#Admiral Jean-Luc Picard

[rosalie-starfall]

If You Asked Me To:

Jack can't help but notice his parent's still have feelings for each other. Just wanting them to be happy he quickly gets to work.

A Picard/Crusher love story filling in the one year gap from Picard Season 3 between defeating the Borg and playing poker with their extended family in 10 forward.

[v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e]

But why does all this matter? Is something going to happen for which I will be required?

Star Trek: Picard Farewell (2x10)

[laurelgreen]

Turn and cough.

[lordlexion]

Re-watching Star Trek is definitely a more conscious experience for me. Like the power of that scene… The dialogue is superb, with a brutal and moving message. And the way John de Lancie plays his role is amazing.

[geekysteven]

[best-star-trek-character]

Round One

[jacensolodjo]

If I was sorry for my actions Would I ever stoop so low Got no reason to live and I've got nothing left to give you

[the-mad-hatter-tea-party]

A family that fights together stays together...? I hope.

[departmentq]

An antiquated, mothballed, off-the-network starship, that's essentially a museum piece...

Commanded by a admiral that's retired/on the cusp of retirement?

[hauntedmoonchaos]

Love that in the Alpha Quadrant. If something is wrong, you either turn to Janeway or Picard. Like Starfleet is a big place but everyone is like I trust these bitches only.

[rosalie-starfall]

Picard/Crusher

Star Trek: Picard- Season 3

[scentofdriedflowers]

that cadet 5 years ago asking Picard about his encounter with the Hirogen, and another asking if admiral Janeway ever offered any advice about them sdfghjkljhgfdsdfghjkl I fucking cackled

I can only imagine how Janeway would have 'advise him' with the Hirogen after The Killing game.... 'they fucked up my ship so bad Jean Luc we 'played' WW2 for weeks...it was a nightmare! at the end we HAD to use diplomacy, LOT of it, it's gonna give you headache Picard, lot of it

[isagrimorie]

Part 1, 2, 3

Captain Janeway discovers the nebula they're about to use to get home to the Alpha Quadrant, aside from being littered with Borg is also a Borg transwarp hub.

Captain Janeway is angry at the subterfuge and calls off the trip back home in order to come up with a plan to destroy the Borg hub. Admiral Janeway is frustrated by what she thinks is her younger self's self-righteous idealism.

I love the things the Admiral reveals that make Captain Janeway reconsider:

Captain Janeway: You got Voyager home, which means I will too. If it takes a few more years then that's--

But Admiral immediately cuts Janeway off:

This stops Captain Janeway cold. Her fight drains from her eyes.

Admiral Janeways begins to explain:

Again, Janeway looks like someone dropped a bucket of ice water down her head.

Admiral Janeway: Chakotay. He'll never be the same after Seven's death, and neither will you.

It's the addition of 'And neither will you.' that sells the shippy lens for me. Stuck in a strange love triangle where both Seven and Chakotay loved Kathryn Janeway, and Kathryn loved both.

They could have been a throuple but the chains of commanding have a stranglehold on Kathryn Janeway.

Both Janeways take a pause, for the Admiral it's an old wound, losing Seven, and essentially losing Chakotay too. For Captain Janeway, it's a new kind of knife wound.

They also take a beat because Admiral Janeway knows how Captain Janeway truly felt for both. The only one Janeway will admit it to.

Losing Seven is an ever-present wound. But she isn't the only impetus for Admiral Janeway traveling back in time.

"Leave no man behind." This is one of Janeway's key rules for being Captain.

And to hear that she loses 22 more people under her command on top of everyone else and then Tuvok, her oldest and dearest friend...

Captain Janeway talks to Tuvok about his illness and Tuvok assures her that he is still okay but it's true the only cure he has is in the Alpha Quadrant, meanwhile, Admiral Janeway is attempting to persuade Seven into talking Captain Janeway into stopping her foolish plan destroying the transwarp hub.

Admiral Janeway is not gaining much success because, at this point, Seven of Nine has imbibed Captain Janeway's missions as her own.

The Admiral argues that she knows Seven's real reason why she doesn't want to disobey the Captain.

Seven fires back with: "My future is insignificant compared to the lives of the people we'd be saving."

This more than anything is the connective tissue between this Seven and Picard Era!Seven:

"Ranging is my job. It's hopeless and pointless and exhausting, and the only thing worse... would be giving up."

And honestly, Seven having this ready on hand to say to Picard tells me this is the same argument she's had with Prime Timeline Picard Era!Janeway... Right before Seven left Earth for Fenris. (This is pre-Firewall novel, circa June 2023).

She's come such a long way from that proud Borg drone, to this Seven of Nine who would do anything to save a life and atone for what she's done.

Part 1, 2, 3

[lordlexion]

Nobody, nothing: The bridge of the Enterprise, Q and Lwaxana Troi, stand in silence, focusing their attention on the captain.

Jean-Luc Picard: What is the meaning of this?

Q and Lwaxana Troi: Ignoring the captain.

Q: Ten out of ten?

Lwaxana Troi: Ten out of ten.

Q and Lwaxana Troi: They nod in agreement, going back to admiring Jean-Luc's incredible legs in his fabulous dress uniform.

[thesevenwondersofawitch]

"We both knew we were at the end."

"I didn't. I didn't know I would never see you again. Wonder for years what it was I had done, having no idea it was really all about what you had done."

[marymoss1971]

Picard visits Clancy

@curator-on-ao3 I thought of you when I read this this morning. LOL