Dixon Hill

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Dixon Hill is a fictional detective in the Star Trek universe, an homage to Sam Spade set in 1940s San Francisco. On the USS Enterprise he exists only on the holodeck, where his program is played mainly by Jean-Luc Picard, though at one time Data and Beverly Crusher also join in as friends of Dixon Hill. Similar holodeck programs are known to be circulating within the Trek universe, and at one point it is hinted that Picard has considered trying to write the plot for one.

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, as well as a supporting cast of policemen, newspaper-sellers and Dixon's secretary Madeline.

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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The St. Francis Hotel, soon after it opened in 1904

His card is shown briefly twice during the episode The Big Goodbye, and it lists his street as Powell in Union Square. The address on Powell is obscured under a thumb. This is near the location of the historic St. Francis Hotel, which currently occupies the full block of Powell at Union Square, but did not before its expansion.