{"id":49865,"date":"2023-09-08T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49865"},"modified":"2023-09-08T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T22:06:44","slug":"year-50-day-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/08\/year-50-day-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 129"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d129-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me wearing a Star Trek t-shirt and giving the Vulcan salute in front of two bookcases filled with Star Trek books, DVDs and Blu-rays, and various toys and mememtos.\" title=\"y50d129.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 129: Happy Star Trek Day to everyone* who celebrates!<\/p>\n<p>&#42; Everyone <em>except<\/em> whoever decided to pull the plug on Discovery so suddenly that they had to re-shoot key moments of the last few episodes to cobble together a series finale instead of a season finale, whoever decided to pull the plug on Prodigy so suddenly that they&#8217;re still finishing the second season and hoping that someone else picks it up to broadcast it, and whoever decided that an appropriate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startrek.com\/news\/special-global-star-trek-day-2023-announcement\">Star Trek Day celebration<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMwq6IdcivY\">a 22-minute &#8220;special&#8221;<\/a>, the first two episodes of Strange New Worlds on broadcast TV, five &#8220;very&#8221; short animated bits (only one of which debuts today), and a 25% discount on the online Star Trek store. Seriously, why are the <del>Ferengi<\/del> <ins>Pakleds<\/ins> in charge of this franchise?<\/p>\n<p>(Updated to change Ferengi to Pakleds. The Ferengi are far too profit motivated to do this bad of a job keeping the fans engaged.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Star Trek Day to everyone who celebrates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043,2049,2047],"tags":[4097,5783,5686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49865"}],"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=49865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}