A Starfleet Academy cadet and member of Nova Squadron who dies in 2368 when the team's five ships collide during a banned manoeuvre.
Joshua Albert is the absent centre of the fifth-season episode The First Duty. He is never seen, but his death drives the story. He flew in Nova Squadron under Nicholas Locarno, and the others escaped the collision by emergency transporter while he did not.
Locarno persuades the survivors to say that Albert panicked and broke formation. Albert's father, a Starfleet officer, visits Wesley Crusher to apologise for his son having let the team down, which Wesley finds almost impossible to bear.
Picard works out that the squadron had been attempting the Kolvoord Starburst and gives Wesley an ultimatum. Wesley's confession clears Albert of blame for the accident.