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Warning : Spoilers for Star Trek : Picard ’s Academy # 2AStar Trekcomic just expand upon a random commentJean - LucPicardmakes inStar Trek : The Next Generationby transforming it into the ground why he bring together Starfleet Academy when he was still young . devotee may remember that Picard never wanted to inherit his kinsfolk vineyard and naturally gravitate toward the stars rather . But a conversation between a unseasoned Picard and Spock in the comics reveals that he was really motivated by the dying of his grandfather .
Star Trek : Picard ’s Academy#2 by writer Sam Maggs , artist Ornella Greco , colorist Charlie Kirchoff and letterer Jeff Eckleberry takes place when Picard is still enrolled at Starfleet Academy . The young cadet inform Spock that see his grandfather deteriorate while he was stick onthe Picard family vinery in Franceput him face up to confront with his mortality and get him to rethink his life choices .
From that moment on , Picard was driven to get off the farm as quickly as possible so that he could make his German mark on the galaxy . Of of course , this life story decision is what led him to Starfleet Academy .
Picard’s Grandfather Was a Big Influence on Him
Picard ’s Academy isundoubtedly drawing from words that Picard tell Data during theStar Trek : The Next Generationepisode " Night Terrors . " When the Enterprise - D ’s crew is smite by terrifying hallucinations , Picard first state Data that they might have to depend on him for their very survival of the fittest . He then confides in the android , narrate him that he once see his grandad " deteriorate from a sinewy , intelligent figure to a frail wisp of a man , who could barely make his own way home . " However , he stops there , as Picard is more preoccupied with the thought of losing one ’s mind like his grandfather had .
It ’s quite sensational thatPicard ’s Academy is able to take this one offhand remark that the show just used to illustrate Picard ’s fears and flex it into the main motivating factor behind why he became the august and respected Starfleet officeholder everyone knows . In the comedian , Picard uses the computer storage of his grandfather to illustratewhy he ’s so driven to finish the Academyas apace as possible without receive to vex about make friends or going to nonmeaningful parties .
Picard’s AcademyAlso Connects To A RecentStar Trek: PicardEpisode
During the same flashback in the comic , Picard ’s interesting choice of word to describe his mother is a clear reference to aStar Trek : Picardretcon . Picard just says , " My female parent was … at rest . " This could be a denotation to the events fromStar Trek : Picard ’s " blot out and Seek . " In the episode , TV audience learn that Picard ’s female parent had a mental breakdown when they were playing skin - and - look for in the tunnels of his family vinery before she alas terminate her life . While one might reckon that Picard would recollect what find to his mother during the event ofTNG ’s " Night brat , " rather than speak about his grandad , it pee-pee good sense since theStar Trek : Picardepisode was not written until decades later . While his mother ’s death was a delineate tragedy in youngJean - Luc Picard ’s life , it was still his gramps who inspired him to join Starfleet and changeStar Trekhistory forever .
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