How much can a man hold on to who he is, to the ideas he holds dear, when all around him the universe he knows and loves seems to be shifting away from him? For Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, a man historically given to existential introspection, a man quite literally no longer the human being he used to be, these questions loom large. The Federation has been touched by darker days since Jean-Luc captained the Enterprise. The destruction of Romulus, and the events that followed it, not least Starfleet’s response to Romulan suffering, led Picard to resign acrimoniously from Starfleet. Yet, in a time of uncertainty, when the threads of old enmities threaten to fray and snap, when the bloodlust rises and calls for war, perhaps Jean-Luc Picard is the older, wiser head the galaxy needs.