{"id":52801,"date":"2026-05-03T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52801"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:54:45","slug":"purgatorys-key-by-dayton-ward-and-kevin-dilmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/05\/03\/purgatorys-key-by-dayton-ward-and-kevin-dilmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory&#8217;s Key by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17268,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/374201f3-f9b1-43b1-a555-81bd7a54623a&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 16 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/374201f3-f9b1-43b1-a555-81bd7a54623a\"><cite>Purgatory&#8217;s Key<\/cite><\/a> by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Good wrap up to this 50th anniversary trilogy. A bit of a bummer that one of the villains was so similar to one in the prior book (a woman so obsessed with a particular goal that she makes increasingly irrational and ill-considered decisions), but otherwise does a good job tying things up with the rest of the books. Overall, the trilogy does well in touching on a lot of TOS and incorporating hints of things to come.<\/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\/05\/IMG_6025.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Purgatory&#39;s Key\" title=\"IMG_6025.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 16 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Good wrap up to this 50th anniversary trilogy.<\/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":[4116,5741,4097],"class_list":["post-52801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-dayton-ward","tag-kevin-dilmore","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52801","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=52801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52802,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52801\/revisions\/52802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}