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I just finished reading the Stargazer series of books, minus Valiant. I was a little disappointed. While the books were well written I think I expected some type of closure or transformation for Picard from Stargazer to Enterprise. The series just ends with Maker. Also where is Crusher? I was also excepting to see him in these books.
Did you read The Buried Age by Christopher L Bennett? It covers the gap between Stargazer's last mission and Picard becoming captain of the Enterprise.
Did you read The Buried Age by Christopher L Bennett? It covers the gap between Stargazer's last mission and Picard becoming captain of the Enterprise.
I just finished reading the Stargazer series of books, minus Valiant. I was a little disappointed. While the books were well written I think I expected some type of closure or transformation for Picard from Stargazer to Enterprise. The series just ends with Maker. Also where is Crusher? I was also excepting to see him in these books.
Picard was captain of the Stargazer for 22 years, and the novels proceeded at the rate of one per month, starting at the very beginning of his command. At that rate, it would've taken 264 novels to get to the Battle of Maxia and the loss of the Stargazer. These novels were meant to show the early days of Picard's first command, not the conclusion of it. As for Jack Crusher, he evidently didn't join the crew until the 2340s. The earliest reference to him in Trek Lit is, I believe, in 2345, in the flashback portions of TNG: Requiem.
If you want to see stuff about the later years of the Stargazer's mission, you need to get the books that were written before its namesake series. TNG: Reunion is where you should begin, the first book Michael Jan Friedman wrote about the Stargazer crew, although it's set during TNG. We've seen the Stargazer's missions in Requiem, in Double Helix: The First Virtue, in New Frontier: House of Cards, in Vulcan's Heart, and in "Children of Chaos," issue 59 of DC's TNG comic book series; I believe Jack Crusher is in all of those.
And Picard lost the Stargazer nine years before he took command of the Enterprise, so there's no way to have any kind of direct transition there. But that nine-year gap is covered in The Buried Age.
As for closure, there is an element of it at the end of the book series:
The arc involving the admiral who disapproves of Picard's captaincy is resolved, and the series concludes with the ship beginning the mission of deep-space exploration for which it will become famous.
