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NOVEL
Burning Dreams
Attribution

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....

Summary

References

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

Starships and vehicles

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

Locations

Earth • Elysium • Kanes • Talos IV • Vestios system

Races and cultures

Calligar • Kan'ess • Vestian • Talosian

States and organizations

Elysium Council • Neworlder • Starfleet

Appendices

• In the novel's inner title page, the 5th city listed under Pocket Books is Elysium, the planet Pike lived at as a child.

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" • The Children of Kings
Short stories		"Conflicting Natures" • "A Private Anecdote" • "Sins of the Mother" • "The Greater Good"
Episodes		"The Cage" • "The Menagerie"	Movie	Star Trek

Timeline

External link

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