{"id":23457,"date":"2020-01-24T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23457"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:09:11","slug":"23457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23457\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1947,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.com\\\/culture\\\/story\\\/20200123-star-trek-picard-why-trekkies-are-the-greatest-fans-of-all&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200508073703\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.com\\\/culture\\\/story\\\/20200123-star-trek-picard-why-trekkies-are-the-greatest-fans-of-all&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 20:12:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:29:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:29:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20200123-star-trek-picard-why-trekkies-are-the-greatest-fans-of-all\">Star Trek: Picard: Why Trekkies are the greatest fans of all<\/a>: &#8220;So much sci-fi and fantasy is ugly and dystopian; Star Trek places great faith in humanity. As the film and TV academic Gerry Canavan has observed, &#8216;The idea of Star Trek is that the future might be good; we might be good; we might find a way, somewhere far beyond the stars, to become our better selves.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: Picard: Why Trekkies are the greatest fans of all: &#8220;So much sci-fi and fantasy is ugly and dystopian; Star Trek places great faith in humanity. As the film and TV academic Gerry Canavan has observed, &#8216;The idea of Star Trek is that the future might be good; we might be good; we might &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23457\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[3617,3464,4097],"class_list":["post-23457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-pic","tag-picard","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}