History Literature / StarTrekNewFrontier

** To date, almost no details have been given about the Federation's war against the Selelvians and their allies, the Tholians (of all races, who were never mentioned in the series even ONCE prior to the event). Of note, after the war, Calhoun and Admiral Jellico are great friends, with no explanation given.

** Also in ''Double or Nothing,'' we get "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've been wanting to say this for ages]]...Fire at Will.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Referring to Will Riker, in a guest appearance.[[/labelnote]]"

** In of the novels, we get "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've been wanting to say this for ages]]...Fire at Will."

* {{Retcon}}: The TimeTravel hijinks of ''Double Time'' were introduced as a means of explaining an earlier continuity error, which saw Selar suffering what was apparently the LongestPregnancyEver. Turns out thanks to the {{Retcon}} that the central characters "missed" a year or two.

* 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.''

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Pretty much any story with warring factions seems to an allusion to the ArabIsraeliConflict. In "Cold Wars", the final result of this is shown, brutally and effectively: The planet they were warring on is now uninhabitable.

* CommonEyeColors: Calhoun's eyes are purple, but that's common for Xenexians. That said, he seems almost disappointed when he learns just how common they are.

Additionally, the first three ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration: Starfleet Academy'' books focus on characters who would later appear in this series. In fact, many Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels make a ContinuityNod or three to the series. It rarely reciprocates, and later books offer different fates for certain characters than the "mainstream" novel continuity, but ''New Frontier'' can largely be counted part of the mainstream Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse through BroadStrokes, due to the sheer number of references and cameos.

* AscendedExtra: Shelby, Selar, Lefler and Jellico were all guest (or in Lefler's case, minor) characters on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration.''

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: It is quite possibly the greatest example of such in the history of fiction, let alone the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. Several books {{Lampshade}} each of the crew of the ''Excalibur'' would be the resident CloudCuckooLander on their vessel but together they form a formidable but insane group.

* TrueCompanions: The crew of the ''Excalibur'' is probably the single closest crew in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse and only the original ''Enterprise'' crew probably comes close to being willing to go to the bat for each other.

* {{Nakama}}: The crew of the ''Excalibur'' is probably the single closest crew in the StarTrekExpandedUniverse and only the original ''Enterprise'' crew probably comes close to being willing to go to the bat for each other.

''Star Trek: New Frontier'' is a series of novels from the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse written by Creator/PeterDavid. Set contemporaneously with ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', it follows the most {{badass}} captain in Starfleet history, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, and his rather unorthodox crew in their journeys of Sector 221-G, Thallonian Space. The Thallonian Empire has fallen, and Calhoun and crew have been sent in to show the flag, and hopefully get the region back on its feet.

** Jelico thinks Captain Kirk was a blowhard who liked to show just how little he thought of Star Fleet Command by filing the most rediculous reports--like that one time that he claimed someone had stolen his first officer's brain . . .

'''Novels, Short Stories, and Comics in the series:'''

* ''Once Burned'' (Captain's Table, book 5)
* ''Double or Nothing'' (Double Helix, book 5)

* ''Double Time'' (comic)
* ''Cold Wars'' (Gateways, book 6)
* ''Death After Life'' (part of Gateways, book 7 ''What Lay Beyond'')
* ''Being Human''
* ''Gods Above''
* ''Stone And Anvil''
* ''No Limits'' (short story anthology)
* ''Stone Cold Truths'' (part of ''Tales of the Dominion War'')

* ''Pain Management'' (part of ''Tales from the Captain's Table'')

* ''Cutting Ties'' (part of ''Literature/StarTrekMirrorUniverse'', book 2 ''Obsidian Alliances'')
* ''Turnaround'' (comic)
* ''Homecoming'' (part of ''Literature/StarTrekMirrorUniverse'', book 3 ''Shards and Shadows'')

* ''The Returned'' (3-part eNovel; release date Summer 2015)

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: It is quite possibly the greatest example of such in the history of fiction, let alone the StarTrekExpandedUniverse. Several books {{Lampshade}} each of the crew of the ''Excalibur'' would be the resident CloudCookooLander on their vessel but together they form a formidable but insane group.

* ActorAllusion: Morgan Primus, who is apparently "Number One" from the original Star Trek pilot (played by Majel Barrett). A RunningGag has her constantly compared to ''every'' character Majel Barrett played. And she eventually ends up inside the computer (Barrett also provided the computer voice in modern Trek).
** In ''Stone and Anvil'', Picard is asked if he runs Starfleet Academy. He responds he wouldn't want to run a [[Film/{{X-Men}} school of gifted youngsters]].

* AscendedExtra: Shelby, Selar, Lefler and Jellico were all guest characters on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* CatFolk: M'Ress.

* NighInvulnerability: Morgan Primus.

** 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. (That would be Catalina City, on Saturn. A real [[Creator/JewelStaite jewel]] of a city.)

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

-->“So let us be clear with one another, Admiral. I have one life, not nine. I have never been killed by curiosity, my parents do not live in a cat house, my mother did not rock me as an infant in a cat's cradle, the preferred Caitian method of self-defence is not cat-boxing, I do not deposit my earnings into a kitty, if I am trying to be delicate about a subject I do not pussyfoot around - shall I go on?”

** Admiral Jellico cites Starfleet Article 14, Section 31 to gain control of a situation in which a Starfleet ship was seconds away from destroying the ''Excalibur''. That's the same part of the Charter that gives [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Luther Sloan]] his job.