History Literature / StarTrekNewFrontier

* Mark [=McHenry=]: The brilliant but lazy helmsman who can fly the ship in his sleep (and literally does at times). [[spoiler: He is actually the descendant of Apollo and Odin.]]

* Xyon: A {{Expy}} of Han Solo that has a relationship to one of the crew. [[spoiler: He is Mac's son.]]

* AchievementsInIgnorance: In ''Requiem'', [=McHenry=] is able to walk from a center platform to an outer ledge over a chasm just by letting his mind drift away from what he was doing, just like in the cartoons. [[spoiler:admittedly, this was a test by Q...who then promptly dropped an anvil on him, making him fall anyway.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Particularly in the later half of the series. The most notable death is probably [[spoiler:Si Cwan]] in ''Missing In Action'', but there's also [[spoiler:Selar, Dr. Villers, and Mick Gold]] in ''Treason'', plus [[spoiler: Gleau and Janos (more or less)]] in ''Stone and Anvil'' and [[spoiler:Morgan Primus and Admiral Nechayev]] in ''Blind Man's Bluff.'' [[spoiler:Dead-chayev turned out to be a EvilKnockoff, however.]]

* {{Bioaugmentation}}: Dr. Bethom's illegal experiments on typically non-sapient animals, [[spoiler: including Janos]].

* GlamourFailure: Gleau's Selelvian charms, which usually allow him to influence other people's actions and perceptions, do not work on [[spoiler: Janos]]. Nor do they work on artificial life forms, allowing Calhoun and Picard to use Ship!Morgan and Data to foil their plans with a NoMatterHowMuchIBeg tactic.

* JumpingOnAGrenade: During the Selelvian War, [[spoiler: Soleta]] does this to save Elizabeth Shelby. Unfortunately, it was a dummy grenade. She'd save her in another way later.

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: When Calhoun shows up at Starfleet Academy, he's viewed by some watching upperclassmen as an ignorant farmboy from a backwater world (instead of the former warlord/killing machine). The upperclassman attempts to haze Calhoun and makes the mistake of talking smack about his late father. Calhoun [[spoiler: takes out the upperclassman quickly with one punch - a cadet who happened to be one of the top security guys in his class - forever ruining his reputation.]]

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Mac goes to elaborate lengths to prevent the genocide of a world via time travel in ''Double Time'' only to find out [[spoiler: that it only resulted in them being a slave race in the future of another species he saved from extinction.]]

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Inverted in ''Restoration'': After getting her own command, Shelby staffs it with by-the-book, spit-and-polish Starfleet officers. Within a month, she realizes she misses the old, "unprofessional" crew she left behind, and accepts command of the new ''Excalibur'' [[spoiler: until Calhoun reveals himself to be alive and takes it]].

* NoPronunciationGuide: Si Cwan. Is it See Kwan? See Swan? Sy Kwan? Sy Swan?
** In universe, M'k'n'zy of Calhoun changed his name to Mackenzie Calhoun because he was tired of everyone bungling his name.

* ''Excalibur: Restoration''

* CrossThrough:''The Captain's Table'', ''Double Helix'' and ''Gateways''

* WhamLine: "Five minutes later, [[spoiler:the Excalibur blew up.]]"

* TheUnfettered: A Vulcan in the ''Shal'tiar'' state is basically this: when a Vulcan is presented with a problem that no form of logic can solve, that Vulcan will attempt to solve it by any means necessary. Selar is thought to have slipped into ''Shal'Tiar'' over her son's [[WeAreAsMayflies condition]], and her solution was to [[spoiler:kidnap her friend's baby and commandeer her other friend's ship with help of an accomplice, and heed a voice promising a cure. She gets better, but too late to rectify the situation with any other means than a HeroicSacrifice.]][[note]]Astute Trekkies might note that Shal'tiar is an anagram of Tal Shiar, AKA the Romulan secret intelligence agency, which itself has more than a few Unfettered.[[/note]]