{"id":16103,"date":"2020-05-29T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16103"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:10:41","slug":"star-trek-tng-double-helix-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/star-trek-tng-double-helix-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"TNG: Double Helix &#8212; Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Solomon still had no idea <strong>why<\/strong> the General wanted to kill off so many innocent people. Not that it was his problem. But secretly, he half-wished the Federation would find the cure a little faster. He might be a member of the largest criminal organization in human space, but he didn&#8217;t consider himself a murderer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: TNG &#8212; Double Helix: Infection<\/strong> by John Gregory Betancourt, published in 1999<\/p>\n<p>Captain Picard and the Enterprise are called to Archarian III, where a deadly plague has broken out. Dr. Crusher determines that the plague was manufactured &#8212; the creators intentionally targeted people who are half human and half Peladian, of whom there are thousands. When Dr. Crusher beams up a test subject, the containment forcefield isn&#8217;t enough to prevent Deanna Troi from contracting the plague.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book in a 6-book series.<\/p>\n<p>It takes place early in the mission, when Tasha Yar is still on board.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good &#8212; it has some nice moments &#8212; but not quite great. Since it&#8217;s the start of a larger story, I&#8217;ll see if the next part is better.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book I&#8217;ve read by Betancourt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Solomon still had no idea why the General wanted to kill off so many innocent people. Not that it was his problem. But secretly, he half-wished the Federation would find the cure a little faster. He might be a member of the largest criminal organization in human space, but he didn&#8217;t consider himself a [&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-16103","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\/16103","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=16103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17180,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103\/revisions\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}