Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country

By: John Jackson Miller

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

The first novel based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they’ve ever encountered.

First Officer Una Chin-Riley finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn. Young cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem. Science Officer Spock is missing altogether. And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream: to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the twenty-third century are of no use.

Yet even in the saddle, Pike is still very much a starship captain, with all the responsibilities that entails. Setting out to find his crewmates, he encounters a surprising face from his past—and discovers that one people’s utopia might be someone else’s purgatory. He must lead an exodus—or risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even the Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop...

Fantastic

This is a very well crafted story even if you took out all the Star Trek characters plus references and in there place made up random characters like another random space opera it would still be excellent. One of the best Trek novels I've ever listened to you should definitely check it out if your considering it, it starts out ok and gets better and better as it goes.

I admit: I was surprised I liked this as well as I did

I was in the mood for a light listen and I found a light listen that was very well executed with a complex story line that resolved well in the end. The reader was excellent with great differentiation between characters. This is a solid addition to the Star Trek canon and it would be a good listen even if you don't know the characters ahead of time. Well done!

characters personality

liked it all. enjoyed the story and the paths taken in the telling of it

great story

Great story will be listening to it again. I feel the book is very good.

It's Strange New Worlds!

And I think that's about all you need to know. If you enjoy the show, this well written novel is like an episode straight from the first season. I found the characters consistent with the show, the story is very Star Trek, and the pacing is that of a novel. Everything I want in a Star Trek book.