{"id":6960,"date":"2015-08-18T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:35:17","slug":"star-trek-in-the-name-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/star-trek-in-the-name-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: In the Name of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;The legend of Kahless,&#8217; Koloth continued, &#8216;is the foundation upon which the Empire stands. Without his guidance, we are doomed to a fate of self-destruction. For a time, that was forgotten by many Klingons. Other, selfish concerns blinded us to Kahless&#8217; teachings, but that is beginning to change.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: In the Name of Honor<\/strong> by Dayton Ward, published in 2002<\/p>\n<p>The Klingons and the Federation are having peace talks &#8212; Kirk has brought some diplomats to the talks. While there he runs into his old acquaintance Koloth &#8212; who looks significantly different than he used to. Koloth gives him a data recorder which reveals that Klingons took crewmembers from a starship prisoner eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This book takes place after <strong>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<\/strong>. It functions as a bridge between <strong>The Original Series<\/strong> and <strong>The Next Generation<\/strong>, particularly regarding the Klingons.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a society in the midst of change.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk, Spock, and Sulu are featured, as well as our old friend Koloth. Koloth is a terrific character &#8212; particularly at this point in his life.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed Ward&#8217;s\u00a0novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/star-trek-the-fall-peaceable-kingdoms\/\"><strong>Star Trek: The Fall \u2014 Peaceable Kingdoms<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;The legend of Kahless,&#8217; Koloth continued, &#8216;is the foundation upon which the Empire stands. Without his guidance, we are doomed to a fate of self-destruction. For a time, that was forgotten by many Klingons. Other, selfish concerns blinded us to Kahless&#8217; teachings, but that is beginning to change.&#8217;&#8221; Star Trek: In the Name of [&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-6960","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\/6960","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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}