{"id":16985,"date":"2020-11-15T20:07:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T01:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2020-11-16T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T17:37:45","slug":"star-trek-voyager-seven-of-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/star-trek-voyager-seven-of-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Voyager &#8212; Seven of Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Seven now realized what a violation she had been a part of. The destruction of the individual. She had heard and, to borrow a human phrase, rolled her eyes at Captain Janeway&#8217;s ranting about humans and other sentient beings would rather be dead than assimilated. Now, she realized that the captain was right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Voyager &#8212; Seven of Nine<\/strong> by Christie Golden, published in 1998<\/p>\n<p>Voyager is travelling through the Lhiaarian Empire. A group of Skedan refugees helps cut through the red tape, and in return Captain Janeway gives them passage on Voyager. Everyone loves the friendly Skedans &#8212; except B&#8217;Elanna. Meanwhile, Seven is hallucinating ravens all the time and sometimes becomes another person.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about coming to terms with things you&#8217;ve done in your past. It&#8217;s also about an unfit ruler and what should be done to remove him.<\/p>\n<p>For some time, every antagonist has inevitably reminded me of Donald Trump. I look forward to the day when he is no longer in my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve read it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 7 books by Golden. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/star-trek-voyager-marooned\/\"><strong>Star Trek: Voyager \u2014 Marooned<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Seven now realized what a violation she had been a part of. The destruction of the individual. She had heard and, to borrow a human phrase, rolled her eyes at Captain Janeway&#8217;s ranting about humans and other sentient beings would rather be dead than assimilated. Now, she realized that the captain was right.&#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-16985","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\/16985","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=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16990,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions\/16990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}