Star Trek: Excelsior (or
Starship Excelsior) is a
Star Trek fanmade audio drama set a few years after
Star Trek: Nemesis. Set on the Sovereign-class ship
USS Excelsior (NCC-2000-C, the fourth ship to bear the name), taking place primarily in the Delta Quadrant, thanks to an Iconian gateway. All episodes can be found
here
. The series has been running since 2007 and has just entered its sixth season.
Episodes
- PILOT: "...There You Are"
- Season 1: The Excelsior Returns
- "The Valandrian Expedition"
- "Turns of Events"
- "Wildfire"
- "Down the Rabbit Hole"
- Season 2: Murder in the Blue Morgue
- "The First Two Deaths"
- "The Investigation"
- "Her Hardest Hue To Hold"
- "The Manchurian Officer"
- "The Line"
- "No One Gets Out Alive"
- Season 3: The Sword of Damocles
- "Every Good Captain Has Admiral Issues"
- "The Pursuit"
- "Sunset"
- "Safeties Off"
- "The Wreck in the Hesperus"
- "The Infestation"
- "Trust, But Verify"
- "The Man from Syracuse"
- "Ozymandias"
- "What Happened on Gevinon Prime"
- "The Graceful End"
- Season 4: Ex Astris Mirificentia (The Wonderful Stars)
- "Picking Up the Pieces"
- "One More Piece: Home and Dry" (Deleted scene from "Picking Up the Pieces")
- "Guards! GET THEM!"
- "At Death’s Door"
- "The Greatest Day of Every Year"
- "Only Murder"
- "A Day at the Park"
- "Meeting Minutes"
- "Fear Itself"
- "The Mapstone"
- "Impeccable Logic"
- "Tomorrow’s Excelsior"
- Season 5: The Round Table
- "And Miles To Go Before I Sleep"
- "Relief Operation DIV-1096
- "I.O.U."
- "E.U.L.A."
- "Better Angels"
- "Lost In Trillslation"
- "Fast Friends"
- "The Committee Archives
- "All Men Lie"
- "Nurturing Life"
- "Shakedown"
- "Listen"
- "...And Bear Witness"
- Season 6: ''The Odyssey
- "Wires and Lights in a Box"
Star Trek: Excelsior provides examples of:
- Arc Words:
- The "Sword of Damocles"
- A lesser example: "the graceful end."
- Busman's Holiday: "A Day at the Park". Looks like the problem isn't unique to Risa.
- By-the-Book Cop: Neeva is an extreme stickler for the rules, regardless of circumstance, which often puts her at odds with Dovan.
- Command Roster: Mandatory for Star Trek.
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Continuity Lockout: Threatens to happen over the first 3 seasons, but then averted by the Lighter and Softer (for now) Season 4. - Darker and Edgier: This series is to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine what Deep Space 9 was to the rest of the franchise.
- Death Takes a Holiday:
- "At Death's Door". Or more accurately, Death Is Forced Into Permanent Exile.
- The Stinger for the episode reveals a more straightforward example took place for the Trill race while Lohrok was possessed by the Bringer.
- Do Not Go Gentle: The Anbar crew with the "graceful end".
- Fix Fic: For much of early Star Trek: The Next Generation. Remember those alien parasites from Season 1 that were never seen again? Remember when the Borg weren't interested in assimilating folks, just their technology? Turns out the only reason one of these threats hasn't steamrolled the Federation yet is because they're too busy fighting each other.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Subverted with Neeva. Despite being a member of the Trope Namer race, she takes pheromone suppressants so she can work with male coworkers without becoming a...distraction.
- Hero of Another Story:
- The entire crew of the SS Anbar.
- "The Line" suggests Rol and Brahms are villainous examples.
- Home Base: Starbase 911, at the mouth of the Alpha Quadrant Gateway, seems to be serving that purpose.
- Musical Episode: "The Line." Yes, really. For bonus points, it actually provides essential backstory for two of the main characters.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted with two main cast members both named "Alex". Particularly egregious given that this is an audio drama. Finally Enforced by Dovan at the start of Season 4, who decrees that Rol will now be addressed by his middle name: Bevony.
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The Other Darrin: Lorhrok, in the middle of the first season, with a big two-minute announcement at the top of the episode. Admiral Parker, in the middle of the second season, with a 20-second announcement at the top of the episode. Admiral Parker again in the middle of the third season, with no announcement at all (but it's okay, because it's the original actor returning to the part after his replacement went pro). - Planet of Hats: Not as many as you'd expect from Star Trek.
- Valandria, Planet of Matriarchal Lizard Folk - the only example to appear in the first three seasons.
- "Guards! Get Them!" has a Planet of Medieval Stasis
- "At Deaths Door" - Planet of Sorta-Immortals
- Previously on…: Played with in "The Man From Syracuse". The narrator simply says, "Previously on Star Trek", omitting the word "Excelsior". Clips are then played from various episodes over the first three seasons of TNG, relating to the Borg and the neural parasites.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: This is Dovan's mindset and is considered a maverick because of it.
- Shout-Out: Loads of them. To name a few:
- "Lords of Kobol" is one of Dovan's favorite exclamations.
- More than once, Lohrok has remarked on how handy a sonic screwdriver would be.
- When Neeva detects derelict Borg cubes in the Hesperus sector, guess her response when Dovan asks many of them there are. Go on, guess.
- Apparently the Trill version of Jesus is somebody called the Great Prophet Zarquon.
- Un-Installment:
- Inverted with "Sunset", which is presented as the series finale of Star Trek: Anbar, which doesn't actually exist IRL, though many listeners were fooled because the premise of a series finale to a nonexistent series was played completely straight.
- The production team thought that calling it "Episode 12 of Season 54" would be enough to convince everyone their legs were being pulled, but was subsequently delighted to learn that it wasn't.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: General Isaac Brahms.
