{"id":49523,"date":"2023-07-08T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49523"},"modified":"2023-07-08T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:27:23","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-mere-anarchy-by-mike-w-barr-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/08\/%f0%9f%93%9a-mere-anarchy-by-mike-w-barr-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Mere Anarchy by Mike W. Barr et al."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1211,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/4aa6dae3-bce2-4311-8738-6526d581ac95&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>32\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/4aa6dae3-bce2-4311-8738-6526d581ac95\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally published as six eBook novellas, this series tracks a single plot line \u2014 a natural disaster on a non-Federation planet and the resulting aftermath and recovery \u2014 through decades, from just before TOS\u2019s \u201cWhere No Man Has Gone Before\u201d to just after the intro of <em>Star Trek: Generations<\/em>. It makes for a neat look both at the Federation\u2019s long-term approach to working with non-aligned planets (after all, how often have we seen an adventure and then never heard of the planet or culture again?), and how the core TOS crew evolve over the years. This is helped by each novella being written by an author specifically chosen for their expertise in a particular era of Trek history. Definitely one of the stronger Trek omnibus stories I\u2019ve read.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9823-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Mere Anarchy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9823-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9823-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9823-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9823-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9823-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking the Federation&#8217;s response to a planetary disaster over several decades of TOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[5739,3503,4116,4131,5741,5740,3357,4097],"class_list":["post-49523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-christopher-l-bennett","tag-dave-galanter","tag-dayton-ward","tag-howard-weinstein","tag-kevin-dilmore","tag-margaret-wander-bonanno","tag-mike-w-barr","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49523","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=49523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}