{"id":15082,"date":"2019-08-03T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2019-12-14T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T20:13:38","slug":"book-17-of-52-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/book-17-of-52-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 17 (of 52) &#8211; Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15094\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dh-infection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15094\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15094\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dh-infection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dh-infection.jpg 291w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dh-infection-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Helix: Infection &#8211; John Gregory Betancourt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a virus breaks out that targets mixed species people on a racist Federation planet, the Enterprise is sent to help find a cure while quarantining the system.\u00a0 When the virus spreads to the Enterprise and takes down Troi, Dr. Crusher doubles her efforts to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<p>John Gregory Betancourt brings us back to the Star Trek universe with <em>Infection<\/em>, the first chapter of the <em>Double Helix<\/em> saga.\u00a0 It certainly wasn&#8217;t the best TNG entry I&#8217;ve ever read, with an ending that was very rushed.\u00a0 The other entries look to be spread across the different corners of the Star Trek universe, which is outside of my usual comfort zone, so we&#8217;ll see if picking up this series was worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a virus breaks out that targets mixed species people on a racist Federation planet, the Enterprise is sent to help find a cure while quarantining the system.\u00a0 When the virus spreads to the Enterprise and takes down Troi, Dr. Crusher doubles her efforts to get to the bottom of it. John Gregory Betancourt brings [&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":[8501,8516,8517,5187],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-double-helix","tag-infection","tag-john-gregory-betancourt","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","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=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15328,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/15328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}