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* [[Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game]]: ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' features one that involves land mines and artillery.
* [[Body Double]]: Queen Rachel in ''The Princes of the Air'' has several, of which at least one is an android and one is a male relative who has the same build and shares the distinctive family eye colour.
* [[Chained to
* [[Con Man]]: The heroes of ''The Princes of the Air''
* [[Crowd Song]]: In ''How Much For Just The Planet?'', the Direidians break out into crowd songs around the visiting Federation and Klingon diplomatic delegations on several occasions. It turns out that {{spoiler|it ''was'' all carefully rehearsed and planned out ahead of time, as part of the Direidian "plan C" to prevent either of the two sides from taking over their planet and disrupting their way of life}}.
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* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: In ''The Dragon Waiting'' Christianity never took hold in the Roman Empire, Constantinople didn't fall to the Turks, and France was partitioned between England and Byzantium sometime in the 12th century. The Wars of the Roses still seemingly happen exactly as they do in reality up through the crowning of Edward IV, with the exception of one relatively insignificant death.
* [[Light Bulb Joke]]: ''The Final Reflection'' has these in the form of "Rom Jokes", which Federation and Klingon crewmembers swap at a peace conference. The only one related to the reader is "How many Romulans does it take to change a transtator coil? Answer: 1 to change the coil, 150 to blow the ship up out of shame."
* [[Magic
* [[Meaningful Rename]]: All the human characters in ''The Last Hot Time'' have one in their backstory, except the protagonist, who being the [[Naive Newcomer]] gets his during the course of the story. (Interestingly, the narration continues to refer to him by his old name for a couple more chapters, until he's settled in to his new identity.)
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: In ''How Much for Just the Planet?'' it's quickly established over breakfast that "Bones McCoy was not a morning person":
{{quote| '''McCoy:''' Plergb hfarizz ungemby, ''and coffee''.}}
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: The protagonist of ''The Last Hot Time''
* [[No Waterproofing in
** Technically it's "no peppermint shake-proofing", but yeah.
* [[Pie in
{{quote| Blueberry, Kirk thought instead of ducking.<br />
''Splat.''<br />
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* [[Safe Word]]: Appears in ''The Last Hot Time'', as the hero learns about BDSM.
* [[Scrabble Babble]]: The short story "Scrabble With God" uses this trope with a twist. "It isn't that He cheats, exactly." But any word He plays is a real word -- even if it wasn't a minute ago. And He's not above ''un''creating things in order to be able to challenge His opponents' words, either...
* [[Sealed Badass in
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: ''The Final Reflection'' reveals that Klingon military strategy is the province of military "thought admirals", who hone their skills in ''klin zha'' (Klingon chess). The (Klingon) protagonist's father, who is a thought admiral, also studies other races' equivalents of ''klin zha'', including the Human game "chess", to gain insight into the races that play them.
* [[Starbucks Skin Scale]]: In ''The Princes of the Air'' there's a scene where the protagonist and a woman he's interested in are having coffee together, and it's noted in passing that her skin tone matches the coffee-with-cream they're drinking.
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