The Buried Age
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| Author(s): | Christopher L. Bennett |
| Artist(s): | Stephan Martiniere |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TNG The Lost Era |
| Published: | July 2007 |
| Pages: | 439 |
| Stardate: | 32217-41124 (2355-2364) |
| Reference: | ISBN 1416537392 |
A tale centering on Jean-Luc Picard, set during the years between the loss of the Stargazer and the beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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- From the book jacket
- Jean-Luc Picard. His name has gone down in legend as the captain of the USS Stargazer and two starships Enterprise. But the nine years of his life leading up to the inaugural mission of the USS Enterprise™ to Farpoint Station have remained a mystery – until now, as Picard's lost era is finally unearthed
- Following the loss of the Stargazer and the brutal court martial that resulted, Picard no longer sees a future for himself in Starfleet. Turning to his other love, archeology, he embarks on a quest to rediscover a buried age of ancient galactic history... and awakens a living survivor of that era: a striking, mysterious woman frozen in time since before the rise of Earth's dinosaurs. But this powerful immortal has a secret of cataclysmic proportions, and her plans will take Picard – aided along the way by a brilliant but naive android, an insightful Betazoid, and an enigmatic El-Aurian – to the heights of passion, the depths of betrayal, and the farthest reaches of explored space.
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[edit] Background Information
- Memory Alpha is thanked in the acknowledgments as an "invaluable resource".
- This novel can be seen as the prequel to The Next Generation.
- A full set of annotations for the novel is available at the author's website
- An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Magazine issue 133.
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