Story:Star Trek: The New Generation/Court Martial/Chapter One

In the Observation Lounge John, Typhuss, and Camile are talking about the past between James and John before his death.

John and James were both in the run for Command of the Enterprise in 2380 when Picard was promoted to Admiral, and James wasn't happy about it, then he tried to hit on Ezri when we were celebrating our win against the Borg so John got frustrated and killed him and made it look like a suicide Camile says as she looks at both John and Typhuss.

John looks at her.

The part where he hit on Ezri is true and I confronted him about it and he said he was sorry and I had no motive to kill him, Typhuss you know me I'd do anything to protect my wife and kids but killing isn't my style John says as he looks at Typhuss.

Typhuss then gets an idea of how to do this.