Lost Era: The Buried Age

The mysterious 'missing years' of Captain Picard's lifebefore he commanded the Enterpriseare 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 mysteryuntil 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 Picardaided along the way by a brilliant but naive android, an insightful Betazoid, and an enigmatic El-Aurianto the heights of passion, the depths of betrayal, and the farthest reaches of explored space.