{"id":20805,"date":"2023-03-13T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20805"},"modified":"2023-03-19T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T23:45:47","slug":"star-trek-ds9-avatar-book-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/star-trek-ds9-avatar-book-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: DS9 &#8212; Avatar, Book Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;At the moment, she felt that she couldn&#8217;t possibly be surprised&#8230; and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine &#8212; Avatar, Book Two<\/strong> by S. D. Perry, published in 2001<\/p>\n<p>Kitana&#8217;klan is a Jem&#8217;Hadar who claims to be on a mission of peace from Odo. Colonel Kira isn&#8217;t sure whether to believe him, but she moves him to a cargo hold and asks Ezri to speak to him. Kira has also found a prophecy that says 10 000 Bajorans have to die for the Emissary&#8217;s child to be born. Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E arrive with the Orb of Memory, which they found in the Badlands.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about telling the truth, and giving someone a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Picard&#8217;s chat with Lieutenant Ro is one of the best parts of a great book.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the regulars Kasidy Yates has a nice role, as does Nog. We also see what&#8217;s happening with Odo.<\/p>\n<p>New characters Taran&#8217;atar the Jem&#8217;Hadar, Elias Vaughn the human, and Thirishar ch&#8217;Thane aka Shar the Andorian are introduced here and continue through many books.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve read it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 2 books by Perry. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/star-trek-ds9-avatar-book-one\/\"><strong>Avatar, Book One<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;At the moment, she felt that she couldn&#8217;t possibly be surprised&#8230; and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble.&#8221; Star Trek: Deep Space [&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-20805","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\/20805","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=20805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20860,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions\/20860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}