Akotsko.substack.com has added a new review for Derek Charm and Ryan North‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact”:

I feel like we are amid a bit of a Star Trek desert, at least compared to recent years. One of the two remaining ongoing shows recently ended, there is no set release date for the next season of Strange New Worlds, and the last canonical production to air was, to put it charitably, unwatchable garbage that should be decanonized and deleted (and the earth should be salted wherever it was filmed). Novels have slowed to a trickle since the demise of the novelverse, with most devoted to filling in backstory for Picard. (There are still regular one-off Original Series novels, but if I’m going to read an Original Series novel it’s going to be from their Golden Age in the early 80s.) Comics are the one area of booming activity, with two monthly ongoing titles (one self-titled and one with the subtitle Defiant) chronicling events between Nemesis and Picard. But—though I will inevitably catch up some day—I can’t bring myself to follow them, simply because the stories sound too absurd. (For example, apparently in the current arc Data’s evil brother Lore has somehow caused the universe to blink out of existence.)

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