{"id":565,"date":"2001-09-08T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-08T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:25:03","slug":"talking-new-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Talking New Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came up on the <i>Trek<\/i> boards recently.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure a person could read <i>Being Human<\/i>, the next non-crossover <b>Star Trek: New Frontier<\/b> novel, without having previously read <i>Cold Wars<\/i> and <i>What Lay Beyond<\/i>, but you&#8217;d probably miss a few references.  Two years ago, you could have read <i>The Quiet Place<\/i> and <i>Dark Allies<\/i> without having read <i>Double or Nothing<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this year&#8217;s <b>New Frontier<\/b> novels will be a return to form after<br \/>\nthe disappointments of the past two years.  The comic last year bordered on<br \/>\nthe abysmal, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?page_id=1779\"><i>Restoration<\/i> represents the series&#8217; nadir<\/a>.  Another round of books as poorly plotted and badly characterized as the <i>Excalibur<\/i> trilogy could sound <b>New Frontier<\/b>&#8216;s death knell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came up on the Trek boards recently. I&#8217;m sure a person could read Being Human, the next non-crossover Star Trek: New Frontier novel, without having previously read Cold Wars and What Lay Beyond, but you&#8217;d probably miss a few references. Two years ago, you could have read The Quiet Place and Dark Allies without<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=565\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Talking New Frontier&#8221;<\/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":[30],"tags":[158,286],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-peter-david","tag-star-trek-new-frontier","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}