{"id":51515,"date":"2024-11-30T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51515"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:15:44","slug":"asylum-by-una-mccormack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/11\/30\/asylum-by-una-mccormack\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum by Una McCormack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:823,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/e09f1074-9992-44f4-9598-ad10e50a312f&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>72\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/e09f1074-9992-44f4-9598-ad10e50a312f\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, Trek is at its best when it\u2019s looking at modern issues through an SF lens. On the surface, this is about Pike and Number One at Starfleet Academy, paired with a later mission that ties back to those experiences. But when dealing with minority ethnic groups reacting to years of oppression, there\u2019s a lot more there as well. Plus, of course, some very entertaining ties to wider Trek lore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/um_a-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Asylum.\" title=\"um_a.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;:  Trek at its best when it\u2019s looking at modern issues through an SF lens.<\/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":[4127,4097,3384],"class_list":["post-51515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-snw","tag-star-trek","tag-una-mccormack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51515","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=51515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51516,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51515\/revisions\/51516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}