History Literature / StarTrekMillennium

* BlessedWithSuck: Anyone corrupted by Grigari nanites; they give the host superior strength, regenerative abilities and other powers, but also reconfigure their brain, making them compliant servants of the pah-wraiths.

* CallForward: A very tragic one at the end of the ''Inferno''. [[spoiler: Jadzia shoots and kills the 2399 Dukat, who's possessed by the Pah-Wraiths and who survived the destruction of the BadFuture. As this novel takes place in-between "The Sound of Her Voice" and "Tears of the Prophets", readers know this scenario will shortly become reversed and that Jadzia will be killed by the Present Day Dukat (who will also become possessed by the Pah-Wraiths).]]

* DysonSphere: In the alternate future, O'Brien is trapped in one of these for what seems like years, as the FateWorseThanDeath meted to him by the Pah-Wraiths.

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Averted. It's shown that Dukat and Weyoun, representing ''different'' sects of the Pah-Wraiths, are at cross purposes a good deal of the time.

* TheGodsMustBeLazy: The pah-wraiths are ''far'' more proactive than the Prophets. This is actually justified - the Prophets' best bet for protecting the universe is to keep their distance and remain apart from the mortal/temporal realm, while the pah-wraiths want to bridge the distance and reunite with their brethren, even though it means destroying creation.

* SealedEvilInACan: Kosst Amojan and his followers (the banished pah-wraiths cast from the Celestial Temple into the Fire Caves). However, the straightforward pah-wraith plotline of the TV series, which disappointed some fans in its bog-standard simplicity, is made far more complex here. For one thing, the Fire Cave pah-wraiths are not the only ones; indeed, they're a minority. They no more represent the pah-wraiths as a whole than they do the prophets.

* ServantRace: The Grigari seem to be servants of the Ascendancy, [[spoiler: yet are actually controlling Weyoun. However, they do seem to be genuine servants of the pah-wraiths]].

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated

* {{Atheist}}: Arla Ress; see MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch for more details.

* CallForward: A very tragic one at the end of the ''Inferno''. [[spoiler: Jadzia shoots and kills the 2399 Dukat, who's possessed by the Pah-Wraiths and who survived the destruction of the BadFuture. As this novel takes place in-between "The Sound of Her Voice" and "Tears of the Prophets", readers know this scenario will shorly become reversed and that Jadzia will be killed by the Present Day Dukat (who will also become possessed by the Pah-Wraiths).]]

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Arla Rees. A Bajoran atheist, she is actively and somewhat obsessively opposed to her people's faith, believing the Prophets to be conquering aliens who have stunted Bajoran culture in order to keep them passive and compliant. She bitterly acknowledges how at odds she is with the rest of her people, saying that sometimes she thinks she's the only one who "sees it".

* {{Atheist}}: Arla Ress is openly anti-Prophet. She feels her people's worship of the Wormhole aliens is delusional and turned them into the galaxy's biggest victims. Naturally, this ideological stance causes ''much'' friction with Kira (and headaches for Sisko given his own role as Emissary).

* Atheist: Arla Ress is openly anti-Prophet. She feels her people's worship of the Wormhole aliens is delusional and turned them into the galaxy's biggest victims. Naturally, this ideological stance causes ''much'' friction with Kira (and headaches for Sisko given his own role as Emissary).

* TheAtheist: Arla Ress is openly anti-Prophet. She feels her people's worship of the Wormhole aliens is delusional and turned them into the galaxy's biggest victims. Naturally, this ideological stance causes ''much'' friction with Kira (and headaches for Sisko given his own role as Emissary).

* CallForward: A very tragic one at the end of the ''Inferno''. [[spoiler: Jadzia shoots and kills the 2399 Dukat, who's possessed by the Pah-Wraiths and who survived the destruction of the BadFuture. As this novel takes place in-between "The Sound of Her Voice" and "Tears of the Prophets", readers know this scenario will shorly become reversed and that Jadzia will be killed by the Present Day Dukat (who will also become possessed by the Pah-Wraiths).

* GambitRoulette: Everything that happens in the trilogy unfolded according to Obanak Keelen's plan. ThePlan involved blowing up the universe and then helping the universe [[UnexplainedRecovery recover]]. It also involved using the gods themselves as pawns. [[note]] The Wormhole Aliens are only gods to the Bajorans- but Obanak ''is'' a Bajoran[[/note]].

* TemporalMutability: Discussed to a degree when Vash tries to argue that they can go back in time by taking the Orb of Prophecy from Bajor; according to the laws of temporal physics, once someone has travelled in time to another period of history, they are subtly out of sequence with the wider universe, making it impossible for them to travel in time by any means other than the method they already used to come to this time period in the first place.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Vash appears to have been hit by a toxic dart in an assassination attempt, and is rushed to the infirmary, unconscious. The poison is an Andorian neurotoxin, implicating the Andorians Satr and Leen, who are rivals to Vash (and particularly shady characters). It is not in fact fatal to Humans, though, and Vash fully recovers. She later mentions the toxin by name in a throw-away comment, alerting Bashir that she planned the whole thing - because he never mentioned the name, and there are dozens of neurotoxins it could have been. It turns out Vash injected herself with the dart.

** The current timeline actually ''requires'' the BadFuture to have happened as depicted, and yet the current timeline's actual "future" is completely distinct. Conversely, the BadFuture has [[spoiler:the universe completely cease to exist as the Earth calendar rolls over to the year 2400, among other calendar changes happening at the exact same time, yet references are made to events that happened ''after'' that time, such as ''Voyager''[='=]s encounter with a 29th-century timeship]]. The epilogue describes the result as "circles wheeling within circles".
* TheVoiceless: Played with but ultimately reaffirmed for Morn. Just as Morn never speaks on screen, so the novels never give him dialogue (despite mentioning how he's actually a chatterbox). In the first book of this trilogy, it briefly looks like Morn has been given dialogue. Turns out it's actually Odo taking Morn's form.

* TheVoiceless: Played with but ultimately reaffirmed for Morn. Just as Morn never speaks on screen, so the novels never give him dialogue (despite mentioning how he's actually a chatterbox). In the first book of this trilogy, it briefly looks like Morn has been given dialogue as part of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Turns out it's actually Odo taking Morn's form.

* [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Wormhole]]: At the end of the third book. While the [[spoiler:closing of the red wormhole]] was caused by the interaction of two different timelines, divine intervention was needed to [[spoiler:restore Deep Space Nine and prevent the ''Defiant'' from being destroyed]].

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Weyoun. Garak, too, though he doesn't act on the observations he makes, having decided that since Cardassia no longer exists in this future, he has nothing more to fight for. He basically sits this one out, and spends most of his time calmly and somewhat cheerfully making snarky comments to annoy Odo.

* TheVoiceless: Played with but ultimately reaffirmed for Morn. Just as Morn never speaks on screen, so the novels never give him dialogue (despite mentioning how he's actually a chatterbox). In the first book of this trilogy, it briefly looks like Morn has been giving dialogue as part of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Turns out it's actually Odo taking Morn's form.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Weyoun. Garak, too, though he doesn't act on the observations he makes, having decided that since Cardassia no longer exists in this future, he has nothing more to fight for. He basically sits this one out, and spends most of his time calmly and somewhat cheerfully making GenreSavvy comments to annoy Odo.

* BrainFood: The Medusans, apparently. Quark has certain recipies programmed into the food replicators (quite illegally), should he ever get a visit from a Medusan delegation.

* CosmicKeystone: The Red Orbs of Jalbador. When all three are brought together in one place, they open [[spoiler: the second Bajoran wormhole]], which, along with the better known one, are the two sides of [[spoiler: the dimension wound which 'reality' sit on top of, meaning if they ever touch, the result will be...nothing. Literally, nothing will exist, and nothing will always have existed. There never will have been even a place for the universe to have happened ''in''. This, of course, proceeds to happen at the end of the second book.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Dukat and Kosst Amojan trap the heroes in recurring personal nightmares in order to gain their co-operation. Basically, they trap them in personal hells, sometimes along the lines of AndIMustScream. Unfortunately for Dukat, it doesn't work on Dax; her multiple lives confuse the Kosst Amojan, which tries creating multiple hells that then just blend together confusingly and lose their horror, allowing her to break free. And Garak isn't impressed by the technique - his hell certainly works on him, but Dukat is frustrated to see that he isn't actually afraid - exhausted, drained, horrified, yes; but nowhere near ''afraid''.
* FromBadToWorse: Deep Space Nine is destroyed and the heroes are flung decades into the future - that's the end of the first book. In the second book, they discover that this future is a CrapsackWorld where Starfleet is a ChurchMilitant organization fighting an interstellar doomsday cult, led by [[spoiler: Kai Weyoun of Bajor]]. Then they discover this doomsday is ''real''...and that the enemy is planning to destroy the universe. [[spoiler:: Then the enemy...succeeds.]]

* UnstuckInTime: In the third book, the heroes become this by default when they visit the stations inside the wormhole; they keep shifting back and forth through time with the temporal displacement waves that wash across them. Weyoun and Dukat are ''not'' affected in the same way, however...and Weyoun at least can force people to be "in phase" unless they're holding on to someone who isn't. At first, the characters are ''so'' out of phase with the current time that they can't be seen, heard, or felt by any ''people'' native to the time they visit, but they ''can'' interact with the station itself. This particular quirk of the effect clears up quickly, however.

* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: Leej Terrell considers the Bajorans little more than cattle, and refuses to accept that Cardassia was doing anything wrong in enslaving them. Indeed, she tells Sisko that humanity's biggest problem is its refusal to distinguish "truly sapient" races like the Vulcans from "stock" like the Bajorans.

** The current timeline actually ''requires'' the BadFuture to have happened as depicted, and yet the current "future" is completely distinct. Conversely, the BadFuture has [[spoiler:the universe completely cease to exist as the Earth calendar rolls over to the year 2400, among other calendar changes happening at the exact same time, yet references are made to events that happened ''after'' that time, such as ''Voyager''[='=]s encounter with a 29th-century timeship]]. The epilogue describes the result as "circles wheeling within circles".

* {{Affably Evil}}: Weyoun, most of the time.
* {{After The End}}: Book Three, ''Inferno'', takes place [[spoiler: after the end of the entire universe]]. It's complicated...
* {{Alien Arts Are Appreciated}}
* {{Alternative Calendar}}: A reasonably important plot point concerns a possibly non-coincidental similarity between multiple cultures' otherwise distinct calendars.

* {{Bizarre Alien Biology}}: The Grigari appear to be a mechanical-organic construct. No-one is sure whether they should be categorized as living beings or an artificial intelligence. They leak a substance that might be blood, or might be cooling fluid.

* {{Blessed With Suck}}: Anyone corrupted by Grigari nanites; they give the host superior strength, regenerative abilities and other powers, but also reconfigure their brain, making them compliant servants of the pah-wraiths.
* {{Body Horror}}: Bions - the lobotomized, bio-augmented slave soldiers used by the future Romulan Empire. It's suspected they are former prisoners mutated using Grigari technology.

* {{Cool Ship}}: In the alternate future, the Timeship ''Phoenix''. Also from that future, the ''Enterprise-F'', though it ended up being [[AnyoneCanDie obliterated in the first eight minutes]] of the battle to save Earth from the Grigari.

* {{Cosmic Keystone}}: The Red Orbs of Jalbador. When all three are brought together in one place, they open [[spoiler: the second Bajoran wormhole]], which, along with the better known one, are the two sides of [[spoiler: the dimension wound which 'reality' sit on top of, meaning if they ever touch, the result will be...nothing. Literally, nothing will exist, and nothing will always have existed. There never will have been even a place for the universe to have happened ''in''. This, of course, proceeds to happen at the end of the second book.]]

* {{Dangerously Genre Savvy}}: Weyoun. Garak, too, though he doesn't act on the observations he makes, having decided that since Cardassia no longer exists in this future, he has nothing more to fight for. He basically sits this one out, and spends most of his time calmly and somewhat cheerfully making GenreSavvy comments to annoy Odo.

* {{Earth Shattering Kaboom}}: [[spoiler: Bajor is vapourized in the alternate future - all part of Kai Weyoun's plan. Earth met the same fate some years prior]].

* {{Rousing Speech}}: Amusingly, Weyoun doesn't feel the need to give one as the day of the final reckoning dawns.
* {{Scary Dogmatic Aliens}}: The Grigari, who are fanatical and deadly enough to scare the Borg. The Bajoran Ascendancy, which is one giant doomsday cult fighting to destroy the universe. The Wormhole Aliens, which are fighting a three-way war that threatens to tear the mortal realm apart. Even the newly Vulcan-dominated Starfleet. And we mustn't forget Kosst Dukat:

* {{Sealed Evil In A Can}}: Kosst Amojan and his followers (the banished pah-wraiths cast from the Celestial Temple into the Fire Caves). However, the straightforward pah-wraith plotline of the TV series, which disappointed some fans in its bog-standard simplicity, is made far more complex here. For one thing, the Fire Cave pah-wraiths are not the only ones; indeed, they're a minority. They no more represent the pah-wraiths as a whole than they do the prophets.

* {{Omnicidal Maniac}}: Dukat and Kosst Amojan. They aren't the only people out to destroy creation, but the others have far more sensical motives.

* {{Prophecy Twist}}: The Bajoran religious prophecies, along with the basic principles of the faith itself, were written [[spoiler: by refugees from the timeship ''Phoenix'' originating in another timeline, who crossed over into our timeline 30,000 years ago]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: Dukat and Kosst Amojan trap the heroes in recurring personal nightmares in order to gain their co-operation. Basically, they trap them in personal hells, sometimes along the lines of AndIMustScream. Unfortunately for Dukat, it doesn't work on Dax; her multiple lives confuse the Kosst Amojan, which tries creating multiple hells that then just blend together confusingly and lose their horror, allowing her to break free. And Garak isn't impressed by the technique - his hell certainly works on him, but Dukat is frustrated to see that he isn't actually afraid - exhausted, drained, horrified, yes; but nowhere near ''afraid''.