History Literature / StarTrekNewFrontier

Additionally, the first three ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration: Starfleet Academy'' books focus on characters who would later appear in this series. In fact, many StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels make a ContinuityNod or three to the series. It rarely reciprocates, but ''New Frontier'' can certainly be counted part of the mainstream StarTrekNovelVerse through BroadStrokes, due to the sheer number of references and cameos.

* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Calhoun had a rather interesting solution to the ''Kobayashi Maru''.

* ''Cutting Ties'' (part of Mirror Universe, book 2 ''Obsidian Alliances'')

* ''Homecoming'' (part of Mirror Universe, book 3 ''Shards and Shadows'')

Additionally, the first three ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration: Starfleet Academy'' books focus on characters who would later appear in this series. In fact, many StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels make a ContinuityNod or three to the series. It rarely reciprocates, but ''New Frontier'' can certainly be counted part of the mainstream StarTrekNovelVerse due to the sheer number of references and cameos.

* DuelingScar: Mueller has one. Bonus points for actually being shown swordfighting recreationally in the holodeck. Further points for mentioning she got it at Heidelberg, implying that it was the result of a (probably even more illegal then than it is now) ''mensur'' fencing duel--one where the students don't where protective masks.

* PoweredArmor: The Bretheren are encased in such armor. It regulates their volcano-like body temperature, and includes powerful pulse weapons in their gloves. It does lack actual eyeholes, using instead infrared-type sensors, a weakness that the ''Excalibur'' and ''Trident'' can exploit. Another weakness is, of course, the tiny vents on the side of the helmet. Block that up, and watch them fall.

* InterspeciesRomance: A great many. Prominant examples include: Xenexian captain Calhoun/multiple partners (and he eventually marries a human), Xyon/Kalinda (Xenexian/Thallonian), Burgoyne 172/Selar (Hermat/Vulcan), Burgoyne 172/[=McHenry=](Hermat/Human), Lefler/Si Cwan (Human/Thallonian). Lampshaded in ''Treason'', wherein the new villains are kidnapping cross-species hybrids to make bodies to put their intelligence into and infiltrate the Federation. [[spoiler:And apparently, Nechayev is in on it.]]

* DuelingScar: Mueller has one. Bonus points for actually being shown swordfighting recreationally in the holodeck.

** [[spoiler:Xenex]] gets knocked back to the Stone Age [[spoiler:Not that the tribal species had that far to go to begin with]] at the hands of the Brethren.

* YouFailBiologyForever: The Y chromosome [=McHenry=] apparently got from his mother...

* {{Unperson}}: Si Cwan declares his intention to do this to a suspected traitor. A soldier believed responsible for turning off New Thallon’s defence network and allowing a bombardment of plasma bombs is to be punished by having his existence wiped from all records, and his family ordered never to speak of him again or share the fate.

** In ''NewFrontier'' itself, Mick and Leanne Gold. Mick is introduced as the ''Grissom'''s conn officer, and later becomes the ''Trident's'' [[spoiler:before he was killed by the Brethren]]; his sister Leanne attended the Academy with Calhoun and Shelby [[spoiler:and she eventually went missing at the hands of the Borg]].

* DespairEventHorizon: Calhoun only ''thinks'' he hits this after the ''Grissom'' incident. He ''really'' hits it at the end of ''Blind Man's Bluff'', when [[spoiler:he returns home to Xenex to find pretty much every Xenexian except himself and his son dead or dying, thanks to the Brethren and the Visionary.]]

** Peter David has a habit of dropping in little references to his show SpaceCases, particularly in the first few books. Select shouts include three appearances by the actors, one cameo from a character, as well as a city bearing the name of one of the characters.

* DesignatedVillain: Edward Jellico, until "After the Fall".

* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Calhoun had a rather interesting solution.