In this timeline, Jean-Luc Picard disobeyed Starfleet orders virtually from the moment he arrived on board the USS Enterprise-D at Earth Station McKinley, ordering the ship to red alert upon disembarking from the shuttlecraft Galileo and setting a course to Farpoint Station rather than proceeding to the Devron system, per Starfleet's orders. Upon meeting with Q, Picard took the Enterprise to the Devron system after informing Commander William T. Riker that the Enterprise would not be picking him, Dr. Beverly Crusher and Lieutenant Geordi La Forge up at Farpoint as planned. Using an inverse tachyon pulse to scan the anomaly and thanks to the intervention of Q, Picard elected to take the Enterprise into the anomaly itself and initiate a static warp shell to seal the anomaly and prevent it fr