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{{quote| “I’ve never killed a legend before,” he stated with a hungry grin.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Gary Mitchell}}, Khan Noonien Singh and Grand Admiral Thrawn.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Poor Admiral Janeway is trapped in an endless, infinite time-loop where she betrays her crew to their deaths in order to save the universe from utter destruction, and then the [[Big Bad]] easily negates her efforts and tells her how useless her act is—[[Fate Worse Than Death|again, and again, and again]]. All because the author doesn't like ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The Galactic Empire versus the Borg, who aren't used to a hyperdrive that can travel across a whole galaxy within days rather than decades, hypermatter reactors powerful enough to keep hyperdrive running, and the sort of weapon strength that you'd expect from such reactors. Assimilation doesn't go as planned.
** On a smaller scale, Darth Nemesis versus the greatest hundred Klingon warriors. Also, {{spoiler|Luke versus the cybernetically enhanced Dum and Dee, during the escape from Darkstar's palace.}}
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* [[Defensive Feint Trap]]: Luring the enemy right into a [[Colony Drop]]—on an ''[[Cool Starship|Imperial Star Destroyer]]''. ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And it works.]]''
* [[The Don]]: Hieronymus Darkstar, the crime lord of the Orion Syndicate.
* [[Dragon
* [[The Empire]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: The Imperium clashes with {{spoiler|the reinforcements from the actual Galactic Empire, led by Grand Admiral Thrawn}}. It's kicked off in a pretty spectacular fashion, with a huge space-battle between a Star Destroyer of Nemesis's Imperium and {{spoiler|an actual Imperial Star Destroyer, i.e. from [[The Empire]]}}. On the other hand, there's a serious case of [[Grey and Grey Morality]] between the Imperium and [[La Résistance|Kirk's Federation remnant]].
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Played with. It's still unclear whether Thrawn or Khan will be right about Kirk: if Thrawn is, this trope will be subverted.
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** Similarly, {{spoiler|Luke and Anakin Skywalker both became Sith Lords: the former was redeemed, the latter, so far, not.}}
* [[Evil Overlord]]: ''Loads.'' We've got Darth Nemesis, the Borg Queen, Darth Vader, Lord Hieronymus Darkstar, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Emperor Palpatine and, most of all, {{spoiler|Gary Mitchell}}. By the Battle of Andor, almost all of them are still alive.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Fascist but Inefficient]]: The Shadowfleet, a secret force devoted to protecting [[The Federation]], is billed as this powerful hidden menace, but their [[Moral Event Horizon|brutal destruction of Remus]] only gets the [[Evil Overlord]] Darth Nemesis to destroy the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Klingons]] (thus weakening the Federation remnant's greatest potential allies) and inspires the Romulans to view Nemesis as their protector and avenger.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: The Imperial Admiral Gideon Kittaine, at least to his officers. He thinks of them as his family, as they him.
* [[The Federation]]: [[Captain Obvious|The United Federation of Planets.]] When it faces off against Darth Nemesis's offensive, it's almost immediately overrun, but its remnants are still putting up a fight.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Mara Jade. We're brutally reminded of this when she {{spoiler|tries to murder Leia.}}
* [[Forgotten Superweapon]]: A mysterious doomsday machine, which is destroyed in the same ''[[Star Trek:
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: It turns out that {{spoiler|Darth Nemesis is a Luke Skywalker who gave in to Vader during the "[[Luke, I Am Your Father]]" moment on Bespin.}}
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: [http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=2643554#p2643554 Here is a list of the sides].
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* [[The Kingdom]]: The Imperium, once {{spoiler|Darth Nemesis becomes Luke Skywalker again}}.
* [[Laser Blade]]: Lightsabers, obviously.
* [[Leaning
{{quote| ''"If I didn't know any better I would say this was being written by someone as we speak."'' }}
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Naturally. It includes ''[[Star Trek:
* [[Love Redeems]]: {{spoiler|Darth Nemesis}}'s love for {{spoiler|Mara Jade}} is a great part of his [[Heel Face Turn]] {{spoiler|back into Luke Skywalker}}.
* [[Magic Countdown]]: The beginning of chapter 73.
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* [[Meaningful Rename]]: The ''Emperor's Will'', the superlaser-bearing flagship of Nemesis's fleet, is renamed the ''Imperator's Will'' to signify independence from [[The Empire]] and loyalty to the Imperator of the Imperium. More importantly, Nemesis's sector fleet transforming from just a part of the evil [[The Empire|Galactic Empire]] to the independent (but still evil) "New Empire" and then to the genuinely benevolent "Imperium".
* [[Morality Kitchen Sink]]: [[The Empire|The Galactic Empire]], the Borg Queen and the Orion Syndicate are unambiguously evil, although even they are surpassed by {{spoiler|Gary Mitchell}}. Then there's the very morally ambiguous Shadowfleet, a secret army which uses very questionable means to defend [[The Federation]]. There's also the Imperium, which is a steadily lightening shade of grey; at the beginning it's only distinct from the Empire in that its dictator is more charismatic and slightly less psychotic, but by the most recent chapters it is almost as light as the white end of the scale, the exiled Klingons and the Federation remnant.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: An interesting fanfic example. {{spoiler|Gary Mitchell}}'s house contains a copy of [[
* [[Oh Crap]]: Kirk, when {{spoiler|a new, entire, fresh Imperial sector fleet}} arrives during the Battle of Romulus—and again during the same battle, when Nemesis reinforces them, cutting off the Federation remnant's escape.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: {{spoiler|Gary Mitchell}}, the chief villain.
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* [[Vestigial Empire]]: Andor, the last Federation planet to suffer an Imperial attack. The outcome is still in doubt.
* [[Villain Ball]]: {{spoiler|Darkstar's enslaving collars clearly aren't very well-designed.}}
* [[Villain Decay]]: The Borg, in comparison to [[The Empire]]. To be fair, they're no weaker than they were in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', but that's a far cry from ''[[Star Trek:
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: The audience would almost certainly hate Darth Nemesis if he wasn't so awesome. Lord Darkstar tries to achieve the same effect, but fails.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: What happens at first when {{spoiler|reinforcements from [[The Empire|the Galactic Empire]], led by Thrawn and Darth Vader, arrive to back up Darth Nemesis.}} It soon dissolves into [[Enemy Civil War]].
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