{"id":2067,"date":"2005-03-18T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2010-05-02T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T12:21:03","slug":"2067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/2067\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Star Trek 6<\/i> by James Blish (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay I read another of these.  I bought 5-10 for 33 cents each at Hooked on Books in Springfield, and they&#8217;re well worth it.  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/055313874X\/qid=1111161370\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/002-5517328-3672036?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" target=\"_new\">Star Trek 6<\/a><\/i>, like the others in the series, gathers together some of the episodes from the original <i>Star Trek<\/i> series and does them in a short story format.  They&#8217;re quick reads as they run about 130 pages each and, as paperbacks, they fit in one&#8217;s pocket.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things strike me as I read them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wow, you mean there are episodes of the original series I haven&#8217;t seen?  I guess they made, what, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treknation.com\/episodes\/tos\/\" target=\"_new\">80 of them<\/a> over three years; I just assumed that through the years of syndication, I had seen them all.  I haven&#8217;t.  Which means there&#8217;s probably a TOS DVD box set in my future.\n<li>Man, do you remember when paperback books had order forms right in the back?  Have you ever encountered a paperback book that had its order form clipped out?  Me either.  Do they still do that?  I remember the old paperback versions of Ayn Rand&#8217;s writing actually had a card glued into the middle for information about the ARI, but I haven&#8217;t seen a paperback with the order form in years.  Of course, I haven&#8217;t bought a new paperback book in years&#8230;.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay I read another of these. I bought 5-10 for 33 cents each at Hooked on Books in Springfield, and they&#8217;re well worth it. Star Trek 6, like the others in the series, gathers together some of the episodes from the original Star Trek series and does them in a short story format. They&#8217;re quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}