{"id":50890,"date":"2024-03-05T05:48:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50890"},"modified":"2024-03-05T05:48:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:48:43","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-firewall-by-david-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/05\/%f0%9f%93%9a-firewall-by-david-mack\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Firewall by David Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1016,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/92ebecc9-78a1-4943-9700-d3e947aa31d0&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>20\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/92ebecc9-78a1-4943-9700-d3e947aa31d0\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Picard is (imho) overall the weakest of the modern Trek series, its literary side is doing quite well. This does a great job of filling in some of the time between when Seven returns to Earth with Voyager and when she appears as a Fenris Ranger, and exploring how the character changed in those years. It\u2019s unfortunate that some are upset that this book discusses Seven discovering her identity as a queer woman; it\u2019s neither propagandistic nor heavy-handed, but simply experiences that wouldn\u2019t raise an eyebrow if they were heterosexual. Also a lot of very pointed commentary about what happens when a major power that had been providing very necessary support for a region just up and disappears when something else catches its attention. Definitely worth reading if you\u2019re a fan of the Picard series or (and especially) of Seven as a character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2214-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Firewall\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2214-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2214-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2214-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2214-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2214-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely worth reading if you\u2019re a fan of the Picard series or (and especially) of Seven as a character.<\/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":[3216,3617,4097],"class_list":["post-50890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-david-mack","tag-pic","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50890","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=50890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}