History Literature / StarTrekDestiny

** [spoiler:Owen Paris, Charivretha zh'Thane, T'Lana, Kopek]], as well as [[spoiler: the planets Deneva, Khitomer, Risa, and Coridan, among others]].

* TurtlePower: A Chelon character wins one for the team even in death.

The story is spread out over three novels (''Gods of Night,'' ''Mere Mortals'' and ''Lost Souls''). It fundamentally changes the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe, and is well worth the read.

While it has been generally well-received, it should be cautioned that, as with all developments in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise, opinions will differ. Major spoilers are found below.

* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Axion, the Caeliar capital.

* AssInAmbassador: Tholian Ambassador Tezrene.

* ChekhovsGun: The Hirogen energy dampeners.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The Caeliar.

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Sedin]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Owen Paris, Charivretha zh'Thane, T'Lana, Kopek]], as well as [[spoiler: the planets Deneva, Khitomer, Risa, and Coridan, among others]].
** Also [[spoiler: the Borg... sort of. The drones have all been liberated, but the Collective itself - which is revealed to be the corrupted remnants of Sedin's consciousness - has been abolished.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It is heavily implied that the invasion occurs thanks to the actions of future Janeway back in [[Series/StarTrekVoyager "Endgame"]].
** [[SubvertedTrope Or not.]] [[spoiler: ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations'' explicitly says that in the long run, if the Borg hadn't invaded (and subsequently been defeated) at that point in history, nothing could have stopped them from conquering the entire galaxy by the year 2600 at the latest.]]

* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: A key plot point of the trilogy's climax. Hernandez and Dax realize that there are too many similarities between the Borg and the Caeliar to be chalked up to mere coincidence.]]
* ObiWanMoment: Both [[spoiler: T'Lana (see Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch) and Charivretha zh'Thane (of the Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch)]] die like this, peacefully accepting their fate when they are caught in the bombardment of Vulcan and Andor, respectively.

* OmnicidalManiac: The Borg Collective, following the loss of the transwarp network, are done with the Federation repeatedly stopping their attacks. The Borg's new goal, until they are stopped/saved is simply "destroy everything".
** Summed up by the taunting message the Borg send to the Federation, which outright scares Picard: ''We are the Borg. You will be annihilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness have become irrelevant. Resistance is futile... [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness but welcome]].''

** On a lesser note, Inyx gives Dr. Ree a telling off when he bites Deanna Troi as part of his efforts to care for her. Inyx's ActualPacifist ways clash with the carnivorous ethos of Ree's people.
*** Subverted later on, as Inyx later discovers that Ree's actions, in fact, saved Troi's life.

** Doubles as MoralDissonance for La Forge, unfortunately, who is suddenly arguing for alternatives to killing the Borg despite showing no such concerns earlier in the novels when the Enterprise was one-shotting Borg cubes with transphasic torpedoes. It's clear that his real objection is to the method, not the act itself, and would be cheerfully complicit in the annihilation of the Borg if it could be done by conventional means. He also alternates between arguing that it won't work, and that it will have negative political consequences. If it came to using thalaron weapons, and they didn't work, there wouldn't be any political consequences because everyone would be dead or Borg. Furthermore Picard isn't even planning to use them unless the Caeliar fail and the Borg resume their genocidal attack. If it came to using the thalaron weapons, and they did work, it's doubtful anyone would agree that the political fallout was somehow worse than the total annihilation of all life by the Borg. The entire scene only works because the author and audience already know that the peaceful solution will work because it's ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Caeliar.

Needless to say that the way was paved for a more activist Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse, where writers of novels were finally free to ''really'' shake things up and the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo no longer held the sway it once did.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: A key plot point of the trilogy's climax. Hernandez and Dax realize that there are too many similarities between the Borg and the Caeliar to be chalked up to mere coincidence.]]

* 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 replentish their malnourished bodies.]]]]

* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: The first thing that Sedin does after assimilating the three Humans is to force Greylock and Thayer to [[{{Squick}} "consolidate" Pembleton, carve up his body, and consume his edible components.]]]]

** Doubles as MoralDissonance for La Forge, unfortunately, who is suddenly arguing for alternatives to killing the Borg despite showing no such concerns earlier in the novels when the Enterprise was one-shotting Borg cubes with transphasic torpedoes. It's clear that his real objection is to the method, not the act itself, and would be cheerfully complicit in the annihilation of the Borg if it could be done by conventional means. He also alternates between arguing that it won't work, and that it will have negative political consequences. If it came to using thalaron weapons, and they didn't work, there wouldn't be any political consequences because everyone would be dead or Borg. Furthermore Picard isn't even planning to use them unless the Caeliar fail and the Borg resume their genocidal attack. If it came to using the thalaron weapons, and they did work, it's doubtful anyone would agree that the political fallout was somehow worse than the total annihilation of all life by the Borg. The entire scene only works because the author and audience already know that the peaceful solution will work because it's StarTrek.

Part of the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse.

* ContinuityNod: A great many, to the entirety of the ''Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse'' continuity.

** Near the end of the final book, Picard, Riker, and Ezri contemplate destroying [[spoiler: the Caeliar's Omega molecule generator in the event that the Caeliar failed to stop the Borg. They freely acknowledge that the resulting explosion of Omega molecules would put an end to all warp travel in the galaxy.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Captain Picard.

* HiveQueen: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] [[spoiler: The Borg Queen is revealed to be a [[TheManBehindTheMan mere puppet of the fundamental drives at the heart of the collective]] - and then unsubverted, because the drives at the heart of the collective are derived from the millennia-old remnants of the personality of Inyx's ex-wife.]]

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Despite being severely damaged by the Borg, [[spoiler: ''Voyager'']] refuses assistance from the ''Enterprise''.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: The Admiralty seems really stupid for not distributing transphasic torpedoes throughout the fleet. Turns out that they were right.

* OmnicidalManiac: The Borg Collective, following the loss of the transwarp network. The Borg's new goal, until they are stopped/saved is simply "destroy everything".

* PerfectPacifistPeople: The Caeliar see themselves as this. They're certainly not actually perfect, mind you.
* PlotArmor: Out of the three hundred-something ships rallied against the Borg in the Azure Nebula, [[spoiler: only ''Voyager'' survives. Barely, though.]]

* ScrewYouElves: The Human characters are somewhat unimpressed by Caeliar claims of cultural superiority.

* StartOfDarkness: The origin of the Borg is finally revealed. It is extremely complicated [[spoiler: and involves [[NoodleImplements a French Canadian, alien whalers, and Inyx's ex-wife]]. Very basically, a group of Caeliar and humans were stranded on a remote planet where the Caeliar were dying, and the last one of them, with almost none of her mind left other than a desperate need to survive, forcibly merged with the humans, creating cyborgs that had little mental directives other than consume and survive]].

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Borg.

* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler: So the ''Columbia'' meets with the Caeliar in the twenty-second century. When Erigol is destroyed, portals are created going to different times and places. Captain Hernandez ends up in a distant part of the alpha quadrant, 800 years earlier. Another city-ship is sent to a far corner of the universe, near the beginning of time (eventually causing the catastrophe which destroyed Erigol in the first place). A third goes back in time to the Delta Quadrant seven thousand years earlier, where they give rise to the Borg... are you taking notes?]]

With the end of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' in 2001 and the flop of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' in 2002, the canonical ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise changed its focus from the 24th century back to the [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise 22nd]] and, ultimately, [[Film/StarTrek 23rd]] [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery centuries.]] The upshot was that the bleeding edge of the Star Trek [[MythArc mythos]] was completely abandoned... with, for the first time in decades, absolutely no new developments planned on the horizon.

With the end of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' in 2001 and the flop of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' in 2002, the canonical ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise changed its focus from the 24th century back to the [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise 22nd]] and, ultimately, [[Film/StarTrek 23rd]] centuries. The upshot was that the bleeding edge of the Star Trek [[MythArc mythos]] was completely abandoned... with, for the first time in decades, absolutely no new developments planned on the horizon.

* PyrrhicVictory: The Borg war, pretty much. [[spoiler: Yes, the Federation won, the Collective was liberated, the darkness has been lifted, there is peace, but Deneva, Risa, Coridan and several other major worlds are gone, many other major worlds are damaged, and 70 Billion people are dead. There isn't any mood to celebrate.]]

* SaveTheVillain: How Erika convinces the Caeliar to help her stop the Borg.

* WhamEpisode: By the end of this trilogy [[spoiler: 40% of Starfleet has been destroyed, 70 billion people are dead, and the Borg are ''gone.'']]

* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Picard breaks down in tears on the bridge on the ''Enterprise'' after the Collective is finally defeated.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Erika's word-for-word reaction to Valerian's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath incredibly gruesome demise]] due Inyx's botched catom infusion, a procedure that Erika had convinced Valerian to undergo.

While it has been generally well-received, it should be cautioned that, as with all developments in the Franchise/StarTrek franchise, opinions will differ. Major spoilers are found below.

The story is spread out over three novels (''Gods of Night,'' ''Mere Mortals'' and ''Lost Souls''). It fundamentally changes the Franchise/StarTrek universe, and is well worth the read.

* PlotArmor: Out of the potentially thousands of ships rallied against the Borg in the Azure Nebula, [[spoiler: only ''Voyager'' survives. Barely, though.]]

* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler: So the ''Columbia'' meets with the Caeliar in the twenty-second century. When Erigol is destroyed, portals are created going to different times and places. Captain Hernandez ends up in a distant part of the alpha quadrant, 800 years earlier. Another city-ship is sent to a far corner of the universe, near the beginning of time (eventually causing the catastrophe which destroyed Erigol in the first place). A third goes back in time to the delta quadrant seven thousand years earlier, where they give rise to the Borg... are you taking notes?]]

* DarkestHour: The Borg invasion is a weighty contender for the darkest hour of the entire Franchise/StarTrek franchise.

* CrisisCrossover: Although it would probably count as only a BatFamilyCrossover, if not for the inclusion of Ezri Dax from [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]] and Erika Hernandez from [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]].