{"id":13547,"date":"2019-01-04T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2019-01-04T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T02:42:05","slug":"star-trek-enterprise-tower-of-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/star-trek-enterprise-tower-of-babel\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Enterprise &#8212; Tower of Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The Federation&#8217;s strength comes from its unity &#8212; its ability to set aside its members&#8217; differences in pursuit of their mutual interests. Our respective syndicates will be better able to stand against them if we learn from their example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Enterprise &#8212; Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel<\/strong> by Christopher L. Bennett, published in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Captain Malcolm Reed on the Pioneer answers a distress call from Lorillians. Klingons have left their ship badly damaged but they manage to rescue some crewmembers. Meanwhile, Captain T&#8217;Pol on the Endeavor arrives at a Tellarite system where some humans have set up a mining colony. The Tellarites want them gone but the humans refuse.<\/p>\n<p>The Orion sisters D&#8217;Nesh, Navaar, and Maras are featured.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great story about the advantages and disadvantages of joining a federation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 7 novels and 3 stories by Bennett. The previous entry in the story of the 22nd century is Bennett&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/star-trek-enterprise-a-choice-of-futures\/\"><strong>Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The Federation&#8217;s strength comes from its unity &#8212; its ability to set aside its members&#8217; differences in pursuit of their mutual interests. Our respective syndicates will be better able to stand against them if we learn from their example.&#8221; Star Trek: Enterprise &#8212; Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett, [&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-13547","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\/13547","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=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13549,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions\/13549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}