{"id":4652,"date":"2024-12-23T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2024-12-23T05:20:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:20:40","slug":"cerritos-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Cerritos Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/STLDtaylorweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: hand; width: 640px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/STLDtaylorweb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I would be remiss to not mark the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks with a little bit of fanart&#8230; it&#8217;s Taylor, the <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/USS_Cerritos\">USS Cerritos<\/a>&#8216;s resident <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Kzinti\">Kzinti<\/a> Ensign!<br><br>I was a teen when I read the first volume of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Niven\">Larry Niven<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man-Kzin_Wars\">Man-Kzin Wars<\/a>. I was already a huge TNG fan, but I had never seen the episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Kzinti#Appearances\">TAS<\/a> that featured the Kzinti, and I had no idea that the Kzin had any connection to Star Trek. And I definitely did not expect to see a Kzin wearing <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=4152\">this particular uniform<\/a>! <br><br>Just one example of how Lower Decks has lovingly homaged every corner of Star Trek history. What a journey&#8211;and now I can&#8217;t wait to see how the mythos of Lower Decks lives on as Star Trek continues on. LLAP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be remiss to not mark the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks with a little bit of fanart&#8230; it&#8217;s Taylor, the USS Cerritos&#8216;s resident Kzinti Ensign! I was a teen when I read the first volume of Larry Niven&#8216;s Man-Kzin Wars. I was already a huge TNG fan, but I had never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obscure-characters","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}