{"id":16225,"date":"2020-06-09T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16225"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:12:32","slug":"book-10-of-52-red-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/book-10-of-52-red-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 10 (of 52) &#8211; Red Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16226\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/redsector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16226\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/redsector.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/redsector.jpg 305w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/redsector-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Sector &#8211; Diane Carey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the latest entry of the Double Helix series, a commander who spent years as a prisoner on a quarantined planet volunteers to go back to help Spock, Bones, and Dr. Crusher find an heir to the Romulan royal family, which has been decimated by an artificial virus, similar to what was seen at Terok Nor and an outbreak the Enterprise had encountered years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Carey brings us <em>Red Sector<\/em>, the third entry in the\u00a0Double Helix\u00a0series which focuses mostly on the pair from OG <em>Star Trek<\/em>, with the Next Gen crew playing a bit supporting role.\u00a0 She deftly avoids the problems I had with the previous installment, with plot overlap trying to investigate and solve for a mysterious plague, by skipping that part of the story altogether.\u00a0 The disease is a given, with the action focused on rescuing the one person who can potentially cure it from a bad situation.\u00a0 With three more entries to go, I am cautiously optimistic on where the series is headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest entry of the Double Helix series, a commander who spent years as a prisoner on a quarantined planet volunteers to go back to help Spock, Bones, and Dr. Crusher find an heir to the Romulan royal family, which has been decimated by an artificial virus, similar to what was seen at Terok [&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":[1577,8501,8960,563,5187],"class_list":["post-16225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-diane-carey","tag-double-helix","tag-red-sector","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16227,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions\/16227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}