61: John Jacob Jingleheimer Harriman

Published: May 18, 2014, 2:50 p.m.

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Serpents Among the\\nRuins.

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The Tomed Incident is a famous event in Star Trek history. But\\nlike so many such incidents, it\'s something we\'ve heard in passing\\ndialogue but never really learned much about. It was mentioned in\\nthree episodes of TNG\\u2014"The Neutral Zone," "The Defector," and "The\\nPegasus"\\u2014and one episode of Enterprise\\u2014"These Are the Voyages\\u2026"\\nOkay... so four episodes of TNG. But what actually happened? This\\nis what David R. George III answers in his Lost Era novel,\\nSerpents Among the Ruins.

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In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Matthew\\nRushing and Christopher Jones are joined by Drew Stewart and Dan\\nGunther to discuss the novel, what led to the Treaty of Algeron,\\nwhy the Romulans retreated from galactic politics before\\nresurfacing on TNG, and to the ban on Federation cloaking\\ntechnology.

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In our news segment we take a look at the final covers for Star\\nTrek: Seekers 1 and 2 and get set for John Byrne\'s New\\nVisions "The Mirror, Cracked."

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