{"id":50797,"date":"2024-02-16T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T04:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50797"},"modified":"2024-02-17T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T04:14:17","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-cadet-kirk-by-diane-carey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-cadet-kirk-by-diane-carey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Cadet Kirk by Diane Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1036,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/7068557b-8425-4e27-a00f-4375ef4a80b0&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>16\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/7068557b-8425-4e27-a00f-4375ef4a80b0\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final and best of this YA series. The main trio finally end up all adventuring together, as a simple shuttle hop gets sidetracked by mercenaries. Overall, while all of the books have a certain amount of overly-convenient happenstance to get the characters together, they\u2019re a quick entertaining read as one \u201cwhat if?\u201d version of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy\u2019s Academy days.<\/p>\n<p>A note on the illustrations: Oddly, it kind of felt like the illustrator just skimmed the plot, if that, particularly with this book. Much of the action takes place aboard a shuttle, clearly described as an early version of the TOS \u201cbox on two cylinders\u201d shuttlecraft, but the cover and one of the interior illustrations shows a more angular, TMP-style shuttle with warp sled (but the sled is outfitted with the cylindrical TOS nacelles rather than the flatter TMP style). And towards the end, a character described in the text as human (at least in appearance) is drawn as a TOS-style Klingon, complete with gold sash. Odd mistakes to make (and while the target audience for these books might not notice these things, they do stand out to me).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2133-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Cadet Kirk\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2133-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2133-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2133-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2133-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_2133-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final and best of this YA series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[3014,4097],"class_list":["post-50797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-diane-carey","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50797","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=50797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}