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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781416537397
ISBN number: 1416537392
Label: Star Trek
Manufacturer: Star Trek
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: June 26, 2007
Publishing house: Star Trek
Sale Popularity Level: 246984
Studio: Star Trek
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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. EnterpriseTM 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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Bennett is an incredible world builder. The Star Trek universe presented in this novel is every tiny bit as consistent and plausible as any series of science fiction ever released, and applies such copious amounts of ingenious spackle that even TNG's very first two seasons almost make sense. The achievements in this area should not be overlooked; I almost feel like one should read this before ever watching Star Trek, in much the same way that Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy so entirely improved the original Star Wars trilogy. The appearances of Janeway and all the main characters were absolutely perfectly characterized and realistically developed, especially Data. And Bennett gives Picard himself the greatest tragic flaw the character is capable of as well, one that unfortunately foreshadows First Contact a little too strongly, but is otherwise perfectly compelling. Bennet's ability to make this world and these characters come alive is stunning, every bit as much here as in his similarly wonderful Ex Machina.
Unfortunately, despite being a brilliantly conceived universe with perfectly realized characters, it still manages to be, well, sort of boring for about the middle half. Interesting stuff happens, it just happens very slowly and in a lot of detail. I'm not sure much of this could've been prevented, but the last quarter does an excellent job of skipping over important things to summarize them later, so I feel like the middle half could've been somewhat flensed.
Still, ultimately the story is so wonderful, and so perfectly realized, that it overcomes its lack of narrative drive and delivers a sweeping and legitimately sci-fi wondrous conclusion. Bennett does more to legitimize the show than the show does, and it's a fanboy's abject joy to read.
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Christopher Bennett's "Star Trek The Next Generation: The Buried Age" is among the finer examples of "Star Trek" fiction that I've come across lately. It is a most engaging, quite exciting, exploration of very first contact that works too as a decent space opera science fiction novel. Here we are given some interesting, quite tantalizing, glimpses into Jean-Luc Picard's character, looking more closely at his lifelong interest in archaeology, and the aftermath of losing the USS Stargazer. It is also a fine introduction to Picard's initial meetings with the entire command crew of the USS Enterprise-D. Told well by Christopher Bennett in clear, concise prose is Picard's unexpected encounter with the enigmatic alien Ariel. Anyone who is a fan of "Star Trek" fiction and of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", should add this book to their collection.
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This book started out great don't get me wrong but then it just became bogged down with the technical stuff which ruined the series at times as well. I give it three stars just because we learn so much about Picard and other characters.
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Covers period of Picard's life betweem loss of the Stargazer and Enterprise D (Next Gen). Predictible that the alien is going to fall for Picard and end up betraying him... ok for fans who want to fill in gap, but otherwise its obvious how book is going to end.
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I can't praise this book more. Just to fair, Prime Directive is still my favorite Trek book of them all, but this one is in contention. C. Bennett has out-done himself (as well as most of Trek writers) with this terrific Trek addition. This author is clearly a fan of Trek as a whole and has seen through a novel that truly embodies the vastness of scale that the Trek Universe so wonderfully encompasses.
I've been a Trek fan as long as I can remember, and have read many Trek novels, but have encountered nothing like this. The sheer scale of Time and Space and the inclusion of the many older races like the Q, Dwoud, El-Aurian, and the Organians makes for one of the purest Trek books ever written. Perhaps it is to Gene Roddenberry's credit that the versatile nature of the TNG characters plays out so well, but Bennett wields these characters with the skill of a Maestro.
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