{"id":27464,"date":"2026-10-06T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=27464"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:42:52","slug":"star-trek-the-modala-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/star-trek-the-modala-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: The Modala Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;What happened to what you said in the conference room? If a second opinion was valuable to you then, wouldn&#8217;t it be twice as valuable planet-side?&#8217; &#8216;For a basically illogical being, Doctor, you can be annoyingly logical at times.'&#8221; &#8212; McCoy &amp; Spock<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: The Modala Imperative<\/strong> by Michael Jan Friedman, published in 4 issues from Jul. 1991 to Sep. 1991<\/p>\n<p>When James T. Kirk was a lieutenant he was part of a team that concluded that Modala would likely be ready for Federation membership in 10 years. Now he&#8217;s the captain and it&#8217;s 10 years later &#8212; he and Chekov are beaming down to see what things are like. Kirk is startled to find a tyrannical regime in charge and people are scared &#8212; and some people are fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about learning your way around a starship, and a planet. It&#8217;s about a different way of rebelling other than killing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a good one for Chekov fans. There&#8217;s a very nice conversation between Uhura and Yeoman Mears.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork by Pablo Marcos is a bit more stylized than previous artwork, but it&#8217;s still good.<\/p>\n<p>It comes to a conclusion with just a hint that there could be more &#8212; there&#8217;s a <strong>TNG<\/strong> follow-up to this miniseries.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve read it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 19 of Friedman\u2019s novels plus a bunch of comic books. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/star-trek-the-next-generation-kahless\/\"><strong>Star Trek: The Next Generation \u2014 Kahless<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;What happened to what you said in the conference room? If a second opinion was valuable to you then, wouldn&#8217;t it be twice as valuable planet-side?&#8217; &#8216;For a basically illogical being, Doctor, you can be annoyingly logical at times.&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; McCoy &amp; Spock Star Trek: The Modala Imperative by Michael Jan Friedman, published in [&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":[7,56,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-27464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-graphic-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27464","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=27464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27470,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27464\/revisions\/27470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}