Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds is a Pocket TNG novel written by Dayton Ward. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
An all-new adventure from the shadows of future history!

2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it's learned that the ship is one of several dispatched across space by an alien species, the Eizand, to search for a new home before their own world becomes uninhabitable. Fearing extraterrestrial invasion, government and military agencies which for more than eighty years have operated in secret swing into action, charged with protecting humanity no matter the cost…

2386: Continuing their exploration of the Odyssean Pass, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise discover what they at first believe is a previously uncharted world, with a civilization still recovering from the effects of global nuclear war. An astonishing priority message from Starfleet Command warns that there's more to this planet than meets the eye, and Picard soon realizes that the mysteries of this world may well weave through centuries of undisclosed human history…

Background information 
 This novel continues author Ward's story of the Aegis interaction with Humanity in the 20th and 21st centuries, first begun in From History's Shadow and continued in Elusive Salvation.
 Cover art and design by Alan Dingman.

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Characters 
Gary Seven
Rain Robinson
Mestral

References

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