First Place

"First Place" is a short story by, the pseudonymous Jean-Luc Picard, set in the same continuity as

The contemporary portions of the story are set during the Dominion War, when flashes back to his youth as an association football player on Al-Jamal nearly 20 years previously. A lesson he learned from a rival player resonated with a combat situation in which he would find himself. ("First Place")

External link

 * "First Place," on Ad Astra