{"id":52693,"date":"2026-01-12T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52693"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:35:47","slug":"challenger-by-diane-carey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/01\/12\/challenger-by-diane-carey\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenger by Diane Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:84,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/8bd83d2e-9cc1-4514-a3ed-162bbc4570be&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 2 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/8bd83d2e-9cc1-4514-a3ed-162bbc4570be\"><cite>Challenger<\/cite><\/a> by Diane Carey: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;.<\/p>\n<p>The tone of this one was <em>really<\/em> odd. Much of it is centered on the main crew of another ship, which is fine in and of itself, but there was something about their interactions that was <em>so<\/em> flippant and irreverent that for me, it blew right past &#8220;different ship with a different, quirkier feel than the Enterprise&#8221; all the way to &#8220;how are these people functioning with each other, within Starfleet, or in the universe in general?&#8221; As a capstone to the series, it wrapped up all the major plot points well enough, but the odd tone was really off-putting for me.<\/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\/2026\/01\/IMG_5568.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Challenger\" title=\"IMG_5568.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 2 of 2026: <cite>Challenger<\/cite> by Diane Carey: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;. As a capstone to the series, it wrapped up all the major plot points well enough, but the odd tone was really off-putting for me.<\/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":[3014,4097],"class_list":["post-52693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-diane-carey","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52693","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=52693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52694,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52693\/revisions\/52694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}