Star Trek: The Next Generation: Stargazer: Oblivion
Reeks: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Michael Jan Friedman
- Captain
- Jean
- Luc
- Picard
- accepts
- a
- courageous
- mission
- which
- he
- soon
- finds
- could
- be
- a
- deadly
- trap
- in
- this
- Star
- Trek:
- The
- Next
- Generation
- novel.In
- 1893
- a
- time-traveling
- Jean-Luc
- Picard
- encountered
- a
- long-lived
- alien
- named
- Guinan,
- who
- was
- posing
- as
- a
- human
- to
- learn
- Earth's
- customs.
- During
- this
- "first
- encounter,"
- Picard
- saved
- Guinan's
- life,
- a
- favor
- she
- would
- never
- forget.Five
- centuries
- later,
- Captain
- Picard,
- now
- commander
- of
- the
- Starship
- Enterprise
- ™,
- brought
- Guinan
- aboard
- as
- the
- ship's
- "bartender."
- The
- hope
- was
- that
- her
- wisdom
- and
- inner
- peace
- would
- provide
- a
- moral
- grounding
- for
- Picard's
- crew
- as
- they
- experienced
- the
- dangers
- of
- space.Because
- he
- hadn't
- yet
- made
- his
- trip
- through
- time,
- Picard
- had
- no
- knowledge
- of
- his
- nineteenth-century
- meeting
- with
- Guinan.But
- he
- did
- remember
- a
- different
- first
- encounter
- with
- the
- mysterious
- El-Aurian—a
- tumultuous
- adventure
- in
- which
- Picard
- and
- Guinan
- would
- risk
- their
- lives
- in
- a
- maze
- of
- interplanetary
- intrigue,
- with
- the
- future
- of
- the
- known
- universe
- at
- stake.This
- is
- the
- story
- of
- that
- fateful
- meeting,
- and
- of
- a
- Guinan
- very
- different
- from
- the
- woman
- we
- think
- we
- know—a
- person
- wracked
- by
- pain
- and
- longing,
- shaken
- to
- the
- roots
- of
- her
- soul.A
- Guinan
- who
- yearns
- for oblivion.
