{"id":607,"date":"2017-02-23T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=607"},"modified":"2017-02-23T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:21:33","slug":"the-50s-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 1967: premiere date of <em>Star Trek<\/em> episode &#8216;A Taste of Armageddon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-608\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tasteofarmageddon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tasteofarmageddon.png 800w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tasteofarmageddon-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tasteofarmageddon-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the day I was born, this episode premiered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Eminiar VII, the Enterprise finds a civilization at war with its planetary neighbor. Unable to discern any signs of battle from orbit, Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the surface where he discovers the entire war is fought by computer. Even though the war is simulated, citizens who are listed as virtual casualties still report to termination booths to be killed for real. After the Enterprise is destroyed in an attack simulation, Kirk must fight to keep his crew from death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always liked this episode, because it was basically a real live war game run by computers. \u00a0Much like what I&#8217;ve been playing most of my life on my computers and game consoles.<\/p>\n<p>This episode includes one of my favorite Spock lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/armageddon4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/armageddon4.png 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/armageddon4-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I bought the entire series on DVD and later blu-ray, I make a point to watch this episode on or around my birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 1967: premiere date of Star Trek episode &#8216;A Taste of Armageddon&#8217;. On the day I was born, this episode premiered. On Eminiar VII, the Enterprise finds a civilization at war with its planetary neighbor. Unable to discern any signs of battle from orbit, Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the surface where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/the-50s-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 50s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32,45],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-star-trek","tag-the-50s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}