{"id":51532,"date":"2024-12-26T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51532"},"modified":"2024-12-26T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:24:57","slug":"harms-way-by-david-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/26\/harms-way-by-david-mack\/","title":{"rendered":"Harm\u2019s Way by David Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:814,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/67c644f6-e902-40fb-a6ca-1ccf805466e6&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>74\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/67c644f6-e902-40fb-a6ca-1ccf805466e6\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though officially a TOS adventure, this is really mostly a part of the <em>Vanguard<\/em> spinoff book series, which I read so long ago as to have forgotten both characters and key points. As a result, it felt like I was reading a mid-series book, and missing much of the necessary context. The primary foe is so overwhelmingly powerful that there\u2019s an extended battle sequence in the latter half of the book that feels very out of place; perhaps it works within the greater Vanguard storyline, but to me, it was just troubling and very un-Trek. Klingon characters include pre-\u201cDay of the Dove\u201d Kang and Mara, which does expand their characters in interesting ways and hints at background motivations for future Federation\/Klingon developments, but also doesn\u2019t really mesh with what I remember of Kang and Mara\u2019s actions in the episode (though, admittedly, it\u2019s been a few years since I watched it, and I\u2019m relying partially on Memory Alpha\u2019s plot summary here). All in all, an uneven Trek adventure, and not one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3645-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Harm\u2019s Way\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3645-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3645-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3645-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3645-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3645-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: All in all, an uneven Trek adventure, and not one of my favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[3216,4097],"class_list":["post-51532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-david-mack","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51532","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=51532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51534,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51532\/revisions\/51534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}