The Unity Saga

""I'm sure there's nothing to fear in letting Admiral Thrawn examine our works of art.""

- Captain Picard, Worlds Without End Part VI

The Unity Saga is an epic Star Trek/Star Wars crossover by Chuck Sonnenberg telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. The story is told in two trilogies:

The Road To Unity
 * I: Worlds Without End
 * II: Shadows of the Night
 * III: Against All Odds

The Price Of Unity
 * IV: Paradise Lost
 * V: Blood of Heroes
 * VI: Dawn of Forever

Totaled, the saga is 250 chapters in length. Did we mention it's epic?

Read it here.


 * Affably Evil: Thrawn, of course.
 * Alternate History:  among her various time related abilities can see the past the way it would have been (the way the fans know it) were it not for the two galaxies interacting.
 * Anyone Can Die: At least a few major characters from both franchises bite it in each of the six parts. The original characters don't exactly make it through unscathed either.
 * Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence:
 * Because Destiny Says So: Throughout, but it becomes most prominent in the latter half of the series.
 * Big Bad: Several, including Emperor Palpatine, but The Oracle really has to take the cake.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Several, even the manage to pull this off against
 * Bus Crash:  Followed by an explanation ensuring there is no coming back.
 * Butt Monkey: Commander Borui. Justified somewhat, in that she's generally a terrible councilor.
 * The Chessmaster:
 * Cosmic Plaything: Sebastian
 * Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Too many to be counted. One of the best is the duel on Byss, at the end of Against All Odds, between.
 * Crowning Moment Of Funny: Blood of Heroes Part XXXI

""Sir, Borg cubes coming out of warp!"
 * Cybernetics Will Eat Your Soul: A recurring motif brought together by the various cyborgs of both universes. In this series, its more attitude than reality.
 * Doorstopper: The digital version.
 * Earthshattering Kaboom: Dozens, including some planets that a fan of either series has come to know well.
 * Exactly What It Says On the Tin: Blood of Heroes
 * Foregone Conclusion: Anyone familiar with the author's Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide won't be too surprised at the latter half of character arc.
 * No, he made competent.
 * Freudian Excuse: Done most tragically with Ben Skywalker.
 * Heel Face Revolving Door:
 * Heel Face Turn
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel:  assimilation in Part VII of Worlds Without End.
 * Hold Your Hippogriffs: Never check a free dewback's hide.
 * I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight:.
 * It Got Worse: So much.
 * Kill'Em All: The list of characters who survive is shorter than the list of ones who get killed off at various points in the books.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: Star Trek and the Star Wars Expanded Universe already each have Loads and Loads in their own right. Here they're all thrown into the mix, with a few original characters on top of that.
 * Love Before First Sight: Luke and Seven.
 * Ludd Was Right: This is what  believes which is why she supports the Vong.
 * The Man Behind the Man: This trope is everywhere in Shadows of the Night. The Ssi-Ruuk are tricked into attacking The Republic by the Borg, who are under the leadership of Anansi (a.k.a. ), who is being manipulated by, who is being possessed by , all according to the grand plan of.
 * The Mole:
 * Moral Event Horizon: When Ben Skywalker kills.
 * is probably the moment most readers realize just how bad this Face Heel Turn really is.
 * Oh Crap

"What? How many? I said how many,"

"One hundred twelve, sir.""


 * Organic Technology: the Vong
 * The Peter Principle: Though Chuck doesn't care for Janeway as a captain, he protrays her as being quite competent in certain other endeavors owing to her background as a science officer.
 * Pet the Dog: For the author. Though he beats up on the Voyager crew a lot in his reviews of that show, he generally shows most of them at their best here and even allows them to grow, and/or, have heroic deaths. The mere fact that he chooses to leave Capt Okona out of the story rather than including him to give him a savage humiliating death shows restraint.
 * He also simply has Neelix Put On a Bus early on and never return. Now that's willpower.
 * Redemption Equals Death: Unsurprisingly for Star Wars, which lives by this trope, this is the resolution of  character arc.
 * Rooting For The Empire: A literal example, during parts of the series.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers: Q can make sound in space, because he has no respect for the physics of vacuum.
 * Shout Out: Many other crossovers, including Conquest and Star Crossed.
 * Picard questions his right to commit genocide against the Borg in a very similar manner to the Doctor in "Genesis of the Daleks."
 * Much more likely this is a call back to the other times Picard has pondered this subject, regarding both the Borg and the Crystalline Entity.
 * Suspiciously Apropos Music: Seven of Nine and "Puff the Magic Dragon." NOT in regards to marijuana use.
 * Temporal Paradox: The Oracle
 * Techno Babble: used realistically
 * That Makes Me Feel Angry: Seven tends to talk like this, though she is rediscovering her emotions throughout much of this story.
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: A rare heroic example by most of the main characters, but especially Sisko and.
 * The Woobie: "They're going to take it all away from you, ." And boy, do they ever.
 * Worthy Opponent: Delric Taar, who despite being an Imperial TIE pilot who gets a good number of kills including is a very likable and engaging character, and one of the most developed throughout the whole story.
 * Xanatos Gambit / Evil Plan: The Oracle's schemes.
 * You Can't Fight Fate: A major theme
 * You Can't Fight Fate: A major theme