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* [[Continuity Porn]]: The first few novels alone have [[Call Back|Call Backs]] to previous films, series and books, including locations and characters from [[Star Trek: The Lost Era]]. One particular mission by [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Captain Sulu of the Excelsior]] is a massive part of the second book's plot and backstory.
* [[Continuity Porn]]: The first few novels alone have [[Call Back|Call Backs]] to previous films, series and books, including locations and characters from [[Star Trek: The Lost Era]]. One particular mission by [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Captain Sulu of the Excelsior]] is a massive part of the second book's plot and backstory.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Xin Ra-Havreii at the climax of ''Over a Torrent Sea'':
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Xin Ra-Havreii at the climax of ''Over a Torrent Sea'':
{{quote| "I always knew I'd be killed by ''nature!''"}}
{{quote|"I always knew I'd be killed by ''nature!''"}}
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The ending of ''Over a Torrent Sea''.
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The ending of ''Over a Torrent Sea''.
** Plus the end of ''Synthesis'', when {{spoiler|Second-Gen White-Blue returns, declaring his intention to join the team for good}}:
** Plus the end of ''Synthesis'', when {{spoiler|Second-Gen White-Blue returns, declaring his intention to join the team for good}}:
{{quote| " I don't know what to say".<br />
{{quote|" I don't know what to say".
"Say yes" }}
"Say yes" }}
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Minor character Torvig Bu-kar-nguv has become rather popular, and his role in the series expanded significantly. The author who created him has expressed his pleasant surprise.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Minor character Torvig Bu-kar-nguv has become rather popular, and his role in the series expanded significantly. The author who created him has expressed his pleasant surprise.

Revision as of 03:22, 8 August 2014


"I always knew I'd be killed by nature!"

  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The ending of Over a Torrent Sea.
    • Plus the end of Synthesis, when Second-Gen White-Blue returns, declaring his intention to join the team for good:

" I don't know what to say".
"Say yes"

  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Minor character Torvig Bu-kar-nguv has become rather popular, and his role in the series expanded significantly. The author who created him has expressed his pleasant surprise.
  • Unfortunate Implications: The novels can sometimes come off as an extended exercise in white guilt, extended to white male guilt, taken to an extreme with white male human guilt. Riker spends almost an entire chapter bemoaning that he comes from "a culture built on rape and conquest"... ignoring that this could describe practically every culture on Earth. Even assuming that's what he meant, as opposed to just white Americans, it ignores that most other Star Trek cultures have similarly warlike pasts, despite the airs they put on, and a lot of the rest of his current ship's crew have practices that are just as immoral to an outside observer as rape and conquest would be.
  • The Woobie: Troi, Jaza, Vale, Tuvok, Riker, Keru, Ra-Havreii, Ree, screw it THE ENTIRE CREW.
  • Wangst: And we're talking Buffy levels of it, here.
  • White Man's Burden: Whether Riker is an actual example of it as the white human captain of an almost totally non-human/non-humanoid crew is debatable. The fact that he spends most of his time in the novels wringing his hands worrying that people will think this of him isn't.