{"id":20238,"date":"2023-04-30T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20238"},"modified":"2023-04-30T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:10:35","slug":"book-19-of-52-a-hard-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/book-19-of-52-a-hard-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 19 (of 52) &#8211; A Hard Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20239\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hardrain_tng.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20239\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hardrain_tng.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hardrain_tng.png 195w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hardrain_tng-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hard Rain &#8211; Dean Wesley Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the Enterprise finds itself stuck in the pull of a quadruple singularity, the have one shot to save themselves.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the material they need has gotten lost in the Holodeck and only Dixon Hill can find it.\u00a0 With a small team, Captain Picard, as Dixon Hill, works the case, trying to find his missing prize in time to save the people of the city by the bay, not to mention his ship.<\/p>\n<p>With the final season of <em>Star Trek: Picard<\/em> on my mind, and Dean Wesley Smith&#8217;s <em>A Hard Rain<\/em> on sale in the Kindle store for $0.99, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the 24th century for the first time in nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/book-23-of-52-the-first-virtue\/\">two years<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was nothing waiting for me but disappointment.\u00a0 Smith spends his entire time in the Holodeck, with only log entries from Picard to provide updates on what&#8217;s actually happening on the Enterprise.\u00a0 I see what he was going for, but it didn&#8217;t work for me.\u00a0 I may need to take another long break, at least until I find another deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Enterprise finds itself stuck in the pull of a quadruple singularity, the have one shot to save themselves.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the material they need has gotten lost in the Holodeck and only Dixon Hill can find it.\u00a0 With a small team, Captain Picard, as Dixon Hill, works the case, trying to find his missing [&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":[10596,8502,2889,9951,5187],"class_list":["post-20238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-hard-rain","tag-dean-wesley-smith","tag-kindle","tag-star-trek-picard","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238","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=20238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20240,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions\/20240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}