{"id":25679,"date":"2025-10-17T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25679"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:34:16","slug":"star-trek-a-choice-of-catastrophes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/star-trek-a-choice-of-catastrophes\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “The doctor thought about it for a moment. But would Jim understand? This was a man for whom space was a passion — for McCoy it was an escape. How could Kirk understand that McCoy felt he didn’t belong here and never had?”<\/p>\n

Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes<\/strong> by Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann, published in 2011<\/p>\n

Kirk and Spock are taking 2 shuttles to a newly discovered planet. It seems that the previous inhabitants abandoned it. When one crewmember calls for help on their communicators, they rush to his location.<\/p>\n

Sulu is in command of the Enterprise, and he’s taking Dr. McCoy to deliver urgently needed medical supplies. The ship runs into a spatial distortion and everyone is thrown around. One person falls, but not from the distortion — he’s brought to sickbay and McCoy is stunned to find out he’s dying.<\/p>\n

This book is about investigating an alien mystery and a medical mystery, first contact, and thinking about your life’s choices.<\/p>\n

It’s about a person who’s been running away feeling like they belong.<\/p>\n

This is the 1st book I’ve read by either of these authors, but they had 2 stories in Star Trek: The Next Generation \u2014 The Sky\u2019s the Limit<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “The doctor thought about it for a moment. But would Jim understand? This was a man for whom space was a passion — for McCoy it was an escape. How could Kirk understand that McCoy felt he didn’t belong here and never had?” Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve […]<\/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-25679","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\/25679","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=25679"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25779,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions\/25779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}