16-year-old Tilly must deal with an overbearing mother, boarding school ups and downs, and choosing between what’s expected of her and what actually interests her. A fun, light Trek YA novel.

Two things stuck out to me regarding the overall Discovery universe (very minor spoilers for this book):

1. The captain of the Starfleet vessel the Dorothy Garrod at one point is exercising wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with "Dotty". Assumedly, this equates to the Discovery's crew having "DISCO" on their exercise duds — so this is the first (?) confirmation that these exercise t-shirts with cute nicknames likely extend throughout the fleet. I wonder what the Enterprise's nickname is?

2. The Dorothy Garrod also has what's described as a "holodeck" where characters are going mountain climbing. While I'm becoming more accepting of holography being far more prevalent in the Trek universe than we've seen to this point (as a side effect of the show being produced in a time where such special effects are relatively inexpensive and practical), the early episodes of TNG made a big point of having the characters being surprised by and marveling at the Enterprise-D's holodeck. If holodecks were in use in Discovery's time (or even slightly before, as this novel is set a few years pre-Discovery), would the TNG crew really be that surprised by them? I suppose this could be an early generation, not-as-realistic holodeck, but it still seems to be rather glaringly anachronistic for the Trek universe.