{"id":15739,"date":"2020-03-23T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2020-03-23T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T00:52:59","slug":"star-trek-tng-the-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/star-trek-tng-the-last-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: TNG &#8212; The Last Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We&#8217;ve been seeing the Krann only as wanderers, as rootless transients. We&#8217;ve been thinking that Krann society must have been affected in any number of bad ways by their ceaseless traveling. We forgot that the Krann <strong>live<\/strong> here. They&#8217;re used to being transients &#8212; except that they don&#8217;t think of themselves as that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: TNG &#8212; The Last Stand<\/strong> by Brad Ferguson, published in 1995<\/p>\n<p>The Enterprise finds a planet where the ruins are from 6000 years ago, and following a warp signal they find the people from that planet. The Lethanta don&#8217;t have warp drive but they spot the Enterprise so Captain Picard decides on a careful visit. He is disturbed to find that the planet is ready for war.<\/p>\n<p>This story is about how misunderstandings and grudges can last for generations, and how the truth can cut through untruths.<\/p>\n<p>Riker, Troi, Data, and Ro get to go on the away teams.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 3 books by Ferguson. I read his other 2 <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> books many years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We&#8217;ve been seeing the Krann only as wanderers, as rootless transients. We&#8217;ve been thinking that Krann society must have been affected in any number of bad ways by their ceaseless traveling. We forgot that the Krann live here. They&#8217;re used to being transients &#8212; except that they don&#8217;t think of themselves as that.&#8221; Star [&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-15739","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\/15739","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=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15751,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions\/15751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}