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Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise must stop a group of interplanetary trophy hunters from destroying a developing world.

Summary Edit

From the book jacket: When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D 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...

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Memorable Quotes Edit

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!"

- Lukas the magician, summoning Worf

Background Information Edit

Background Info needed

Characters Edit

Jean-Luc Picard
William T. Riker
Data
Ro Laren
Miles O'Brien
Keiko O'Brien
Reginald Barclay
Alexander Rozhenko
Worf

First away team Edit

Lukas (Picard): Musician/magician
Rosalinde (Ro): singer
Dieter (Data): Musician/homunclus
Martel (Miles): Musician
Nayfrack: Musician

Second away team Edit

Troi: wealthy lady
Riker: man-at-arms

Other Enterprise crew Edit

Smolinske: head of Stores
Van Popering: member of the relief bridge crew
Hinner: Ensign
Nurse Ogawa
Jenny Mancini: navigation officer

Smugglers Edit

Castor Nayfrack
Herr Graebel
Dr. Hagan
O'Leary: deceased
Tanaka: deceased
Randolph: leader

Locals Edit

Michael Kirsch: scholar
Martina: servant girl
The Duke
Sigfrid: manservant to Grabel
Captain Volker: chief jailer?

References Edit

Beta-tachyons; USS Enterprise-D; Preservers

Aldebaran sand eels: Endangered. Less than 500 individuals left.
Earth mountain gorilla: Endangered. Less than 500 individuals left.
Starbase 217
Vulcan nightclaw: Endangered. Less than 500 individuals left.

External link Edit

Here There Be Dragons at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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Author(s):	John Peel
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG #28
Published:	1 December 1993
Pages:	275
Stardate:	Unknown (2369)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671865714 (paperback) ISBN 9780743421119 (eBook) ASIN B000FC0PQC (Kindle)