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Captain Picard and Commander Riker struggle for survival on a primitive, war-torn world!
Masks is a Pocket TNG novel – #7 in the numbered series – written by John Vornholt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in July 1989.
Summary
- From the book jacket
- The USS Enterprise-D journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world with a feudal culture where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. There, Captain Picard and an away team don masks of their own to begin a quest for the planet's ruler and the great Wisdom Mask that the leader traditionally wears. Their mission: to establish diplomatic relations.
- But shortly after transporting, Picard and his party lose contact with the ship, and Commander Riker leads a search party down to the planet to find them.
- Both men, however, are unaware that their searches – indeed, the ship's entire mission – are part of a madman's plan. A madman who is setting the stage for a trap that will ensnare both the Enterprise landing parties, and leave him poised to seize control of the awesome Wisdom Mask…
- And the planet Lorca itself.
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Background information
- This is the first Star Trek novel by author John Vornholt. Masks was also Vornholt's first published novel.
External links
- Masks at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Masks at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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