{"id":687,"date":"2006-09-27T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2006-09-27T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T13:05:03","slug":"the_dark_days_of_trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/27\/the_dark_days_of_trek\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Days of Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of <i>Star Trek<\/i>&#8216;s 40th anniversary and relaunch in all-new computer-generated semi-glory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/\">Lileks<\/a> has applied his humorous cudgel to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/archives\/32\/index.html\">less-than-inspiring efforts<\/a> to keep the franchise alive during the mid-70s. This was the period between the cancellation of the series and its big-screen rebirth in <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/i>, when fans really didn&#8217;t think the show would ever return and, presumably, they&#8217;d take whatever crappy souvenirs of their beloved obsession they could get. I remember seeing most of these ads in my old comic books. They looked pretty lame to me when I was a kid; they look really bad now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Star Trek&#8216;s 40th anniversary and relaunch in all-new computer-generated semi-glory, Lileks has applied his humorous cudgel to the less-than-inspiring efforts to keep the franchise alive during the mid-70s. This was the period between the cancellation of the series and its big-screen rebirth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, when fans really didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}