{"id":51965,"date":"2025-03-19T05:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51965"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:26:22","slug":"requiem-by-kevin-ryan-and-michael-jan-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/03\/19\/requiem-by-kevin-ryan-and-michael-jan-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem by Kevin Ryan and Michael Jan Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:630,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/137904c9-ccf2-44bc-ad04-0de6516393c6&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>Book 17 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/137904c9-ccf2-44bc-ad04-0de6516393c6\"><em>Requiem<\/em><\/a> by Kevin Ryan and Michael Jan Friedman: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>Picard gets thrown back in time to Cestus III &#8211; just days before the Federation&#8217;s disastrous first contact with the Gorn (well, first contact before <em>Strange New Worlds<\/em> started up\u2026I&#8217;m still unclear how they&#8217;re reconciling that whole thing, but that&#8217;s not for here\u2026). Fleshes out the story of the Cestus III colony in really good ways, with a standard but perfectly acceptable framing story as the Enterprise tries to get Picard back.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3946.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Enigma\" title=\"IMG_3946.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 17\/2025: Fleshes out the story of the Cestus III colony in really good ways, with a standard but perfectly acceptable framing story. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/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],"tags":[4229,3023,4097],"class_list":["post-51965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-kevin-ryan","tag-michael-jan-friedman","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51965","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=51965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52351,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51965\/revisions\/52351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}