History FanFic / TheUnitySaga

* BrokenAesop: The two trilogies each end in ways that come off as mutually-exclusive in what they're saying.
** [[spoiler:At the end of ''The Road to Unity'', which has devoted time to examining the cost of being a hero, Luke and Seven's retirement to raise a family is depicted in a positive light, despite the bittersweetness of how many lives were lost in the conflict. This is all rather spoiled, however, in that with the rebirth of the Galactic Empire and Luke's return to Tatooine, everything said heroes fought for has been rendered null and void]].
** [[spoiler:And then ''The Price of Unity'' has the opposite conclusion, that Sebastian Skywalker really is the one person who can unity the Galaxies and shall have to devote his whole life to it. While the trilogy does stick to its predecessor's ethos that heroes are flawed, fallible people beneath their reputation, it's hard not to feel it'd have been kinder of his parents to continue the damn fight instead of foisting this inhuman responsibility upon him]].
** Following from the above, it's never really made all that clear why Unity under the domination of a single leader à la Genghis Khan or Alexander The Great would be preferable or more viable than the humanistic ideals of TheFederation. The story itself notes that Alexander's empire fell apart after his death. Except, at the end of the day, no real reason is given as to why Unity would survive Sebastian. In effect, Unity was formed from the conquest of different races that have no motivation to work together, other than against a common enemy or out of veneration for a leader-figure who will eventually die. While ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' may each be somewhat naive in their traditionally idealistic portrayal of people, the UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans mindset of the Unity Saga winds up feeling more out-of-touch than either of its inspirations.

** [[spoiler: At the end of ''The Road to Unity'', which has devoted time to examining the cost of being a hero, Luke and Seven's retirement to raise a family is depicted in a positive light, despite the bittersweetness of how many lives were lost in the conflict. This is all rather spoiled, however, in that with the rebirth of the Galactic Empire and Luke's return to Tatooine, everything said heroes fought for has been rendered null and void]].
** [[spoiler: And then ''The Price of Unity'' has the opposite conclusion, that Sebastian Skywalker really is the one person who can unity the Galaxies and shall have to devote his whole life to it. While the trilogy does stick to its predecessor's ethos that heroes are flawed, fallible people beneath their reputation, it's hard not to feel it'd have been kinder of his parents to continue the damn fight instead of foisting this inhuman responsibility upon him]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Unsurprisingly for ''StarWars'', which lives by this trope, this is the resolution of [[spoiler: Ben Skywalker's]] character arc.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The ''Star Trek'' and ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universes already each have Loads and Loads in their own right. Here they're all thrown into the mix, with a few original characters on top of that.

* RealityEnsues: In ''Against All Odds'', with the Borg no longer a distraction, the rebuilt Galactic Empire promptly launches a full-scale invasion of the Milky Way. How do the United Federation of Planets fend off the onslaught? Short answer; they don't, and all four Quadrants are placed under Imperial domination for the next two decades. Turns out that luck and a little pluck may have won the day in ''Worlds Without End'', but ItOnlyWorksOnce.

The Unity Saga is an epic ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover by [[Website/SFDebris Chuck Sonnenberg]] telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. Originally published from 1999 to 2000 as a trilogy entitled ''Worlds Without End'' on the Usenet newsgroup [[http://www.daltonator.net/fanfics/archive.html alt.startrek.vs.starwars]][[note]]Now-defunct, the old newsgroup's archives are preserved on daltonator.net[[/note]], the story was later revised and expanded from 2002 to 2006 to encompass two trilogies;

The Unity Saga is an epic ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover by [[Website/SFDebris Chuck Sonnenberg]] telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. Originally published in 1999 on the Usenet newsgroup [[http://www.daltonator.net/fanfics/archive.html alt.startrek.vs.starwars]][[note]]Now-defunct, the old newsgroup's archives are preserved on daltonator.net[[/note]] as a trilogy entitled ''Worlds Without End'', the story was expanded in 2006 to encompass two trilogies;

The Unity Saga is an epic ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover by [[Website/SFDebris Chuck Sonnenberg]] telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. Originally published on the Usenet newsgroup [[http://www.daltonator.net/fanfics/archive.html alt.startrek.vs.starwars]][[note]]Now-defunct, the old newsgroup's archives are preserved on daltonator.net[[/note]] in 2000 as a trilogy entitled the Worlds Without End Saga, the story was expanded in 2003 to encompass two trilogies;

The Unity Saga is an epic ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover by [[Website/SFDebris Chuck Sonnenberg]] telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. Originally published on the Usenet newsgroup [[http://www.daltonator.net/fanfics/archive.html alt.startrek.vs.starwars]][[note]]Now-defunct, the old newsgroup's archives are preserved on daltonator.net[[/note]] in the early 2000s as a trilogy entitled the Worlds Without End Saga, the story was later expanded to encompass two trilogies;

The Unity Saga is an epic ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover by [[Website/SFDebris Chuck Sonnenberg]] telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. The story is told in two trilogies:

''The Road To Unity

The Price Of Unity

The Road To Unity
* I: Worlds Without End
* II: Shadows of the Night
* III: Against All Odds

* IV: Paradise Lost
* V: Blood of Heroes
* VI: Dawn of Forever

* BrokenAesop: The two trilogies have endings that come off as quite mutually-exclusive in what they're saying.
** [[spoiler: At the end of The Road to Unity, which has devoted time to examining the cost of being a hero, Luke and Seven's retirement to raise a family is depicted in a positive light, despite the bittersweetness of how many lives were lost in the conflict. This is all rather spoiled, however, in that with the rebirth of the Galactic Empire and Luke's return to Tattooine, everything said heroes fought for has been rendered null and void]].
** [[spoiler: And then The Price of Unity has the opposite conclusion, that Sebastian Skywalker really is the one person who can unity the Galaxies and shall have to devote his whole life to it. While the trilogy does stick to its predecessor's ethos that heroes are flawed, fallible people beneath their reputation, it's hard not to feel it'd have been kinder of his parents to continue the damn fight and not foist this inhuman responsibility upon him]].
** Following from the above, it's never really made all that clear why Unity under the domination of a single leader à la Genghis Khan or Alexander The Great would be preferable or more viable than the humanistic ideals of TheFederation. The story itself notes that Alexander The Great's empire fell apart after his death. Except, at the end of the day, no real reason is given as to why Unity would survive Sebastian. In effect, Unity was formed from the conquest of different races that have no motivation to work together, other than against a common enemy or due to the veneration of a leader-figure who will eventually die. While ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' may each be somewhat naive in their traditionally idealistic portrayal of people, the UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans mindset of the Unity Saga winds up feeling more out-of-touch than either of its inspirations.

* MamaBear: Janeway. And that's what breaks her.

* MessianicArchetype: Sebastian, if his impossible birth from [[spoiler: Seven, an infertile Borg]], didn't tip you off.

** [[spoiler: And then The Price of Unity has the opposite conclusion, that Sebastian Skywalker really is the one person who can unity the Galaxies and shall have to devote whole his life to it. While the trilogy does stick to its predecessor's ethos that heroes are flawed, fallible people beneath their reputation, it's hard not to feel it'd have been kinder of his parents to continue the damn fight and not foist this inhuman responsibility upon him]].

** [[spoiler: At the end of the Road to Unity trilogy, which has devoted time to examining the cost of being a hero, Luke and Seven's retirement to raise a family is depicted positively, despite the bittersweetness of how many lives were lost in the conflict. This is all rather spoiled, however, in that with the rebirth of the Galactic Empire and Luke's return to Tattooine, everything said heroes fought for has been rendered null and void]].
** [[spoiler: And then the Price of Unity has the opposite conclusion, that Sebastian Skywalker really is the one person who can unity the Galaxies and shall have to devote whole his life to it. While the trilogy does stick to its predecessor's ethos that heroes are flawed, fallible people beneath their reputation, it's hard not to feel it'd have been kinder of his parents to continue the damn fight and not foist this inhuman responsibility upon him]].

** Following from the above, it's never really made all that clear why Unity under the domination of a single leader à la Genghis Khan or Alexander The Great would be preferable or more viable than the humanistic ideals of TheFederation. The story itself notes that Alexander The Great's empire fell apart after his death. Except, at the end of the day, no real reason is given as to why Unity would survive Sebastian. In effect, Unity was formed from the conquest of different races that have no motivation to work together other than against a common enemy or the veneration of a leader-figure who will eventually die. While ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' may each be somewhat naive in their traditionally idealistic portrayal of people, the UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans mindset of the Unity Sage winds up feeling more out-of-touch than either of its inspirations.

** [[spoiler: At the end of the Road to Unity trilogy, which has devoted time to examining the cost of being a hero, Luke and Seven's retirement to raise a family is depicted in a positive light, despite the bittersweetness of how many worlds and lives were lost in the conflict. This is all rather spoiled, however, in that with the rebirth of the Galactic Empire and Luke's return to Tattooine, everything said heroes fought for has been rendered null and void]].

** Following from the above, it's never really made all that clear why Unity under the domination of a single leader à la Genghis Khan or Alexander The Great would be preferable or more viable than the humanistic ideals of TheFederation. The story itself notes that Alexander The Great's empire fell apart after his death. Except, at the end of the day, no real reason is given as to why Unity would survive Sebastian. In effect, Unity was formed from the conquest of different races that have no motivation to work together other than against a common enemy or the veneration of a leader-figure who will eventually die. While ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' may each be somewhat naive in their traditionally idealistic portrayal of people, the UtopiaJustifyTheMeans mindset of the Unity Sage winds up feeling more out-of-touch than either of its inspirations.

* RealityEnsues: In ''Against All Odds'', with the Borg no longer a distraction, the rebuilt Galactic Empire promptly launches a full-scale invasion of the Milky Way. How do the United Federation of Planets fend off the onslaught? Short answer; they don't, and all four Quadrants are placed under Imperial domination for the next two decades. Turns out that luck and a little pluck may have been pulled through in ''Worlds Without End'', but ItOnlyWorksOnce.

* AffablyEvil: Thrawn, of course.
* AlternateHistory: [[spoiler:Janeway]] among her various time-related abilities can see the past the way it would have been (the way the fans know it) were it not for the two galaxies interacting.

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Picard.]]

-->''Piett'': We'll show the Borg whose resistance is futile.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In [[http://unitysaga.com/sotn/sotn30.asp chapter 30]] of "Shadows of the Night", [[spoiler:Seven of Nine[[note]]the non-drone half of her brain[[/note]] versus 7 of 9[[note]]the drone half[[/note]]]].

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Throughout, but it becomes most prominent in the latter half of the series.

* BigDamnHeroes: Several, even the [[spoiler:Borg]] manage to pull this off against [[spoiler:The Vong]]
* BittersweetEnding: Shadows of the Night ends with [[spoiler: the destruction of the Borg collective and Luke Skywalker falling to the dark side...]]
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Luke is able to benefit from learning Vulcan mind techniques to augment his Force powers.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: Troi is killed off screen by Data.]] Followed by an explanation ensuring there is no coming back.
* ButtMonkey: Commander Borui. While she occasionally has some good ideas, she is normally a terrible councillor.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:The Oracle]]
* CoolVersusAwesome: Wookie Vs Borg (explicity for this reason as the fight takes place in an arena).
* CosmicPlaything: Sebastian
* CurbStompBattle: Quite a few. Klignon vs Jedi, because lightsabers slice right through Batt'leths. Early battles between the Empire and pretty much anyone they encounter in the Milky Way due to superior speed and firepower.

* DoorStopper: The digital version.
* DysfunctionJunction: Ooooooh boy. Such a trope is likely to happen whenever you got a story involving StarWars and the Dark Side but among the dysfunctional cast, Seven of Nine reach [[ExaggeratedTrope the top of the highest mountain while the others merely stay on hills]]. Beyond the horrific backstory given to her by the serie, poor girl is riddled by a ''tremendous'' amount of psychological disorders and emotional issues that go over the span of three books of her acting like a borderline suicidal lunatic to finally be resolved. Not to mention she needs an incredibly good father figure, [[spoiler: a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind]], two Jedi, two telepathic betazoids and regular interventions of not one but -you guessed it- freaking ''two'' PhysicalGods to get something resembling a closure.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Dozens, including some planets that a fan of either series has come to know well.
** [[spoiler: Coruscant, Cardassia Prime, the SSI Ruuvi Homeworld, about 89 Borg Planets...]]
** Not to mention all of those planets that [[spoiler:Taar allows Tyrine to destroy off-screen when he gives him a superlaser to use at his discretion.]] At the very least, a Kazon planet and the Malon homeworld are destroyed.
* EvilPlan: The [[spoiler: Oracle's]] scheme.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Blood of Heroes

* FakingTheDead: 'The Blessed One' helps [[spoiler:Picard]] to do this after Thrawn orders his execution as part of their plans.
* FantasticRacism: The Empire. The Sith in particular, even Mara Jade. They distrust alien ways of thinking.

* FieldPromotion: Picard has Seven of Nine made a Starfleet officer without going to the academy, promoting her directly to Chief Science Office.
* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone familiar with the author's ''Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide'' won't be too surprised at the latter half of [[spoiler:Janeway's]] character arc.
** No, he made [[spoiler:Janeway]] ''competent''.
*** In the reviews, his version of that character has become a very competent evil.

* FridgeLogic: [[InUniverse As a plot point.]] [[spoiler: Darth Vader corrupted Data by pointing to all the times Starfleet had treated him like crap.]]%%Invoked
** Done again when [[spoiler: Vader realizes that the Emperor never came through on his promises to save Padme so he doesn't ''actually'' owe the man anything, and now he's ordering him to kill his own children. It prompts his return to the light side.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Several, most notably [[spoiler: the Borg]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Rebel Alliance gets a bad first impression of the Federation by reputation because their first exposure is all the species Janeway pissed off in the Delta Quadrant.
* HumanAlien: The preponderance of these and the more subtle kinds of RubberForeheadAliens in the Star Trek galaxy confuse the hell out of the Star Wars characters in the first book, not to mention that genetically identical humans apparently evolved in both galaxies somehow.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Never check a free dewback's hide.

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: Luke gets one in Against All Odds]].

** The triple nacelle Enterprise and Warp 13 seen in the future scenes of the last episode of the Next Generation show up here. Picard even comments on it.
** Leia and Han get married and have the same children they had in the Expanded Universe.
* KillEmAll: The list of characters who survive is shorter than the list of ones who get killed off at various points in the books.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Star Trek'' and the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe already each have Loads and Loads in their own right. Here they're all thrown into the mix, with a few original characters on top of that.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: Luke and Seven.
* LuddWasRight: This is what [[spoiler: Senator Alixus]] believes which is why she supports the Vong.

* MamaBear: Janeway. And thats what breaks her.
* TheManBehindTheMan: This trope is ''everywhere'' in ''Shadows of the Night''. The Ssi-Ruuk are tricked into attacking TheRepublic by the Borg, who are under the leadership of Anansi (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Grand Admiral Thrawn]]), who is being manipulated by [[spoiler:Darth Whind]], who is being possessed by [[spoiler:[[BigBad the reborn]] [[TheEmperor Emperor]] [[BigBad Palpatine]]]], all according to the grand plan of [[spoiler:Ben Sisko]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Data in ''Worlds Without End''.]]
* MotherNatureFatherScience: Inverted. Luke is the spiritual one. Seven is the scientific logical one.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Capt. Picard has one of these when he [[spoiler: turns over the Federation's secret weapon to Thrawn to try to spare the Federation]].
** Capt. Janeway has a couple of these because she introduced the Empire to the Federation.
** Luke Skywalker after he [[spoiler: goes to the dark side and then comes back.]]

* NoodleIncident: Whatever Han did to piss off the Hirogen. Also, whatever Chewbacca took as a trophy (it is later reveal to be a Hirogen helmet which Han unsuccessfully urged Chewie to get rid of it).

--->"Sir, Borg cubes coming out of warp!"\\

* OrganicTechnology: the Vong
* PassedOverPromotion: Picard pulls favors to get Seven of Nine commissioned as a starfleet officer and promoted directly to chief science officer of the Enterprise without having to put in time at the academy or climb ranks. Seven displaces Data which becomes a sore spot for the latter later in the story.
* ThePeterPrinciple: Though Chuck doesn't care for Janeway as a captain, he portrays her as being quite competent in certain other endeavors owing to her background as a science officer. [[spoiler: For example, she figures out how to run transporter beams through hyperspace.]]
* PetTheDog: For the author. Though he beats up on the ''Voyager'' crew a lot in his reviews of that show, he generally shows most of them at their best here and even allows them to grow, and/or, have heroic deaths. The mere fact that he chooses to leave [[InformedAttribute Capt Okona]] out of the story rather than including him to give him a savage humiliating death shows restraint.
** He also simply has Neelix {{Put On A Bus}} early on and never return. Now that's willpower.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Unsurprisingly for StarWars, which lives by this trope, this is the resolution of [[spoiler: Ben Skywalker's]] character arc.

* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum: Specifically the Force defies analysis.

* SexIsLiberation: [[spoiler: Seven of Nine]] in Shadows of the Night.

** Picard questions his right to commit genocide against the Borg in a very similar manner to [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] in "Genesis of the Daleks."
*** Much more likely this is a call back to the other times Picard has pondered this subject, regarding both the Borg and the Crystalline Entity.
* ShutUpKirk: Janeway protests the slaughter of thirty million people aboard the Death Star and gets this reaction from Han.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Luke's first act after giving in to the dark side is to destroy a bunch of Borg cubes.
%% ZCE/unclear whether it's in-universe music * SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Seven of Nine and "Puff the Magic Dragon." NOT in regards to marijuana use.
* TemporalParadox: The Oracle
* TechnoBabble: Exploited towards the end of Worlds Without End when [[spoiler:Data needs to fool the defectors into launching an attack on the Death Star, so he makes up a plan to attack a false weakness with lots of technobabble to make them think it would work.]]

* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Seven tends to talk like this, though she is rediscovering her emotions throughout much of this story.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wedge gives one to Corran for defying orders to rescue stragglers. He says Corran wants to be Luke, but isn't willing to accept responsibility for the influence a hero like Luke has in a combat situation.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Luke basically talks himself into falling to the dark side, and the emotion that does it is fear... of falling to the dark side. He's so convinced that emotion-powered force use is inherently evil and everyone will hate him for it that after destroying a Borg fleet to rescue Seven he falls into despair and switches sides. The disconnect means that the real Luke never fell, and the Sith Lord version is just an emotional shell he built around himself that does evil for evil's sake but doesn't enjoy it.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: TheEmpire sends in a fleet to destroy enough Borg ships to show that attacking them would be a waste of resources. This goes [[YouWillBeAssimilated about as well]] [[ResistanceIsFutile as you'd expect]].
** It also goes the other way; the Empire never sends more than a tiny fraction of it's forces into the Milky Way at a time because most of their fleet is used to hold down their own galaxy, meaning the other factions keep drastically underestimating their real power. When they actually invade in force in book 3 it's a complete walkover.
* TheUnintelligible: Chewbacca as always. It seems that even the Federation's universal translators can't handle Wookie.

* GoodVsGood: The Rebel Alliance and the Federation start out on opposite sides because the Federation is initially duped by the Empire. To their credit, both sides eventually figure out who they're really dealing with and team up.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Seven of Nine and "Puff the Magic Dragon." NOT in regards to marijuana use.

* NoodleIncident: Whatever Han did to piss off the Hirogen. Also, whatever Chewbacca took as a trophy.

* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul: A recurring motif brought together by the various cyborgs of both universes. In this series, its more attitude than reality. In fact, Seven's implants come in ''very'' handily when she uses it to [[spoiler: generate lightsabre-proof armour in her fight with darth Whind]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Quark died on [=DS9=], the one on [=DS13=] is a holographic spy planted by Garack.]]

** [[spoiler: Courescant, Cardassia Prime, the SSI Ruuvi Homeworld, about 89 Borg Planets...]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Borg assimilation as always. But the fear of it in this story is one of the more prominent themes.

* GoodVsGood: The Rebel Alliance and the Federation start out on opposite sides because the Federation is initially duped by the Empire. To their credit both sides eventually figure out who they're really dealing with and team up.

* TechnoBabble: used realistically

-->- Captain Picard, ''Worlds Without End'' Part VI

The Unity Saga is an epic Franchise/StarTrek[=/=]StarWars crossover by [[Website/SFDebris Chuck Sonnenberg]] telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. The story is told in two trilogies:

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* '''DysfunctionJunction''': Ooooooh boy. Such a trope is likely to happen whenever you got a story involving StarWars and the Dark Side but among the dysfunctional cast, Seven of Nine reach [[ExaggeratedTrope the top of the highest mountain while the others merely stay on hills]]. Beyond the horrific backstory given to her by the serie, poor girl is riddled by a ''tremendous'' amount of psychological disorders and emotional issues that go over the span of three books of her acting like a borderline suicidal lunatic to finally be resolved. Not to mention she needs an incredibly good father figure, [[spoiler: a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind]], two Jedi, two telepathic betazoids and regular interventions of not one but -you guessed it- freaking ''two'' PhysicalGods to get something resembling a closure.

* FridgeLogic: [[InUniverse As a plot point.]] [[spoiler: Darth Vader corrupted Data by pointing to all the times Starfleet had treated him like crap.]]

* ThePeterPrinciple: Though Chuck doesn't care for Janeway as a captain, he protrays her as being quite competent in certain other endeavors owing to her background as a science officer. [[spoiler: For example, she figures out how to run transporter beams through hyperspace.]]

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Luke basically talks himself into falling to the dark side, and the emotion that does it is fear of falling to the dark side. He's so convinced that emotion-powered force use is inherently evil and everyone will hate him for it that after destroying a Borg fleet to rescue Seven he falls into despair and switches sides. The disconnect means that the real Luke never fell, and the Sith Lord version is just an emotional shell he built around himself that does evil for evil's sake but doesn't enjoy it.