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* SexyDiscretionShot: Used both times Eleya and Gaarra slept together.
** The first time the two of them didn't even make it out of Quark's. Cut to Eleya arriving on the ''Bajor's'' bridge the next morning.
** The second time they got as far as him unzipping her uniform jacket, then end chapter.
** The first time the two of them didn't even make it out of Quark's. Cut to Eleya arriving on the ''Bajor's'' bridge the next morning.
** The second time they got as far as him unzipping her uniform jacket, then end chapter.
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* DidYouJustHaveSex: Eleya strolls onto the bridge after having a one night stand while ashore at Deep Space 9. Tess spots it immediately and gives her a look.
--> '''Eleya:''' What?\\
'''Tess:''' What do you mean, ‘what,’ Eleya? You walk in here looking like a [[HoldYourHippogriffs grayth that just dined on prize alicorn]] and expect nobody to notice?
--> '''Eleya:''' What?\\
'''Tess:''' What do you mean, ‘what,’ Eleya? You walk in here looking like a [[HoldYourHippogriffs grayth that just dined on prize alicorn]] and expect nobody to notice?
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* BattleCouple: Chapter eight reveals that JG K'lak and Ensign [=McMillan=] from the ''Bajor's'' security department are one of these. Eleya doesn't want to break up their relationship but she does mention she's going to have [=McMillan=] moved to a different superior.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: Downplayed and lampshaded. Eleya notes that Dul'krah's "vodchakh" is functionally very similar to a violin, although it has seven strings instead of four.
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* ContinuityNod: In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman "Suddenly Human"]].
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman "SuddenlyHuman"]].Human"]].
** In chapter eight Dul'krah plays the Fourth Concerto by Tor Jolan on his vodchakh. Tor Jolan was a Bajoran composer mentioned in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E23Crossover "Crossover"]].
** In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman "Suddenly
** In chapter eight Dul'krah plays the Fourth Concerto by Tor Jolan on his vodchakh. Tor Jolan was a Bajoran composer mentioned in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E23Crossover "Crossover"]].
* FantasticArousal: Eleya gives a gasp when Gaarra strokes the ridges on her nose.
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* FantasticSlurs[=/=]NicknamingTheEnemy: Multiple characters, though mainly Eleya, refer to the Orions as "greenskins" or "greenies". Eleya also once calls the Borg "boltheads".
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* FantasticSlurs[=/=]NicknamingTheEnemy: Multiple characters, though mainly Eleya, refer to the Orions as "greenskins" or "greenies". Eleya also once calls the Borg "boltheads". Meanwhile Senior Chief Athezra Darrod refers to the Klingons as "Klinks," a term [[FanNickname borrowed from STO fandom]].
* InterspeciesRomance: Ensign Kate [=McMillan=], a human female, and JG K'lak, a Klingon male.
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* FantasticNamingConvention: The Pe'khdar, a race created for the fic, give their names as "[Prefix]'[Suffix], Clan [X]". The prefix acts like a given name, while the suffix is passed from their same-sex parent. So, for example, the USS ''Bajor's'' security chief is Dul'krah, Clan Korekh.
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* LudicrousGibs:
** In Eleya's nightmare, she's saved by an MP squad that uses a blast assault phaser to kill the matron attacking her. Her torso explodes and covers Eleya in gore.
** In chapter seven an Orion mook takes four phaser rifle shots simultaneously from Eleya's away team.
---> "His shield generator explodes with a shrieking crack and sends bits of him everywhere."
** In Eleya's nightmare, she's saved by an MP squad that uses a blast assault phaser to kill the matron attacking her. Her torso explodes and covers Eleya in gore.
** In chapter seven an Orion mook takes four phaser rifle shots simultaneously from Eleya's away team.
---> "His shield generator explodes with a shrieking crack and sends bits of him everywhere."
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** In chapter seven, Eleya takes a page out of Jack O'Neill (from the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "The First Commandment"), demanding of an admin petty officer who's being an ObstructiveBureaucrat if it says "Captain" anywhere on her uniform.
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* ContentWarnings: The version posted on the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' forums has a warning of minor sexual content above chapter four. It's Eleya mentioning [[EatingTheEyeCandy feeling her nipples hardening from seeing Gaarra working out]].
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Eleya watching Gaarra pumping iron in the officers gym.
--> He runs a few quick reps as a warmup, then replaces the bar, ups the weight, and starts pumping the iron with a look of intense concentration on his face. 'Course his face isn’t the only thing I’m looking at--''Prophets, get your head out of the gutter, Eleya.''\\
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Nope. Despite my best efforts I can feel my nipples hardening against my sports bra so I grab my water bottle and leave the room. Maybe we'd best just try to avoid being in the gym at the same time.
--> He runs a few quick reps as a warmup, then replaces the bar, ups the weight, and starts pumping the iron with a look of intense concentration on his face. 'Course his face isn’t the only thing I’m looking at--''Prophets, get your head out of the gutter, Eleya.''\\
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Nope. Despite my best efforts I can feel my nipples hardening against my sports bra so I grab my water bottle and leave the room. Maybe we'd best just try to avoid being in the gym at the same time.
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* CallBack: In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in TNG: "Suddenly Human".
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* CallBack: During the fight with the Jem'Hadar in chapter five Eleya flashes on the destruction of the USS ''Odyssey'' in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E26TheJemHadar "The Jem'Hadar"]], then takes steps to [[DefiedTrope prevent]] the ''Bajor'' from [[RammingAlwaysWorks suffering the same fate]].
* ContinuityNod: In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up inTNG: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman "Suddenly Human".Human"]].
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* RankUp: Gaarra joins the ''Bajor's'' command crew because Eleya's previous ops officer, T'Var, was promoted off the ship and given her first command.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The most prominent addition is the ''Bajor's'' crew and the various scenes of their interactions.
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* RedShirt: Zigzagged in chapter seven, which features four bit characters from the ''Bajor's'' security department (traditional redshirts) beaming down with Eleya, Tess, and Birail for an away mission. Two peel off early and act as a sniper and spotter, one gets shot in the second firefight but survives, and the last gets his neck broken by an Orion matron.
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* RedShirt: RedShirt:
** Four unseen ''Bajor'' crewmen who were killed by a torpedo hit to deck 10 in chapter six.
** Zigzagged in chapter seven, which features four bit characters from the ''Bajor's'' security department (traditional redshirts) beaming down with Eleya, Tess, and Birail for an away mission.Two They end up with varying levels of characterization, two peel off early and act as a sniper and spotter, one gets shot in the second firefight but survives, and the last gets his neck broken by an Orion matron.
** Four unseen ''Bajor'' crewmen who were killed by a torpedo hit to deck 10 in chapter six.
** Zigzagged in chapter seven, which features four bit characters from the ''Bajor's'' security department (traditional redshirts) beaming down with Eleya, Tess, and Birail for an away mission.
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* WrittenSoundEffect: Eleya describes the sound of a grenade leaving a GrenadeLauncher as "a sound that goes something like ''choonk''".
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* TargetSpotter: Ens. Kate [=McMillan=] to JG K'lak during an away mission that takes up chapter seven. Played for laughs during the second firefight of the chapter, where [=McMillan=]'s overheard giving him the following instruction to K'lak:
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* TargetSpotter: Ens. Kate [=McMillan=] to JG K'lak during an away mission that takes up in chapter seven. Played for laughs during the second firefight of the chapter, where [=McMillan=]'s overheard giving him the following instruction to K'lak:
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* IsThisThingStillOn: In chapter seven, after Ens. Kate [=McMillan=], acting as JG K'lak's TargetSpotter, is overheard through Eleya's combadge giving him a reference for a large stump that looked like K'lak's ... ''something'' (he fired before she could say what).
--> '''K'lak:''' ''(secondhand via [=McMillan's=] combadge)'' Ensign, what are you doing comparing a tree stump to my--\\
'''[[NumberTwo Tess:]]''' [=McMillan=], you know your combadge is still transmitting, right?\\
'''[=McMillan=]:''' OH GOD!\\
'''Birail:''' ''(stifles laughter)''
--> '''K'lak:''' ''(secondhand via [=McMillan's=] combadge)'' Ensign, what are you doing comparing a tree stump to my--\\
'''[[NumberTwo Tess:]]''' [=McMillan=], you know your combadge is still transmitting, right?\\
'''[=McMillan=]:''' OH GOD!\\
'''Birail:''' ''(stifles laughter)''
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--> "Reference, large stump that looks like your--" ''(K'lak shoots)''
--> "Reference, large stump that looks like your--" ''(K'lak shoots)''
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Eleya beats an Orion matron to death in chapter seven, evidently flashing on the boarding action aboard the ''Kira Nerys'' where she was nearly killed. Actually, she beats the matron way past death and has to be tackled off the corpse by Tess.
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** During The Nightmare, one-shot character Crewman Davos drops the line [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Bloody pirates."]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Pointedly averted multiple times. For instance, JG Park swings the ''Bajor'' clear of an oncoming Orion battleship with "only" hundreds of meters to spare.
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* TheOnlyOne: DoubleSubverted. Instead of being literally the only ship responding to Dreon VII, the ''Bajor'' is just the closest and fastest of the three ships responding and gets there fifteen minutes earlier.
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* EnsignNewbie: Ensign Esplin, the communications officer for most of the story, is on her first tour out of ROTC.
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* ItGetsEasier: Mocked when Ens. Esplin gets post-battle jitters after the ''Bajor'' rescues the SS ''Shargrash'' from some Jem'Hadar. Eleya calls her over for a friendly chat and has this to say:
--> “I’m not going to rely on cliché here: the first battle isn’t the hardest, it’s just the first. And frankly, as pathetic as that one was, I guarantee the next will be harder. You do your job and work with your crewmates and you get through. The rest is up to the Prophets.”
--> “I’m not going to rely on cliché here: the first battle isn’t the hardest, it’s just the first. And frankly, as pathetic as that one was, I guarantee the next will be harder. You do your job and work with your crewmates and you get through. The rest is up to the Prophets.”
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** In chapter six, Tess's and JG Park's "Conn, you gotta give me an Ivan." "Always wanted to try one!" exchange is borrowed from the pilot of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
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* HumansAreWhite: Averted; not even the aliens are consistently white. Eleya and Gaarra are light-skinned, but Birail has brown skin, and [=LtJG.=] Warragul Wirrpanda, the sole human among the ''Bajor's'' command crew, is of Australian Aboriginal descent.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Seeing as how it's canonically a major trade language in the Federation. A couple of Breen bit characters are specifically stated to be speaking "accented but intelligible Earth Standard English."
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* SnipingTheCockpit: During the battle over Dreon VII in chapter six, Tess hits the crew compartment of an Orion interceptor with one of the ''Bajor's'' aft phasers. A few minutes later she hits the bridge of an Orion corvette with a salvo of quantum torpedoes.
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* TranslationConvention: Gaarra's and Eleya's conversation in the first half of chapter four is mostly in the Kendran dialect of Bajoran, dubbed as English.
* TranslatorMicrobes: The universal translator has trouble dealing with the Gorn language for a couple seconds.
* TranslatorMicrobes: The universal translator has trouble dealing with the Gorn language for a couple seconds.
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* DrinkingContest: Happens offscreen at Deep Space 9 between a Klingon ''Bajor'' crewman and his counterpart from a KDF ship, as an alternative to the former killing the latter for calling him a traitor. According to Dul'krah, both passed out after four shots of Romulan ale and had to be dragged home.
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* {{Infodump}}: A brief one at the start of chapter six explaining how warp factors work.
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* ExplosiveInstrumentation: A console on the ''Bajor's'' bridge explodes when a torpedo punches through the shields and hits the hull, injuring an ops noncom.
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* FantasticSlurs[=/=]NicknamingTheEnemy: Multiple characters, though mainly Eleya, refer to the Orions as "greenskins" or "greenies". Eleya also once calls the Borg "boltheads".
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* BeamSpam: The full ten phaser banks of a ''Galaxy''-class starship pack a wallop when you're not constrained by a special effects budget.
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* OhMyGods: Eleya being Bajoran, insert "Prophets" anytime a human would say "God".
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* PointDefenseless: Averted. The ''Bajor'' is able to pick off multiple incoming torpedoes with its phasers, and fighters are easy pickings.
* PrecisionFStrike: Gaarra manages to corner Eleya in the gym.
--> '''Gaarra:''' Well, look at it this way: You think it's any easier for me? You fucked your ops officer, ''I'' fucked ''my'' commanding officer.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: {{Defied|Trope}}. Referencing the destruction of the USS ''Odyssey'' in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9: "The Jem'Hadar"]], a Jem attack ship tries to ram the ''Bajor''. Difference is, Eleya throws all power onto the navigational deflector, which is built for fending off kinetic impacts. The Jems only succeed in crippling their own ship, and a phaser shot to the torpedo bay is enough to finish them off.
* PrecisionFStrike: Gaarra manages to corner Eleya in the gym.
--> '''Gaarra:''' Well, look at it this way: You think it's any easier for me? You fucked your ops officer, ''I'' fucked ''my'' commanding officer.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: {{Defied|Trope}}. Referencing the destruction of the USS ''Odyssey'' in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9: "The Jem'Hadar"]], a Jem attack ship tries to ram the ''Bajor''. Difference is, Eleya throws all power onto the navigational deflector, which is built for fending off kinetic impacts. The Jems only succeed in crippling their own ship, and a phaser shot to the torpedo bay is enough to finish them off.
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This page has the disambiguation "(STO)" appended to distinguish it from the trope BaitAndSwitch and the [[Recap/BaitAndSwitch recap page]] of same name.
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* HoldYourHippogriffs: When Eleya arrives back on the bridge after her one night stand with Gaarra, Tess remarks that she looks "like a [[labelnote:grayth]]cat[[/labelnote]] that just dined on prize [[labelnote:alicorn]]parakeet[[/labelnote]]."
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9733520/1/Bait-and-Switch Bait and Switch]]'' is a ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fanfic by Tropers/{{StarSword}}-C, and a {{novelization}} of his Foundry mission series [[Recap/StarTrekOnlineFoundryBaitAndSwitch of same title]], starring his Fed tac toon.
Captain Kanril Eleya is the commanding officer of the ''Galaxy''-class starship USS ''Bajor'' and is on a survey mission when the ship is reassigned to the Beta Ursae region around Deep Space 9 for civil defense. What is expected to mostly be a routine show-the-flag mission becomes vastly more critical when the Orion Syndicate raids backwater planets all over the sector block and kills or kidnaps 16,000 people. Eleya's ship is reassigned again to a task force mounting a counteroffensive.
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* CallBack: In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in TNG: "Suddenly Human".
* CatapultNightmare: Eleya's recurring nightmare of an Orion attack on the Bajoran Militia frigate she was a noncommissioned officer on many years ago, where she nearly died. The occurrence in chapter one ends with her losing consciousness after being stabbed in the right kidney by an Orion matron.
* FailsafeFailure: {{Defied|Trope}}. The ''Bajor'' is a testbed for a warp core redesigned to be much safer to operate than the first-run ''Galaxy''-class cores, such as on the ''Enterprise''-D. Instead of using lots of matter and antimatter in the chamber and relying on dilithium to moderate it, it simply uses the minimum amount required to keep the reaction going, which means a core shutdown just involves turning off the fuel. As a side benefit it's also more fuel-efficient, which is useful with the Federation engaged in multiple wars.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: Via replicators, and discussed at some length. Eleya favors cooked food over replicated, even going to the trouble of bringing back a takeout box of handmade jumja sticks from an eatery on Deep Space 9, and believes that replicated tastes artificial because it's exactly the same every time you eat it.
* GargleBlaster: The Hathon hammer, a cocktail made from one measure of Klingon bloodwine, two shots of kava juice, and one shot of Cardassian kanar. Eleya sips it slowly because like its name says, it hits like a hammer.
* InMemoriam: The USS ''Valentine'', an ''Odyssey''-class docked to Deep Space 9 when the ''Bajor'' arrives, is named for Mark "[=h2orat=]" Valentine, a video artist at Cryptic Studios and ''STO'' Foundry author who died of cancer early in September 2013.
* IntroductionByHookup: After an admin shift while the ''Bajor'' is docked at Deep Space 9, Eleya changes into civvies and goes out for dinner and a drink at Quark's, where she picks up another Bajoran named Gaarra and sleeps with him. Next morning before departure she walks into her ready room to meet her new ops officer, and you can guess the rest.
* PardonMyKlingon: Played straight several times, but also inverted once: Eleya learned the word "schmuck" from an Academy classmate.
* ShoutOut:
** The above explanation of why replicator food tastes artificial is lifted from the ''Star Trek'' science book ''Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek''.
** At the start of chapter two Eleya's playing a holodeck adaptation of ''Literature/StarCarrier: Earth Strike''.
* TheWorfEffect: The USS ''Defiant'' is described as having been thoroughly trashed and under repairs by a rogue Cardassian legate playing warlord.
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Captain Kanril Eleya is the commanding officer of the ''Galaxy''-class starship USS ''Bajor'' and is on a survey mission when the ship is reassigned to the Beta Ursae region around Deep Space 9 for civil defense. What is expected to mostly be a routine show-the-flag mission becomes vastly more critical when the Orion Syndicate raids backwater planets all over the sector block and kills or kidnaps 16,000 people. Eleya's ship is reassigned again to a task force mounting a counteroffensive.
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!!Tropes:
* CallBack: In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in TNG: "Suddenly Human".
* CatapultNightmare: Eleya's recurring nightmare of an Orion attack on the Bajoran Militia frigate she was a noncommissioned officer on many years ago, where she nearly died. The occurrence in chapter one ends with her losing consciousness after being stabbed in the right kidney by an Orion matron.
* FailsafeFailure: {{Defied|Trope}}. The ''Bajor'' is a testbed for a warp core redesigned to be much safer to operate than the first-run ''Galaxy''-class cores, such as on the ''Enterprise''-D. Instead of using lots of matter and antimatter in the chamber and relying on dilithium to moderate it, it simply uses the minimum amount required to keep the reaction going, which means a core shutdown just involves turning off the fuel. As a side benefit it's also more fuel-efficient, which is useful with the Federation engaged in multiple wars.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: Via replicators, and discussed at some length. Eleya favors cooked food over replicated, even going to the trouble of bringing back a takeout box of handmade jumja sticks from an eatery on Deep Space 9, and believes that replicated tastes artificial because it's exactly the same every time you eat it.
* GargleBlaster: The Hathon hammer, a cocktail made from one measure of Klingon bloodwine, two shots of kava juice, and one shot of Cardassian kanar. Eleya sips it slowly because like its name says, it hits like a hammer.
* InMemoriam: The USS ''Valentine'', an ''Odyssey''-class docked to Deep Space 9 when the ''Bajor'' arrives, is named for Mark "[=h2orat=]" Valentine, a video artist at Cryptic Studios and ''STO'' Foundry author who died of cancer early in September 2013.
* IntroductionByHookup: After an admin shift while the ''Bajor'' is docked at Deep Space 9, Eleya changes into civvies and goes out for dinner and a drink at Quark's, where she picks up another Bajoran named Gaarra and sleeps with him. Next morning before departure she walks into her ready room to meet her new ops officer, and you can guess the rest.
* PardonMyKlingon: Played straight several times, but also inverted once: Eleya learned the word "schmuck" from an Academy classmate.
* ShoutOut:
** The above explanation of why replicator food tastes artificial is lifted from the ''Star Trek'' science book ''Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek''.
** At the start of chapter two Eleya's playing a holodeck adaptation of ''Literature/StarCarrier: Earth Strike''.
* TheWorfEffect: The USS ''Defiant'' is described as having been thoroughly trashed and under repairs by a rogue Cardassian legate playing warlord.
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