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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Private Memh, after firing the biogenic weapons on Kurl, killing millions of Kurlans trying to break the planet's quarantine. She eventually kills herself, and the Memh symbiont never takes another host, out of lingering shame.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Savonigar, a Nausicaan mercenary, is unusual for his race in being eerily calm and completely stoic on all occasions. His departure from the excitable Nausicaan stereotype is noted by Savonigar himself. He also reflects on how he cooly eliminated his enemies through careful planning, where most of his peers chose the far less effective approach of losing their temper and attacking in haste.
** Almost all Cardassians in the novels, much as they did in the show, go on and on about how family is the most important thing to any Cardassian. However, Garak's memoirs reveal that practically every Cardassian is taken from their parents at a fairly young age and sent to government-run boarding school, where for years they are largely stripped of identity as they're molded into what the State wants them to be. By the time most of them return home as adults, those from politically powerful families will see their parents more as a political alliance than anything else, while those from less powerful families will see their parents as nice people they used to know and are still fairly attached to, but have far less investment in. The only way to go home early is to flunk out... meaning that those Cardassians with the strongest attachment left to their family would actually be the ''failures''.
* [[Nakama]]: The core crew of the ''Even Odds'' seem to count.
* [[Near-Death Experience]]: Kira in ''Warpath''. Dax in ''Twilight''.
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* [[Punny Name]]: Gard. In fact, the pun has two meanings and a twist. Hiziki Gard first appears as a Trill security officer, and jokingly comments on the coincidental translation of his phonetic name. Later, we learn that Gard is a unique symbiont whose hosts all serve the same role in Trill society - that of keeping watch for "corrupted" joinings and dealing with the [[Complete Monster]] that results. Therefore, he is a "guard" of sorts for Trill society as well as using the cover of a literal security guard.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Kurlans.
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: How do you try to force the previous (and extremely fan-beloved) [[Big Bad]] across the [[Moral Event Horizon]] while at the same time attempting to generate sympathy and connection for the new Big Bad? Simple! Just have the old Big Bad lock up the new Big Bad and rape her! Repeatedly! [[Anvilicious|For fifteen years]]!
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Trill symbionts were already established as a long-lived race, but the relaunch expands on their life-cycle considerably. The Annuated of the symbionts, their eldest egg-layers, are thousands of years old. Even the relatively young Caretaker symbionts like Memh are over six thousand. Dax, at slightly over 300, is essentially still a baby. When Memh and Dax meet, Dax is surprised to learn that six thousand-year old memories she accessed from the Annuated feature the same symbiont she's currently communicating with.
* [[The Remnant]]: Kitana'klan's little fleet, which is still fighting the Dominion War three months after the official surrender of Dominion forces. Ashamed of their race's failure to take the Alpha Quadrant, these rogue Jem'hadar are determined to renew the conflict even against the will of the Founders. Three months after the war's conclusion, they attack Deep Space Nine, destroying the starship ''Aldebaran'' with all hands and damaging the starship ''Defiant''. They are in turn attacked by the loyal Jem'Hadar Taran'atar, who was en route to Deep Space Nine as an envoy on the orders of Odo. He defends the station with his own warship, and eventually foils a secondary plot by Kitana'klan to destoy the reactor core.
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* [[Working Title]]: ''Warpath's'' working title was ''The Hunt For Taran'atar''.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The bounty hunter Savonigar cheerfully hails Iliana Ghemor ([[Mirror Universe]] version) as a noble adversary after she defeats him. She returns the acknowledgement, before offering her bested foe a mercy kill. He gratefully accepts.
** Note that, of the three bounty hunters she faces, Savonigar is the ''only'' one Ghemor gives this consideration to.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: The planet Harkoum, or at least its shabby spaceports.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: The Rintanna, after they’ve deceived their enemies with their camouflage talents.
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