NOVEL
A Hard Rain
Attribution
Series:	Star Trek: The Next Generation
Author(s):	Dean Wesley Smith
Publication information
Published:	paperback - March 2002
ISBN:	ISBN 074341926X
Chronology
Date:	2377

A crisis for Captain Picard—or a case for Dixon Hill, private detective?—A Hard Rain is a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel written by Dean Wesley Smith, released in March 2002.

Contents 1 Description 2 Summary 3 References 3.1 Characters 3.2 Starships and vehicles 3.3 Locations 3.4 Races and cultures 3.5 States and organizations 3.6 Races and cultures 4 Chronology 5 Appendices 5.1 Connections 5.2 External links

DescriptionEdit

Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulp fiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his hefty responsibilities as a Starfleet captain.

But not this time.

The starship USS Enterprise has lost power and control, its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean streets and back alleys of old 'Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded murderer…

Now Dixon Hill, alias Jean-Luc Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise!

SummaryEdit

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Harvey Upstairs Benton • Beverly Crusher • Data • Evans • Jean-Luc Picard • Spot • Whelan • USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) personnel

Referenced only 

Dixon Hill

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise-E (Sovereign-class explorer)

LocationsEdit

USS Enterprise-E 

holodeck

Referenced only 

San Francisco (North America, Earth, Sol system)

Races and culturesEdit

android • hologram • Human

States and organizationsEdit

Federation • Starfleet • United States of America

Races and culturesEdit

20th century • 24th century • android • auriferite • automobile • captain • Cinerama • commander • commanding officer • chief medical officer • clothing • death • doctor • energy • Federation Starfleet ranks • government • gun • history • holodeck • hologram • holographic program • humanoid • lieutenant commander • lifeform • matter • movie • nation-state • operations manager • planet • private detective • races and cultures • rank • second officer • space • star • star system • starship • technology • time • title • water • weapon • year

ChronologyEdit

1940s 

The Dixon Hill stories are published, taking place contemporary to this modern era.

2377 

The Enterprise-E is imperiled.

AppendicesEdit

ConnectionsEdit

published order
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Progress	Pocket	Next Adventure: Shattered

External linksEdit

• A Hard Rain article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.