After a few days of not blogging, mostly because I’ve been both tired and busy, not necessarily in that order, I went out to Borders.<\/p>\n
And there I saw something that made me very<\/i> happy.<\/p>\n
Star Trek Magazine<\/i> #20.<\/p>\n
The cover has Jean-Luc Picard, with a Borg drone loomed in the background. A light blue cover.<\/p>\n
“Collective Encounters,” my article on the history of the Borg, can be found therein. It’s a big article, covers lots of ground. Looks fantastic between the covers.<\/p>\n
People have been reading it. I’ve seen a couple of variations of “allyn gibson borg history” in my WordPress search logs the last week, leading them to some really old<\/i> blog postings like my speculations at the time about the Star Trek: Enterprise<\/b> episode “Regeneration”<\/a> or this one about when the Federation’s first contact with the Borg really was<\/a>.<\/p>\n It felt good to see the magazine out there, on the shelf.<\/p>\n I’m really proud of the article. Said editor Paul Simpson<\/a>, “you did a terrific job with possibly the nastiest commission I’ve given out in 3 years on the mag.”<\/p>\n It was a metric ton of research, I’m sure I completely<\/i> overlooked something significant, but the finished result has a lot of interesting ideas in it. It surprised me. I’m pretty sure “Collective Encounters” will surprise you, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a few days of not blogging, mostly because I’ve been both tired and busy, not necessarily in that order, I went out to Borders. And there I saw something that made me very happy. Star Trek Magazine #20. The cover has Jean-Luc Picard, with a Borg drone loomed in the background. A light blueContinue reading “On Seeing It In The Wild”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[195,4089,4102],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-borg","tag-star-trek","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}