STAR TREK: PICARD Book Review — “To Defy Fate”

To Defy Fate, the new Star Trek: Picard novel from longtime Star Trek novelist and franchise consultant Dayton Ward, is a welcome — if tentative — foray back towards everything I like about Star Trek novels: gripping stories, big stakes that go beyond what a television budget allows for, interesting and unusual mixes of characters, and stories that add something tangible to the Star Trek universe...