Captain Picard

[James Wright]

What did Captain Picard do in the years after the loss of the Stargazer and being chosen to command the Enterprise-D?
Memory Alpha states that he was courts-martialed but absolved of all charges, so what did he do afterwards?
He sorta lost the Stargazer in 2355 and apparently didn't set foot onto the bridge of another starship until 2364 when he took command of the Enterprise-D.(9 years if the dates listed are correct.)

James

 

[shivkala]

Interesting question. Memory Alpha had this to say:

What Picard did for the nine years between the Stargazer and the Enterprise is unknown and has never been discussed in any Star Trek production. The amount of time would have been sufficient for him to command another starship, but Picard has never mentioned another starship command beside the Stargazer and Enterprise. The novel The Buried Age filled in many of the gaps, including Picard's first meetings with Troi, Data, Yar, Kathryn Janeway, and La Forge.


In the fourth season episode "Legacy", when Picard talked to Ishara Yar in sickbay, he related that he first met Tasha when Picard's ship and the ship that Tasha was assigned to at the time responded to a distress call and Tasha was on the planet's surface saving wounded colonists. Since Tasha was on the Enterprise when the ship left Spacedock for its first mission, it would appear that Picard was commanding another ship when he met Tasha.

FYI, The Buried Age was written by author and TrekBBS poster Christopher.

 

[Mojochi]

In the fourth season episode "Legacy", when Picard talked to Ishara Yar in sickbay, he related that he first met Tasha when Picard's ship and the ship that Tasha was assigned to at the time responded to a distress call and Tasha was on the planet's surface saving wounded colonists. Since Tasha was on the Enterprise when the ship left Spacedock for its first mission, it would appear that Picard was commanding another ship when he met Tasha.

That makes some sense. It's also possible he went a while without a command, or bouncing to & from commands. His story about his 1st encounter with LaForge seems to suggest he might have had an assignment that wasn't captaining a ship

I've been thinking about the first time I met Geordi La Forge. He was a young officer, assigned to pilot me on an inspection tour. And I made some offhand remark about the... shuttle's engine efficiency not being what it should. And the next morning I found that... he'd stayed up all night refitting the fusion initiators. Well, I knew then that I wanted to have him with me on my next command.

I'm not entirely sure what a Starfleet inspection tour consists of, but it was apparently something that took more than a day. He might have been doing stuff like that here & there too.

It's also possible that once he heard about the ENT-D construction, he spent time politicking himself into position to get the ship. Plus, it's possible his court martial proceedings were a rather long ugly mess. His conversations with Philipa Louvois would seem to confirm that it didn't go easily. It might have taken him some time to get past the stigma of that. All of these things happening could chew up some years

 

[Gary7]

I think he did a little bit of acting in between.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7lv1SDzno[/yt]

 

[Knight Templar]

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I figured that he did some time teaching at the academy. An academic Starfleet background would make sense given that in "Coming of Age" (ST:TNG- Season 1) Admiral Quinn wants to make him an admiral and commandant of the academy.

 

[bbailey861]

I recall enjoying "The Buried Age", and thinking that more books set within this period would have been nice.