crashed on Andor - an Andorian healer used the Heart's power to stop a plague which was devastating the Andorian people. It was later given to the Ferengi - the Ferengi were unaware of the Heart's powers, and sealed it in a cargo bay until they reached Qo'noS and traded it with primitive Klingons. The ailing Klingon emperor Kessec gave the stone to his slave, who used the stone to found an artist's colony - and she entombed herself alive with the Heart. Afterwards, the stone remained sealed in the tomb, and the colony disbanded and was forgotten. Reappearance In 2368, the Vulcan archaeologist T'Sara rediscovered the Heart. This resulted in a deadly race in which each species that had held the stone before attempted to reacquire the artifact. Captain Jean-Luc Picard discovered the Heart on a wrecked Ferengi ship. The Heart began communicating with Picard a short time later by sending him visions of its journeys via Picard's dreams. Picard and the Enterprise crew were able to see the Heart safely through a wormhole to a distant galaxy, where the Heart would someday find a suitable planet and grow into a new Guardian of Forever. Footnotes External links 1993 American novels Novels based on Star Trek: The Next Generation