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The captain also chose to take the opportunity to apologize to Data regarding the situation about his potential disassembly. Starfleet rules prevented JAG officers from piloting shuttlecrafts themselves, so Louvois selected Data to serve as her pilot despite the fact he would miss his first chance to visit a circus Louvois believed Data to be 'one of the best helmsmen in the fleet'. ( TNG comic: ' The Noise of Justice')ДЄ few years later, Louvois would head toward a legal conference via shuttlecraft. In 2366, Louvois was asked to come to Starbase 104 by Admiral Jan Rosenstrum to interrogate Captain Picard and his staff for their apparent destruction of the USS Nairobi. ( TNG episode: ' The Measure of a Man')ДЇollowing Data's hearing, Louvois and Picard spent time together prior to the Enterprise departing Starbase 173 to survey planets in the area for possible colonization. She finally agreed that Data was not the property of Starfleet and had the right to choose. Being short staffed, Picard was appointed as Data's defense, with Commander William Riker forced to prosecute. She based her ruling on previous decisions and ordered Data to submit to Commander Bruce Maddox, as he was the property of Starfleet.

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One of her first duties in her new command on Starbase 173 was ruling on the rights of android Lieutenant Commander Data. The JAG office was stationed at Starbase 173, near the Romulan Neutral Zone. By 2365, she was the newly appointed commander of the Judge Advocate General office for Sector 23 and she held the rank of Captain. Sometime later, Louvois returned to Starfleet. In response, Louvois resigned her commission. She was removed from the case, given a formal reprimand, and told to submit to a court of inquiry to determine any further charges. In her zeal to show that she could prosecute Picard without bias, she overcompensated by relentlessly attacking Picard and even brought up something Picard had said in bed. That year, she was the prosecutor in the court martial of Captain Picard held at Starbase 32 following the loss of the USS Stargazer after the Battle of Maxia. ( TNG novel: Available Light)Д«y 2355, Louvois held the rank of Commander. It was there after the inquiry that Louvois first met Captain Jean-Luc Picard and they soon began a relationship.ДЄt some point early in her career, Louvois was stationed on Starbase 11. In 2354, Jack Crusher was killed and an inquiry into his death was held at Starbase 32. She was a friend of Jack Crusher's at Starfleet Academy.

She would spend much of her youth on Tellar, where she 'picked up the Tellarite fondness for a good argument.' ( TNG novels: Available Light, The Buried Age)

1.1 Attorney General of the United Federation of Planets.

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