{"id":6,"date":"2011-04-28T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/?p=6"},"modified":"2011-04-28T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T02:17:10","slug":"my-seven-year-mission-watch-star-trek-voyager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/2011\/04\/28\/my-seven-year-mission-watch-star-trek-voyager\/","title":{"rendered":"My seven-year mission: watch Star Trek: Voyager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I&#8217;m Andy, and I&#8217;m an unabashed geek. As a child, I was immersed in <em>Star Trek<\/em> (the original series and movies), lived and breathed Star Wars, and re-read <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> so many times that I could hold a passable conversation in Quenya. Yet despite a childhood surrounded by so much science fiction and fantasy, I managed to miss out on all of the <em>Next Generation<\/em>-era Star Trek TV series when they were originally aired.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><div id=\"attachment_24\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" src=\"http:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uss_voyager.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"uss_voyager\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even if the show does nothing else right, it did come up with a pretty cool-looking starship.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m rectifying that now, and I&#8217;m blogging my progress. I&#8217;ve picked <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> to watch through over the coming months\/years. It&#8217;s not considered the strongest of the Trek shows, and I&#8217;m sure the going will get pretty tough at points. But the idea behind <em>Voyager<\/em> has appealed to me from the time I first heard of it, and by Kahless, I&#8217;m going to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll join me, and perhaps even watch some of the show alongside me. I&#8217;ll write my thoughts and impressions of each episode as I watch; I don&#8217;t promise insightful analysis, but I&#8217;ll do my best to point out the bad while enjoying the good. I&#8217;m no expert on the Next Generation universe, and I&#8217;ll no doubt need plenty of correction as I plot along. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a good day to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I&#8217;m Andy, and I&#8217;m an unabashed geek. As a child, I was immersed in Star Trek (the original series and movies), lived and breathed Star Wars, and re-read The Lord of the Rings so many times that I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/2011\/04\/28\/my-seven-year-mission-watch-star-trek-voyager\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/voyager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}