Dixon Hill series
The Dixon Hill series was a novel series written by author , and featured private detective Dixon Hill, who first appeared in the short story The Big Good-Bye, published on Earth in the pulp magazine Amazing Detective Stories in 1934.

The Dixon Hill series 
 "Dixon Hill in The Big Good-Bye", 1934 (; )
 "Dixon Hill in The Long Dark Tunnel", 1936 ()
 "Dixon Hill in The (Curse of the) Black Orchid" ()
 "Dixon Hill in The National Sheriff" ()
 "Dixon Hill in The Listening Man" ()
 "Dixon Hill in The Parrot's Claw" ()
 The Pallid Son ()

The Black Orchid was made into a film, Dixon Hill and the Black Orchid sometime before the 22nd century. The series was published to Federation holosuites by Broht & Forrester in the 24th century. (; )

The Big Good-Bye 

As in all Dixon Hill holo-novels, The Big Good-Bye allowed the user to play the private investigator character of Dixon Hill in the San Francisco of 1941.

In 2364 (on stardate 41997.7), a holodeck malfunction aboard the  led to an override of safety protocols. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Dr. Beverly Crusher, historian Whalen, and Data were soon caught up in a real case in which the consequences could prove fatal indeed. ()

In 2373, aboard the , Picard accessed the program, chapter 13, with Lily Sloane in order to escape Borg pursuit. Disengaging the safety protocols, Picard was able to kill two Borg drones using a Thompson submachine gun, thanks to the Borg being unable to adapt to the holographic bullets in time. ()

The Long Dark Tunnel 
This program was listed on the exercise menu in 2365, with a program code list number of 03-936. (, okudagram)

The (Curse of the) Black Orchid 
This program was listed on the exercise menu in 2365, with a program code list number of 02-998. (, okudagram)

The Pallid Son 
In 2024, this novel was published by the Bailey Publishing Press. Renée Picard was reading a copy of this novel while relaxing in the Jackson Roykirk Plaza.

In the novel, Dixon Hill was hired by the members of the Titan Club. They were being hunted down and killed by unknown assailants. Hill was joined in his case by an enigmatic figure known only as the Pallid Son. ()

Unspecified 
In 2365 (on stardate 42859.2), Captain Picard once again took the role of Dixon Hill, again accompanied by Data, in order to flee Lwaxana Troi's manhunt. Lwaxana, however, eventually located him in Rex's Bar, but became infatuated with the owner. ()

In 2367 (on stardate 44502.7), Picard introduced Guinan to the Dixon Hill program, where she played his cousin Gloria. Guinan, however, was not impressed. ()

Program characters
Alva

Gloria

McNary

Nails
Nicky the Nose

Rex

Unnamed characters

Story elements
Precinct 12
Rex's Bar

Appendices

Appearances

Background information
For , all the holographic environments of the Dixon Hill series, as portrayed in that episode, were located on Paramount Stage 16.

A selection of set dressing items from 's quarters It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay featured a few data discs, three of which were labeled as Dixon Hill holonovels. However, it's unclear if these made it on-screen.

Apocrypha 
In the TNG novel Infiltrator, it's mentioned that "new" Dixon Hill adventures, lost in the Eugenics Wars, were still being discovered by librarians in the 2360s either having been mislabeled or stored in obscure archives. Picard instructed the Enterprises computer to alert him whenever such works had been found and added into the Federation database.

In the novel , Picard uses the name "Dixon Hill" as an alias after he is accidentally transported back in time to the planet Cestus III in the year 2267.

In the second issue of the Doctor Who crossover comic Star Trek: The Next Generation - Doctor Who: Assimilation², the Enterprises holodecks received a systems upgrade and with it, a new Dixon Hill adventure, which Picard saved under "Picard Dixon Hill Seven". The upgrades included new smells. Picard then invites Riker, Data and Dr. Crusher to test-run it for him where once inside, they head for a restaurant when they hear the TARDIS materializing and mistake it for a  in the upgrade. In the restaurant, they meet the Eleventh Doctor and his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams, who mistake the program to actually be 1940s San Francisco, while Riker, Data and Dr. Crusher mistake them to be holodeck characters and that the holodeck was malfunctioning again. Riker then ends the program and they're surprised to see the TARDIS and its three occupants are still present.

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