{"id":10987,"date":"2016-09-30T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2016-09-26T18:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:49:31","slug":"book-21-of-52-the-persistence-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/book-21-of-52-the-persistence-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 21 (of 52) &#8211; The Persistence Of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10989\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10989\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10989\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10989\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Persistence_large.jpg\" alt=\"The Persistence of Memory - David Mack\" width=\"310\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Persistence_large.jpg 310w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Persistence_large-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Persistence of Memory &#8211; David Mack<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the Star Trek franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary, another trilogy of novels from David Mack was available on the cheap from the Kindle store on Amazon, so I picked them up. \u00a0The first of the trilogy, <em>The Persistence of Memory<\/em>, follows the events of <em>Star Trek: Nemesis<\/em> and, after a mystery about the whereabouts of some stolen androids, brings Data back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Had the powers that be known that <em>Nemesis<\/em> would end up being the final film with the Next Generation cast, the impetus to kill off Data, Brent Spiner&#8217;s advancing age, would have disappeared. \u00a0But, thanks to some retconning to the end of the fourth season episode <em>Brothers<\/em>, Mack finds a creative way to bring back the fan favorite character. \u00a0Unfortunately, the entire middle section of this book was merely set-up for that return.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if any of that set-up comes back into play in the next 2 installments of the trilogy. \u00a0If they do, then that may change my opinion of this outing. \u00a0As it is, there was a lot of seemingly wasted time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Star Trek franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary, another trilogy of novels from David Mack was available on the cheap from the Kindle store on Amazon, so I picked them up. \u00a0The first of the trilogy, The Persistence of Memory, follows the events of Star Trek: Nemesis and, after a mystery about the whereabouts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6969,4208,563,6968,6967],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-brent-spiner","tag-david-mack","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-nemesis","tag-the-persistence-of-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10999,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions\/10999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}