History Characters / StarTrekNovelVerse

* WeaponOfChoice: For Davok, it's the ''qutluch'', the signature dagger of an assassin, which he throws with fantastic accuracy even in close-quarters combat. He claims that he took it off an assassin who tried to use it on him. Wol finds this claim to be dubious, but has no trouble believing that Davok would piss someone off enough to have them put a hit on him.

* TurtlePower: If you couldn't guess from the name.

A political consultant who performs irregular diplomatic duties for the Federation government; a scholar and, in his spare time, a musician. Whether or not he's a GaryStu is up for debate.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Their living ships can outpace anything the mid-24th century Federation has, thanks to having transwarp capabilities. In their heyday they had supspace tunnels (implied to be the corridors the Vaadwuaar and Borg use), which went all the way to some of the satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. They're so advanced they regard the Borg as idiotic upstarts.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Their hair is brightly coloured; purple and red are among the variants we've seen.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Some of them. Many, like Si Cwan, shave their hair. Also, a Thallonian's hair yellows as he ages.

%%* BaldWomen: They’re all bald.

* NotSoDifferent: Bilok, in the end, compared to Kinchawn.

* BrutalHonesty

* KingArthur: ''The Left Hand of Destiny'' turned the ongoing Klingon saga into this, in part. Martok is Arthur. Worf is Lancelot, Emperor Kahless is Merlin, Alexander is Percival, Ezri Dax is the Lady in the Lake, Morjod is (obviously, MeaningfulName) Mordred, Gothmara is Morgan Le Fay. Martok's father, Urthog, is another obvious Arthurian homage. And the Sword of Kahless is of course Excalibur.

* SpaceColdWar: With the Federation during any story set in the 23rd Century.

* KingArthur: The novels she appears in turn the Klingon story arc into this. Gothmara is Morgan Le Fay.

* AlienBlood: It's blue.

* TheReptilians

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

* {{Jerkass}}

* StraightGay

* StealthHiBye: Excels at these.

!P8 Blue

A member of the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers, belonging to the Nasat race. Basically, she's a giant blue pillbug. She's more commonly known by her nickname, Pattie.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: It comes in useful.

* InSeriesNickname: Pattie.
* InsectoidAliens

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Literature/StarTrekGemworld''.
* DontYouDarePityMe

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

The formidable but super-polite Chief Medical Officer aboard the starship ''Titan''. A member of the Pahkwa-thanh, a race resembling therapod dinosaurs.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch

* KilledOffForReal: In ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''.
* TheStoic

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* BackForTheDead: In ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''.

* CloudCuckoolander: Sometimes, in his own calculating way.

* LovableNerd
* OddFriendship: With Ranul Keru.

* GiveMeASign

* GovernmentConspiracy

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch

* CoolOldGuy
* DeadpanSnarker

* AssInAmbassador

* CulturedBadass

* {{Bioaugmentation}}: Her specialty.

* DarkActionGirl

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* ManipulativeBastard

* {{Ambadassador}}

* CainAndAbel: With brother Dorrek.

* ManipulativeBastard

* SmugSnake

* SurroundedByIdiots: Her favourite complaint.

* DeadpanSnarker
* MoralityPet: To Kurak.

* LongList: The things that he knows, in ''Enemy Territory''.

* AlmightyMom
* ApronMatron
* SupremeChef

* KickedUpstairs: In a sense. He didn't fit in on the ''Gorkon'' (or among Klingon warriors in general), and rather than have to deal with the...awkwardness...any longer, he volunteered for the role of [[spoiler: Emperor of taD]]. Klag and company swiftly agreed.

* AFatherToHisMen: Female example.

* HonorBeforeReason
* IGaveMyWord

* OddFriendship: With Spock. Possibly with Neral, too.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark

* TheCaligula: But also...

* HotBlooded

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* BrainsAndBrawn
* EvilDuo

* HonorBeforeReason
* OddFriendship: With [=McCoy=], and with Spock.

* BecomingTheMask: An interesting example. He was always more comfortable as a scholar than an emperor, and over the years "played" at scholar more and more until he forgot his true responsibility as emperor (at least that's how he sees it. He might be being a bit harsh on himself). He also feels that his true identity - defined, as with many Romulans, by his personal honour - is now lost to him.
--> “I was a fool, a fool, so seduced by my scholarly research I forgot what I was. Never do that, never forget. For once you do, once you begin trusting others with what should be yours, you never, ever win it back”.
* CoolOldGuy

* KilledOffForReal
* ManipulativeBastard

* ArchEnemy: Of Captain John Harriman.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong
* SuicideAttack: How he'll be remembered.

* GeneralRipper: With the Klingons as his "enemy X":
-->"Think, Romulans, of our colony worlds. Think of the honest, hardworking, loyal men and women who ask nothing but to serve the Empire. Now picture foreigners imperiling those Romulan men, women, yes, Romulan children. And such invaders do threaten, brutish creatures who know nothing of honour, nothing of glory: Klingons! Klingons who know nothing but blood lust! You ask, how can this be? Have we not dealt peacefully with the Klingons, even purchased warships from them? Yes! We made that mistake! We let them sell us faulty ships - but no more! That was all part of their plan to weaken us, then overwhelm us".
* MyCountryRightOrWrong

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At times, they've come close. Notably, one Cardassian agent winds up GoingNative among the Tzenkethi, who *definitely* employ this, preferring their orderly life in which everyone knows their place.

-->“People with beliefs like that usually have a disorder that prevents them from understanding loyalty to anything but their own desires. A defect in their lateral cortex makes them abnormally egocentric, and the same disorder keeps them from having any impulse control. I learned about it in socio-deviance”.
* FantasticMeasurementSystem: ''Decas''.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo:
-->The morality of a Cardassian can only be understood by a Cardassian. The morality of a soldier of the Union is that which serves the Union best.

* SecretPolice: The Obsidian Order
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Their occupation of Bajor; as the novels reveal, the Cardassians were allies of Bajor for a decade before finally taking over the planet completely. Those who believed in a benevolent alliance, like Kotan Pa'Dar, were overtaken by the ambitious and amoral - chief among them Skrain Dukat.

* TheCassandra
* GoodOldWays
* GoodShepherd

* PsychicDreamsForEveryone

* AscendedFanboy: Is a huge admirer of Picard

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: President Personable.

* BerserkButton: Kira Nerys; ''Any'' Kira Nerys. Because they’re living the life that part of Iliana feels is, by rights, hers.
* GottaKillThemAll: Due to said BerserkButton, Iliana Ghemor ends up on a mission to kill every version of Kira Nerys in the multiverse.
-->"I don’t fault you for not seeing the big picture, Captain. After what was done to me, it took me a while to understand what I needed to do so that I could be whole again. But when I meet the Prophets, they’ll see inside me, just as they did with your Emissary. They’ll understand what I need to get my life back. And I’ll use the Soul Key to find every other Kira that has laid claim to a piece of my soul”.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong

* AffablyEvil
** FauxAffablyEvil: His mild-mannered persona disappears quickly when doing his experiments and sees thousands of Bajorans and Betazoids nothing more than expendable research material.

![[spoiler: Thrax]] Sa'kat

* ANaziByAnyOtherName

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Sisko wonders if Terrell is this. At first she seems nothing more than a megalomaniac, but Sisko begins to consider if she's actually serious about her proposed "pax Cardassia". The golden age she says she's working for might be a genuine dream - not that it excuses her actions.

* ManipulativeBastard

* NoodleIncident: The debt he owes Dax.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe

* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster

* TakeOverTheWorld: His goal, in a nutshell.

* BlueBlood

!Taran’atar

* SuperSoldier

Tholian Ambassador to the Federation; later Typhon Pact Ambassador to the Federation.

* AssInAmbassador

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe

* KilledOffForReal

* FantasticNamingConvention: Andorians have a given name and a surname, with their surname containing a prefix indicating which of the four sexes they belong to. For example, Shran's full "Imperial name" in the novels is Hravishran th'Zoarhi (he's a ''thaan''), with his better-known full name Thy'lek Shran (originally referring to his Mirror Universe counterpart in the TV series) apparently being the Aenar translation of his non-Imperial, home-culture name. The character Kanshent Shelav, from a highly traditionalist branch of her clan, insists on using this (her native Dreshna name), even though Andoria officially registers her by her Imperial name, Trenkanshent sh’Lavan. Her cousin answers just as readily to Aranthanien ch’Revash as to Thanien Cherev. The four gender suffixes are th', sh', zh' or ch' (e.g. Thirishar ch'Thane, Sessethantis zh'Cheen or Kellarasana zh'Faila, whose shorter "familiar" names are Shar, Thantis and Kell - although the latter's MirrorUniverse counterpart prefers Sana). An additional prefix for an outsider adopted into an Andorian clan was recently introduced.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: An Arkenite character in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan'' describes his dead pet, which is clearly a cat. Not literally - it's a fictional animal given a made up name - but it's obvious that what we're talking about is an Arkenite cat.

* DyingRace: Far less numerous than they once were.

* ScaryDogmaticAliens

* ScaryDogmaticAliens

* FishPeople

* HumanAliens
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy

* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies

* BlueAndOrangeMorality

* EnergyBeing

* StarfishAliens

* BizarreAlienBiology: Three sexes.

* ArchEnemy: The Carreon.
* BaldWomen: They’re all bald.

* SpaceElves

* StarfishAliens

* TheReptilians

* DarkSecret

* InsectoidAliens

* CycleOfRevenge: With the Klingons.

* AncientConspiracy

* HiveQueen: The spawnmother.
* PuppeteerParasite

* ADayInTheLimelight: The Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers story ''Balance of Nature''.

* TheEmpire

* LostColony
* PrehensileTail

* TheBrute: The lower-ranking males.

* ProudMerchantRace

* UnderwaterCity: Their capital.

A recent member of the Federation, the Pahkwa-thanh are a cross between a komodo dragon and a Dromaeosaur. They're known for being very, very polite...and very carnivorous. Dr. Ree in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan'' is a Pahkwa-thanh.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs

* RaptorAttack

* GentleGiant

* BoisterousBruiser: Frequently.

* OhMyGods: "By Kera and Phinda!"

* PigMan

* BizarreAlienBiology
* FantasticCasteSystem

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Worlds of [=DS9=]: Unjoined''.

* FantasyPantheon

* MartyrdomCulture

* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* BrutalHonesty

* DoomedByCanon: In Enterprise, it was initially a part of the groundwork for the Coalition of Planets. By the time of the Original Series, though - a hundred years later - it was an underpopulated, exploited world only now being considered for Federation membership. The novels therefore portray Coridan as suffering a devastating series of events that cause it to drop out of the Coalition and out of prominence.

* WretchedHive

* PleasurePlanet

* TheAlliance

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Meijan Grey]].

* {{Foil}}: To Section 31, arguably.

* {{Adorkable}}

* DeadlyDecadentCourt

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Once the revolution and subsequent collapse of the empire puts an end to the DeadlyDecadentCourt, anyway.

* FelonyMisdemeanour: They hate jokes. The opening of their first novel suggests that, to them (or at least to Lucsly) making a pun is as bad as committing an actual crime.

* SufficientlyAdvancedSpecies: Their living ships can outpace anything the mid-24th century Federation has, thanks to having transwarp capabilities. In their heyday they had supspace tunnels (implied to be the corridors the Vaadwuaar and Borg use), which went all the way to some of the satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. They're so advanced they regard the Borg as idiotic upstarts.

* MindOverMatter: Some Arkenites have limited telekinetic powers. Arkenites have the "paracortex" that allows for psi abilities, but it's undeveloped compared to, say, Vulcans or Betazoids.

* NoodleIncident: For a while, though the details were filled in evebtually.

The telepathic humanoids retain their pacifistic, emotionally supportive culture, but aren't quite so naïve after their ordeal during the Dominion War. Their planet is a respected member of the Federation.

A culture of religious fanatics who worship the wormhole aliens, part of a trio of faithful cultures alongside the Bajorans and the Eav'oq. They destroy all who worship falsely...or they did, anyway. Introduced in the ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'', the conflict with the Ascendants has become a NoodleIncident by the time of ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact''. The Ascendants have also made a cameo in a certain Original Series novel.

* PoisonousPerson: When under stress, Chelons secrete a poison through their skin. Ambassador Jetanien explains this to his Klingon diplomatic counterpart in order to warn him off; another Chelon posthumously kills a Hirogen hunter with his poison in ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Long ago, they decided they weren't having with any of those aliens coming to their turf. Anyone who sets foot on Rigel VII tends to get killed the minute they're found. Their name "Kalar", is because it's about the only thing anyone hears. It's their battlecry.

* HufflepuffHouse: The least notable member of the Typhon Pact, with the least attention paid to them by the novels. Then again, they're the only member not introduced to the Trek 'verse onscreen.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The royalty are businessmen who control their merchant empires directly.

An advanced race who once controlled a vast empire in the Taurus Reach region. They were roused from hibernation in ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'', when the Federation stumbled across their technological relics. Finding younger races meddling on their worlds, the re-awakened Shedai lashed out in vengeance.

* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny

* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Woman]]
* [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]

* [[spoiler: StableTimeLoop]].

* BarefootCartoonAnimal[=/=]DoesNotLikeShoes: Most Caitians don't find it necessary to use footwear.
* [[CatGirl Cat People]]: The most prominent example in the Star Trek universe.

* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race]]

* BadassGrandpa by Jem’Hadar standards; at 22 years old, he’s been an “honoured elder” for two years already; most Jem’Hadar die in battle before they reach 15.

* {{Determinator}}

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: To save all of Bajor from the Ascendants.]]

* [[spoiler: TheMole]]: Later in the series.

[[/index]]

[[Characters/StarTrekNovelverseHumans Star Trek Novelverse (Humans)]]

* AbusivePrecursors: They left self-destruct systems embedded in the planets they once ruled before going into hibernation. Finding some of these planets overrun with younger species, the re-awakened Shedai Wanderer is quick to put a stop to it with an EarthShatteringKaboom or two.
* BizarreAlienBiology
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Shedai are divided between the ranks of the Nameless, each confined to only one body, and the elite ''Serrataal'' with individual names, e.g. The Maker, The Wanderer, The Myrmidon, who can take multiple forms simultaneously.
* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The Shedai word for peoples outside their hegemony doubles as a synonym for "base criminals" or "uncivilized beings".
* ScaryDogmaticAliens
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* SuperSmoke: They can shed their corporeal form at will.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill

!Jetanien

A Chelon diplomat assigned to [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Project Vanguard]].

* DeadpanSnarker
* KnightInSourArmour: He admits that while serving the people is an honour, he can't stand people themselves.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: A rare self-inflicted example. He leaves Vanguard station to build the colony on Nimbus III, and remains there even after it's clear that the project is a failure.

!T'Prynn

A Vulcan agent of Starfleet Intelligence, whose morally ambiguous career covered [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Project Vanguard]] and a partnership with [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Elias Vaughn]].

* ArrangedMarriage: T'Prynn's did not go well. The ritual combat that was invoked when she filed for divorce also didn't go well. To explain: T'Prynn rejected her appointed mate, Sten, whom she never loved, and decided instead to choose her own companions. Sten was unwilling to release T'Prynn from her betrothal and invoked ritual combat in an attempt to force her to submit. T'Prynn refused; she killed him in the combat that followed. But before he died, [[MindRape Sten forced his katra into T'Prynn's mind]].
* CitizenshipMarriage: With [[spoiler: Tim Pennington]], as a part of one of her many undercover schemes. She needs to get herself off of Vulcan, and requires Earth citizenship to avoid a specifically Vulcan identity check. She therefore marries [[spoiler: Pennington]], the nearest convenient Earther, and who has agreed to help her.
* CourtMartialed: For her actions early on, which sees her demoted two steps in rank and stripped of her position as Intelligence Officer.
* DeadpanSnarker: At times. Particularly notable when she asks if Starfleet personnel assigned to a super-freighter should be given first-class accomodations:
-->"No of course not. Such generosity from Starfleet would be certain to draw suspicions. Steerage it is then".
* InsanityDefense: During the darkest period of her career, partway through the ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'' series, she points out it's the only plausible defense she could give for her latest actions, though she doesn't pursue it.
* InterspeciesRomance: A homosexual relationship with Anna Sandesjo/Lurqal (a Klingon spy disguised as a human).
* SavedByCanon: In an interesting example of a character being Saved by Canon for the moment, but DoomedByCanon in the long run, T'Prynn can't die at any point in the ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'' series, even when she's in a coma due to MindRape, because she's going to die in a transporter accident eighty years later, as shown in FlashBack in the Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch novels.
* TheAtoner: By the end of ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'':
-->''It is likely I will never balance the scales of my own guilt and virtue. But that does not absolve me of my responsibility to try''.

[[Characters/StarTrekVanguard Star Trek Vanguard]]

[[folder:Human characters]]

!Nanietta Bacco

As of the conclusion to ''Literature/StarTrekATimeTo'', Bacco serves as President of the United Federation of Planets. She holds that office through the events of ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'', ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'', ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact'' and ''Literature/StarTrekColdEquations''. An elderly human woman, she is charged with guiding [[TheFederation the Federation]] through a period of great instability. She's a bit of an EnsembleDarkhorse: from her introduction as part of a novel's C-plot, she was quickly promoted to a character carrying [[Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation her own book]]. Since then, her role only expanded further. [[spoiler: She was assassinated part way through her second term]].

* ArchEnemy: Politically, Bacco and Tholian Ambassador Tezrene were almost certainly Arch Enemies. Their first real political tussle occurs in ''Literature/ASingularDestiny'', in which Tezrene came out on top. Bacco won the next round in ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact - Zero Sum Game'', before Tezrene once again triumphed in ''Paths of Disharmony'', when her people succeeded in causing further political chaos in the Federation. Bacco eventually started referring to "that bitch Tezrene."
* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much her primary language outside of public speeches or diplomatic meetings.
* GondorCallsForAid: In the ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' trilogy, Bacco calls for aid from all other major powers in the Alpha and Beta quadrants, but their response is tepid and the combined fleet is annihilated within minutes anyway. All that her efforts really accomplish is to [[SequelHook antagonize the Tholians]].
* GunboatDiplomacy: She resorts to this on occasion, but usually only to scare an AssInAmbassador into negotiating in good faith.
* ISayWhatISay: When Bacco is temporarily duplicated in ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations'' (long story), the two presidents respond to a compliment with a simultaneous (somewhat sarcastic) "oh, please!" Amusingly, they also snark at each other for making the exact sort of grumpy, sarcastic comments that Bacco always makes.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: As of ''The Fall'']]
* MustHaveCaffeine
* NotSoDifferent: There have been a few scenes that compare (and contrast) her with the previous president, Min Zife. A few of them can potentially be read as warnings of how easy it might be for someone of Bacco's integrity to slip nonetheless into less-than-moral conduct. A scene in ''[[Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact Zero Sum Game]]'', in which Bacco is confronted by Federation Council members wary of her potentially questionable decisions, announcing their intention to veto a bill only to be outmaneuvered, recalls a scene in [[Literature/StarTrekATimeTo ''A Time to Heal'']], where President Zife faced a similar confrontation. Where Zife deflected criticism by appealing to humanitarian arguments, while actually up to his neck in illegal activities, Bacco attacks with information on the support she has from other councillors, seemingly convinced that she's on the right side of the moral line. As both novels were written by the same author, the similarities (and contrasts) between the two scenes are likely entirely deliberate.

* SeriousBusiness: Baseball. She even rearranged an entire "whistlestop tour" of the Federation to ensure she would be on Cestus III on Opening Day to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

!Samaritan Bowers

"Sam" Bowers served on station Deep Space Nine, and later as Ezri Dax's first officer aboard the starship ''Aventine''.

* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: Insisted when he came aboard the ''Aventine'' that bridge operations would be spit-and-polish in comparison to the looser style on Deep Space Nine. He does drop ranks when behind closed doors with Ezri.

!Hugh Cambridge

The (second) counselor aboard the relaunched starship ''Voyager''.

* TheCynic: He even mentions that the first thing he does when reporting aboard a starship is locate the nearest Escape Pod to his quarters.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most people find Cambridge to be an insufferable jerk upon first meeting him, but most of those people eventually realize that he's intensely loyal and sympathetic to his friends. It just takes a lot to punch through the facade he puts up.
* TheShrink: Definitely a type three - the "tough love" subtrope.

!T'Ryssa Chen

A half-human/half-Vulcan Starfleet officer who tries to distance herself from her Vulcan heritage by acting as distinctly un-Vulcan as possible. Not exactly a ''model'' officer, but with lots of potential. Recently joined the crew of the [[Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch ''Enterprise'']] as a contact specialist. Captain Picard is now guiding her, as a sort of {{Mentor}}.

* CallingTheOldManOut: After her father finally makes contact after a ''long'' absence, looking for information on her mother (specifically, if she survived the [[Literature/StarTrekDestiny Borg invasion]]):
-->"Did you try to contact her after the ''Odyssey'' went boom? Did you try to find her any time during the entire Dominion War? No, this is about you. You had a near-death experience when the Borg hit Vulcan, and by some miracle, you lived. You managed to get rescued, fixed up, and flown to a hospital on the other side of the planet, where you got a lot of time to just lie there and think about how close you came to being just more sand piled on the Forge. Now you've got this big second chance, so now you want to reach out to all those you've hurt and make amends for all your wrongs."
* EthicalSlut
* {{Main/Foil}}: To [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]]. Like Spock, T'Ryssa has a Vulcan father and a human mother, but where Spock did everything he could to be as Vulcan as possible, T'Ryssa is trying to go the other way.
* GenkiGirl: She's fully aware of it and is doing it intentionally to be different from the Vulcans.
* HalfHumanHybrid
* HumanMomNonhumanDad
* JustForPun: One of her favorite pastimes.
* MotorMouth
* NakedOnArrival: In an opening scene to the first novel she appears in. Turning it into a joke, as she does with nearly everything, she then asks if her old boyfriend lives nearby; Middle-Eastern appearance, name of Adam...
* NoodleIncident: In homage to the original NoodleIncident, she has the Tubegrub Incident.
* ParentalAbandonment
* TheRunaway: Ran away at age 7, after learning of the Vulcan ''kahs-wan'' survival rite that usually takes place then. She signed onto a freighter as ship's cook (the captain didn't particularly care that she was a young child) before being retrieved.
* ScrewYouElves: She greatly resents the attitude of those Vulcans who seem to believe that her Vulcan blood requires her to embrace Vulcan stoicism.

!Jasminder Choudhury

A spiritual woman from the Deneva colony who embraces Buddhist philosophies. She served as Chief of Security on Picard's ''Enterprise'' for several years. She also had a sexual relationship with Worf.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* MartialPacifist

!Nancy Conlon

Originally a member of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, then Chief Engineer on the USS ''da Vinci'', later Chief Engineer on ''Voyager'' during its [[spoiler: return to the Delta Quadrant]].

!Domenica Corsi

A tough-as-nails Starfleet officer who served as Chief of Security aboard the USS ''da Vinci''. Became first officer when Captain David Gold retired and Sonya Gomez was promoted to replace him.

* BreakTheCutie: Corsi was a lot more easy-going and fun as a junior officer. But after she was forced to kill her insane lover (who had Christine Vale as a hostage), she became the stoic, by-the-book "Core-Breach" Corsi that serves aboard ''da Vinci''.
* DefrostingIceQueen: It takes a lot to break through her cold exterior. Her lover Fabian Stevens eventually convinces her to open up to him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Corsi is nicknamed "Core-Breach" for her temper. We don't see if often, but that's mainly because the crew are extremely careful about setting her off.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Experiences this after the Galvan VI incident, in which many of the ''da Vinci'' crew died while she, the security chief, was unconscious and helpless.

!Sarina Douglas

Genetically enhanced like her eventual lover Dr. Julian Bashir; a Lieutenant Commander in Starfleet, Deputy Chief of Security on Deep Space Nine and a Section 31 operative actually working against the group.

* TheBusCameBack: A love interest of Bashir in the second of her two television appearances, she joins the main cast of the Deep Space Nine novels in ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact'', resuming her relationship with Bashir.
* FeedTheMole: Section 31 is well aware that she and Bashir want to bring them down from the inside, so they allow the pair to think they've successfully infiltrated so they can use them for their own purposes.

!David Gold

Captain of the USS ''da Vinci'', until his retirement. An elderly man of Jewish heritage, he has a massive extended family.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: He feels responsible for the deaths of his crew at Galvan VI, and either visits or personally contacts their next of kin to express his condolences.
* AFatherToHisMen: Gold often treats his subordinates as he would his children or grandchildren, and when one of them breaks the rules he tends to express quiet disappointment rather than chewing them out.
* InformedJudaism: Averted. The short story "An Easy Fast" in ''Tales From The Captain's Table'' occurs while Gold is observing Yom Kippur, and another involves him and his rabbi wife trying to figure out how to conduct a joint Jewish/Klingon wedding for his granddaughter.
* JurisdictionFriction: Though he is commander of the ''da Vinci'', he understands that Commander Gomez reports to the Corps of Engineers and that sometimes his role is as a glorified taxi driver. However, he is ''not'' happy when he gets LockedOutOfTheLoop on one mission when Gomez's orders prevent her from talking to him about the ''real'' objective.

!John "Blackjack" Harriman

The father of Captain John Harriman of ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' (in)fame. An uncompromising and strong willed man, he was a prominent admiral within Starfleet Command in the late 23rd and very early 24th centuries.

* PetTheDog: Despite being an awful father and a questionable role model in general, he was apparently largely responsible for promoting the Alonis as potential Federation members; they indeed wind up joining.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He views his son's command style to be improper at best and is always quick to criticize him for the slightest offense. It's clear that the only reason the younger Harriman listens to him at all is because he's a superior officer.

!Miranda Kadohata

Replaced Data as second officer and Operations Manager on the ''Enterprise-E''. Happily married, with a husband and two children who live on Cestus III

* AntiMutiny: Led one in ''Before Dishonor'', but eventually changed her mind when she realized she couldn't win. She even stayed aboard (and earned a promotion!) when the other two leaders of the Anti-Mutiny chose to transfer off after the crisis was resolved.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Picard admits part of the problem that led to the Anti-Mutiny was expecting Kadohata to perform the same responsibilities (Second Officer, Ops Manager and Chief Science Officer) as Data, even though Data could only perform all those tasks because he was an android.
* GameOfNerds: Follows the Cestus Baseball League, and occasionally makes baseball references.
* PutOnABus: She left the ''Enterprise'' in ''Losing the Peace'', and hasn't yet returned.

!Gabriel Marshall

A recurring character in the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers stories, who plays the classic role of "pushy Federation diplomat", as established in Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.

!Phillipa Matthias

A Starfleet councillor aboard Deep Space Nine.

* HappilyMarried: To her Bajoran husband.
* OutOfFocus: She has a major role in only two of the Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch novels.

!Tim Pennington

Freelance reporter who lives on Starbase 47.

* IntrepidReporter: Tries to dig into Gary Mitchell's death on Delta Vega, then tries to find out about aspects of Operation Vanguard [[spoiler: that may have caused his lover's death.]]
* OddFriendship: With Cervantes Quinn. Arguably with T'Prynn.
* SavedByCanon: The Pennington School for aspiring authors is named for him, so we know that he’ll eventually re-establish his reputation.
* UnwittingPawn: Used by T'Prynn to spread misinformation about Operation Vanguard. Has the intended affect, but the unintended consequence of getting Tim fired from the Federation News Service
* YourCheatingHeart: Has an affair with Lt. Oriana D'Amato of the ''Bombay''. His reaction to [[spoiler: the ''Bombay'''s destruction]] causes his wife to find out and leave him.

!Esperanza Piñiero

Former Starfleet Commander, serves as Chief of Staff and best friend to President Nanietta Bacco.

* HypercompetentSidekick: When you work for the Federation President, you have to be or else you won't last long in the job. It helps that Esperanza knows President Bacco's idiosyncrasies, and can think fast on her feet.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

!Cervantes Quinn

A trader and independent soldier-of-fortune who becomes tangled up in Project Vanguard, the morally ambiguous Starfleet operation detailed in the ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'' series. He tries several times to turn his life around, escaping from alcoholism and ties to criminal syndicates only to dip back in again when he suffers another emotional blow.

* ActionSurvivor: Although he becomes far more of a traditional action hero during the middle of the series, during his time as a asset of Starfleet Intelligence. Sadly, Quinn is very much in ButtMonkey territory...and not the humorous sort of ButtMonkey, either.
* TheAlcoholic: The reasons why were explained mid-way through the series. He then recovered for a time, only to fall back into alcohol towards the end, after suffering intense personal loss.
* {{Expy}}: Of the soldier-of-fortune characters from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', like Harry Mudd or Cyrano Jones. Also a bit of a deconstruction.
* OddFriendship: With journalist Tim Pennington.

!Diego Reyes

The original commander of [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Starbase Vanguard]]. A tough, no-nonsense officer, Reyes tries to keep a lid on the Taurus Reach as well as the various projects operating out of his base.

* KnightInSourArmour
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After his ex-wife and her entire colony are massacred by the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens that he, in adhering to Starfleet's orders to keep the truth of Project Vanguard concealed, failed to warn her about.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Has a hard time reconciling his duty to Starfleet with the goals of Project Vanguard.

!Margaret Sinclair-Alexander

* AscendedExtra: The captain of the USS ''Saratoga'' in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome''.

!Fabian Stevens

Enlisted Starfleet Engineer who served under Chief O'Brien on Deep Space Nine, then transferred to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers detachment aboard the ''da Vinci''. Later transferred to the SCE detachment on the ''U.S.S. Musgrave''.

* HappilyMarried: To [[spoiler: Domenica Corsi]].

!Prynn Tenmei

Daughter of Elias Vaughn and Ruriko Tenmei, Prynn is the primary flight controller of the ''Defiant''.

* AcePilot: Of the Tom Paris "fly by the seat of your pants" style.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Had a hard time with Vaughn's life as an intelligence officer, and the two have been estranged since Ruriko's death (which Prynn believes was Elias' fault).

!Christine Vale

A former peace officer from the human colony Izar, Vale joined Starfleet after being inspired by one of its security officers (Domenica Corsi of Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers). After serving on Picard's ''Enterprise''-E as Security Chief, Vale was offered the position of First Officer aboard ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' when Will Riker was given command. [[spoiler: After Riker gets promoted to the Admiralty in ''The Fall'', she takes over as ''Titan'''s commanding officer.]]

* RankUp: Starts out a Lieutenant and Chief of Security on the ''Enterprise-E''. Gets promoted to Lieutenant Commander prior to the start of the ''Titan'' series, then to full Commander when she takes the First Officer slot. [[spoiler: In ''Sight Unseen'' she finally gets promoted to Captain after serving as ''Titan'''s acting CO for several months.]]
* RousingSpeech: She's not very good at them, actually.
-->"But let's remember, people, it was our pure exploration that found the Caeliar and saved the whole damn Alpha Quadrant. And...and Beta. You guys from Beta know what I mean".

!Elias Vaughn

A Starfleet officer with a long history and the deceptively low rank of Commander, Vaughn was introduced in the ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch''. By this point, he was over a century old, with eighty years experience in Starfleet Intelligence, Special Operations and Tactical. Vaughn was a critical player in several crucial events in Federation history, among them the [[Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra Tomed Incident]], the [[Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra Betreka Nebula Incident]], and the [[Literature/StarTrekTheBattleOfBetazed liberation of Betazed from the Dominion]]. [[spoiler: Vaughn was eventually promoted to Captain and given command of the ''U.S.S. James T. Kirk'', suffered catastrophic injuries during the Borg Invasion, and eventually died from them in 2383.]]

* TheAtoner: For the death of his wife and his failures in raising their daughter.
* BadassGrandpa
--->"He's not the first hundred-year-old I've met who could go up against holographic opponents, or even real ones. Most people don't give it much thought, but there are actually a lot more active centenarian humans in Starfleet than is generally known. One of the benefits of an ever-lengthening life span. Just the same, I'm glad Vaughn's on our side."
* BeenThereShapedHistory: That well-known but as-yet-unexplored historical event? Vaughn will probably have been involved. Some readers certainly feel this trope got over-used.
* CoolOldGuy
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* DeadpanSnarker: An example from [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch ''Demons of Air and Darkness'']], after he handles a hostage situation by simply shooting the hostage taker, because he realizes his own phaser will fire with this level of radiation but the hostage-taker's won't:
--->'''Julian Bashir''': Why didn't you say that's what you were planning in the first place?
--->'''Vaughn''': Because, Doctor, when you become a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.
* HeroicSacrifice: He tries one in [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch ''Twilight'']], in order to save an extra-dimensional life-form from an eternity of loneliness.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: His childhood history on Berengaria VII; he was apparently mauled by a dragon at one point. It was established as early as the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]] of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' that Berengaria VII is home to dragons, and Vaughn had previously been said to originate there. Eventually, the two bits of trivia made an inevitable linkage. Since Vaughn is the sort of character with a highly adventurous background, it's no surprise he apparently had dragon bites where other children had bruised knees.
* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: Particularly notable at the conclusion to ''Literature/StarTrekTheBattleOfBetazed''.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* OverrankedSoldier: Inverted. Despite being in the service over eight decades Vaughn is still a Commander even though his security clearances are higher than most Admirals. Being a mid-level line officer allows him to keep a lower profile.
* PapaWolf: In [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch ''Warpath'']], when he believes his adult daughter has been murdered by a rogue colleague.

!Giancarlo Wu

The hyper-competent aide to Ambassador Worf (and later Ambassador Rozhenko).

* TheReliableOne

!Ming Xiong

A Starfleet Science Officer, Lt. Xiong serves as one of the key members of Project Vanguard.

* BrokenPedestal: His relationship with Starfleet, basically.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Mortally wounded, he remains behind to set off Vanguard's self-destruct system.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Goes through some of this with his superiors; eventually, Carol Marcus has to give him this style of speech herself.

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!Leonard James Akaar

An exiled Capellan royal, who worked his way up the Starfleet hierarchy to eventually occupy the very top post, as Commander-In-Chief.

* AscendedExtra: He's the baby from [[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild "Friday's Child".]]
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: His initial appearances seemed to build him up as an almighty {{Jerkass}}, but once the situation calmed his more reasonable qualities came to the surface.
* BigGood: Becomes Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet and so is often the one giving Picard, Janeway, Riker, etc, their orders.
* CigarChomper: Fond of Capellan ''markah'' leaf cigarillos, though he points out they are neither toxic nor addictive like Earth tobacco.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While he's not above intimidation, threats, or surly behavior he will listen to subordinates and give them the latitude they need to get the job done.
* UnwantedRescue: The cause of his estrangement from Tuvok.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Tuvok.

!Asarem Wadeen

A Bajoran politician who served as Shakaar Edon's Second Minister, and later succeeded him as First Minister of Bajor.

!Cort Enaran

A member of the Betazoid government, hero of his planet's resistance against the Dominion, and later Federation Councillor from Betazed.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: To some extent. The Dominion War and the fight to liberate Betazed have made him harder and less accomodating than most Betazoids. Rather than build bridges through empathy, he's often more interested in standing opposed to anything repressive or oppressive. See, for instance, his opposition to Cardassian aid in ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'', or his baiting of the Gorn Imperator in ''Literature/StarTrekColdEquations''.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

!Gard

A Joined Trill charged with monitoring and protecting against corrupted Joinings, including an AncientConspiracy involving an [[PuppeteerParasite offshoot of the Trill symbionts]].

* HunterOfMonsters: His role in Trill society consists of hunting down Joined Trill who have suffered a corruptive joining and thus become dangerously unhinged.
* LegacyCharacter: Every host of the Gard symbiont fulfills the exact same function in Trill society, in contrast to every other Joined Trill.
* PunnyName: In fact, the pun has two meanings and a twist. Hiziki Gard first appears as a Trill security officer, and jokingly comments on the coincidental translation of his phonetic name. Later, we learn that Gard is a unique symbiont whose hosts all serve the same role in Trill society - that of keeping watch for "corrupted" Joinings and dealing with the monster that results. Therefore, he is a "guard" of sorts for Trill society as well as using the cover of a literal security guard.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

!Bera chim Gleer

Long-serving Federation Councillor from Tellar.

* TheBore: President Bacco has to try very hard not to shut her eyes and nap when he gets going on one of his long-winded diatribes.
* CharacterFilibuster: He's infamous in-universe for these; a typical speech before the rest of the Federation Council lasts for an hour and a half, minimum.
* HiddenDepths: While earlier portrayals stress his wearying or politically irritating traits, ''Zero Sum Game'' brings his strong sense of principles into focus.

!Ishan Anjar

A politically ambitious Bajoran who serves as President pro tempore of the Federation following [[spoiler: President Bacco's assassination]].

* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: Actually a former collaborator during the Occupation of Bajor named Baras Rodirya]].
* {{Jerkass}}
* KnightTemplar: His approach to keeping the Federation safe.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: He seems to be a cross between President Scheming and President Jerkass. Eventually, it's revealed that he's [[spoiler: not even the real Ishan Anjar]].

!Jetanien

A Chelon diplomat assigned to [[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Project Vanguard]].

* DeadpanSnarker
* KnightInSourArmour: He admits that while serving the people is an honour, he can't stand people themselves.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: A rare self-inflicted example. He leaves Vanguard station to build the colony on Nimbus III, and remains there even after it's clear that the project is a failure.

!Lonnoc Kedair

A Takaran, Kedair serves as Chief of Security of the USS ''Aventine'', under Captain Ezri Dax.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Like all Takarans, Kedair can take a lot of punishment due to their distributed internal organs.
* HeroicBSOD: Goes through one after her orders cause a friendly-fire accident that killed three fellow officers.

!Ranul Keru

A Trill Starfleet officer (unjoined) who lost his lifemate (Sean Hawk, from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'') and took a leave to Trill to serve as a Guardian. He later returned to Starfleet to join the crew of the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'' as Chief of Security.

* OddFriendship: With Torvig Bu-kar-nguv, aboard the ''Titan''.
* StraightGay

!Rennan Konya

A Betazoid security officer, who has trained himself to tap into the motor cortex of others' brains. He was assigned to the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers, and later transferred to the ''[[Literature/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch Enterprise-E]]'' as a Deputy Chief of Security.

* MartialPacifist: Doesn't like to engage in physical combat, because he feels every injury he inflicts on his opponent.

!L'Haan

A Vulcan agent of Section 31.

* StealthHiBye: Excels at these.

!P8 Blue

A member of the Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers, belonging to the Nasat race. Basically, she's a giant blue pillbug. She's more commonly known by her nickname, Pattie.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: It comes in useful.
* BlessedWithSuck: As a "Quiet," she has the ability to communicate with the other sapient race on her homeworld, a talent very few possess. Unfortunately, Quiets have great difficulty with regular language skills (hence the name - as children, they don't speak). Her childhood was therefore difficult, and she was an outcast for much of it.
* HumanityIsInfectious: Some of her belief systems are influenced by the humans she works with; she begins to find an interest in history, and even feels slightly maternal towards her larvae, being a little sad when she drops them off at the child care centre, never to see them again.
* InSeriesNickname: Pattie.
* InsectoidAliens
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: P8 likes to "shake things up" and have adventures, in contrast to the rest of the Nasats, who are super-cautious, conservative and hate taking risks.
* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: Despite being a perfect ambassador for the Nasat people (friendly, intelligent, kind, brave, humorous), she's actually an outcast on the Nasat homeworld.
* StopBeingStereotypical: Her attitude to her fellow Nasats, when they live up to the expectation that Nasats are timid and highly conservative.

!Melora Pazlar

Starfleet officer from the low-gravity artificial planet Gemworld; essentially crippled in normal gravity, she does not like people feeling sorry for her. Serves as ''Titan'''s Chief Science Officer.

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Literature/StarTrekGemworld''.
* DontYouDarePityMe
* GracefulInTheirElement: Put her in a low-g environment and she can easily function stronger, faster and better than any other officer from a normal gravity environment.

!Sonek Pran

A political consultant who performs irregular diplomatic duties for the Federation government; a scholar and, in his spare time, a musician. Whether or not he's a GaryStu is up for debate.

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: He's both a musician from a family of musicians and a Human/Vulcan/Betazoid/Bajoran hybrid. He's therefore been exposed to a great many styles of music, and can play a particularly broad range of tunes. He joins the crew of the starship ''Aventine'' for a therapeutic concert at one point.
* HeinzHybrid: He's one-quarter human, Bajoran, Betazoid and Vulcan.
* {{Omniglot}}: We might expect Sonek Pran, as a respected scholar and political analyst, to know a few prominent languages, certainly more than the usual. But when it's revealed he can speak perfect Lissepian (the Lissepians being a reasonably well-known trading culture but nothing special), he definitely crosses into Omniglot territory.

!Ra'ch B'ullhy

Federation Councillor from Damiano.

* FantasticRacism: Takes a lot of abuse on Damiano for being in a relationship with only one other Damiani (Damiani are usually found in triad relationships). It even leads to one or two assassination attempts when she was elected to higher office.