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

Here There Be Dragons is a Pocket TNG novel – #28 in the numbered series – written by John Peel. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the  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…

Memorable quotes 
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!" 
- Lukas the magician, summoning Worf

Background information 
 This is the first Star Trek novel by John Peel.
 This was the final Pocket TNG novel to be reprinted in the UK by Titan Books; future releases would be distributed by Simon & Schuster UK.

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

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

Second away team 
 Troi  wealthy lady
 Riker  man-at-arms

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

Smugglers 
 Castor Nayfrack
 Dr. Hagan
 O'Leary  deceased
 Tanaka  deceased
 Randolph  leader

Locals 
 Michael Kirsch  scholar
 Martina  servant girl
 The Duke
 Herr Graebel  wine merchant and slaver
 Sigfrid  manservant to Grabel
 Captain Volker  chief jailer?

References 
beta-tachyons; ; 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.

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