<div class="floatleft">(https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/e/e8/Picard2379.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120311033504&amp;path-prefix=en)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Jean-Luc Picard<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Starfleet Academy, Arik Soong's Office<br/><strong>Transition Info:</strong>None<br/><strong>Tagging/Mentioning:</strong>Arik Soong<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong><br/><br/><hr/>Jean-Luc cocked his head to the side as if considering his words, a rueful cast to his features and smile as he did so, a slight shake of his head as he did so.<strong>"You know, given what I am and all of the experience I have I would be better at this.  I am one more for learning and experiencing things first hand than learning about them.  One could tell from my days at the Academy.  Oh I was was not last in my class, but I was not among the first in the class either.  My first assignment was chosen for me as secondary helmsman on board the <em>Reliant</em>."</strong>In an almost unconscious gesture, he raised his hand up a bit before noticing it and letting it return back to his leg, and his face changed with a newfound resolve perhaps in the memory.<br/><br/><strong>"There are going to be times you are tempted to second guess yourself, then you are given no good solutions and you are going to need to decide which is the best, worst choice you can make.  It is easy, when you are always given a good choice, the right choice, the moral choice all of the time.  If it were the case though, we never would experienced what we have experience what we have these last few decades.  You will make wrong choices, even I made wrong choices, more than I can count, but I have found it was those wrong choices, and how we dealt with them, how we lived with and tried to atone for and make write which better define us.  Do not second guess yourself, and when you find yourself having made the wrong choice, do not wallow in the what could have been.  Own it, and make it right.  In my mind it is what separates what makes the cood starship captains, from the great one's."</strong><br/><br/>Jean-Luc rose then, and offered his hand out towards Arik.<strong>"And yes I might be a bit immodest in including myself in the later, but I think my record does speak for itself in how well I followed my own words and example.  I won't take up much ore of your time, as I know you have a ship to get too, and alas, I have a speech I promised to give the Cadet Brigade, but I wanted to be certain I saw you first before you left.  I wish you luck and Godspeed Arik.  You are about to embark upon an adventure of which I can only envy, and wish perhaps I was in your shoes once more."</strong>After listening to Arik's parting words, Jean-Luc would give him a inclination of his head in respect, then left the office, making his way out into the corridor and leaving the Android to his own thoughts.