The Lost Era: The Buried AgeThe mysterious "missing years" of Captain Picard's life—before he commanded the Enterprise—are revealed at last in this Star Trek: The Next Generation novel! 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 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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... thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 64 PART I THE QUALITY OF MERCY b 2355 1 Stardate.
... thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 64 PART I THE QUALITY OF MERCY b 2355 1 Stardate.
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... thought struck Picard. “Can you shut down ship's gravity? Without convection, the fires would smother in their own smoke.” The Gnalish shook his gray-scaled head. “I no longer have control of those systems.” It was the paradox of ...
... thought struck Picard. “Can you shut down ship's gravity? Without convection, the fires would smother in their own smoke.” The Gnalish shook his gray-scaled head. “I no longer have control of those systems.” It was the paradox of ...
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... thought gave him the strength to continue. The derelict was abandoned, its hangars empty. So the killers of his son had survived, no doubt escaped back to their Federation. That put them beyond his reach for now. But he understood how ...
... thought gave him the strength to continue. The derelict was abandoned, its hangars empty. So the killers of his son had survived, no doubt escaped back to their Federation. That put them beyond his reach for now. But he understood how ...
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Christopher L. Bennett. have thought it lost forever, doomed to destruction in a gas planet's bottomless atmosphere. Imagine its captain's joy when Bok found him and offered the ship to him again. It would be a precious item he would ...
Christopher L. Bennett. have thought it lost forever, doomed to destruction in a gas planet's bottomless atmosphere. Imagine its captain's joy when Bok found him and offered the ship to him again. It would be a precious item he would ...
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... thought. It took nearly ten weeks for a rescue ship to come: seven for the signal to reach a Federation transponder, another two for the Starfleet vessel Ceres to travel out so far from home, days more for it to track down a cluster of ...
... thought. It took nearly ten weeks for a rescue ship to come: seven for the signal to reach a Federation transponder, another two for the Starfleet vessel Ceres to travel out so far from home, days more for it to track down a cluster of ...
Contents
Section 16 | 249 |
Section 17 | 268 |
Section 18 | 286 |
Section 19 | 307 |
Section 20 | 315 |
Section 21 | 322 |
Section 22 | 340 |
Section 23 | 352 |
Section 9 | 128 |
Section 10 | 145 |
Section 11 | 163 |
Section 12 | 175 |
Section 13 | 193 |
Section 14 | 213 |
Section 15 | 233 |
Section 24 | 362 |
Section 25 | 376 |
Section 26 | 392 |
Section 27 | 401 |
Section 28 | 407 |
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Page 168 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 168 - Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Page 284 - it is not what you say, but how you say it" ; but of course, how you say it may depend on what you want to say.
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Page 38 - Before engaging alien species in battle, any and all attempts to make first contact and achieve nonmilitary resolution must be made.