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Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way

Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way is a 2024 graphic novel/gamebook, set in the world of Star Trek: Lower Decks It was written by Ryan North, with art by Chris Fenoglio, and was first published by IDW Publishing.

Synopsis

Beckett Mariner's breakfast choices lead to a wide variety of disasters — with an underlying connection.

Reception

Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way is a finalist for the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story[1] and the 2025 Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel.[2]

At Strange Horizons, Abigail Nussbaum found it to be "clever [and] delightful", emphasizing that it is both "an excellent Lower Decks story" and "an inventive, surprising use of the Choose Your Own Adventure format". Nussbaum praised North for "captur[ing] the feel of [Lower Decks]' comedy perfectly", for his use of the comics medium, and for "knowing when to take the reader's choice away (...) for the sake of a satisfying experience."[3]

References

  1. ^ 2025 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved April 30, 2025
  2. ^ 2025 Aurora Awards Ballot, published April 16, 2025; retrieved April 30, 2025
  3. ^ Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio, by Abigail Nussbaum; at Strange Horizons; published December 23, 2024; retrieved April 30, 2025