{"id":1239799,"date":"2023-10-02T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=296084"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:50:18","slug":"captain-kirks-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/02\/captain-kirks-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Kirk\u2019s \u201cObsession\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many consider the second season of Star Trek TOS to be its finest, and one of my favorite episodes from this season is \u201cObsession\u201d, the story of Kirk\u2019s desire to get revenge on \u201ca strange gaseous creature\u201d composed of dikironium that killed more than 50% of the crew of Kirk\u2019s former starship, the USS Farragut,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/02\/captain-kirks-obsession\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/02\/captain-kirks-obsession\/\">Captain Kirk\u2019s \u201cObsession\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/02\/captain-kirks-obsession\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many consider the second season of Star Trek TOS to be its finest, and one of my favorite episodes from this season is \u201cObsession\u201d, the story of Kirk\u2019s desire to get revenge on \u201ca strange gaseous creature\u201d composed of dikironium that killed more than 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239800,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239799\/revisions\/1239800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}