Description
- When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise receive news of a Human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.
- Penetrating the cloud, the starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth's Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of interstellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards, twenty-feet tall and armored like tanks.
- Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data, and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters' ancient weapon, based on an advanced technology capable of utterly annihilating the starship Enterprise…
References
Characters
- Reginald Barclay • Beverly Crusher • Data • Graebel • Hagan • Hinner • Michael Kirsch • Geordi La Forge • Jenny Mancini • Martina • Miles • Castor Nayfack • Keiko O'Brien • Miles O'Brien • Jean-Luc Picard • Randolph • William Riker • Ro Laren • Alexander Rozhenko • Sigfrid • Smolinske • Deanna Troi • Van Popering • Volker • Worf
- Referenced only
- Binder • Irwin Allen • Roger Corman • William Shakespeare
Starships and vehicles
- Damascus-class (Earth pleasure cruiser) • USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer)
Locations
Races and cultures
- Referenced only
- Cardassian • Ferengi • Preserver • Romulan
States and organizations
- Referenced only
- Preserver Union
Science and classification
- airlock • beta tachyon • Black Death • bubonic plague • duraluminum • minute • nebula • star • subspace • tachyon emission field • time
Ranks and titles
- agent • archaeologist • captain • chief engineer • counselor • duke • knight • officer • poacher • second officer • security guard • security officer • serf
Other references
- Aldebaran sand eel • Andorian glitterlings • angel • belfry • Bible • bloodbat • day • dragon • empathy • German • gorilla • Indiana Jones • King Arthur • Macbeth • map • Middle Ages • money • motion picture • nightclaw • planet • Preserver language • Prime Directive • science • tagaak milk • technology • uniform • war • year
Appendices
Images
Connections
Timeline
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous novel: Guises of the Mind |
TNG numbered novels | Next novel: Sins of Commission |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Schisms |
Next Adventure: Future Shock 2nd and 3rd entries | |
External link
- Here There Be Dragons article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
