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I'm putting this here because there's not really a TNG spot that I could find.
I've come to the conclusion that Picard must have commanded a ship between the Stargazer and the Enterprise D. He talls Tasha's sister in "Legacy" TNG that his ship responded to a distress call that Lt. Yar was assisting in and he decided then to have her on his NEXT command. This ship couldn't have been the Enterprise D because Yar was on board that ship before Picard. Couldn't be the Stargazer either, because Yar would've have been a child, if she was even born, when the Stargazer was destroyed.
It's possible that Picard served in some sort of black ops capacity and thus has never spoken about that ship or the events that took place there.
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I kind of always took it as a given that he had a ship between the Stargazer and the Enterprise. Beyond the Yar bit of chronology In "The Battle" they give the date that it was lost and there is definite mention that "the Picard Maneuver" is standard tactical teaching at the Academy so you have to figure that someone on the Ent-D had been taught that (Worf maybe? or one of the younger crewmembers). Plus it just seems unlikely to me that they would have given such an advanced (at the time) ship like the E-D to a captain whose only previous command was a Constellation class, even if he did command it for a long time. Which is another question, given his approximate age, how long did he have the Stargazer?
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I believe he commanded the Stargazer for about 22 years (which actually puts Picard in his 70s or 80s I believe). And there had been many years between the big Stargazer bang and the Ent D.
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Wow, and he only appears to be 59 years old!
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Increased lifespan. I get the impression that McCoy's age in "Encounter at Farpoint" wasn't that unusual, even for a medical genius.
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