{"id":52959,"date":"2026-08-04T06:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52959"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:38:29","slug":"night-of-the-living-trekkies-by-kevin-david-anderson-and-sam-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/08\/04\/night-of-the-living-trekkies-by-kevin-david-anderson-and-sam-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 36 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/b6846d34-02e6-4fde-aa4f-c1392d7d2be6\"><cite>Night of the Living Trekkies<\/cite><\/a> by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: An entertaining adventure as a Star Trek convention becomes ground zero for the zombie apocalypse. A few things here and there that bothered me a bit, but mostly nothing really major. The biggest thing for me was that the authors couldn\u2019t resist giving nearly every person and place very obvious Trek nods for names (the hero is Jim Pike, the hotel is the Botany Bay, and many, many others), and yet, somehow, it seems that none of the die-hard Trek fans at the convention ever notice this or think it\u2019s at all noteworthy. While identifying the names was a fun mini-game as I read, within the context of the story, it broke my suspension of disbelief (apparently, zombies are fine, but insufficiently observant and pedantic Trekkies is over the line).<\/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\/08\/IMG_6601.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Night of the Living Trekkies.\" title=\"IMG_6601.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;:17455,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/b6846d34-02e6-4fde-aa4f-c1392d7d2be6&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 36 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Apparently, my suspension of disbelief is fine with zombies, but insufficiently pedantic Trekkies is over the line.<\/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":[7042,7043,4097],"class_list":["post-52959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-kevin-david-anderson","tag-sam-stall","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52959","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=52959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52960,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52959\/revisions\/52960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}