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Farspace Starbase Earhart

A transitional station past Deneb in the Alpha Quadrant, Starbase Earhart served as a minor command post and replacement point for starships in the sector. Primarily a “hiring hall” for spacers of all kinds,^[3] its lurid and seamy Bonestell Recreation Facility^[2] was a great place to get a drink, a lover, a knifing, or all three.^[3] Ensign Jean-Luc Picard spent some time awaiting his first assignment at Starbase Earhart after graduating from Starfleet Academy. Picard picked a fight with three Nausicaans who had been cheating at Dom-Jot, and was nearly killed when they stabbed him through the heart;^[2] he required an artificial replacement organ from that day forward.^[1]