{"id":11990,"date":"2018-02-19T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11990"},"modified":"2018-02-19T23:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:33:21","slug":"star-trek-discovery-drastic-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/star-trek-discovery-drastic-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Discovery &#8212; Drastic Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Ribiero simply wasn&#8217;t suited to crisis management. On the other hand, Kodos acted as though he was born to do it. Looking back on it, he came off somewhat less emphatic than I remember. Instead, he was cool, almost detached in a way&#8230; If only one of us had been smart enough to see that, and understood it for what it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Discovery &#8212; Drastic Measures<\/strong> by Dayton Ward, published in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca is in charge of a small Starfleet outpost on Tarsus IV when a food contamination disaster occurs. The governor is replaced by Kodos, who has a horrific plan. Meanwhile, Commander Philippa Georgiou is aboard the Narbonne, which is on its way to Tarsus IV with emergency supplies.<\/p>\n<p>This story takes place 10 years before season 1 of <strong>Discovery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kodos first appeared in the <strong>Original Series<\/strong> episode &#8220;The Conscience of the King.&#8221; Two characters created last year fit perfectly into this story that was imagined 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At first I wasn&#8217;t sure this particular story would be interesting &#8212; but it was in Ward&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>When they&#8217;re looking for Kodos one person who helps them is a young Jim Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed Ward&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/star-trek-tng-hearts-and-minds\/\"><strong>Star Trek: TNG \u2014 Hearts and Minds<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Ribiero simply wasn&#8217;t suited to crisis management. On the other hand, Kodos acted as though he was born to do it. Looking back on it, he came off somewhat less emphatic than I remember. Instead, he was cool, almost detached in a way&#8230; If only one of us had been smart enough to see [&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-11990","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\/11990","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=11990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11990\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}