{"id":23248,"date":"2024-05-22T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23248"},"modified":"2024-05-23T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:37:51","slug":"star-trek-the-mission-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/star-trek-the-mission-and-other-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: &#8220;The Mission&#8221; and Other Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He&#8217;s <strong>wishing<\/strong> for something he doesn&#8217;t have. Something he <strong>wants<\/strong>. If he is just a hologram programmed to react by a computer, <strong>how<\/strong> could he possibly wish for anything? All he would know, all he <strong>could<\/strong> know, is what he has. But to wish &#8212; ah, you have to be human to desire more than you already have.&#8221; (from &#8220;By Special Request&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: &#8220;The Mission&#8221; and Other Stories<\/strong> by James Swallow et al, published in 2023<\/p>\n<p>When Kira and Garak are heading to Cardassia, they disagree on what to do when they receive a distress signal. When section 31 sends a spy to Deep Space Nine, he finds it difficult to complete his mission, like other spies before him. Doctor Pulaski visits a planet to perform surgery only she can do, but she must transfer her consciousness into an android body. Guinan is invaded by a noncorporeal creature, and Captain Picard is forced to make a difficult decision. When Garak is sent on his first mission as an assassin, he finds his victim is not what he expects.<\/p>\n<p>These fairly short stories feature your favourite characters from the 1st and 2nd generation of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>. They were previously published in <strong>Star Trek Explorer<\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Authors include John Peel, Greg Cox, Una McCormack, and Keith R. A. DeCandido.<\/p>\n<p>The book is illustrated with photos as well as artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He&#8217;s wishing for something he doesn&#8217;t have. Something he wants. If he is just a hologram programmed to react by a computer, how could he possibly wish for anything? All he would know, all he could know, is what he has. But to wish &#8212; ah, you have to be human to desire more [&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":[29,7,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-23248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-anthologies","tag-book","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23248","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=23248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23253,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23248\/revisions\/23253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}