{"id":10427,"date":"2017-03-10T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2017-03-13T10:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:43:22","slug":"star-trek-savage-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/star-trek-savage-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Savage Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;It is most unusual, although not unheard of, that members of my species leave our planetary home&#8230;&nbsp; Excalbians simply don&#8217;t want to go anywhere else. The usual excuse is that we are far too busy exploring the inner space of&nbsp;our being to bother with mere physical reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Savage Trade<\/strong> by Tony Daniel, published in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kirk finds everyone gone and evidence of a firefight at a scientific research station that had stopped communicating a week ago. It was on the edge of Federation space, so it&#8217;s tough to know who might have paid them a visit. Then they find a trail to follow, and it leads them to a man who looks an awful lot like George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sequel to &#8220;The Savage Curtain&#8221; in which Kirk meets the Excalbians for the first time (one of whom looks like Abraham Lincoln).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about dealing with beings who are very different from you.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good story but not quite as interesting as most <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> books I read.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed Daniel&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/star-trek-devils-bargain\/\"><strong>Devil&#8217;s Bargain<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;It is most unusual, although not unheard of, that members of my species leave our planetary home&#8230;&nbsp; Excalbians simply don&#8217;t want to go anywhere else. The usual excuse is that we are far too busy exploring the inner space of&nbsp;our being to bother with mere physical reality.&#8221; Star Trek: Savage Trade by Tony Daniel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10450,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}