended the Ferengi rebellion against the Empire.

<p class="MsoNormal">Picard's sixth action as captain was the excision of the hostile Edo god from orbit of Rubicon III. Following the destruction of the god, the Enterprise forced the Edo to join the Empire.

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Shortly after the Enterprise was dispatched to Jarada to discuss their submission to the Empire. After their refusal, the Enterprise decimated them. Picard was assigned to supress a rebellion by the Bynarrs, though he did so with such brutality that the Empire's compute procuction was nearly set back, proviking a repremand. The ship was also responsible for the destruction of the Aldeans after they attempted to capture crewmembers. It was also responsible for the destruction of intelligent inorganic life-forms on Velara III, so terraforming could proceed on the planet.

In 2366, the the ISS Enterprise-D was dispatched to force the submission of the Sheliak. Picard found the Sheliak to be impossible to reason with, and exterminated them, elaving their space to be recolonized by the Empire. Later that year, Picard had the fortune to meet an agent of Imperial Intelligence named Vash, with whom he began an affair. he found her to be a tantalizing lover, not as tamed by his power as Beverly.

In the Year 2367, the ISS Enterprise-D was equiped with the newly developed interphase drive and interphase sensors, and assiged to capture their counterparts about the USS Enterprise-D, in preparation for a full scale invasion of the Federation's universe. They first gathered detailed intelligence through communication intercepts, and then brought the USS Enterprise into their own universe. In the end, the USS Enterprise escaped, and developed a technique to neutralize the interphase device, and the invasion was a failure. It took all of Picard's influence to avoid termination for the failure. The failure was worsened when Picard's Security Officer, Worf, became the leader of a Klingon rebelion, which joined forces with the Cardassians and Bajorans just as they were beginning to surrender.

In 2369, in an attempt to regain some of his prestige and influence, Picard began and operation to send raiding parties into the Federation's universe, to steal valuble items and elements of technology. He even planted spies onboard the USS Enterprise, to steal information of Federation starship technology. When these infiltrations were discovered, the Imperial crew were forced to abandon them, though the wealth and intelligence did improve Picard's position in the Empire.

Also in 2369, Picard's research into the legends of the Iconians finally bore fruit. He was able to use certain stolen relics to determine the location of Iconia, on a planet in the former Romulan Empire. Picard set out to recover the Iconian technology. He found a base, with Portal technolgy, and planned to steal it. However, the ISS Yamato arrived, and Captain Donald Varley tried to take the technology for himself. Battle ensued between the two ships, but ended suddently when the Iconian base launched a probe that infected the Yamato with a virulent computer virus. The Yamato crashed into Iconia, and the portal technology was lost in the explosion. However, the expedition was not a total loss. Picard had the Enterprise tractor in the probe, and Data was able to isolate and analyze the virus. Picard held onto it, as a useful ace-in-the-hole.

In 2371, the Borg invaded the Alpha quadrant in force. The Empire had been brutally destroying Borg scouting cubes for nearly a century, but now they had evolved to be far more dangerous. Picard used the Iconian virus to destroy the Borg Diamond in the Battle of Rura Penthe, where numerous Imperial commanders had been defeated. This turned the tide and brought victory to the Empire. At the same time, it restored Picard to his status as a hero of the Empire. The Iconian virus became the basis for a new age in cyber warfare by the Empire. Around this time, Picard's lover vash was killed on a mission to spy on the Cardassians, inspiring great hatred in Picard.

Shortly after his victory over the Borg, however, Picard suffered a setback when the ISS Enterprise was destroyed in battle with Klingon rebels. Picard was able to destroy the atacking ships by activating the Enterprise's self-destruct. virtually all the crew evacuated safely.

Captain of the Illustrious
Picard was immediatly assigned a new command, the ISS Illustrious. He continued to distinguish himself as one of the Empire's greatest military commanders, and was dispatched on many high profile missions, often at the express command fo the Emperor. During this time, he brutally crushed the rebellions of Thallon, Xenex and Danter, and was very active in fighting the Klingons and Cardassians. He was also called on to deal with occasion rebelions of anti-imperial humans, such as the Maquis.

In 2373, When the Borg were nearing their final destruction, a last ditch effort by the Borg was launched to change history. A Borg Diamond was sent back in time to destroy the Terran Empire in the year 2063. Unfortunatly for the Borg, the Terran Empire was experienced in the use of tactical time travel. This attack was detected by the Temporal Sensorgrid of Imperial Intelligence, and the ISS Illustrious was sent back in time as well. Picard destoryed the Borg Diamond, and preserved Imperial History. Ironically, the battle was witnessed by Zephram Cochrane. When Cochrane became Emperor, he would recover the remains of the Borg Diamond and, initially using captured Vulcan technology, establish a secret research project to develop weapons against the Borg. This very project was the reason the Empire would detect Borg activity in the 23rd cetnury, and be able to destroy them so effectivly in the 24th century. The Borg Empire was finally wiped out by advanced Terran weapons in the year 2374.

Captain of the Enterprise-E
In the year 2377, Jean-Luc Picard was chosen to command the newest Imperial warship, the ISS Enterprise-E. The Sovereign-class warship incorporated new technology, stolen from the alternate universe, and from the First Federation, as well as the poducts of several years of imperial secret research. Among other things, these upgrades included a more effective cloaking device, better sensors, more powerful weapons, and a new drive system based on quantum flecture technolgoy, known as Jaunt Drive.

As captain of the ISS Enterprise-E, from 2377 to 2380, Picard was heavily involved in the final conquest of the Cardassian Union and the Klingon Rebelion. Under his command, the Empire exterminated the Klingon species, to ensure that they would never rebel again. The Bajoran Rebelion was crushed in 2380, and the Bajoran people were nearly exterminated as well.