{"id":52880,"date":"2026-06-22T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52880"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:05:12","slug":"infiltrator-by-w-r-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/06\/22\/infiltrator-by-w-r-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Infiltrator by W.R. Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 27 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/1842a430-ba97-472e-894c-9b60410cf4db\"><cite>Infiltrator<\/cite><\/a> by W.R. Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Descendants of Khan and his compatriots face off against the Federation. I found this one to be above average, with much of it being something of an early take on the same issues explored by Strange New Worlds with Number One&#8217;s status as an Illyrian in hiding, expanded to explore how a society of genetically engineered humans might deal with how they&#8217;d be perceived by the Federation. As often happens with any eugenics storyline, it would be improved if the Federation was more honest and introspective about how initial fear and caution has developed into long-standing systemic bigotry, but as Star Trek has yet to really tackle that aspect of the universe, I wouldn&#8217;t really have expected it from a thirty-year-old novel.<\/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\/06\/IMG_6253.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Infiltrator.\" title=\"IMG_6253.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17363,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/1842a430-ba97-472e-894c-9b60410cf4db&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;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 27 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Something of an early take on the same issues explored by Strange New Worlds with Number One&#8217;s status as an Illyrian in hiding.<\/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":[4097,5839],"class_list":["post-52880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek","tag-w-r-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880","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=52880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52881,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880\/revisions\/52881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}