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* [[Character Derailment]]: In-universe, one of Ezri's biggest fears during the actual show was that people would treat her like a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for Jadzia. Apparently she should have been more concerned about the writers of the EU, since that's exactly what they've turned her into.
** Riker, once a competent and confident commander, now a hand-wringing wimp who spends most of his time hiding in his ready room.
** Picard is a now an emotionally fragile man who's often distant with his command crew and has at least one major breakdown on the bridge.
** Troi, who had actually become a rather calm and centered [[Badass]] by the end of her appearances in the movies and shows, becomes an irrational harpy that would make her mother look like a ''joy'' to be married to.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Gothmara, Qagh.
* [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]]: After the fourth or fifth planetary genocide, you'll probably become pretty inured to the whole concept.
** This is no exaggeration. There are at least two planetary genocides just in the third book of the ''Cold Equations'' trilogy alone (and those are only the ones we know about). Of course by then the concept has been run so hard into the ground that the screams of an entire world dying provoke more eye-rolling than horror. It seems that the expanded universe simply can't figure out any sufficient level of drama or threat without having a few dozen billion people die in terror along the way.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Torvig Bu-kar-nguv of [[Star Trek: Titan]]. Possibly President Nanietta Bacco, who went from a "the president resigned last book so we need a new president" character to a popular character carrying her own West Wing-style political novel ([[Star Trek: Articles of the Federation]]).
* [[Fan Discontinuity]]: There are a ''lot'' of good reasons to prefer the ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' continuity over this one. Thankfully the STO one seems to be considered closer to "official" than the novelverse.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: One of the more infamous is the desire to make sense of the Tamarian language from ''Darmok''. A very popular episode, but great amounts of [[Fridge Logic]] result, for the books to eventually deal with. For example, how do the children learn the legends? Answer: Probably not unlike how Chinese speakers learn the [[Translation: "Yes"|four word idioms]]. English too has plenty of strange expressions with obscure origins, but speakers understand the meaning from the context. In fact, the metaphorical meaning tends to become the ordinary meaning over time; for example, English "understand" no longer refers to standing under anything but has become a dead metaphor. Or perhaps the children are taught the stories via some visual medium, like movies or plays.
** [[Fridge Logic]] #2: To build starships, one needs language more precise and less ambiguous than metaphors. But this too is [[All There in the Manual|all explained in]] the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. Tamarian mathematical and musical notations are very closely linked. Tamarian engineers and programmers literally sing equations, transferring instructions through music. Even in ordinary speech, numerical information can be conveyed through the pitch of a Tamarian’s vocal harmonics, though it can be hard for untrained Human ears to discern the nuances, just as it can be hard for an English speaker to learn to hear Chinese tones.
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** Becomes a serious case of [[Badass Decay]] when their change is ultimately compared to a child throwing a tantrum because it's upset and hungry but too stupid to know what it wants. This is the actual, literal way they're described by the [[Superior Species]] that rather effortlessly overcomes them. What's worse, the text shows that they're ''right''.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Hadlo's death. {{spoiler|"Oralius! Prophets! My love is for you both!"}}
** {{spoiler|Owen Paris' last message to Tom in [[Star Trek: Destiny]]}}.
** {{spoiler|Kieran Duffy's death}}.
** {{spoiler|Garak: "There is no home anymore! Can't you see, its gone!!"}}
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