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Jean - Luc Picardwasn’t always the degree - headed Starfleet captain thatStar Trekfans roll in the hay . Star Trek : Picard ’s Academytakes readers back to his schoolhouse days and shows how the boy became the mankind . In an upcoming event , what was supposed to just be a trying school test turns into something that tests Picard ’s genuine mettle - and show why even in his juvenility , he would become a better senior pilot than James T. Kirk .
Kirk is magnificently the only Starfleet Academy cadet to " pass by " the Kobayashi Maru , a psychometric test that makes succeeding skipper understand how to handle " no - winnings " situations . Many age afterward , inStar Trek : Picard ’s Academy # 5by Sam Mags , Ornella Greco , Charlie Kirchoff , Jeff Eckleberry and Sweeney Boo , Picard wants to originate to the head of his course of study and graduate early , counting on sail through the Evasive Maneuvers exam to be his ticket to the star . However , he ’s been saddled with a squad he does n’t get along with , and is attacked by actual enemies .
It ’s a bit more of a challenge than hacking a simulation .
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Captain Kirk Actually Failed the Kobayashi Maru
His arrogance showed he was clever, not a captain
The Kobayashi Maru was never about who could " win . “As Lily recently told Ro Laren inStar Trek # 11,“It ’s a lesson in reality . A monitor that when it ’s all going speculative , nothing - utterly nothing - can be done to modify it . “By chop the simulation so that his team could escape safely , Kirk show he was crafty and willing to cheat to number out on top . reckon of originative means to save up people is its own virtue , but by avoiding the examination , Kirk never learned the lesson he was think to - a lesson Picard dead explained onStar Trek : The Next Generationtowards the end of Season 2 :
" It is potential to commit no mistakes , and still lose . That is not weakness ; that is lifespan . "
In many ways , youthful Picard is a lot like Kirk . He ’s undimmed and driven , but also self-important , adjust professors and thinking himself above his fellow cadets . He want out of the Academy as presently as possible , imagining himself now being boost to captain . Picard ’s past times taught him life is myopic , and he ’s seek to rush ahead and live as much of his planned life as he can . However , he ’s omit out on his current unseasoned living by avoiding a cadet party at his dorm -evenProfessor Spock has to explicate to him the importance of socializing and making friends . He pictures himself as a bang-up headwaiter who handles everything himself , without sympathize that a ship is best go with a crowd who works together and trusts each other . This feeling is put to the mental test when he discovers his squad of student for the Evasive Maneuvers exam .
Picard Has to Unite a Team He Doesn’t Like
And he learns while under an actual Romulan attack
His test crew for the final examination is n’t the best . There ’s Reshan Dar , an chesty student who hate him ; Doq , his timid admirer ; Nirula and K’ccyt , two lunkheads who care to goof off and wrestle ; and fellow human Marty . interchangeable to the Kobayashi Maru , their trial is supposed to be a simulation , but in a prevue forStar Trek : Picard ’s Academy # 5 , the team is boarded by enemy Romulans . Unable to contact Starfleet , the cadets are on their own , and Picard will have to get a team of misfit to work together and listen to him . Also , throughout the series , there has been a mysterious teller that is n’t Picard , but has a snatch of a snarky spirit about the events unfolding . This may be the help the cadets will need in their first - ever space battle , orit could be ill-famed Picard stan Q , there to make the test even more daunting . Whatever happen , this series has been givingStar Trekgreat play and insight into the fan - favoriteCaptain Jean - Luc Picard .
Star Trek : Picard ’s Academy # 5is coming in January 2024 from IDW .
Star Trek : Picard ’s Academy # 5
