YMMV / Star Trek: Destiny

• Funny Moments:
  • The reveal that Fletcher has been spending her life trapped in Axiom writing Captain Proton fanfiction. (And in the third book, it turns out she wrote several.)
  • T'Ryssa Chen bugging Hernandez, until eventually she agrees to answer T's questions on the condition she not ask any more.
• Heartwarming Moments: Inyx admitting that Erika Hernandez "made eternity worth contemplating".
• Moment of Awesome: Enough to go around.
  • Usually when someone is about to make a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • The Hirogen invasion in the second book.
  • Geordi's What the Hell, Hero? speech to Picard regarding thalaron weaponry, the same stuff that Data gave his life to destroy.
• One-Scene Wonder: T'Ryssa may be Demoted to Extra, but she makes up for it in the final book with her one scene, where she pesters Erika Hernandez with endless questions, all building up to asking, of all things, if the Caeliar still have sex.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: To the limited extent that Ezri Dax was ever in The Scrappy Heap, she is well and truly out of it now.
• Tear Jerker: Equally plenty to go around - the Alpha Quadrant at large takes a beating in these books, and none of our heroes are spared some kind of pain.
  • The contents of Owen Paris' final message to Tom in Gods of Night.
  Owen Paris: Can you forgive a dumb old man for words spoken in anger? Can you believe me when I tell you it kills me to know how much you miss your wife and little girl? I don't know how I'd live if I ever lost your mother. I don't think I'd want to. I was wrong to blame you for what happened. It's your marriage, not mine, and I shouldn't have said anything, except that I'm sorry... and that I still love you, no matter what. Bur most of all, just that I'm sorry. For everything. No matter what happens, Tommy, you'll always be my boy. Take care of yourself. Good-bye, son.

  • Worse when the Voyager novels add the additional context: B'Elanna and Miral leaving Tom was staged by the three of them in the name of getting Miral away from Klingon extremists, which means that the argument that became the last words that they spoke in person were an argument that didn't need to happen.
  • Despite her poor showing during her time as the Enterprise's Counselor, T'Lana's death as the Borg assault Vulcan, her last thoughts turning to regrets of not being able to make amends to Picard or Spock for her attitude, or even to speak to Worf of her attraction to him.
  T'Lana shut her eyes... and accepted what she could not change.
  • Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury takes a moment to herself after learning of the destruction of Deneva. Worf comes to speak with her, and she speaks about how what she's focusing on is a specific tree she and her father had planted together. Worf, fully aware of what it's like to lose one's whole family, given the attack in his childhood on Khitomer, correctly deduces that she is not mourning the tree, but what that tree represented, that it had been a symbol of her and her father. Choudhury breaks down and lets it all out in Worf's arms.
  • The fates of the other Columbia crewmembers trapped in Axiom. The youngest of them just completely shuts down for the rest of her life, the ship's doctor only sticks around to look after her until she finally can't take it any more, and Fletcher only holds on to life simply because she doesn't want to die in Axiom. When she finally starts to go, Erika insists Inyx do something, but both he and Fletcher points out she wants to go.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Troi's pregnancy subplot, at least if you just read the trilogy on its own. It may not be relevant to the thrust of Destiny's plot, but it's very relevant in terms of the ongoing Star Trek: Titan series, which is one of several brought together here.

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