Chapter 12: The Buried Age

Welcome to the Captains Table where we explore the stories that have shaped Star Trek in words. In this chapter, we welcome Roslyn Scoular to the show as regular co-host and we review The Lost Era story: “The Buried Age” by Christopher L. Bennett. As well as reviewing the “The Buried Age” we also take a look at the upcoming book releases and those that have come out already in the past couple of months. The Lost Era series attempts to flesh out some events that were only mentioned briefly in the TV series and tries to tie story threads together about characters or events within the Star Trek universe. Star Trek The Next Generation: The Buried Age written by Christopher L. Bennett 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. This novel covers the 9 years between Jean-Luc Picard's command of the USS Stargazer and his command of the USS Enterprise-D. Let us know what you thought of the show, the book and our review. We look forward to hearing from you. His website – http://home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherLBennettAuthor Blog – http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/ Pocket Books - http://series.simonandschuster.co.uk/Star-Trek