This was a lot of fun to go through! If you’re a fan of the show you’ll enjoy every minute of this. There’s a ton of different paths and possible routes, and even when you don’t succeed you want to go back over and over and see what else happens. I do recommend a physical copy instead of digital, just because it is easier to flip around, but the digital copy did do just fine.
Note: ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

A Star Trek comedy cartoon, in comic book form, mixed with a choose your own adventure book. It's a weird combination that shouldn't work, and yet it does!

For all the quirk of the very idea, the book does a good job of capturing the look and humor of Lower Decks (complete with appropriate homage and parody of the universe), while also recreating quite well the fun and frustrations of the old choose your own adventure books you may remember from childhood. It's a blast!

I did have a dumb habit of wanting to tap the options rather than turning to the appropriate pages on digital (stupid gamer brain), making me wish the digital version was more of an interactive thing. You may not get this feeling (or be this dumb) , but for me having this in print will absolute work much better.

*ARC provided by NetGalley & IDW Publishing*

AGH I just LOVE Lower Decks! And Choose Your Own Adventure! But Lower Decks AND Choose Your Own Adventure??? Yesssss! This helps alleviate some of the pain from the fact that Lower Decks' last season is coming soon but at least it'll live on in book form!

Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for a copy to review!

A fun read with different adventures-what would you wish more from a Lower Decks book? I think I would have enjoyed it more in a paper format since its harder to flip pages in an ebook, but I hope to pick up a printed book in the future too!

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way is a bold experiment. It’s a choose your own adventure in the the Star Trek Universe. I just wish I could say that I enjoyed it more.
The story was fun. If you like Lower Decks, you’ll feel right at home with this trade. The tone, characterization and art were right on point.
The problem came with the choosing your options during the story. I was reading a digital ARC of it.
Maybe I wasn’t doing something right.
Maybe they didn’t have everything finished with the digital ARC.
Maybe they’ll have it working in the published version.
But I had to move my way through the book on my own with my finger. Being on page 10 and then choosing an option that starts on page 34 is a lot of page flipping on a tablet.
This will definitely work better in a paper version than digital.
I’ll look into this again at that point.

A super fun story! I would definitely recommend watching Lower Decks before reading this to be more familiar with the characters and their personalities.

I wished that when the option you picked ended it would give you the page number to return to instead of simply saying "the end". Having to remember where to jump back to took away from the enjoyment of reading this style of book.

I was provided an advanced copy of this book, courtesy of the publisher and author via Netgalley. All opinions are my own.

Very tricky but quintessential Lower Decks. Very fun plot and the different adventures were all great.

You'll want to be fully caffeinated to read this choose-your-own-adventure graphic novel.

I LOVED this!

Lower Decks is one of my favourite shows, which is both a parody and an homage to Star Trek and sci-fi in general. This interactive graphic novel puts you on in Mariner's shoes on the deck of the USS Cerritos.

I thought I was just going to read through this 3-4 times to get a good feel for the story. TWELVE iterations later and I'm still finding new paths and storylines. Clear your afternoon to read this, because it's so compulsively readable. And everytime I re-read it, I discover something new.

The stories are so unique and fun, the humour is spot on and the characters act exactly as I would expect them to in the show. As a long-time fan of both the Lower Decks show, and Star Trek in all its forms, this landed perfectly for me.

🛸 Interactive graphic novel
🛸 Compulsively readable
🛸 Laugh-out-loud funny
🛸 Really creative
🛸 Homage to original Star Trek series

Thank you to NetGalley and IDW Publishing for this ARC.

This book is best read while programming your Spock alarm clock to self destruct.

Thanks to NetGalley and IDW Publishing for the advanced e-copy.

Do you love Star Trek: Lower Decks? Please pick up this graphic novel! It feels like an episode. The art style, the humour, the characters, especially Mariner's characterization, she's the one who plays the lead character in this interactive story, they all feel the same as watching the show. I had a blast reading this 'choose your own adventure'.

There's something happening onboard the USS Cerritos. No matter what choice Mariner makes, from what drink to choose to what friend to visit, she ends up in a life or death situation where the only thing that will save the Cerritos is a secret code. But she doesn't know this code. And yet, someone is really convinced she does. When everything goes wrong, the day starts over.

The situations vary, the cast of characters change, but the humour and Mariner's classic personality are always the same. It's such a fun read.

The negatives? Reading this 'choose your own adventure' comic digitally was a nightmare. It took me an embarrasing time to complete it, more than three hours. It's difficult to jump from page 10 to 90 on a pdf where the pages are off. The app also took some time loading every page, so it was difficult and at times frustrating. At some point, I'm convinced I read all possible choices but there was no ending so I had to go back, check page to page from the beginning and realise there was a third option that was just between the pages where the story really continued. So I was more than a little confused. I think at some point it should've said, "go to this page to begin again" instead of ending each deathly scenario with "the end". It was a very slow reading experience, one I'm sure it'd be much quicker and easier with a paperback/physical copy.
Still, the story is worth it.

I love the show. Sadly, where I live, I only have the first two seasons (out of four) available to me. So I have been missing these characters for a while now and this graphic novel felt so close to the show, so canon, I was excited to revisit the Lower Decks reading this and it did not disappoint.

I love Star Trek Lower Decks! So I was excited to read this. I think it will be great in paperback, but it was impossible to read via ebook because it was choose your own adventure...but the page numbers to progress through the story weren't the same as the page numbers on the ebook (it was about 4 pages off).

Here's what I think will be amazing once the ebook version has the kinks worked out:
1. Standalone star trek lower decks choose your own adventure where you live a day in Mariners life
2. Choices that can determine whether or not you live or die
3. Great artwork

Unfortunately I couldn't read more than 16 pages due to the format not working on ebook, but I look forward to trying this in a physical version.

Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio's Choose Your Own Adventure style Lower Decks tale was incredible fun. North has an amazing grasp of the characters and style of humor that matches the TV show, and Fenoglio captures them perfectly. My only critique has nothing to do with the story itself, but just that it was difficult to read digitally, so I fully recommend picking it up physically if possible.

Special Thanks to IDW Publishing and NetGalley for the digital ARC. This was given to me for an honest review.

I LOVE Star Trek Lower Decks! I can see this unfolding like an episode so clearly. Kind of hard to do a choose your own adventure tho as an ebook, so I'll wait until it publishes physically.