{"id":15712,"date":"2020-03-10T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15712"},"modified":"2020-03-10T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:42:30","slug":"star-trek-titan-absent-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/star-trek-titan-absent-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Titan &#8212; Absent Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It was one more occupational hazard of travel by transporter. Yes, beaming had no harmful effects on the body. But human lungs weren&#8217;t accustomed to dramatic changes in the temperature and composition of consecutive breaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Titan &#8212; Absent Enemies<\/strong> by John Jackson Miller, published in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Captain Christine Vale and the Titan are in a stalemate with the Breen around Zellman&#8217;s Find, an asteroid that happens to have trilithium. Captain Ezri Dax of the Aventine shows up to take over, because Admiral Riker has other orders &#8212; the Titan is to take him to negotiate peace on Garadius IV. Because of his previous visit there, that&#8217;s the last thing he wants to do.<\/p>\n<p>This novella is available as an ebook.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great story that includes our old friends Deanna Troi and Tuvok. It&#8217;s partly a sequel to the <strong>TNG<\/strong> episode &#8220;The Next Phase,&#8221; in which Geordi and Ro are stuck out of phase with everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 4 books plus this story by Miller. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/star-trek-prey-the-hall-of-heroes\/\"><strong>Star Trek: Prey \u2014 The Hall of Heroes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It was one more occupational hazard of travel by transporter. Yes, beaming had no harmful effects on the body. But human lungs weren&#8217;t accustomed to dramatic changes in the temperature and composition of consecutive breaths.&#8221; Star Trek: Titan &#8212; Absent Enemies by John Jackson Miller, published in 2014 Captain Christine Vale and the Titan [&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-15712","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\/15712","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=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}