Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements

On the one hand, you have ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’. Slow, heavy on sense-of-wonder, visually sumptuous and, some would say, pretentiously cerebral about the ‘final frontier’, given the minimalistic plot. On the other hand, you have ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’. A fun romp that exploits the......more

Star Trek Picard: Rogue Elements is the third novel in the Picard series. It was written by John Jackson Miller and was released in August 2021. After nearly 6 years, John Jackson Miller returns with his third Hardcover novel...although this time, it is his first Hardcover for Star Trek. As such, Mil......more

I will keep this relatively spoiler free because part of the charm of this one is honestly all of the unexpected references and cameos that occur throughout the novel. Just to tease, there are references to TOS, TNG, DSC, and the movies (and probably more but those are the obvious ones). I’ll say th......more

I seem to be one of the few fans not greatly enamored with the TOS episode "A Piece of the Action". After a short amount of time, the Iotians and their slang get irritating, and I'm not the greatest fan of the con-and-caper genre. But put that aside, and the rest of the novel offers a giddy fill-in-......more

Loved Rios in season 1 of Picard and loving him in the second season. I was delighted to find this book (which I didn’t know existed until I saw it on Santiago Cabrera’s instagram). This is a really fun book! It’s a mystery, heist, action-adventure, with tons of philosophy and existentialism thrown i......more