Mariner wakes up like everyday at the start of this graphic novel, but things get strange fast. You see her pick a drink for the morning, and no matter what they choose dire situations keep happening. It is weird the first few times things take a dark turn, but soon patterns start to emerge. It is clear something is not right, and it is a ton of fun figuring it out. Once the truth becomes apparent, we see Mariner forced to make a difficult decision. Fans of Star Trek: Lower Decks will want to read this graphic novel.

In the tradition of the 'Choose your Own Adventure' books comes this riotously funny, often irreverent, Star Trek: Lower Decks, choose your path, graphic novel. Yeah, that's a lot.

Mariner just wants to have a quiet, normal day, but no matter what she does, the universe is on the verge of ending. At least for her and the ship she rode in on. It's Groundhog Day with death and destruction at the end of the wrong paths. But are they all wrong?

I can't remember the last time I had so much fun and laughed so much while reading a book. Author Ryan North understands these characters - this really is like watching an episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks! There are a LOT of little moments that really make this shine. My favorite is probably the talking Spock clock which, like a modern day Alexa, offers to provide useless, random facts:

"Once, on Stardate 5341, I survived without a brain for almost 24 hours."
"Spock clock, disable all fun facts!"
"Acknowledged."
There's really not a sense of impending doom for the reader, which is odd, since you die a lot. The older Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books really brought the reader into the story. This is a little more passive, but it's also a heck of a lot more fun.

If you are going to consider this, and I highly recommend it for any Star Trek fan, then you really need a physical copy. My digital ARC made it very difficult to jump forward and back to follow along the different paths. The page numbers didn't line up accurately - if the story path you choose asks you to jump to page 28 and the actual story is on page 32 it throws you off. I know ... once you know the disparity you can do the math each time. But let's face it, 1) I don't want to have to think too hard, especially when reading a fun book like this, and 2) I shouldn't have to. You also have to remember where you were when you want to go back - it's not too easy to 'flip' through digital pages.

The art looks exactly the animation on the television program.

Looking for a good book? Star Trek: Lower Decks - Warp Your Own Way, story by Ryan North and art by Chris Fenoglio is a seriously fun 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style book with all the familiar Star Trek: Lower Decks characters and plenty of Star Trek Easter Eggs.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

Ensign Beckett Mariner wakes up to a very bad day. Or is it a series of bad days. Seemingly every choice she makes ends with the Cerritos destroyed or her dying in a variety of ways - gunned down of tribbles, Borg attack, Gorm infestation, bad maintenance, etc. But things do not add up. Someone is always asking for the Cerritos prefix override code. Something strange is going on and Mariner is determined to get to the bottom of it even if it kills her. As it likely will. So come along with Mariner and the rest of the crew of the Cerritos as slowly figures out what is going on and how to solve the mystery! P.S. I like the wake-up alarm!

Thanks Netgalley and IDW for the chance to read this title.

Thank you to Ryan North, IDW Publishing, and Netgalley for this free advanced reader copy of "Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way" for an honest review. I spent so much of this read giggling to myself everywhere. Star Trek: Lower Decks + A Choose Your Own Adventure book was A GRAND IDEA/EXECUTION. I love everything about this, and I cannot wait to hand this out as a Christmas present to all my family members who love Star Trek and watching them playing with all the options on Christmas morning.

When picking this up I was expecting a run of the mill, enjoyable but standard chose your own adventure book, with my favorites from Lower Decks in the spotlight and some good art. What I go was a mind-bending adventure that brought me into the plot and made me feel like I was a part of the story.

Warp Your Own Way is a graphic novel done in the same art style as the Lower Decks TV show, with the main cast also featured here as the main crew, but a new villain we have not seen before. The chose your own adventure style book works exceptionally well with the plot they have chosen and adds to the plot instead of being just a fun quirk. You will want to read all the endings and will spend your time flipping back and forth trying to see how the puzzle fits together.

I would recommend this to anyone:
- Who enjoys Star Trek Lower Decks
- Loves chose your own adventure books but is looking for a new twist
- Trekkies looking for fun read with tons of lore snuck in
- And those who just enjoy fun graphic novels

I received an advance review copy of this book, and I am leaving this review voluntarily and all thoughts and opinions are wholly my own and unbiased.

I had a really fun time reading this Choose Your Own Adventure book. I remember reading these a lot as a kid. As an adult, I love Lower Decks and Star Trek, so this really hit the spot for a fun read.

Very fun and silly. Love the brightly colored artwork and the story feels like you are watching an episode of Lower Decks.

4 stars

This book was given to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This is perfect for anyone that is a fan of the lower decks, it definitely scratched my itch for the lower decks while I was waiting for the final season to come out. The art style is spot on to the show and it has the same silly vibe as you would expect for this crew. It was a lot of fun to read.

Picked up a physical version before reviewing since other reviewers spoke about the difficulty of viewing the galley, and I could not be more impressed. Beautiful artwork, funny choices, this book has it all! Great for fans of Lower Decks and Start Trek in general.

This is the perfect gift for any Lower Decks Fan or those of us who miss Choose Your Own Adventures. The Art and writing are straight out of an episode. I have read through this about eight times, and there are still more paths. You will definitely find yourself laughing out loud. The Digital version is a little hard to navigate, but I still loved every minute of it.

Mariner is just trying to have a day off. You have to help her choose her path to that. With this crew, there will be chaos along the way.

Thank You to NetGalley and the publishers for this Arc in exchange for an honest review.

Ryan North has a certain set of skills. If you read any of his work long enough, it's bound to hit on time travel, or become a choose your own adventure—or both! This is one of the best and most interesting choose your own adventure stories of his now quite-lengthy canon, and (as a big fan of the show) it's also a really fun visit with the Lower Decks characters. I had a great time working through this and figuring out its secrets, and I am saying that <em>as a person who hates doing math, and was forced by this book to do math</em>! The ebook copy I had was off by like four pages so I also had to do like very standard math every single time I had to "go to page X" and I kept a big list of all the paths I'd gone down already to keep track. It was suspiciously like homework, and yet I enjoyed the heck out of it. This book can trick you into doing homework!

I may not be the perfect audience for this book, because while I do love Star Trek and the ST Lower Decks series and graphic novels, I didn’t realize it was a choose your own adventure book going into it and I don’t usually love those. That would have been fine but there’s no way to read this digitally that I could tell, because of the way page numbers change in different e-formats. What I did manage to read was fun and felt very true to the animated series characters, and there’s a good amount of doom, which is a fun part of trek animation (it’s a wonder how often they don’t die in the shows, honestly). I did love the details we don’t get in the animated show, so if you’re a fan I do recommend picking up the physical version!

I loved this. North has written both Lower Decks and choose your own adventure comics before but manages to cut loose in some innovative ways here to gamify the reading experience in a purposeful and joyful way.

This was a blast! I love anything and everything Star Trek so I was so delighted when this popped up on NetGalley. Thank you to NetGalley and IDW Publishing for providing me with a copy to read & review!

So first up, I absolutely LOVED the humour in this book. It was so witty and on point with the kind of humour one would expect from Star Trek: Lower Decks. Within the first three pages I was literally laughing out loud. Just about every joke lands, and it's so obvious just from the humour alone that Ryan North really loves Star Trek: Lower Decks and really loves the characters he's writing for.

The characterisation was on point! Boimler was his awkward self, Mariner was a (very confused) badass, Tendi was a sweetheart and Rutherford just cared about his one true love - the warp core. Also, massive shoutout to the fact this comic included the love of my life, T'Lyn, in it. And not only included her, but wrote her very, very well. Even most of the minor characters were written as being very in character, very true to their characterisation on the show.

The art mimics the style of the show perfectly - this really did feel like watching an episode, just in book form! The colours are bright and the page layouts, including the gutters, are all very logical and easy to follow.

Overall, I thought this was a great graphic novel, and I loved that it was choose your own adventure-style! I don't typically read those sorts of books, but for Lower Decks I made an exception, and I'm extremely glad I did!

Per gli amanti di Star Trek e delle graphic novel irriverenti.
È un fumetto progettato come i libri gaming, dove scegli tu le decisioni che dovrà prendere il tuo personaggio durante la storia. Questo aspetto era inaspettato, nonostante il titolo non avevo capito che sarebbe stato un fumetto con questo metodo di lettura. Sono molto contenta che si sia rivelato migliore rispetto alle mie aspettative. È geniale averlo ideato in questo modo. Penso che molti amanti della serie apprezzeranno questo aspetto che li farà sentire più partecipi e non più spettatori passivi.
Disegni all'altezza della serie animata, anche i dialoghi. Lo consiglio!!
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I love Lower Decks and Ryan North seemed like the perfect match for a book like this, so of course I had to check it out. Most importantly, the art and character voices are exactly on target, you can practically hear the voice actors in your head while you read. Unfortunately I think that eBook is not the right format to read a graphic novel like this. The choose your own adventure aspect means that you have to flip back and forth a lot to get the full effect of the story, and that quickly becomes tedious on a eReader or computer. I got through enough to know that the book is great and that I will definitely be acquiring a physical copy as soon as possible so that I can read through the entire thing. Highly recommended for fans of Star Trek, but if possible read it in physical form.

It's a normal morning for Beckett Mariner—until it isn't. Things have gone weird aboard the USS Cerritos. Boimler has adopted a pregnant tribble... or Khan is back... or the Borg are invading. It depends on which path you, the reader, choose. But whichever direction you go, one thing stays the same: everyone seems to think Beckett knows the ship's highly confidential prefix code. Which, as she states time and again, she doesn't.

Wait, "time and again"?... That's right. It doesn't take long to find out that, whatever is happening, it keeps happening. Someone is very intent on getting this code. And to break the cycle, you're going to have to do some seriously out of the box thinking.

It's been great to see "interactive novels" making a comeback recently, and this is the first interactive comic I've read personally. Going with Lower Decks was a great choice for a title like this, where the bendiness and genre-savvy actually come in handy. How quickly you find your way out of the cycle will be largely down to chance; for me it took a while, but even then I didn't catch all the potential plot lines. This is one you'll want to cheat your way through when you're finished, just to see what you missed. It's a heck of a lot of fun, and a great way of embracing this classic choose-your-own-adventure style.

I didn't get through every single permutation of this choose-your-own-adventure, but I did get through four, and died every time, lol.

Long-time Trek fan, although I haven't seen anything from Lower Decks because I don't have the right streaming platform. It sounds great though-- a little bit like The Orville maybe. If this GN's portrayal of a less rigid, more irreverent tone is accurate, it's probably awesome.

It looks like the characters from the show are the main characters in this GN, so readers who have seen at least a little might get more out of it, but it's not a requirement. From the storylines I did follow and those I caught glimpses of in between, it looks like there are plenty of references to original Star Trek storylines and characters, from TOS to DS9 and some of the movies.

The illustration style was a great match for the zany storylines. It looks like it matches the show's cartoon style pretty closely, too.

Such a fun chose your own adventure story but boy howdy is it difficult to read digitally! Something best suited for fans of startrek and physical media!

I received a copy of Star Trek Lower Decks Warp Your Own Way published by @idwpublishing from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That's a mouthful.
I really like the TV show and I thought this captured the vibe of the show very well. They nailed the artwork and did a great job with the characters. I enjoyed the story, though I died many times along the way, which just means I got to see the whole thing lol
I would, however, not recommend reading the digital version, unless you've got a very good reader. It's a choose your own adventure and turning to the appropriate page was difficult for me. I'd go to the page number on the reader but it would be the wrong one in the actual book. It made reading difficult to do. I think this would work great in physical format, hopefully by the time of publication they've fixed the digital.
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