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Jean-Luc Picard had encountered many reminders of previous Enterprise missions in the past when he had been the commanding officer of the Enterprise D and the Enterprise E.
During his time at the Academy and when he had read the required material on Kirk's famous 5 year missions, Jean-Luc had believed himself ready to see many of the things that Kirk had seen, only to discover that he wasn't until he had boarded the Enterprise for the first time as captain of the new - at the time - flagship of the Federation.
Admiral McCoy's visit to the Enterprise during the Farpoint Mission. The Polywater infection. Guinan's startling implication that an alternative version of himself had sent Tasha onboard the Enterprise C at some point resulted in Sela's birth. Travelling back into the past before the Cestus 3 massacre at the hands of the Gorn. Meeting Ambassador Spock and then later Captain Scott before meeting James T. Kirk in the Nexus.
Kirk and the Enterprise at the time had travelled through time so many times the Department of Temporal Investigations had used their experiences as a template, but one of the missions that stood out the most barring the instance where Dr McCoy accidentally changed the past when he had gone through the Guardian of Forever and changed history was when he'd read the account of Gary Seven.
Gary Seven had mysteriously transported to the Enterprise by accident, transported by a powerful technology unknown to Starfleet at the time of the 23rd century, never mind the 24th and early 25th centuries. He was a human who worked for a group of higher aliens who had a vested, albeit dubiously mysterious interest in Earth's development. Little was known about them, not even with subsequent and brief encounters with Seven, but they took preserving the timeline seriously, but they hadn't been encountered for years.
Until now.
Picard wasn't expecting to meet a supervisor who had a strong resemblance to Laris (he was beginning to regret the way things turned out) and she was the guardian/watcher of one of Picard's own ancestors. The fact it was Renee Picard was a surprise, but one he quickly got over. As a child, Jean-Luc had read the whole of his family history, one Deanna had noted was extremely important to him, and why not? The Picard who fought at Trafalgar and lost to the British Navy (from what he'd heard, that Picard had been at odds with the French admiral in command of the French and Spanish fleets), the Picard who won a Nobel prize for chemistry, and the Picard's who had settled the first Martian colonies. But Renee Picard won a place in his heart, as one of the leading astronauts who had headed the Europa expedition in 2024 - this year - and led to more space exploration missions throughout this part of the 21st century, which led to the discovery of subspace and dilithium, changing humanity's future forever.
And Q wanted to change history from that point.
But the entity's way of doing it surprised him and he wondered if the Continuum, for reasons best known only to them, was making sure he couldn't snap his fingers and change the past that way.
He didn't know but he was relieved Renee's guardian angel was watching over her.
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Until the next time.