Burning Dreams

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Contents 1 Introduction (blurb) 2 Summary 3 References 4 Characters 4.1 Starships and vehicles 4.2 Locations 4.3 Races and cultures 4.4 States and organizations 5 Appendices 5.1 Related stories 5.2 Timeline 5.3 External link

[edit] Introduction (blurb)

Before James T. Kirk, another captain stood on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, spearheading its mission of exploration into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy. He was a man driven to perfection, a brooding soul whose haunted eyes reflected the burden of the impossible standards he set for himself, and for whom his longtime science officer, Spock, one day would risk everything. Yet, little is truly known about the enigmatic Christopher Pike, the events that defined him...or the secrets that consumed him.

From the embers of his early childhood among Earth's blossoming interstellar colonies, to the terrifying conflagration that led him back to the world of his birth; from the mentor who would ignite young Chris's desire to return to the stars, to the career he blazed in Starfleet that would end in supreme sacrifice -- the path of Pike's astonishing life leads through fire again and again. But even amid the ashes of Talos IV, the forbidden world on which he would live out the remainder of his days, the dreams smoldering still within his aging, radiation-ravaged breast fan the flames of Pike's spirit to accomplish one final task....

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[edit] Characters

Archivist • Banarjee • Chee Wee Chua • Hana Flowers • Moves-With-Burning-Grace • Hanley • Cotton Jonday • Flax Jonday • Kamnach • Magistrate • Maia • Willa McKinnies • Physician • Charlie Pike • Christopher Pike • Hobelia Pike • Heston Prescott • Provisioner • Renkova • Siddhe • Silk • Spock • Straczeskie • Technician • Vina • Wesley • Zameret

Referenced only 

Phillip Boyce • Dabisch • Audrid Dax • José Mendez • James T. Kirk

[edit] Starships and vehicles

USS Aldrin • SS Columbia • USS Enterprise • USS Excelsior • USS York

[edit] Locations

Earth • Elysium • Kanes • Talos IV • Vestios system

[edit] Races and cultures

Calligar • Kan'ess • Vestian • Talosian

[edit] States and organizations

Elysium Council • Neworlder • Starfleet

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[edit] Related stories

Stories featuring Christopher Pike
Comics	Early Voyages	"Flesh of My Flesh" • "The Fires of Pharos" • "Our Dearest Blood" • "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" • "Cloak and Dagger" • "The Flat, Gold Forever" • "Immortal Wounds" • "One of a Kind" • "The Fallen" • "Futures, Part One" • "Future Tense" • "Futures" • "Now and Then" • "Thanatos" • "Nemesis"
	other	"All Those Years Ago..." • "To Walk the Night" • "Door in the Cage" • "Return to the Forbidden Planet" • "A Prelude to War" • "Alien Spotlight: Vulcans" • "Alien Spotlight: Orions" • "Mirror Images, Issue 1" • "Mirror Images, Issue 2" • "Mirror Images, Issue 4" • "Mirror Images, Issue 5" • "Shadows of the Past" • "The Ends of Eternity" • "Spock: Reflections, Issue 2"
Novels		Enterprise: The First Adventure • Vulcan's Glory • Legacy • The Rift • Where Sea Meets Sky • Burning Dreams • "A Less Perfect Union" • To Thine Own Self
Short stories		"Conflicting Natures" • "A Private Anecdote" • "Sins of the Mother" • "The Greater Good"
Episodes		"The Cage" • "The Menagerie"	Movie	Star Trek

[edit] Timeline

published order
Previous novel: Seeds of Rage	TOS novels	Next novel: Provenance of Shadows
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Solace in Bloom Section 1	Pocket	Next Adventure: Solace in Bloom Section 3
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2320. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in twelve other timeframes:
Previous Adventure: The Sundered Chapter 19	2228	Next Adventure: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Prologue
Previous Adventure: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Prologue	2229	Next Adventure: Demons Chapter 1
Previous Adventure: Sarek Chapter 5	2230	Next Adventure: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Chapter 14
Previous Adventure: Sarek Chapter 5	2231	Next Adventure: Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer
Previous Adventure: The Final Reflection Part One	2236	Next Adventure: The Better Man Chapter 1, Section 4
Previous Adventure: The Counter-Clock Incident Chapter 1, Sections 2-5	2246	Next Adventure: Though Hell Should Bar the Way
Previous Adventure: The Cage	2254	Next Adventure: The Rift Chapters 1-7
Previous Adventure: Crisis on Centaurus Chapter 3	2256	Next Adventure: Constitution (Flashback)
Previous Adventure: The Kobayashi Maru Chapter 6	2260	Next Adventure: Immortal Coil Chapter 19
Previous Adventure: Immortal Coil Chapter 19	2261	Next Adventure: The Ashes of Eden Chapter 35
Previous Adventure: The First Artifact	2266	Next Adventure: The Sundered Chapter 17
Previous Adventure: The Conscience of the King	2267	Next Adventure: The Galileo Seven

published order
chronological order
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2320. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in two other timeframes:
Previous Adventure: The Menagerie, Part I	2267	Next Adventure: The Menagerie, Part II
Previous Adventure: The Menagerie, Part II	2267	Next Adventure: Shore Leave

[edit] External link

Burning Dreams article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.