History Literature / StarTrekTitan

The series currently has eleven entries;

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* CallBack: The Husnock military technology in ''Fortune of War'' is abandoned and up for grabs because [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E3TheSurvivors Kevin Uxbridge annihilated the entire Husnock species in season 3 of ''The Next Generation'']].

* {{Carnivore Confusion}}: Averted. The Pahkwa-thanh, of which Dr. Shenti Yisec Eres Ree is a member, have always considered their prey animals sapient. They don't eat humanoids and "civilized" beings, not because they have an objection to it as such, but because it would be rude. Humanoids don't consider themselves part of nature; to eat them would be impolite, which Pahkwa-thanh are not. If you think you're prey, though, they'll happily eat you.

* CoolStarship: In-story, the ''Luna''-class was intended as a 24th-century equivalent to the old [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries ''Constitution-Class'']] starships, and was designed for long-term exploration missions beyond the range of larger ships. In real life, the ''Luna''-class was designed by Sean Tourangeau, [[AscendedFanboy who won the contest to design the ''Titan''.]]

* {{The Eeyore}}: aMershik, and all Thymerae apparently.

* {{A Form You Are Comfortable With}}: Y'lira Modan and other Seleneans. In their natural state they are only semi-Humanoid at best, and rather ferocious looking. The Selenean Pod Mothers, who have great control over their offspring's genetics, have bred certain broods designed specifically for offworld contact. These individuals, Y'Lira Modan among them, take a form more pleasing to humanoid eyes, but retain the ability to shift into their natural state if need be.

* HoldYourHippogriffs: The Ferengi Bralik speaks of a character taking to something “like a slug to the swamp”.

* InHarmonyWithNature: Orilly Malar, and all Irriol, to the point where they will sacrifice themselves to predators for the greater good of the biosphere. In fact, Orilly is in exile precisely because she refused to allow this, saving her sister from a carnivore despite "knowing" it needed the nourishment - and that the biosphere currently favoured it over the sister.

* [[MeleeATrois Mêlée à Trois]]: [[spoiler: ''Fortune of War'' puts the ''Titan'' and her escorts in the middle of a conflict involving Pakleds, Orion pirates, Nausicaans, Breen and mercenaries led by Gaila for Husnock technology. Plus Brunt, the only other party who helps the Starfleet crew.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Deflecting an asteroid on a collision course with planet Droplet, in order to save a small number of natives, ''Titan'' accidentally disrupts the natural rhythms of the planet and places the entire civilization at risk.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** One of the many colours Christine Vale makes use of. In ''Over a Torrent Sea'', her latest dye is a bright blue, partly in honour of the crew's exploration of Droplet (a pelagic world).
** Boslics naturally have extremely bright hair colors. A brilliant purple is the most common, while ''Titan'' security officer Ellec Krotine's is a cherry red.

''Literature/StarTrekCoda'' Trilogy: Like ''Destiny'', another Crisis Crossover that concludes ''Titan'' and the Novel Verse.

* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: In the primary language of the Skorr, "shit" has the meaning of English "bride". May also count as a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, though books do not suffer the same kind of censorship as television.

** The Pa'haquel use star-jelly cosmozoans (giant space-faring life-forms) as ships. Originally they used rebooted corpses, essentially flying brainless zombies, but later they entered a symbiosis with truly living examples. The jellies are called "sky-mounts" in the Pa'haquel language, with the exact meaning of the "mount" part deliberately ambiguous; are they mounts in the sense of steeds, or "mountains" of the sky?

* ShoutOut: The S'ti'ach, to ''Disney/LiloAndStitch''. They're blue teddy bears with four arms, large black eyes, and standing a metre tall. They're said to be very dense. Read the species name again, and it should click. Also the S'ti'ach character's name is Huilan, which basically sounds like 'hula' and 'Hawaiian' stuck together.

A series of books in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse. Jumping off slightly before the end of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', ''Star Trek: Titan'' is the story of Captain William T. Riker's first command, the ''Luna''-class starship ''Titan'', on a mission of exploration through the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. The ''Titan'' has one of the most diverse crews in Starfleet history, and the cast features many unusual aliens, including plenty of non-humanoids.

* ArcWelding: The ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' trilogy links the ''Titan'' series and its character arcs into several ongoing plots in the wider ''Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse'', among them the final Borg war, and the politics-orientated arc featuring the Bacco administration.

** We've got [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Will Riker, Deanna Troi, Nurse Ogawa and son]], [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Melora Pazlar]], [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tuvok and his wife (who appeared as a hologram in one episode)]]. There are plenty of original characters from other books in the ''Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse'' as well, most notably Cmdr. Christine Vale and Ranul Keru.

* ContinuityNod: As ever in the ''Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse'', many.

* DyeHard: Christine Vale is an InUniverse example. Her habit of constantly changing hair colours has become a defining character trait. This is actually the result of a mini-{{Retcon}}. In her first few appearances in the ''Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse'', her hair colour was described inconsistently. The solution was obvious; she likes to dye it. This causes a few problems aboard ''Titan'', with its diverse alien crew. One dye, although completely black in human-visible light, appears a ridiculous colour to those crew members who see in ultraviolet. Eventually, the ship's stylist created a dye that would absorb every wavelength of light visible to any crew member.

* {{Heavyworlder}}: The S'ti'ach, who resemble metre-high four-armed blue teddy bears, but are denser than they appear. In early books they are said to be superdense, but in a later book a S'ti'ach character points out the perils of having a lot of mass on a high gravity world. Apparently, this is a rumour spread by the S'ti'ach themselves; they're aware of how cute they look to humanoids, and want to discourage attempts to pick them up and cuddle them.
** "Cute," by the way, means that the species owes its design in large part to [[LiloAndStitch Stitch,]] the species name being almost a direct shoutout.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: T'Lirin in ''The Red King'', Jaza in ''Sword Of Damocles'', Titan's AI in ''Synthesis''.]]

* ''Sight Unseen'', an Ebook novella.

* "Absent Enemies"

* ''Sight Unseen''.

The series currently has ten entries;

* {{Alien Non-Interference Clause}}: Oh ''dear...''

* ''StarTrekDestiny'': This is a CrisisCrossover with the ''Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch'' and ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'', among others. It's actually three books, but for the interests of brevity, we'll count them as one.

* ArcWelding: The ''StarTrekDestiny'' trilogy links the ''Titan'' series and its character arcs into several ongoing plots in the wider StarTrekNovelVerse, among them the final Borg war, and the politics-orientated arc featuring the Bacco administration.

* BreakTheCutie: '''Troi'''. ''Ye gods.'' It starts in ''Sword of Damocles'' and goes all the way through ''StarTrekDestiny'' to ''Over a Torrent Sea''.

** We've got [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Will Riker, Deanna Troi, Nurse Ogawa and son]], [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Melora Pazlar]], [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tuvok and his wife (who appeared as a hologram in one episode)]]. There are plenty of original characters from other books in the StarTrekNovelVerse as well, most notably Cmdr. Christine Vale and Ranul Keru.
** The star-jellies are kin to the one used in "Encounter at Farpoint", the pilot episode of Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration.

* ContinuityNod: As ever in the StarTrekNovelVerse, many.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Averted with the Choblik, of which Torvig Bu-kar-nguv is a member. A race of non-humanoid cyborgs, the Choblik owe their intelligence and civilization to their implants, being a race of UpliftedAnimal. Upgrades throughout childhood and adolescence are celebrated rites of passage in their culture. Ironically, this means Torvig initially has difficulty comprehending the full horror of the Borg Collective (which plays the trope straight). In ''StarTrekDestiny'', though, the implications finally hit him, and he ends up perhaps the most horrified of all; this trope, and thus the Borg, are essentially the anti-Choblik, their most primal horror.

* DyeHard: Christine Vale is an InUniverse example. Her habit of constantly changing hair colours has become a defining character trait. This is actually the result of a mini-{{Retcon}}. In her first few appearances in the StarTrekNovelVerse, her hair colour was described inconsistently. The solution was obvious; she likes to dye it. This causes a few problems aboard ''Titan'', with its diverse alien crew. One dye, although completely black in human-visible light, appears a ridiculous colour to those crew members who see in ultraviolet. Eventually, the ship's stylist created a dye that would absorb every wavelength of light visible to any crew member.

* HalfHumanHybrid: The [[spoiler:Neyel]], who started out as human, [[spoiler:but re-engineered themselves to better survive in space]]. They first appeared in ''StarTrekTheLostEra''.

* RunningGag: Fo Hachesa bungle his grammar when he trying to speaking Federation Standard. However, in ''StarTrekDestiny'' he finally learnt how to use his verbs properly, bringing the gag to an end. In fact, Hachesa leaves the ship in the aftermath, because bungling grammar was pretty much his only role in the series.

* "Empathy", a MirrorUniverse tale in [[StarTrekMirrorUniverse ''Shards and Shadows'']].

* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: Efrosian ''Levithi'' nuts, essential for Efrosian digestion. It does lead to a bit of FridgeLogic in later books - did Ra-Havreii's supplies really last all that time? They can't replicate them, and I doubt they have ''Levithi'' nuts in the Gum Nebula or interarm expanse...

* {{Heavy Worlder}}: The S'ti'ach, who resemble metre-high four-armed blue teddy bears, but are denser than they appear. In early books they are said to be superdense, but in a later book a S'ti'ach character points out the perils of having a lot of mass on a high gravity world. Apparently, this is a rumour spread by the S'ti'ach themselves; they're aware of how cute they look to humanoids, and want to discourage attempts to pick them up and cuddle them.

A series of books in the StarTrekNovelVerse. Jumping off slightly before the end of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', ''StarTrekTitan'' is the story of Captain William T. Riker's first command, the ''Luna''-class starship ''Titan'', on a mission of exploration through the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. The ''Titan'' has one of the most diverse crews in Starfleet history, and the cast features many unusual aliens, including plenty of non-humanoids.

* ''Seize the Fire'', the ''StarTrekTitan'' entry in the ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact'' series.

A series of books in the so-called StarTrekNovelVerse. Jumping off slightly before the end of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', ''StarTrekTitan'' is the story of Captain William T. Riker's first command, the ''Luna''-class starship ''Titan'', on a mission of exploration through the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. The ''Titan'' has one of the most diverse crews in Starfleet history, and the cast features many unusual aliens, including plenty of non-humanoids.