{"id":20759,"date":"2023-10-15T06:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2023-10-10T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T13:29:19","slug":"book-45-of-52-intellivore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/book-45-of-52-intellivore\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 45 (of 52) &#8211; Intellivore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20760\" style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Intellivore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20760\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20760\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Intellivore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Intellivore.jpg 302w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Intellivore-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intellivore &#8211; Diane Duane<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Summoned to deep space, the Enterprise rendezvous with two other ships to investigate disturbing reports of missing colonies and transport ships.\u00a0 What they find is a giant planet capable of moving at warp speed that can eat the consciousness of intelligent life that it encounters along the way, leaving behind living bodies with no brain activity.\u00a0 When Dr. Crusher discovers a way to protect the crew from being killed, Captain Picard turns the ship over to Data, allowing him to try and destroy the planet before it kills him, and the Enterprise crew.<\/p>\n<p><em>Intellivore<\/em>, the 45th entry in the <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> series of books, was first released back in 1997.\u00a0 This tale from author Diane Duane is broader in scope than most, almost more cinematic than its counterparts.\u00a0 After the disappointment of <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/book-19-of-52-a-hard-rain\/\"><em>A Hard Rain<\/em><\/a>, this was a nice bounce back for the series, which saw a number of entries on sale in the Kindle store last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summoned to deep space, the Enterprise rendezvous with two other ships to investigate disturbing reports of missing colonies and transport ships.\u00a0 What they find is a giant planet capable of moving at warp speed that can eat the consciousness of intelligent life that it encounters along the way, leaving behind living bodies with no brain [&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":[1587,10781,2889,5187],"class_list":["post-20759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-diane-duane","tag-intellivore","tag-kindle","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759","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=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20761,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions\/20761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}