{"id":52596,"date":"2025-12-02T06:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52596"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:51:01","slug":"the-last-stand-by-brad-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/02\/the-last-stand-by-brad-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Stand by Brad Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 59 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/57c5dd29-7229-4c46-83a8-80a55d56d6f4\">\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A promising setup, as the Enterprise finds itself caught between two factions of a pre-warp interstellar conflict, with one side unaware the battle was still going on as the other\u2019s fleet slowly approached. The antagonist is a little too one-note Evil Leader, though, and I question a society holding onto a 6,000-year grudge. Still, a nicely average Trek adventure.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5391.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Last Stand.\" title=\"IMG_5391.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 59\/2025: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: A promising setup but a one-note Evil Leader antagonist; overall, a nicely average Trek adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[6983,4097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52596"}],"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=52596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}