The year is 2399, and Jean-Luc Picard dreams of his old ship, destroyed three decades ago, and his dear friend, the android Data, dead 20 years now. Dreams turn to nightmare, and Picard awakens, old and defeated, in his French château.

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With much talk of the entire Star Trek series being in trouble - only the disappointing Enterprise is now being made for TV - there is a great deal of anxiety over this, the 10th voyage into deep space.