Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures

Star Trek: Discovery — Drastic Measures takes place ten years before the series, on Tarsus IV during the notorious massacre ordered by Governor Kodos. Dayton Ward places young versions of Philippa Georgiou and Gabriel Lorca — both familiar to Discovery viewers — on the colony as the crisis unfolds, hunting the man who will become known as Kodos the Executioner. The historical framing gives the novel its moral weight: these are characters trying to stop an atrocity they know, from the show's future perspective, they cannot fully prevent.

Robert Petkoff narrates with the gravitas appropriate to material that deals with genocide and institutional failure. At eleven and a half hours the audiobook honors a novel that takes the difficult history of a throwaway original series reference and builds it into a genuine moral thriller.