{"id":290,"date":"2009-05-13T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-06-19T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:29:28","slug":"set-transporter-coordinates-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Set Transporter Coordinates to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centauri-dreams.org\/?p=7795\">Centauri Dreams<\/a>, where my friend Paul Gilster is graciously hosting my more extended take on the new <em>Star Trek<\/em> film.\u00a0 I think that the mixed reactions are universal among those who loved the original <em>Star Trek&#8217;s<\/em> optimism and civility.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the closing paragraph of my extended essay, to whet your appetites:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"serenity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/serenity-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"serenity\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/serenity-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/serenity.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ST|| is an odd-numbered film in the series, so I\u2019ll give it a long space tether. However, if Uhura degenerates into the Angel in the House or if the certain-to-come sequels become more generic, I will put ST|| permanently in the same category as <em>Star Wars<\/em>. Those who have read my <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=8793\">essay on <em>Star Wars<\/em><\/a> know how dire a fate this is. And though my wrath may not equal that of Khan, if enough of my ilk get disaffected we may abandon all the old lumbering dinosaurs and manage to relaunch the real McCoy \u2014 the Firefly-class starship <em>Serenity<\/em>, with its true love of endless skies and its persistent aim to misbehave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Centauri Dreams, where my friend Paul Gilster is graciously hosting my more extended take on the new Star Trek film.\u00a0 I think that the mixed reactions are universal among those who loved the original Star Trek&#8217;s optimism and civility.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the closing paragraph of my extended essay, to whet your appetites: ST|| is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,13,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}