All The Tropes

Star Trek Novel Verse/Characters: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Star Trek Novel Verse/Characters (view source)

Revision as of 19:06, 7 August 2014

19 bytes removed ,  9 years ago
m
revise quote template spacing
VisualWikitext
m (update links)
m (revise quote template spacing)
Line 21:
 
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: After her father finally makes contact after a ''long'' absence, looking for information on her mother (specifically, if she survived the [[Star Trek Destiny|Borg invasion]]):
{{quote| "Did you try to contact her after the ''Odyssey'' went boom? Did you try to find her any time during the entire Dominion War? No, this is about you. You had a near-death experience when the Borg hit Vulcan, and by some miracle, you lived. You managed to get rescued, fixed up, and flown to a hospital on the other side of the planet, where you got a lot of time to just lie there and think about how close you came to being just more sand piled on the Forge. Now you've got this big second chance, so now you want to reach out to all those you've hurt and make amends for all your wrongs."}}
* [[Ethical Slut]]
* [[Genki Girl]]: She's fully aware of it and is doing it intentionally to be different from the Vulcans.
Line 48:
* [[The Atoner]]: For the death of his wife and his failures in raising their daughter.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
{{quote| "He's not the first hundred-year-old I've met who could go up against holographic opponents, or even real ones. Most people don't give it much thought, but there are actually a lot more active centenarian humans in Starfleet than is generally known. One of the benefits of an ever-lengthening life span. Just the same, I'm glad Vaughn's on our side."}}
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: An example from [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine relaunch|''Demons of Air and Darkness'']], after he handles a hostage situation by simply shooting the hostage taker, because he realizes his own phaser will fire with this level of radiation but the hostage-taker's won't:
{{quote| '''Julian Bashir''': Why didn't you say that's what you were planning in the first place? <br />
'''Vaughn''': Because, Doctor, when you become a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders. }}
* [[The Gump]]: That well-known but as-yet-unexplored historical event? Vaughn will probably have been involved. Some readers certainly feel this trope got over-used.
Line 111:
* [[Citizenship Marriage]]: With {{spoiler|Tim Pennington}}, as a part of one of her 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 {{spoiler|Pennington}}, the nearest convenient Earther, and who has agreed to help her.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: At times. Particularly notable when she asks if Starfleet personnel assigned to a super-freighter should be given first-class accomodations:
{{quote| "No of course not. Such generosity from Starfleet would be certain to draw suspicions. Steerage it is then".}}
* [[Insanity Defense]]: During the darkest period of her career, partway through the [[Star Trek: Vanguard]] series, she points out it's the only plausible defense she could give for her latest actions, though she doesn't pursue it.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: A homosexual relationship with Anna Sandesjo/Lurqal (a Klingon spy disguised as a human).
* [[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 at any point in the [[Star Trek: Vanguard]] series, 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 relaunch]] novels.
* [[The Atoner]]: By the end of [[Star Trek: Vanguard]]:
{{quote| ''It is likely I will never balance the scales of my own guilt and virtue. But that does not absolve me of my responsibility to try''.}}
 
=== Mor glasch Tev ===
Line 141:
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Ranul Keru.
* [[Thank the Maker]]: Choblik swear on the Great Builders, whom they revere. The Choblik religion also interprets creation in general as the work of a "builder," as Torvig explains:
{{quote| "It is empirical that we were Upgraded to our current state millennia ago by some technological agency. It is also empirical that the galaxy contains many other life-forms, worlds and phenomena that could not have come into being without technological intervention. And many of the fundamental mysteries of the universe can be resolved by postulating it as a construct of some entity or civilization existing on a transcendent plane. Given the power and pervasiveness that such a creative agency would require, it's logical to interpret all lesser creative agencies in the universe as aspects of the ultimate Builders."}}
 
=== Yevir Linjaren ===
Line 234:
* [[Divided We Fall]]: Usually; but averted when the final test comes in [[Star Trek Destiny]].
* [[Good Is Old-Fashioned]]: Kopek had no time for the teachings of Kahless and the honour codes Martok is trying to re-establish in Klingon society. Kahless condemned him for it:
{{quote| "You will fall, Kopek, because you live only to hold on to your power and to accumulate more. Martok works daily to restore the empire to the path of honour, and there is no place for you on that path. You will learn the true way, or you will reap the seeds of self-destruction you have so carefully sown”. }}
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Worf knows it was Kopek who was ultimately behind the terrorist siege at the Federation embassy in [[Star Trek: A Time to...]], but Kopek knows he can't prove anything.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
Line 354:
 
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: An interesting example. He was always more comfortable as a scholar than an emperor, and over the years "played" at scholar more and more until he forgot his true responsibility as emperor (at least that's how he sees it. He might be being a bit harsh on himself). He also feels that his true identity - defined, as with many Romulans, by his personal honour - is now lost to him.
{{quote| “I was a fool, a fool, so seduced by my scholarly research I forgot what I was. Never do that, never forget. For once you do, once you begin trusting others with what should be yours, you never, ever win it back”. }}
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: He pretty much fits, with his aged body, eccentric personality and odd conversational tangents (plus his preoccupation with flesh-eating fish) combined with a deep wisdom and a good nature.
Line 371:
 
* [[General Ripper]]: With the Klingons as his "enemy X":
{{quote| "Think, Romulans, of our colony worlds. Think of the honest, hardworking, loyal men and women who ask nothing but to serve the Empire. Now picture foreigners imperiling those Romulan men, women, yes, Romulan children. And such invaders do threaten, brutish creatures who know nothing of honour, nothing of glory: Klingons! Klingons who know nothing but blood lust! You ask, how can this be? Have we not dealt peacefully with the Klingons, even purchased warships from them? Yes! We made that mistake! We let them sell us faulty ships - but no more! That was all part of their plan to weaken us, then overwhelm us".}}
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: He encourages this in his troops at every opportunity.
Line 380:
 
* [[The Evils of Free Will]]: Not in the extreme, literal form, but Cardassia has very little tolerance for irregular thinkers, and spreads propaganda insisting that those who behave differently are psychologically and neurologically ill:
{{quote| “People with beliefs like that usually have a disorder that prevents them from understanding loyalty to anything but their own desires. A defect in their lateral cortex makes them abnormally egocentric, and the same disorder keeps them from having any impulse control. I learned about it in socio-deviance”.}}
* [[Fantastic Measurement System]]: ''Decas''.
* [[Fantastic Rank System]]: The current novels make use of Cardassian ranks listed in unpublished RPG sourcebooks. From highest to lowest, the ranks are Legate (canonically established), Jagul, Gul (canonically established), Dal, Dalin, Glinn (canonically established), Gil, Garresh, and Gorr.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]:
{{quote| The morality of a Cardassian can only be understood by a Cardassian. The morality of a soldier of the Union is that which serves the Union best.}}
 
== The Oralian Way ==
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1082002"