{"id":17649,"date":"2021-03-26T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2021-03-26T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:37:22","slug":"voy-spirit-walk-enemy-of-my-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/voy-spirit-walk-enemy-of-my-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"VOY Spirit Walk: Enemy of My Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Now that the fruit of ultimate victory was dangling within reach, the Changeling felt almost panicked. He thought he had grown used to living in a Solid body during the many years he had spent locked into the form of Andrew Ellis. But then he&#8217;d freed Moset and, after a year or so, he&#8217;d been able to change his features, feel, however briefly, like a real Changeling again. The elation that had surged through him at that moment was akin to nothing he&#8217;d experienced, and he realized he&#8217;d only been fooling himself if he thought he could learn to be &#8216;content&#8217; living as a Solid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Voyager &#8212; Spirit Walk: Enemy of My Enemy<\/strong> by Christie Golden, published in 2004<\/p>\n<p>When Captain Chakotay is captured, he finds out that Cardassian doctor Crell Moset is still alive. And that Arak Katal &#8212; whom he previously thought was a Bajoran who betrayed the Maquis &#8212; was really a Changeling. Chakotay doesn&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re up to, but the Changeling assumes Chakotay&#8217;s form. Meanwhile, Admiral Janeway and Tom are on a diplomatic mission &#8212; Janeway would like to see Tom become a first officer.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/voy-spirit-walk-old-wounds\/\"><strong>Old Wounds<\/strong><\/a>. Seven&#8217;s Aunt Irene and Wesley Crusher have small but important roles.<\/p>\n<p>Chakotay takes a page from Janeway&#8217;s book and engages in extremely risky behaviour to save the day.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last of the <strong>Voyager<\/strong> relaunch books written by Golden &#8212; the series moves on to a new author with the next book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now read 12 books by Golden. I will read at least 1 more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Now that the fruit of ultimate victory was dangling within reach, the Changeling felt almost panicked. He thought he had grown used to living in a Solid body during the many years he had spent locked into the form of Andrew Ellis. But then he&#8217;d freed Moset and, after a year or so, he&#8217;d [&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-17649","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\/17649","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=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17663,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions\/17663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}