Lieutenant Commander Albert is the Starfleet officer whose son Joshua dies in the Nova Squadron accident in The First Duty, and who apologises to Wesley Crusher for the boy's supposed failure.
Lieutenant Commander Albert appears in the fifth-season episode The First Duty. He comes to Starfleet Academy after his son, Cadet Joshua Albert, is killed when the five ships of Nova Squadron collide during practice near Saturn.
The surviving cadets, led by Nicholas Locarno, have agreed to hide the fact that they were attempting the banned Kolvoord Starburst, and their testimony lets it appear that Joshua panicked and caused the crash. Believing this, his father seeks out Wesley Crusher, returns a jumper his son had borrowed and says he is sorry that Joshua let the team down.
The encounter is more than Wesley can easily bear, and it weighs heavily in his decision, after Jean-Luc Picard confronts him, to tell the inquiry the truth.