{"id":2298,"date":"2009-05-09T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2009-05-09T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T13:27:54","slug":"media_tieins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"Media Tie-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early tweets and Facebook updates indicate that Star Trek is going to pwn my fanboy heart when I see it later today. I&#8217;m trying to accelerate time by brushing up on my Klingon and browsing Trek-related content on the web. Here are a few of the more interesting items I&#8217;ve come across: <\/p>\n<p>The Onion pokes fun at Trekkies and their willingness to sit through some pretty awful previous movies, while also informing viewers that Gene Roddenberry created the original Trek &#8220;back in the forties or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"430\" height=\"430\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/common\/assets\/onn_embed\/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FSTAR_TREK_article.jpg&amp;videoid=94844&amp;title=Trekkies%20Bash%20New%20Star%20Trek%20Film%20As%20%27Fun%2C%20Watchable%27\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=videoembed\">Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As &#8216;Fun, Watchable&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In many respects, <i>The Next Generation<\/i> series was as corny and stilted as the original, but sometimes the writers managed to hit one out of the park. <i>Slate <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2217905\/?from=rss\">sings the praises of &#8220;Chain of Command&#8221;<\/a>, a two-part episode that dealt thoughtfully with the issue of torture and remains one of my favorites. <\/p>\n<p>Even the foodies are getting in on the fun by writing essays on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2009\/05\/a-primer-to-star-trek-food-and-drink.html\">the cuisine of <i>Trek<\/i><\/a>. And now I&#8217;m in the mood for a glass of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droogle.ca\/drinks\/4670-Romulan_Ale_2_\">Romulan ale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early tweets and Facebook updates indicate that Star Trek is going to pwn my fanboy heart when I see it later today. I&#8217;m trying to accelerate time by brushing up on my Klingon and browsing Trek-related content on the web. Here are a few of the more interesting items I&#8217;ve come across: The Onion pokes <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2298' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-B4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}