Book Description
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.
Star Trek: Stargazer: Oblivion FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
FROM THE CRITICS
KLIATT - Hugh Flick, Jr.
The Stargazer series follows the adventures of Jean Luc Picard in his first captaincy. In this installment a young Picard is sent to get some supposedly stolen information from a Zartani spy on a space station cobbled together from old ships. The most significant thing that happens is that he meets Guinan, who recognizes him from his future time-travel adventure back to 19th-century San Francisco to retrieve Data's head. Picard and Guinan work together to discover the truth behind the stolen information while fending off a group of Cardassians led by the future leader of the Obsidian Order. (Star Trek: Stargazer, Book 4). KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2003, Pocket Books, 259p., Ages 12 to adult.
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