What did Picard do for those nine years?

[Shark]

What did Picard do for those nine years following the disappearance of the Stargazer? Were I given command of such a ship, I would think it a punishment. And then they dick with him for nine years after he loses that bucket of bolts, not giving him a command! (As far as we know) And then not only do they give him the new Galaxy class Enterprise, flagship of the fleet, but a ship with kids on board!

Did Picard sue them or something? Did he piss someone off? Sleep with someone's wife? (Or Husband?)

 

[Kilana2]

I don't think that anybody of us is inclined to answer your questions which have no other purpose than showing your dislike of Picard's past, how he was supposedly treated by Starfleet and Starfleet's practice of enabling officers to take their families with them.
I don't want to participate in a bashing of Picard and children aboard starships. Based on that, your attempt of initiating a discussion like that is likely to end up in the closing of this thread.

 

[Amaris]

What did Picard do for those nine years following the disappearance of the Stargazer? Were I given command of such a ship, I would think it a punishment. And then they dick with him for nine years after he loses that bucket of bolts, not giving him a command! (As far as we know) And then not only do they give him the new Galaxy class Enterprise, flagship of the fleet, but a ship with kids on board!

Did Picard sue them or something? Did he piss someone off? Sleep with someone's wife? (Or Husband?)

He probably backpacked through Europe; he discovered himself, embraced his dual nature (obviously British man who spoke French), and walked back into Starfleet Command and demanded his own by-god ship. So impressed were they by his apparently giant balls and bald pate, they gave him the Enterprise.

 

[Squiggy]

Desk job.

 

[Melakon]

Desk job.

Federation Undersecretary in Charge of Agricultural Affairs for Sherman's Planet.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Exotic dancer travelling with a troop of Orion Animal Women.

 

[T'Girl]

I think he commanded that space station depicted in that painting in his quarters

 

[Mage]

There's Christopher Bennett's The Buried Age, a great novel if you ask me.

 

[Shark]

I don't think that anybody of us is inclined to answer your questions which have no other purpose than showing your dislike of Picard's past, how he was supposedly treated by Starfleet and Starfleet's practice of enabling officers to take their families with them.
I don't want to participate in a bashing of Picard and children aboard starships. Based on that, your attempt of initiating a discussion like that is likely to end up in the closing of this thread.

That's not how I feel at all. I wasn't bashing anyone. At least, not intending to. I was joking.

 

[Shark]

All good answers. And viable possibilities.

 

[Kilana2]

I don't think that anybody of us is inclined to answer your questions which have no other purpose than showing your dislike of Picard's past, how he was supposedly treated by Starfleet and Starfleet's practice of enabling officers to take their families with them.
I don't want to participate in a bashing of Picard and children aboard starships. Based on that, your attempt of initiating a discussion like that is likely to end up in the closing of this thread.

That's not how I feel at all. I wasn't bashing anyone. At least, not intending to. I was joking.

All right then. All your other posts seemed alright for me.

It's just that there were a lot of provocating/bashing threads recently. Those people usually posted odd comments in other threads.

Phrasings like yours can easily be misunderstood, though.

As to Picard: I don't want to spoiler about Christopher's Lost Era novel The Buried Age, but it deals with Picard's past.

With calling Stargazer a bucket of bolts you're a credit to the fiercest Klingon warriors....

 

[Karzak]

Surely after a distinguished 22-year tour of duty as captain of the Stargazer, its possible Picard had accrued a shitload of shore leave to use.

We also know he was court-martialed after he and his crew abandoned the Stargazer following the Battle of Maxia. It's entirely possible he was required to take some position not on a starship for some time, even though he was cleared of any wrongdoing.

Which begs the question -- were Picard and Riker court-martialed after the destruction of the Enterprise-D?

Speaking of the Enterprise-D: Nine years is a long time. It's possible Starfleet decided even before they laid the spaceframe for the Enterprise-D that they wanted Picard to command her. It's very possible he completed random assignments for Starfleet in between shore leave while waiting for the ship to be completed.

 

[Kilana2]

He spent some time with his favority hobby - archeology, somewhere in the known or unknown galaxy, attending some excavation sites or other......

 

[Trekker4747]

There's Christopher Bennett's The Buried Age, a great novel if you ask me.

Indeed it is. But, not canon.

Speaking of the Enterprise-D: Nine years is a long time. It's possible Starfleet decided even before they laid the spaceframe for the Enterprise-D that they wanted Picard to command her. It's very possible he completed random assignments for Starfleet in between shore leave while waiting for the ship to be completed.

This seems likely, Picard may have already been slated to go to the Enterprise when he was on the Stargazer, which was going to be decommissioned soon. Picard would spend a few more years on the Stargazer and then go to the Enterprise.

When the Stargazer was destroyed Picard was probably granted an extended shore-leave from unused leave, perhaps, during his Stargazer tenure. It's also possible there may have been a year or two of "work" that had to be done before leaving on the Enterprise. He did, after all, have to staff it. Not the entire 1000+ crew, certainly, but the key positions and this would have taken time to look over records, probably do interviews, and such. Maybe even a level or two of over-seeing the construction of the ship.

He also could have just done something for or in Starfleet that we just never heard about. Hell, who's to say he didn't command another ship for that brief time just doing simple and basic Gopher Missions for Starfleet?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I always assumed he was given another, newer, larger ship (compared to the Stargazer that is) to command before getting the Enterprise. Maybe something along the lines of an Apollo-, Cheyenne- or Korolev-Class vessel.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Not a very successful "joke". Perhaps a long nap will help this thread.