Title Countdown #1-3 Author Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson Illustrator Angel Hernandez Publisher IDW Publishing - 2020 First Printing IDW Publishing - 2020
	Title The Last Best Hope Author Una McCormack Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Dark Veil Author James Swallow Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Rogue Elements Author John Jackson Miller Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Second Self Author Una McCormack Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Category Science Fiction Warnings None Main Characters Picard, Musiker Main Elements Aliens Website ---

Countdown #1-3

I'll admit I was quite confused watching the first season of Picard. I had forgotten entirely that Data had died, and had only vague memories from the 2009 movie involving the Romulans, so I struggled to place the events that were taking place in the show.

Thus when it finally got warm enough to walk up to the library I was happy to discover the Countdown graphic novel. It is too short to explain much, but we are introduced to the two Romulans that were living on Picard's vineyard estate, and it think it was a great choice, because we didn't need much background on them, but this was like the TV episode that was missing to fill in their back story.

Now I could have tackled the Picard novels next, but decided instead to read the Discovery ones first.