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Dixon Hill is a fictional private detective played by Jean-Luc Picard (in turn played by Patrick Stewart) in the show Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Dixon Hill is doubly fictional: even in the fictional world of Star Trek, he is fictional. He is the central character of Picard's favourite series of holodeck programs.
Dixon Hill's adventures take place in 1920s San Fransisco on Earth, a welcome diversion from the harsh "reality" of interstellar travel. Picard first played the program alone, but later, Data and Beverly Crusher were interested in the program too, so they joined in as friends of Dixon Hill.
The world of Dixon Hill contains many regular characters that only exist within the holodeck scenario, including the criminal bosses Cyrus Redblock and Nicky the Nose.
The Star Trek novel A Hard Rain takes place almost completely in Dixon Hill's world, with only brief interludes taking place in the "real" world of Star Trek. If not for certain oddities (such as dead people coming back to life), the novel reads pretty much like a normal detective novel.
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