{"id":914,"date":"2019-08-12T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?post_type=books&#038;p=914"},"modified":"2019-10-12T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T08:11:11","slug":"typhon-pact","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?books=typhon-pact","title":{"rendered":"Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Book 8 of the Typhon Pact series\u2014 the dramatic conclusion of this Star Trek: New Generation adventure.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Venette Convention has always remained independent, but it is about to become the flashpoint for a tense military standoff between the two power blocs now dominating interstellar space\u2014the United Federation of Planets and the recently formed Typhon Pact. The Venetan government turns to the Typhon Pact\u2019s Tzenkethi Coalition for protection in the new order, and has agreed to allow three of their supply bases for Tzenkethi use. But these bases\u2014if militarized\u2014would put Tzenkethi weapons unacceptably close to Federation, Cardassian, and Ferengi space. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">While Captain Ezri Dax and the crew of the U.S.S. Aventine are sent to investigate exactly what is happening at one of the Venette bases, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are assigned to a diplomatic mission sent to the Venette homeworld in order to broker a mutually acceptable resolution. But the Cardassian delegates don\u2019t seem particularly keen on using diplomacy to resolve the situation, which soon spirals out of control toward all-out war&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 8 of the Typhon Pact series\u2014 the dramatic conclusion of this Star Trek: New Generation adventure. The Venette Convention has always remained independent, but it is about to become the flashpoint for a tense military standoff between the two power blocs now dominating interstellar space\u2014the United Federation of Planets and the recently formed Typhon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":915,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book-authors":[44],"book-series":[36,68],"book-tags":[69,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-914","1":"books","2":"type-books","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"book-authors-una-mccormack","7":"book-series-star-trek","8":"book-series-star-trek-next-generation","9":"book-tags-new-generation","10":"book-tags-star-trek","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-authors&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"book-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-tags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}