{"id":52627,"date":"2025-12-24T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52627"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:16:24","slug":"wagon-train-to-the-stars-by-diane-carey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/24\/wagon-train-to-the-stars-by-diane-carey\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagon Train to the Stars by Diane Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:164,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/88633625-7a71-40b8-8d04-04875b8fe793&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 63 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/88633625-7a71-40b8-8d04-04875b8fe793\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting start to this six-part series. Shortly post-V\u2019ger, Kirk and the Enterprise guide a 70-ship convoy of 60,000 settlers to a new home six months away. Of course, things do not go well. Most interesting so far for its treatment of Kirk, somewhere on his road from the (perhaps overly) brash self-assurance of TMP to the depression of the start of TWoK, questioning his place and the effects of his career. The new alien races are interesting, as well. However, the primary antagonist is a little too one-note, and while \u201cthe Orions\u201d are involved, I\u2019m very confused by them, as they\u2019re described in ways that don\u2019t match the green-skinned humanoids we know as Orions (descriptive bits include: \u201c\u2026slimy muscular arm\u2026\u201d, \u201c\u2026arrowlike orange eyes\u2026\u201d, \u201c\u2026his many-fingered limb\u2026\u201d, \u201c\u2026his claw still tightened around [their] jaw\u2026\u201d, \u201c\u2026purple skin\u2026\u201d, \u201c\u2026turned burgundy with both fury and fear\u2026\u201d, \u201c[his] excuse for eyes\u2026those milky orbs\u2026\u201d). At some point in the editing process, those descriptions should have been corrected or they should have been given some other name than \u201cOrions\u201d.<\/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\/12\/IMG_5520.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Wagon Train to the Stars\" title=\"IMG_5520.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 63\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: An interesting start to this six-part series, but with some very odd Orions.<\/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":[3014,6986,4097],"class_list":["post-52627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-diane-carey","tag-new-earth","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627","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=52627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52628,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627\/revisions\/52628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}