The Buried Age

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Author:	Christopher L. Bennett
Illustrator:	Stephan Martiniere
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG The Lost Era
Published:	July 2007
Pages:	439
Year:	2355 - 2364
Stardate:	32217 - 41124
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.

Summary

From the book jacket

Jean-Luc Picard. His name has gone down in legend as the captain of the U.S.S. Stargazer and two starships Enterprise. But the nine years of his life leading up to the inaugural mission of the U.S.S. 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, archaeology, 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 brillian 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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Background Information

• Memory Alpha is thanked in the acknowledgements as an "invaluable resource".

Characters

Jean-Luc Picard

Data

Guinan

[[Deanna Troi]

Kathryn Janeway

References

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