{"id":21514,"date":"2024-06-02T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21514"},"modified":"2024-06-02T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:50:02","slug":"book-22-of-52-the-light-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/book-22-of-52-the-light-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 22 (of 52) &#8211; The Light Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21515\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/lightfantastic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21515\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/lightfantastic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/lightfantastic.jpg 305w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/lightfantastic-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Light Fantastic &#8211; Jeffrey Lang<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Professor Moriarty kidnaps Lal, Data and Geordi try to find a way to meet his demands: finding physical bodies for both Moriarty and the Countess.\u00a0 Over the course of a couple of days, they go on many avenues of investigations, encountering old friends from their time on the Enterprise and others encountered by previous versions of their ship.\u00a0 Can they find a way to give Moriarty what he wants and keep Data&#8217;s daughter safe?\u00a0 Even if they could, should they?<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Light Fantastic<\/em>, Jeffrey Lang picks up the threads of the <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/book-21-of-52-the-persistence-of-memory\/\">Cold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/book-6-of-52-silent-weapons\/\">Equations<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/book-18-of-52-the-body-electric\/\">trilogy<\/a>, which brought Data back from the dead, and sends him on an adventure that crosses paths with many characters from the wider <em>Star Trek<\/em> universe, familiar to the reader if not necessarily the characters.\u00a0 It was an interesting tale and leaves Data in a good place for the next writer to pick up and play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Professor Moriarty kidnaps Lal, Data and Geordi try to find a way to meet his demands: finding physical bodies for both Moriarty and the Countess.\u00a0 Over the course of a couple of days, they go on many avenues of investigations, encountering old friends from their time on the Enterprise and others encountered by previous [&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":[11401,563,5187,11400],"class_list":["post-21514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-jeffrey-lang","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation","tag-the-light-fantastic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514","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=21514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21516,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions\/21516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}