{"id":52207,"date":"2025-08-09T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52207"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:52:11","slug":"blaze-of-glory-by-simon-hawke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/09\/blaze-of-glory-by-simon-hawke\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaze of Glory by Simon Hawke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:420,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/3db3c59a-cb2a-4a25-bfbf-77021943973c&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 44 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/3db3c59a-cb2a-4a25-bfbf-77021943973c\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather amusingly, this is the second of two consecutive TNG novels with a piracy theme. This one is much better, because it doesn\u2019t have a Ferengi speaking like they learned English from Disney\u2019s Long John Silver. Otherwise, a perfectly serviceable TNG adventure; nothing really stands out for good or ill.<\/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\/08\/IMG_4615.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Blaze of Glory\" title=\"IMG_4615.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 44\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: A perfectly serviceable TNG adventure.<\/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":[3364,4097],"class_list":["post-52207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-simon-hawke","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52207","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=52207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52287,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52207\/revisions\/52287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}