I think I was predisposed to love this book. It was already clearly Star Trek-adjacent with the title and the premise, and the fact that it gets even more, mind-bogglingly meta? Excellent. I love the ending and codas, as well. They add extra layers of depth to the side characters that really offer the reader a kind of catharsis that is, while unneeded for such a great book, remains welcome and feels justified. So clever. I have to listen to Wil Wheaton read the audiobook now. That’s just… so good and even more outrageously meta. Bravo, John Scalzi, you’ve got such an awesome mind.