[Review] — Audio Drama "STAR TREK: PICARD: NO MAN'S LAND" Gets the Script Book Treatment

Calling all Trekkies. . . STAR TREK: PICARD: NO MAN'S LAND is beaming down to bookstores tomorrow, September 24th. No, it's not deja vu. It's the release of the paperback edition based on 2022's audio drama written by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson. And, no, it's not a novelization adaption of the audiobook, but instead, it's literary, just the script used for the audio drama. Seriously, it's just the freakin' script!

NO MAN'S LAND continues the story from the end of the action-packed first season of STAR TREK: PICARD. Raffi and Seven of Nine are interrupted during their relaxation time by a plea for help from a distant planet. They team up to rescue a professor targeted by a Romulan warlord, and the story explores the attraction between them depicted at the end of the season finale.

STAR TREK is a niche market, and the tie-in books are in a separate niche. While die-hard fans might want to own a script book of their favorite episodes or movies, I highly doubt they will clamor for a script based on an audio drama, especially one set during STAR TREK: PICARD. Seasons one and two didn't go over well with the fans. The unbelievable "relationship" between Seven of Nine and Raffi was forced upon viewers by the producers in the last few minutes of the first season finale. (Note: I rambled on about this problem in my review of the audio drama, which you can read here.)

STAR TREK: PICARD: NO MAN'S LAND is a short "filler" story; it has its moments of sci-fi fun but feels less like STAR TREK and more like STAR WARS. Despite a lot of nitpicking with the 2022 audio drama, I gave it three out of five stars, but I can't give that high of a rating for the script book because of the pure laziness of not novelizing the audio script. At least the audio drama had a good voice cast and entertaining sound effects; the script book, at 149 pages, may be seen as having little to offer fans beyond being a dust collector on a shelf. ╌★★✰✰✰

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