Status Updates From Control (Star Trek: Section...

I appreciate the name drops, but I can't help but feel that Mack wanted to list every obscure galactic power to show he knows his Star Trek lore. 0_0

...a thriller. Also, minor point, I like the depictions of Orion Prime. Again, it's about as far from traditional Star Trek as you can get (grunge, inequality, poverty, etc.), but given the in-universe context, I'd say it works.

I found myself enjoying this much more than I thought it would. Despite being both Star Trek yet also 'anti Star Trek,' it does a good job of threading the needle (mostly). The exception is that the idea of an AI that's influenced everything and anything for centuries feels far fetched, even by the standards of the series, and it risks shrinking the universe ("everything happened because of X"). Still, it works as...

Probably the wrong person to read, let alone review this, but it's not working for me. I'm not often a purist when it comes to IPs, Star Trek or otherwise, but this hardly feels like Star Trek material. If anything, it feels like season 2 of Discovery. Incidentally, I kind of liked that season, whereas many didn't, while here, it's the other way around? Well, infinite opinions and infinite possibilities I guess. 0_0