{"id":12776,"date":"2018-09-05T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12776"},"modified":"2019-01-07T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:11:52","slug":"q-are-cordially-uninvited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/q-are-cordially-uninvited\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: TNG &#8212; Q are Cordially Uninvited&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy having relationships with people when you&#8217;re intrinsically so much more interesting than everyone else.&#8221; &#8212; Q<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: The Next Generation &#8212; Q are Cordially Uninvited&#8230;<\/strong> by Rudy Josephs, published in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher are finally getting married. Q shows up and sends Picard and Vash to Myndra to search for the fabled Treasure of the Ancients. Supposedly the Myndrans stole treasure from many pre-warp civilizations across the galaxy. When Beverly finds out that Jean-Luc is missing she has her own idea about how to find him.<\/p>\n<p>This is a novella that&#8217;s only available as an ebook.<\/p>\n<p>Officially Jean-Luc and Beverly got married quietly in France a few years ago, but unbeknownst to everyone else they were whisked away on an adventure the night before.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an enjoyable tale &#8212; the characters feel like themselves, and Q is hilarious in several spots.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st story by Josephs that I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy having relationships with people when you&#8217;re intrinsically so much more interesting than everyone else.&#8221; &#8212; Q Star Trek: The Next Generation &#8212; Q are Cordially Uninvited&#8230; by Rudy Josephs, published in 2014 Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher are finally getting married. Q shows up and sends Picard and Vash to Myndra [&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":[7,5,8,44,59],"class_list":["post-12776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776","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=12776"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13621,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions\/13621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}