Go back to academy days with one of Starfleet's most celebrated officers: Jean-Luc Picard! A new collected series by New York Times best-selling author Sam Maggs.

Before becoming the Federation's finest Jean-Luc was an ordinary student at Starfleet Academy with sights on the stars. His path forward was charted: blow his classmates out of the water on the infamous Evasive Maneuvers exam and graduate early. But there's a detail Cadet Picard hadn't factored into his plan: the exam was a group project and he'd need to make friends with ugh people if he stood a chance at passing.

Federation starships aren't run by a party of one after all. During the training exercise Picard accidentally puts the lives of himself and two of his classmatesDoq and Martyin danger!