"Warp Your Own Way" is a Lower Decks interactive graphic novel from IDW Publishing, released on 22 October 2024.

Description

Warp into the action with Star Trek's first-ever interactive original graphic novel!

Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed – and the day starts all over again.

But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can't. There are inconsistencies that don't make sense – putting aside the fact that Mariner's choice of drink each morning shouldn't affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It's up to you to discover what, and save the day!

References

Characters

Brad Boimler • Chrtz • Carol Freeman • Iona • Beckett Mariner • Beckett Mariner (duplicate) • Jack Ransom • the reader • William T. Riker • Sam Rutherford • Shaxs Drazon • D'Vana Tendi

Referenced only

Barnes (Ensign) • Bastet • Andy Billups • Byron • Casey (Ensign) • Dionysus (myth) • Dolan • Duarte-Spiel • Skrain Dukat • Escher • Kimolu • Gabers Migleemo • Khan Noonien Singh • Spock • T'Ana • T'Lyn • Topps • Trelane

Starships and vehicles

USS Cerritos (California-class support ship) • USS Titan • Iona's ship

Referenced only

USS Reliant (Miranda-class) • USS Sherman Oaks • type-15 shuttlepod

Locations

ice planet

Referenced only

Aaamazzara IV • Deep Space 9 • party planet • Pollux IV

Races and cultures

Andorian • Bajoran • Human • Orion • Xindi-Insectoid

Referenced only

Augment • Beings • Borg • Caitian • Cardassian • Changeling • Doopler • Ferengi • Gorn • Klingon • Klowahkan • Mellanoid slime worm • Q (species) • Vulcan

States and organizations

Federation • Starfleet

Other references

alarm clock • ankle • antideuterium • amphibious transwarp evolutionary lifeform • birthday • blood • bloodwine • brain • bridge • cliff • cloaking device • coffee • day • death • delriric alkaloid • Deltarian omelet • deuterium • disruptor • distress call • Earl Grey tea • engineering • EPS conduit • ethical subroutine • gravity plate • holodeck • hologram • hour • hydroponics • immortality • impulse engine • inertial dampener • intermix chamber • Jefferies tube • kalo gas • kalorium nitrate • lirpa • log buoy • Moby Dick • nanite • nebula • neurotoxin • penguin • phase discriminator • phaser • photon torpedo • plasma coolant • prefix code • raktajino • replicator • Samarian sunset • second • sensor • shuttlebay • shields • sickbay • Starfleet uniform • synthehol • time warp • torture • tractor beam • transporter • transporter buffer • transporter duplicate • tribble • tricorder • VISOR • warp core • warp core breach • warp engine • warp nacelle • water • wormhole

Appendices

Related media

• TOS episode: "Who Mourns for Adonais?": The history of the Polluxians is given.
• TOS episode: "The Changeling": The Cerritos computer says that imperfection must be sterilized.
• TOS episode: "Mirror, Mirror": The holographic Tendis gain beards when their ethical subroutines are reversed.
• TOS episode: "Spock's Brain": the Spock clock mentions that Spock survived without a brain for almost 24 hours on stardate 5341.
• TOS movie: The Wrath of Khan: Khan attacks the Cerritos in the Reliant.
• TOS movie: The Final Frontier: Mariner asks T'Ana what does a god need with the prefix code.
• TNG episode: "Home Soil": Mariner uses the phrase "ugly bags of mostly water."
• TNG episode: "Remember Me": Mariner asks the computer if she's the only crew the Cerritos has ever had, and if the universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter.
• TNG episode: "Chain of Command": Iona says that Beckett Mariner doesn't care how many lights there are.
• TNG episode: "Ship in a Bottle": At one point Mariner wonders if she's being "Moriartied."
• DS9 episode: "Civil Defense": An engineer mentions the time replicators on Deep Space 9 synthesized disruptors programmed to fire in all directions.
• DS9 episode: "One Little Ship": Mariner mentions the time people shrank down once on Deep Space 9.
• VOY episode: "Threshold": Boimler says that one of the items on his bucket list is "experience warp ten without evolving."

Background

• Chrtz's name is spelled "Chrzt" on pages 82 and 167.

Connections

Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes
season 1	"Second Contact" • "Envoys" • "Temporal Edict" • "Moist Vessel" • "Cupid's Errant Arrow" • "Terminal Provocations" • "Much Ado About Boimler" • "Veritas" • "Crisis Point" • "No Small Parts"
season 2	"Strange Energies" • "Kayshon, His Eyes Open" • "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" • "Mugato, Gumato" • "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" • "The Spy Humongous" • "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie" • "I, Excretus" • "wej Duj" • "First First Contact"
season 3	"Grounded" • "The Least Dangerous Game" • "Mining the Mind's Mines" • "Room for Growth" • "Reflections" • "Hear All, Trust Nothing" • "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" • "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" • "Trusted Sources" • "The Stars at Night"
season 4	"Twovix" • "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" • "In the Cradle of Vexilon" • "Something Borrowed, Something Green" • "Empathological Fallacies" • "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" • "A Few Badgeys More" • "Caves" • "The Inner Fight" • "Old Friends, New Planets"
season 5	"Dos Cerritos" • "Shades of Green" • "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel" • "A Farewell To Farms" • "Starbase 80?!" • "Of Gods and Angles" • "Fully Dilated" • "Upper Decks" • "Fissure Quest" • "The New Next Generation"
comics	"All in a Sea of Wonders": Issue 1 • Issue 2 • Issue 3 • "Warp Your Own Way" • "Go See Cal!" • "Risian Rendezvous" • "Second Contact": Issue 1 • Issue 2 • "Natura Abhorrett" •Issue 4 • Desperate Times • Issue 6 • "Mixed Signals": "Yesterday's Beta Shift" • Issue 8 • "A Pound of Flush" • "A Pound Of Flush," Part Number II • "Again With The Whales" • "Again With The Whales... Again" • "Second Second Contact": "For I Have Seen Both Here & Heaven"• Issue 14 • Issue 15 • "The Illinoian Job" • Issue 17 • "Finalls Sine Titulp" Part II

Timeline

published order
Previous comic: All in a Sea of Wonders, Issue 3	LD comics	Next comic: Lower Decks, Issue 1
Previous story: Shaxs' Best Day	Stories by: Ryan North	Next story: Lower Decks, Issue 1

External link

• Warp Your Own Way article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.