Via Locus magazine, Star Trek: Lower Decks (both the show and its tie-in comics) won two prizes at this year’s Hugo Awards, honoring the best sci-fi and fantasy-related works of 2024. Ryan North, Chris Fenoglio, Charlie Kirchoff and Jeff Eckleberry‘s choose-your-own-adventure book Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way won Best Graphic Story or Comic, while the series finale, “The New Next Generation,” was named Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
The awards, which were presented last night at Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd annual World Science Fiction Convention, mark the first Hugos for the franchise since the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…,” won Best Dramatic Presentation in 1995. They also mark the first for North and Fenoglio, as well as series creator/writer Mike McMahan and director Megan Lloyd; and for IDW Publishing in the category of Best Graphic Story or Comic.
Warp Your Own Way was nominated alongside The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag, G. Willow Wilson & Chris Wildgoose‘s The Hunger and the Dusk Vol 1 (also published by IDW), Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda‘s Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two by Emil Ferris, and Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, & Clayton Cowles‘s We Called Them Giants.
“The New Next Generation,” meanwhile, beat out another Lower Decks episode, “Fissure Quest” (written by Lauren McGuire and directed by Brandon Williams), as well as Fallout‘s “The Beginning” (by Gursimran Sandhu and Wayne Che Yip), Agatha All Along episode seven, “Death’s Hand in Mine” (by Gia King & Cameron Squires, and Jac Schaeffer), and Doctor Who‘s “73 Yards” & “Dot and Bubble” (both written by Russell T Davies, and directed by Dylan Holmes Williams).
Furthermore, Best Novel went to Robert Jackson Bennett for The Tainted Cup; Rebecca Roanhorse won her second Hugo with Best Series, for Between Earth and Sky; Best Game or Interactive Work went to Caves of Qud; and Dune: Part Two won Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, over Flow, Furiosa, I Saw the TV Glow, Wicked, and The Wild Robot. Congratulations to all the winners! For more of them, and a list of all of this year’s nominees, head to Locus‘s report.
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