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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kazeite: [QB] Hello everyone, I'm Kazeite and I'm new here. :) I'm from Poland, a small country between Germany and Russia, and English is not my native language, so please excuse my grammar errors. I was reading this board for the long time and I finally decided to join. :) So, for my first post I wanted to start discussion about some forgotten and not-discussed mysteries like the length of the Defiant ;) or even the number of torpedo launchers on the Akira ;) ), but decided to settle on something simple: Jean-Luc Picard duty record. I must confess that I don't like Picard very much. In fact I like Janeway better. (And just to show you my tastes in trek, let me add that I think that ST5 was better movie than ST8 :D ) So, I was thinking about Picard and how did he managed to become captain of the Enterprise. Let me tell you, it doesn't make sense to me why he was chosen to have this job. Why? Let me explain. First of all, what do we know about Picard for sure? He graduated in 2327. I think that one of the books suggests that he was posted to USS Antares, but that's not important. :) In 2329 he's already a lieutenant on Stargazer, and in 2333 he assumes command of Stargazer. That�s only SIX years after his graduation! I think that's strange. Either Picard became good friends with someone that could pull strings (so to speak), or it was no big deal to give old, outdated ship such as Stargazer to such inexperienced officer. And now we enter 20 years long Stargazer era. Pretty uneventful, it would appear. We know for sure that Picard had some dealings with Cardassians ("The Wounded") and with theta-band carrier waves ("Chain of Command"), he had couple of affairs, he managed to get Jack Crusher killed, and then he ran into Ferengi in 2355. And then there's 9 years of absolute silence after that. It would appear that Picard didn't receive another ship, so what was he doing? And suddenly he becomes captain of the flagship of the Federation. The Enterprise. And that's even stranger, don't you think? I wouldn't consider Picard to be perfect candidate for that position... in fact I wouldn't consider him at all... I don't believe that man who was commanding obsolete cruiser for the past twenty years would be a good choice for this position. Another thing that seems peculiar is that every other admiral seems to be on the first name basis with Picard. So, is it possible that some friend of his pulled the right strings again? What do you think about it? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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