{"id":13566,"date":"2019-01-06T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2019-01-06T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T18:46:21","slug":"star-trek-the-latter-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/star-trek-the-latter-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: The Latter Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We are captains, and with command comes the implicit truth that we must balance lives against lives, with each order we give&#8230; I have done so in the past and I carry the scar that does not heal. I do not need to ask you if you have done the same. I know you have. I have seen it in your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: The Latter Fire<\/strong> by James Swallow, published in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kirk&#8217;s first contact with the Syhaari was rescuing one of their first warp capable ships 2 years ago.&nbsp; Now the Syhaari have invited the Federation, and especially the Enterprise, to visit their planet. Envoy Xuur, also on board, is skeptical about Kirk&#8217;s handling of the Prime Directive. Meanwhile, Ensign Chekov has left the ship to pursue security training and Lieutenant Arex has replaced him at navigation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about taking the time to understand something that seems like an enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the problem is clever, building on things they learned in a previous episode.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 5 books by Swallow. I previously reviewed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/star-trek-discovery-fear-itself\/\"><strong>Star Trek: Discovery \u2014 Fear Itself<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We are captains, and with command comes the implicit truth that we must balance lives against lives, with each order we give&#8230; I have done so in the past and I carry the scar that does not heal. I do not need to ask you if you have done the same. I know you [&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-13566","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\/13566","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=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13582,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions\/13582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}