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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Catoms, or Controlled Atoms in the long form. Also known as programmable matter, they're the Caeliar's source of power.
%%* AssInAmbassador: Tholian Ambassador Tezrene.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Catoms, or Controlled Atoms "claytronic atoms" in the long form. Also known as programmable matter, they're the Caeliar's source of power.
%%* * AssInAmbassador: Tholian Ambassador Tezrene.Tezrene. Even while known space is facing total obliteration at the hands of the Borg, the Tholians refuse to help on the grounds that the Federation will be the first to fall, and they hate the Federation.
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* CantArgueWithElves: The Caeliar, who have evolved almost completely beyond the need for physical bodies, have no crime, poverty, or want, and are devoted completely to artistic and scientific pursuits. They have just enough respect for others' beliefs to not try to convince other races that the Caeliar's way is correct, but no amount of cajoling will convince them that the Caeliar's way is wrong. They are severely isolationist, but are [[ActualPacifist Actual Pacifists]], which leads various characters who stumble upon their home planet [[GildedCage to become permanent "guests"]]. Not a bad place to be, all things considered, but don't argue too much. Make too much noise or disrupt their work and the Caeliar will teleport you to a nice uninhabited planet a few billion light years away, just to make sure you never get home with information about them.
* CassandraTruth: Seven is brought on as an adviser to Starfleet's war council, but they just ignore her.
* CassandraTruth: Seven is brought on as an adviser to Starfleet's war council, but they just ignore her.
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* CantArgueWithElves: The Caeliar, who have evolved almost completely beyond the need for physical bodies, have no crime, poverty, or want, and are devoted completely to artistic and scientific pursuits. They have just enough respect for others' beliefs to not try to convince other races that the Caeliar's way is correct, but no amount of cajoling will convince them that the Caeliar's way is wrong.wrong, or even just not applicable to all circumstances. They are severely isolationist, but are [[ActualPacifist Actual Pacifists]], which leads various characters who stumble upon their home planet [[GildedCage to become permanent "guests"]]. Not a bad place to be, all things considered, but don't argue too much. Make too much noise or disrupt their work and the Caeliar will teleport you to a nice uninhabited planet a few billion light years away, just to make sure you never get home with information about them.
* CassandraTruth: Seven is brought on as an adviser to Starfleet's war council, but they just ignoreher.her--albeit in part because she tells them that the Federation cannot possibly defeat a full-scale Borg invasion. [[spoiler:She was right.]]
* CassandraTruth: Seven is brought on as an adviser to Starfleet's war council, but they just ignore
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* CurbStompBattle: The Borg versus anything, but particularly the Battle of the Azure Nebula. A combined fleet of 10 major powers is destroyed without doing any appreciable damage to the invading Borg Armada.
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* CurbStompBattle: The Borg versus anything, but particularly the Battle of the Azure Nebula. A combined fleet of 10 major powers is destroyed without doing any appreciable damage to the invading Borg Armada. It's suggestethat the Borg only even bothered to engage them because they were ''in the way.''
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: A significant problem with Deanna is she refuses to terminate her fetus, even though it's already stillborn and her doctor is pointing out this ''will'' kill her. [[spoiler:Inyx manages to solve the problem via Caeliar science.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: A significant problem with Deanna is she refuses to terminate her fetus, even though it's already stillborn and her doctor is pointing out this ''will'' kill her. It's less a moral issue than an emotional one, but the results are the same. [[spoiler:Inyx manages to solve the problem via Caeliar science.]]
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* FourLinesAllWaiting: For most of the series the narrative is juggling threads of flashbacks to the past, events on the Enterprise, on the Titan, on Earth, on [[spoiler:New Erigol]], and then throws in interludes with various other characters in places that are under attack by the Borg. For this reason it takes awhile to get anywhere.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At one point during a discussion, Torvig hears someone quip about the idea of a Gorn going vegetarian. A moment later, Torvig explains that actually, with the right dietary supplements, a Gorn ''can'' in fact live a vegetarian lifestyle.
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* DiscontinuityNod: While the events of ''Before Dishonor'' remain in (novel) continuity, various characters in this trilogy make a point of noting that it was only the one prototypical Borg cube which possessed the absorptive capability that allowed it to '''EAT''' '''[[PlutoIsExpendable PLUTO!]]'''
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* DiscontinuityNod: While the events of ''Before Dishonor'' remain in (novel) continuity, various characters in this trilogy make a point of noting that it was only the one prototypical Borg cube which possessed the absorptive capability that allowed it to '''EAT''' '''[[PlutoIsExpendable PLUTO!]]'''
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* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: After Sedin assimilates Graylock, Thayer, and Pembleton, she forces Graylock and Thayer to [[{{Squick}} "consolidate" Pembleton, carve up his body, and consume his edible components in order to replenish their malnourished bodies.]]]]
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* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: After Sedin assimilates Graylock, Thayer, and Pembleton, she forces Graylock and Thayer to [[{{Squick}} "consolidate" Pembleton, carve up his body, and consume his edible components in order to replenish their malnourished bodies.]]]]]]
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* SinsOfTheFathers: The Tholians are still so pissed off about the events in the Tarsus Reach they will quite willingly let the Federation die out of sheer spite.
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* SinsOfTheFathers: SinsOfOurFathers: The Tholians are still so pissed off about the events in the Tarsus Reach they will quite willingly let the Federation die out of sheer spite.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After what happened to Janeway in ''Before Dishonor'', Chakotay really wants to get payback on the Borg. [[spoiler:The Battle of the Azure Nebula disabuses him of this notion.]]
* BreedingSlave: [[spoiler:Implied to be the fate of Thayer, as she becomes one of the first Borg drones, kept alive in order to make more drones.]]
* BrickJoke: Through ''Mere Mortals'', Fletcher is shown spending her time in Axiom writing [[spoiler:fan fiction]]. During ''Lost Souls'', the ''Titan'' away team find her work, and it turns out she wrote several novels.
* BrickJoke: Through ''Mere Mortals'', Fletcher is shown spending her time in Axiom writing [[spoiler:fan fiction]]. During ''Lost Souls'', the ''Titan'' away team find her work, and it turns out she wrote several novels.
* CassandraTruth: Seven is brought on as an adviser to Starfleet's war council, but they just ignore her.
* DemotedToExtra: T'Ryssa Chen, the ''Enterprise'' contact specialist, after being a main character in the ''TNG'' novel just before the event kicked off. She only makes one or two comments through the first two books, and has one scene in the third. In fairness, as a contact specialist in a time of war, there's not much for her to contribute.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The ''Enterprise'' and ''Aventine'' take a subspace tunnel to the Delta Quadrant, accidentally emerging smack-dab inbetween two stars, which fries their ships. As they're repairing, a larger-than-usual pack of Hirogen show up, just to make things more complicated for everyone. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a blessing in disguise, since it keeps them from being at the Azure Nebula when the Borg show up.]]
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** Valerian, one of the four ''Columbia'' crewwomen stranded with the Caeliar in Axiom, just mentally shuts down for the rest of her life.
**[[spoiler: Sedin, thanks to being cut off from energy the Caeliar need to maintain their form. All that's left is the all-consuming hunger]].
* FirstNameBasis: The Caeliar do this with the ''Titan'' away team, an act of unearned familiarity Troi finds incredibly rude.
* GiftedlyBad: The decades spent in Axiom help Erica Hernandez realize something important; she has no artistic talents of ''any'' kind.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: A significant problem with Deanna is she refuses to terminate her fetus, even though it's already stillborn and her doctor is pointing out this ''will'' kill her. [[spoiler:Inyx manages to solve the problem via Caeliar science.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Lieutenant Kedair, as a Takaran, can recover from injures that would be totally crippling or just fatal to most others. Which comes in handy when a Borg probe ship tries to assimilate her. By the time [[spoiler:Hernandez]] saves her, her arm's hanging on by a string and one of her eyes has already been scooped out. After a while in sickbay, she's recovered nicely.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The ''Excalibur'', who are part of the fight against the Borg but barring a brief appearance from Shelby, don't make an appearance, and the ''Da Vinci'', who somehow manage to hide an entire ''planet'' from the Borg, much to Bacco's amazement.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Lieutenant Kedair, as a Takaran, can recover from injures that would be totally crippling or just fatal to most others. Which comes in handy when a Borg probe ship tries to assimilate her. By the time [[spoiler:Hernandez]] saves her, her arm's hanging on by a string and one of her eyes has already been scooped out. After a while in sickbay, she's recovered nicely.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The ''Excalibur'', who are part of the fight against the Borg but barring a brief appearance from Shelby, don't make an appearance, and the ''Da Vinci'', who somehow manage to hide an entire ''planet'' from the Borg, much to Bacco's amazement.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: With one tiny, significant detail the unfortunate aliens aren't aware of. A group of explorers on a remote Delta Quadrant planet find a crashed alien ship, and inside two strange looking aliens, who only have one thumb on each hand and weird skin colors, all grey and clammy looking, who keep repeating something they don't understand...
* HypocriticalHumor: At the very end of the final book, Deanna bemoans she's starting to sound like her mother, but snaps at Riker when he similarly expresses horror.
* HypocriticalHumor: At the very end of the final book, Deanna bemoans she's starting to sound like her mother, but snaps at Riker when he similarly expresses horror.
* IDieFree: How Fletcher sees finally dying of old age, after a lifetime stuck with the Caeliar.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Hirogen Beta learns the hard way that running a Takaran through with a sword doesn't do much to slow them down. Not everyone keeps their organs in the same place...
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Hirogen Beta learns the hard way that running a Takaran through with a sword doesn't do much to slow them down. Not everyone keeps their organs in the same place...
* ItsAllMyFault: T'Lana momentarily blames herself as the Borg [[spoiler:ravage Vulcan]], before stopping and chiding herself for showing the exact same self-absorbed arrogance that led her to go into seclusion in the first place. What's happening is too big to be properly placed on any one being's shoulders.
* IWillFightSomeMoreForever: Faced with an encroaching Borg fleet on all sides with absolutely no chance of winning, Worf's preference is to at least go down fighting.
* IWillFightSomeMoreForever: Faced with an encroaching Borg fleet on all sides with absolutely no chance of winning, Worf's preference is to at least go down fighting.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: For all Foyle's unscrupulous actions, when caught out he still respects the chain of command to surrender.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Captain Shelby refers to Seven of Nine as "Annika", when Seven only lets those closest to her (which at this stage is just her aunt) do.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: President Bacco has a hard time processing the initial casualty report from the Borg invasion, because the number is too high to even register as a statistic.
* MoodWhiplash: Fletcher, who has spent decades working on a novel in Axiom, finally lets down her emotional guard and allows Erika to take a look at her life's work. [[spoiler:It's a ''Captain Proton'' fan fiction.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Erika's word-for-word reaction to Valerian's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath incredibly gruesome demise]] due to Inyx's botched catom infusion, a procedure that Erika had convinced Valerian to undergo.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Erika's word-for-word reaction to Valerian's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath incredibly gruesome demise]] due to Inyx's botched catom infusion, a procedure that Erika had convinced Valerian to undergo.
** Erika's word-for-word reaction to Valerian's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath incredibly gruesome demise]] due to Inyx's botched catom infusion, a procedure that Erika had convinced Valerian to undergo.
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:Hernandez sees helping the ''Titan'' escape as making up for failing her own crew.]]
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* NothingIsScarier: In their experiments with the subspace tunnels, the ''Enterprise'' winds up in another galaxy, where it looks like every star has been stuck behind a Dyson sphere. They decide to do as minimal an amount of scans and possible and then GTFO, rather than see what happens if a species that can do ''that'' aren't friendly.
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* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:At the end of the second book, Hernandez tells Riker the ''Titan'' can escape the Caeliar, but due to the situation they will have to do it immediately, which means leaving the pregnant Troi behind with them. Riker agonizes over it, but reluctantly decides to escape.]]
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: A few hundred years of exposure to Hernadez helps Inyx reach this mindset when the ''Titan'' crew shows up.
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The fate of the Mantilis survivors. The human crewmembers set off to try and find some kind of civilization, in the grip of an severe winter with very little to make into properly nourishing food, with dwindling supplies and a vicious predator about. Then they find they crashed on an island, and they have no way of making a raft even without the hideous weather, which drives one of their number to suicide. On return to Mantilis, the last surviving Caeliar assimilates them, creating the first Borg.]]
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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Early on, it's brought up the Caeliar can reach other galaxies if they wish, but it's not until ''Lost Souls'' someone brings up the idea of just moving themselves if they're that afraid of other people. As they explain, however, there are... ''things'' in other galaxies that scare them even more, things that the Galactic Barrier helps keep ''out''.
* SinsOfTheFathers: The Tholians are still so pissed off about the events in the Tarsus Reach they will quite willingly let the Federation die out of sheer spite.
* SinsOfTheFathers: The Tholians are still so pissed off about the events in the Tarsus Reach they will quite willingly let the Federation die out of sheer spite.
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* AbsoluteXenophobe: The Caeliar are utterly afraid of anyone finding out about them, and will do absolutely anything to stop info getting out about them. Some are just better at hiding it than others. Sedín is not one of them.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Catoms, or Controlled Atoms in the long form. Also known as programmable matter, they're the Caeliar's source of power.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: T'lana]], who had been written out of the series she appeared in shortly before ''Destiny'', and [[spoiler: Charivretha zh'Thane]], who hadn't been seen for some time (and several years earlier in-universe).
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: T'lana]], who had been written out of the series she appeared in ''TNG'' relaunch shortly before ''Destiny'', and [[spoiler: Charivretha zh'Thane]], who hadn't been seen for some time (and several years earlier in-universe).
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Dr. Ree, by humans standards. His species are like dinosaurs, so he finds mammalian attachment to their fetuses slightly ridiculous; when their eggs fail, his people just smash the shell and eat the yolk and baby. No sense wasting food.
* CallBack: Troi's incident with Andrew way back in "The Child" turns out to be behind her problems conceiving; despite what Dr. Pulaski thought, the radiation he gave off had more long term damage than immediately presumed.
* CallBack: Troi's incident with Andrew way back in "The Child" turns out to be behind her problems conceiving; despite what Dr. Pulaski thought, the radiation he gave off had more long term damage than immediately presumed.
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* DiscontinuityNod: While the events of ''Before Dishonor'' remain in (novel) continuity, various characters in this trilogy make a point of noting that it was only the one prototypical Borg cube which possessed the absorptive capability that allowed it to '''[[MemeticMutation EAT]]''' '''[[PlutoIsExpendable PLUTO!]]'''
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* DiscontinuityNod: While the events of ''Before Dishonor'' remain in (novel) continuity, various characters in this trilogy make a point of noting that it was only the one prototypical Borg cube which possessed the absorptive capability that allowed it to '''[[MemeticMutation EAT]]''' '''EAT''' '''[[PlutoIsExpendable PLUTO!]]'''
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Foyle's very first scene shows his paranoia, and has him raising the idea of mutiny against Hernadez apropos of nothing.
** Sedín's first scene makes it clear she ''really'' doesn't like aliens, in a way far beyond her species' isolationism.
** Foyle's very first scene shows his paranoia, and has him raising the idea of mutiny against Hernadez apropos of nothing.
** Sedín's first scene makes it clear she ''really'' doesn't like aliens, in a way far beyond her species' isolationism.
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* GodzillaThreshold: The situation gets so bad that Starfleet seriously considers holding the Borg off with [[WeaponOfMassDestruction thalaron weapons]] and evacuating the Federation's population to another galaxy. In fact, Seven of Nine coldly deduces that the Federation cannot hope to win, and must embrace such desperate tactics to survive at all.
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* GodzillaThreshold: GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Dr. Crusher tries doing this on Picard early on. It doesn't take for long.
* GodzillaThreshold:
** The situation gets so bad that Starfleet seriously considers holding the Borg off with [[WeaponOfMassDestruction thalaron weapons]] and evacuating the Federation's population to another galaxy. In fact, Seven of Nine coldly deduces that the Federation cannot hope to win, and must embrace such desperate tactics to survive at all.
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** The situation gets so bad that Starfleet seriously considers holding the Borg off with [[WeaponOfMassDestruction thalaron weapons]] and evacuating the Federation's population to another galaxy. In fact, Seven of Nine coldly deduces that the Federation cannot hope to win, and must embrace such desperate tactics to survive at all.
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* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: Many. Among the more notable examples: The crew of the Imperial Romulan Warbird ''Verithrax'', who destroyed themselves saving planet Ardana from destruction, Captain Pachal and the crew of ''Ranger'', using their ship as a missile to take out a Borg cube menacing Khitomer, and [[spoiler: six million Caeliar to save their human “guests” during the destruction of Erigol]].
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* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: HeroicSacrifice: Many. Among the more notable examples: The crew of the Imperial Romulan Warbird ''Verithrax'', who destroyed themselves saving planet Ardana from destruction, Captain Pachal and the crew of ''Ranger'', using their ship as a missile to take out a Borg cube menacing Khitomer, and [[spoiler: six million Caeliar to save their human “guests” during the destruction of Erigol]].
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* HiveMind: ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' presents two different versions; the nightmarish, all-consuming collective of the Borg and the vastly more benign "Gestalt" of the Caeliar. [[spoiler: The first one is derived from the other.]]
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* HiveMind: ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' presents two Two different versions; the nightmarish, all-consuming collective of the Borg and the vastly more benign "Gestalt" of the Caeliar. [[spoiler: The first one is derived from the other.]]
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The ''Ranger'' manages to destroy itself taking out a Borg cube. The next time the technique they used is brought up, it already no longer works.
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The story is spread out over three novels (''Gods of Night,'' ''Mere Mortals'' and ''Lost Souls''). Major spoilers are found below.
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below. The books were followed by ''A Singular Destiny'' and ''Losing the Peace'' as pseudo-epilogues.
