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* UnwantedFalseFaith: There are a number of religious tropes that could be said about this book but this might be the most concrete on, although [[PlayingWithATrope in a bit of a twisted fashion.]] While Jenkins has made his desired position clear with the rest of the crew there are strong hints he's worshipped as sone kind of prophet due to his ability to warn the crew about any senior officer's posistion. As the book goes on it clear despite Jenkin's social posistion being acknowledged by the others his ability to help them deal with the narrative by avoiding has them almost religiously depending on him to avoid any away team and turning to his theories when that doesn't work out place him as an almost saviour like figure while he just wants to help avoid needless deaths.
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* {{Retirony}}: Like many, an InvokedTrope. Their other redshirt companion on the Nanates gets killed out the gate. We later learn he was weeks away from retirement and basically had OneLastJob assigned to give him that last bit of recognition and action before retiring.
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* {{Retirony}}: Like many, an InvokedTrope. Their other redshirt companion on the Nanates gets killed out the gate. We later learn he was weeks away from retirement and basically had OneLastJob assigned to give him that last bit of recognition and action before retiring.
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* WorldOfSnark: This is a John Scalzi novel. Everybody who speaks a lot will get at least two points in the book where they lay on the sarcasm thick, and even more normal conversations will have sarcastic ribbing or "no, really?" Type answers in it.
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** After three of the xenobiology crew are sent on an away mission because they didn't get warning of one of the senior staff coming in Dhal, who is one of three put on the mission, gets blamed for asking about Jenkins, making the man deliberately withhold their warning and they get ready to turn on him to get the kill quota. When asked later Jenkins admit's its because he was on the toilet at the time and he missed the call for an away team so he could warn them.
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** After three of the xenobiology crew are sent on an away mission because they didn't get warning of one of the senior staff coming in Dhal, who is one of three put on the mission, gets blamed for asking about Jenkins, making the man deliberately withhold their warning and they get ready to turn on him to get the kill quota. When asked later Jenkins admit's admits its because he was on the toilet at the time and he missed the call for an away team so he could warn them.
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** After three of the xenobiology crew are sent on an away mission because they didn't get warning of one of the senior staff coming in Dhal, who is one of three put on the mission, gets blamed for asking about Jenkins, making the man deliberately withhold their warning and they get ready to turn on him to get the kill quota. When asked later Jenkins admit's its because he was on the toilet at the time and he missed the call for an away team so he could warn them.
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* RealWorldEpisode: [[spoiler:Dahl and the others travel to the real world in order to get ''Chronicles of the Intrepid'' cancelled. Later subverted when Dahl realizes the people in the "real world" are ''also'' fictional and they're all inside another story.]]
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* RealWorldEpisode: [[spoiler:Dahl and the others travel to the real world in order to get ''Chronicles of the Intrepid'' cancelled. Later subverted when Dahl realizes the people in the "real world" are ''also'' fictional and they're all inside another story.story, the one that you're reading right now.]]
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* MorphicResonance: Some of the characters seem to have traits of their actors - Jenkins (played by Nick, the head writer) is a MetaGuy with encyclopedic knowledge of writing tropes, Kerensky and his actor Marc Corey both have [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dickish tendencies]], Finn has a tendency to sell drugs and his actor is a bartender...
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** Kerensky ''himself'' [[spoiler: starts exploiting this in the climax, yelling at the writers to save him from missiles that locked on to his shuttle. Amazingly, it works.]]
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** Kerensky, at least relative to other bridge crew members - he's the only one of them who seems to question his implausible durability and the fact that somehow he keeps being dragged into these situations.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: A bunch of more experienced crew members have been manipulating unprepared rookies into being sacrificed on away missions in order to save their own skins. Needless to say, when they find themselves on an away mission, karma comes a'calling.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: A bunch of more experienced crew members have been manipulating unprepared rookies into being sacrificed on away missions in order to save their own skins. Needless to say, when circumstances mean that they eventually find themselves on an away mission, karma comes a'calling.]]
