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* [[Boldly Coming]]
* [[Captain Morgan Pose]]: Just look at his picture. Used for practical reasons, since he is significantly taller than his castmates.
** It also had the purpose of concealing a back problem. He had done work lifting heavy furniture earlier in life that had strained his back, and this trope was to compensate for the back issues.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]
** [[I'll Be in My Bunk]]: Or more specifically, [[Memetic Mutation|"I'll be in holodeck four!"]]
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China O'Brien{{who}} [[Expy|in space]], and the original Worf, so to speak. Regularly got beaten up by the [[Monster of the Week]], inevitably concluding with her getting killed by a slime monster. Death notwithstanding, she still popped up now and again in alternate timelines.
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=== Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Commander) Worf ([[Michael Dorn]]) ===
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* [[Nice Hat]]: Guinan is ''always'' wearing a hat. Even when she's been shot in 19th-century San Francisco. Even when she's a [[Living Memory]] in the Nexus. The only time she's seen without a hat is in her quarters in ''[[Star Trek Generations|Generations]]''.
* [[Promoted Fanboy|Promoted Fangirl]]: Whoopi Goldberg was a huge fan of [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original series]] and has specifically named [[Nichelle Nichols]] as her inspiration for acting. Just before the second season entered production, she called Roddenberry, saying "I am a ''Star Trek'' fan, I was a ''Star Trek'' fan long before I was ever Whoopi Goldberg and I'm wondering if there's some part I can play in your show?" Roddenberry was so impressed that he re-wrote the bartender character he had intended to introduce for Goldberg.
* [[Sensor Character]]: Had the highly unusual ability to sense timeline disruption, as displayed in "Yesterday's Enterprise".
* [[Shout-Out]]: Named after famed speakeasy owner and entertainer Texas Guinan.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Guinan looks exactly the same in the late 24th century as she does in the late 19th.
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=== Keiko Ishikawa O'Brien (Rosalind Chao) ===
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: He went from a named extra in the pilot to a recurring minor character to a main character on ''[[Deep Space Nine]]''.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Had a mild case concerning Cardassians, given he was a veteran of a war against them. He was, however, able to restrain it for the sake of duty most of the time. Typically went no further than general distrust of "Cardies".
* [[Happily Married]]: To Keiko, during an otherwise [[A Day in the Limelight|Data-centric]] episode.
* [[Retcon]]: Over the course of the series, O'Brien's Starfleet rank fluctuated from low-ranking officer to high-ranking NCO.
** Curiously, this seems to carry over to DS9, where he was effectively the Chief Engineer in both duty and even name, yet still apparently rated as a non-com.
* [[Put on a Bus|Put On A Shuttlecraft]]: To [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]. His family left with him.
* [[The Engineer]]: Specializing in transporter technology. He would branch out to several other fields in DS9.
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=== Molly O'Brien (Tadeski twins, Hana Hatae) ===
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When Gates McFadden briefly quit the show in its second season, Pulaski was brought on to replace her. An expy of Dr. McCoy, Pulaski had an adversarial relationship with Data, whom she treats like an uppity office appliance.
The trouble with this dynamic was that, unlike Bones, Pulaski had no philosophical viewpoint to
Pulaski was dropped from ''TNG'' with little fanfare, and replaced with Crusher again.
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* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: When McFadden returned for Season 3, Pulaski dropped off the face of the galaxy with her last episode being an underwhelming [[Clip Show]]. She is mentioned in two further TNG episodes and the finale of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' (being paged at Starfleet Medical), and shows up in the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] more than once.
** What's surprising is that when the holographic Moriarty returns in Season Six, he doesn't ask where Pulaski has gone. She was the one he spent the most time with, after all, so you would think that if ''anybody'' would mention her, he would.
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: Rather abrasive even to her patients. Good intentioned regardless, but her bedside manner wasn't the greatest.
* [[Expy]] / [[Gender Flip]]: If [[Star Trek: The Original Series|McCoy]] ever had a character more blatantly patterned after him, it was Dr. Pulaski.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Always a guest through season two, despite being in most episodes and
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Towards Data. He doesn't react, but it infuriates Geordi and Wesley. She does ease up on it by the end of her appearances and doesn't allow it to compromise her ability to work together, to her credit.
* [[The McCoy]]: Was put in Season Two by [[Executive Meddling]] to be even ''more'' like McCoy than Dr. Crusher -- essentially McCoy's [[Gender Flip]].
** And the actress appeared in two episodes (in different roles) with the original.
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=== Ensign Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes) ===
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When the Maquis started attacking Cardassian settlements in open violation of Federation treaties, Laren was hand-picked to infiltrate their group. It soon became clear that her fondness for Picard did not measure up to her hatred of the Cardassians. Picard noticed this and warned Laren of the consequences of defection, even ordering Riker to stay on top of her. Laren easily overpowered Riker and sabotaged her own sting operation, officially joining the Maquis in the process.
Ro Laren's popularity made her the subject of not one but ''two'' [[Suspiciously
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=== Alexander Rozhenko (John Steuer, Brian Bonsall) ===
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Get it done." Spoken quite gruffly.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: The episodes he appears in are ambiguous if this trope applies. He does achieve success with his methods and even Picard was willing to retain many of Jellico's changes later. On the other hand, many of his orders did come off as petty micromanaging, he acted very antagonistic from the first moment he arrived, and many of his demands for prepping for war were never followed up on, making it unclear how right or wrong he was.
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
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{{quote|"I'm not good in groups. It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent."}}
Q's pranks seems chaotic on their surface, but have a subtle purpose: namely, to humble the Federation, which in his view has [[We Have Become Complacent|grown too complacent]]. Q demonstrates this by warping the ''Enterprise'' light-years across the galaxy and dropping them in Borg space.
Q, who makes it his business to meddle in mortal affairs, seems to enjoy annoying Picard in particular. For his part, Picard is unsure whether Q has humanity's best interests at heart, or is simply a bored kid who tortures insects.
[[Q/Self Demonstrating|If you'd like to have Q explain himself from his perspective, go here]].
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* [[Adult Child]]: He's an obscenely powerful, omnipotent deity who has the emotional development of a six-year
* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: more ''comes'' from a higher plane of existence to play with mortals, but the Q Continuum drags him back there when he's done enough damage for a millennia.
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* [[Debt Detester]]: Specifically to Picard.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: As [[SF Debris]] points out, Q was subject to schizophrenic characterization. He could either come off as detached and sinister ("Encounter at Farpoint", "Q Who", "All Good Things...") or wild and silly ("Hide and Q", "Q-Pid").
** There's a fan theory that he just gets [[Bored with Insanity]] from time to time. YMMV on whether
** This may be in part deliberate. In his first episode, he changes his appearance frequently, and while his personality remains that of an arrogant and judgmental deity, he behaves quite differently whenever he changes his look. From a superior
* [[Divine Intervention]]: usually after he's actually ''started'' the problem and someone brow-beats him into cleaning up the mess he made.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|Even Chaotic Trickster Gods Have Loved Ones]]: he truly does love his wife and kid. Enough that hurting them is pretty much the only thing that can genuinely piss him off (and no, not annoy him so he turns you into a different creature, ''[[Berserk Button|really]]'' [[Person of Mass Destruction|piss him off]]).
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* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: One-ups every other ''[[Star Trek]]'' example by [[Ho Yay|teleporting into Picard's bed]].
** Also has a history of hitting on [[Star Trek: Voyager|Janeway]] during most of their encounters.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Q drops all pretense and is quite serious concerning the Borg. Why is never exactly revealed, but Q makes clear the Borg are a threat even the Continuum does not write off and that humanity should exercise due caution.
* [[One-Letter Name]]
* [[Physical God]]
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Q Junior is played by Keegan de Lancie.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Q powers tend to take this form, ''changing things'' in a flash of light with a signature sound effect.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: He's immortal and was present at the beginning of the Universe yet still looks like a middle
* [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: A human John de Lancie in a Starfleet captain's uniform. Failing that, the uniform of a high-ranking officer in another military force.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: he's a Q. The words "omniscient and omnipotent" belong somewhere in the species description.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: every member of the Q Continuum (minus Q's son) was present at the beginning of the universe. They are ''very'' advanced.
* [[Super Empowering]]: To Riker, and in a novel, Lwaxana Troi. The former gives them up to avoid [[Power Corrupts]]. The latter turned out to be an ''incredibly'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|bad idea]] on Q's part.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: according to some of the semi-canon novels, he's the Ur example for this trope in-universe (with basically every Trickster god, alien, and human (including Loki and Prometheus (where the Q Continuum literally strung him out on a cliff and had wild animals eat out his internal organs repeatedly for giving humans the gift of fire on a whim)) being based in some shape or form on him... and for good reason).
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Q's actions ultimately help Picard every time he shows up, and ultimately help humanity. He challenges morals, ethics, thoughts, and ideas of what we would do for power, who we are and what we could change, as well as the nature of existence. "Tapestry" suggests him to be amused enough by Picard to save his life. "Q-Who" suggests, even at his worst, throwing the crew into their first encounter with the Borg, he's making sure they have enough experience to be prepared.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: you think he's bad in the series? Wait until you read some of the books written in the first
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Q's a lousy parent, but that's not saying much; he's the first Q in history to conceive a child.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
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=== Commander Sela (Denise Crosby) ===
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Lwaxana is constantly flirting with Picard. He is not pleased.
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]]: Deanna, understandably, is usually not happy whenever her mother shows up, mostly because Lwaxana is this trope in spades whenever she's around.
* [[Blue Blood]]: Though [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|a surprisingly good diplomat when she bothers to concentrate on the job]], Lwaxana's life and self-concept are entirely based around being a member of the Betazoid elite.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Descended Creator]]: Sort of. She owned a great deal of the rights and was one of the chief executives owning Star Trek after her husband's death.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Majel Barrett Roddenberry voiced-acted every Federation computer in ''[[Next Gen]]'' (and for that matter ''[[DS 9]]'' and ''Voyager''), and was only a "guest star" here in the sense that she physically appears in the episode. As the computer, they even managed to squeeze her into ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' ("In A Mirror, Darkly") and the [[Star Trek (film)|2009 preboot]] (very shortly before her death), making her the ''only'' person to be involved in every incarnation of the franchise.
* [[The Fashionista]]: Always is wearing some loud and flashy getup when she appears.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Always friendly, always cheerful, always enthusiastic, even to the point of annoying people around her.
* [[Good Bad Girl]]: Since her husband died, she always seems to have [[Mr. Fanservice]] on her arm or is on the lookout for it.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: She's a constant pain in the side of Captain Picard for pushing herself onto him and never taking no for an answer. In the episode ''Menage A Troi,'' she's pursued by a Ferengi captain
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: [[Subverted Trope]] in that her cleavage has noticeably sagged.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Lwaxana is often a bit ''too'' involved in Deanna's business.
* [[My Biological Clock Is Ticking]]: Towards Picard. And it's ''hilarious''.
* [[Odd Friendship]] Forms one with Odo in DS9.
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]
* [[Socialite]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: As shown in "Dark Page".
* [[Talking to Herself]]: When using the ship's computer.
* [[Telepath]]: A full telepath and [[Empath]], unlike her daughter Deanna who is mainly an empath and only a rare telepath. Lwaxana can talk mentally to nearly any species (except Ferengi and a few others), while the only non-empath Deanna is ever shown talking mentally to is Will Riker.
* [[Try to Fit That on A Business Card]]: Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.
* [[Widow Woman]]: Her husband was a human, Deanna's father. It's clear she loved him, but it doesn't stop her from wanting to get another man either.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Hey, it's [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Nurse Chapel]]!
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