{"id":9998,"date":"2016-12-22T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T02:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2016-12-23T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T21:40:12","slug":"star-trek-prey-hells-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/star-trek-prey-hells-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Prey — Hell’s Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Why do you think everyone here stares at you? You’re not just an outsider, Worf — you’re a legend<\/strong>. We all know your story — even here. You are the one who came back from the abyss, who regained his honor.”<\/p>\n

Star Trek: Prey — Hell’s Heart<\/strong> by John Jackson Miller, published in 2016<\/p>\n

Kruge was killed by Kirk on Genesis, but he left behind a large family. One hundred years later Captain Picard is asked to ferry some Klingons of the house of Kruge to a celebration of the Battle of Gamaral. The clone of Kahless is also going to be present — but he’s not happy when he finds out what really happened at the battle. And someone with 12 cloaked ships is also going to be there, for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n

This is the 1st book in a trilogy. It cleverly has part of the story in Kirk and Spock’s time, and another part of the story in Picard and Riker’s time.<\/p>\n

It’s the only original novel I know of that takes up the story of Kruge — it’s his actions that initiate events. If you’re a fan of the Klingons, this is the story for you.<\/p>\n

It’s about discommendation, deception, and a long con. The main part of the story features Picard, Worf, Kahless, and a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Kruge’s named Korgh. Riker, La Forge, and Martok are also in on the action.<\/p>\n

It’s a terrific story, and I’m excited about reading the sequel.<\/p>\n

The previous novel in the story of the 24th century is Star Trek: DS9 \u2014 Force and Motion<\/strong><\/a>. I also reviewed Miller’s novel Star Trek: TNG \u2014 Takedown<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Why do you think everyone here stares at you? You’re not just an outsider, Worf — you’re a legend. We all know your story — even here. You are the one who came back from the abyss, who regained his honor.” Star Trek: Prey — Hell’s Heart by John Jackson Miller, published in 2016 […]<\/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-9998","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\/9998","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=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10018,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions\/10018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}