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* ''Storming Heaven''
There are also several short stories linked to the series in the Star Trek anthologies, including a [[Mirror Universe]] version of Vanguard in ''Shards and Shadows''. The full-length novel [[Star Trek: Mirror Universe|''The Sorrows of Empire'']] also features the Mirror-Vanguard.
The story ''Distant Early Warning'', a tale of the [[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]], is also a part of the [[Star Trek: Vanguard]] arc.
Finally, the events of Star Trek: Vanguard are important to ''Paths of Disharmony'', a novel of the [[Star Trek: Typhon Pact]] series.
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=== This series contains examples of: ===
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: The Tholians' monomolecular-edged blades, established in [[Star Trek:
* [[Abusive Precursors]]: That would be the Shedai. They left self-destruct systems embedded in the planets they once ruled before going into hibernation. Finding some of those planets overrun with younger species, the reawakened Shedai Wanderer is quick to put a stop to it with an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] or two.
* [[Action Survivor]]: Quinn, although he becomes far more of a traditional action hero during the middle of the series. Sadly, Quinn is very much in [[Butt Monkey]] territory...and not the humorous sort of [[Butt Monkey]], either.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Quinn. The reasons why were explained mid-way through the series. He then recovered for a time, only to fall back into alcohol towards the end, after suffering intense personal loss.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The novels by David Mack often mention the ''Starfleet Survival Guide'', which was also a actual book written by Mack. The characters are making use of survival tips and strategies that can actually be looked up.
* [[Arc Welding]]: This series does for the 23rd century what [[Star Trek:
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: T'Prynn's did not go well. The ritual combat that was invoked when she filed for divorce also didn't go well. To explain: T'Prynn rejected her appointed mate, Sten, whom she never loved, and decided instead to choose her own companions. Sten was unwilling to release T'Prynn from her betrothal and invoked ritual combat in an attempt to force her to submit. T'Prynn refused; she killed him in the combat that followed. But before he died, [[Mind Rape|Sten forced his katra into T'Prynn's mind]].
* [[As You Know]]: Gorkon expresses irritation with Chang because of his tendency to spell out the obvious implications of hypothetical political outcomes during conversation.
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* [[Citizenship Marriage]]: {{spoiler|T'Prynn and Pennington, as a part of one of T'Prynn's many undercover schemes. She needs to get herself off of Vulcan, and requires Earth citizenship to avoid a specifically Vulcan identity check. She therefore marries Pennington, the nearest convenient Earther, and who has agreed to help her}}.
* [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]: The authors' websites include some notes on preferred casting - Reyes is [[Tommy Lee Jones]], for instance.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In addition to the [[Arc Welding]] of the original series, T'Prynn was first mentioned in the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine
** Razka the Saurian, who appears in ''Reap the Whirlwind'', first appeared in [[Star Trek:
* [[Cool Starship]]: ''[[Star Trek]]'' being ''[[Star Trek]]'', there's plenty to go around, but the [http://drexfiles.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/vanguard_3_hot_pursuit_r02.jpg USS Sagittarius] is a sexy little thing (even when it's on fire and about to be curb stomped by Klingons).
* [[Crapsack World]]: Golmira, home of the Denn, is like this, being a victim of runaway global warming in centuries past. That said, the current natives cope reasonably well on the whole, at least in the farming communities.
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* [[Genetic Memory]]: The Tholians. Encoded in their crystalline molecules is every memory of their people, dating back to the first moment of sapience. Many are buried deep, of course.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Well, large-scale military coverup, anyway.
* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: The series concerns itself with this, and certainly a lot of the details about Project Vanguard remain classified in its aftermath. One of the books in [[Star Trek:
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: Neera, the Orion woman.
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: The ''Lanz't Tholis'' attacks the ''Zin'za'' in order to defend the ''Sagittarius'', so saving the latter ship's crew. The motivation is a classic case of [[I Owe You My Life]]; the crew of ''Lanz't Tholis'' are repaying a debt.
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Ganz is not truly the crime lord of the ''Omari-Ekon'', he is a front for Neera.}}
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: {{spoiler|For the crew of the ''Bombey''}}.
* [[Mind Rape]]: The entire Tholian species suffers this due to the Federation's meddling with the Shedai. No wonder that the Tholians still hold a grudge over 100 years later, as shown in [[Star Trek Destiny]] and [[Star Trek: Typhon Pact]].
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Sniffy, the half-walrus, half-dog thing. [[Ugly Cute|D'aaawwww]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Reyes, after his {{spoiler|ex-wife is killed along with everyone else on Gamma Tauri IV, indirectly a result of the general cover-up Reyes himself is participating in}}.
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In ''Precipice'', when Quinn is warned against helping a pre-warp culture fight the Klingons on the grounds that it would violate the Prime Directive, he responds "Fuck the Prime Directive". Possibly the first use of the f-word in the entire Trekverse.
* [[Running Gag]]: Jetanien's food being unpalatable.
* [[Saved by Canon]]: In an interesting example of a character being Saved by Canon for the moment, but [[Doomed by Canon]] in the long run, T'Prynn can't die, even when she's in a coma due to [[Mind Rape]], because she's going to die in a transporter accident eighty years later, as shown in [[Flash Back]] in the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine
** On a far lesser note, minor character Razka of Sauria, part of the ''Sagittarius'' crew, was always going to make it through the series alive, as he was introduced in the novel [[Star Trek:
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The Shedai. The Maker and the Wanderer in particular. The Apostate is benevolent, however.
* [[See You in Hell]]: Captain Brakk to Captain Kutal. Specifically, Brakk is in the process of trying to kill Kutal, and says that since the latter's death will hardly be an honourable one, they will no doubt meet up again - in the Klingon underworld of ''Gre'thor''.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The loss of the Romulan starship ''Bloodied Talon'' in ''Summon the Thunder''. It's revealed that the vessel's commander was the daughter of a prominant politician. The mother's attempts to find meaning in her child's death, and how this personal fallout affects the wider politics of the Romulan Empire, formed the plot of a later story in ''[[Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins]]''.
* [[Sins of Our Fathers]]: Ezthene insists it will take many generations for the Tholian Assembly to put aside its hatred and embrace peaceful relations with the Klingons or Federation.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Klingon Councillor Duras. There's a Duras in every era of Trek. The "original" Duras in the 24th century, who was a villain in [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]], was in decline. The Duras in [[Star Trek: Enterprise]] was yet to truly ascend. The Duras of the Original Series era is from a House in its prime, and he knows it. What he doesn't know is that his House {{spoiler|is going to lose much of its current influence when evidence of his plotting is thrown across the front pages of the galactic newspapers}}.
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