The Buried Age - BookWyrm

eBook, 371 pages

English language

Published Dec. 29, 2007 by Simon & Schuster, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-4165-4506-4

(1 review)

The 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 …

The 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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Elena. reviewed The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

How Picard got to be Captain of the Enterprise

3 stars

I went from "Picard being an archeologist - just the novel I wanted!", to "He's so irrational, WTF?!", to "Now it's getting interesting", to "Oh my, what roller coaster". This book took a long time until I could like it. Before that I was confused and annoyed by Picard's behaviour after meeting Ariel. But it all made sense in the end. I loved the little cameos and first looks at a whole row of characters that we know from screen.

I gave it three stars because the time frame is so long that a compact story is probably impossible to tell. And I prefer compact stories instead of ones that are stretched out over the span of years and years with several big time jumps in between.

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