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* MagneticHero: Captain Kirk and Darth Nemesis. The former is pretty much the only reason why the Federation keeps fighting, whereas the latter is charismatic enough to make the Romulans like him despite him having conquered them and destroyed a continent on Romulus with a superlaser, and later to persuade [[spoiler: a formerly Imperial sector fleet to oppose the Empire itself.]]
* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:The ''Emperor's Will'', the flagship of Nemesis's fleet, is renamed the ''Imperator's Will'' to signify independence from TheEmpire and loyalty to the Imperator of the Imperium. More importantly, Nemesis's sector fleet transforming from just a part of the evil [[TheEmpire Galactic Empire]] to the independent (but still evil) "New Empire" and then to the genuinely benevolent "Imperium".]]

* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Darkstar's enslaving collars clearly aren't very well-designed.]]]

* VillainTeamUp: What happens at first when [[spoiler:Reinforcements from the Galactic Empire, led by Thrawn and Darth Vader, arrive to back up Darth Nemesis.]] It soon dissolves into EnemyCivilWar.

Shortly after the events of ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', an Imperial sector fleet under the command of a Sith Lord named Darth Nemesis is transported to the Star Trek galaxy of the late 24th century. It turns out that they arrived in the middle of Borg space, and that they are not only in a different galaxy, but far in the future.

** The Battle of Romulus starts with an advantage to the Federation remnant, attacking the fairly weak forces defending Romulus. Then the whole story is completely changed by the arrival of [[spoiler:a fresh, new Imperial sector fleet led by TheChessmaster Grand Admiral Thrawn, ''doubling'' the number of Imperial ships in the Milky Way.]] Then Nemesis's sector fleet arrives. The Federation remnant enters the battle with 600 ships, and leaves it with ''nineteen''.

* TheEmpire: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]], the Galactic Empire from the Star Wars galaxy. Darth Nemesis at first founds a very similar organisation; later he renames it the New Empire, while being under the impression that he is forever out of touch with the original Galactic Empire. The New Empire, unsurprisingly, is fairly similar to the original Empire. When [[spoiler:reinforcements from the Empire arrive in the StarTrek galaxy]], Nemesis declares the New Empire to be his own Imperium, which is a decisive factor in…

* EvilCounterpart: There are two beings in the story who can be truly described as godlike: Q, who is largely benevolent, and [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]], [[OmnicidalManiac who wants to destroy the entirety of existence]].

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: TheEmpire, TheEmperor, TheFederation, [[EvilOverlord Dark Lords]]… yeah, there's a lot of this.
* FascistButInefficient: The Shadowfleet, a secret force devoted to protecting TheFederation, is billed as this powerful hidden menace, but their [[MoralEventHorizon brutal destruction of Remus]] only gets the EvilOverlord Darth Nemesis to destroy the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon Empire]] (thus weakening the Federation remnant's greatest potential allies) and inspires the Romulans to view Nemesis as their protector and avenger.

* ForgottenSuperweapon: The ''Excalibur'', a war machine from one of the ancient Sith Empires that fought TheRepublic in the ''Star Wars'' universe. Its technological level is at least equal to that of the Empire. Without it, the Federation remnant would no longer exist. But it's also a bit of a subversion: despite saving the Federation fleet, the Battle of Romulus demonstrates that it isn't nearly as powerful as Kirk needs it to be.

* GreyAndGreyMorality: Between the Federation remnant and the Imperium. There are very sympathetic characters on both sides: the crew of the USS Enterprise (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty et cetera), Princess Leia and Rogue Squadron on the side of the Federation remnant, and Captain Tarsi, Gideon Kittaine and [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker]] on the side of the Imperium.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Naturally. It includes Star Trek: The Next Generation, the crew of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series, and most of the characters from the six ''Star Wars'' films. This is a really, really big fanfic.

* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Darkstar's enslaving collars clearly aren't very well-designed.]]

* TheWorfEffect: The author ''loves'' this. To establish how powerful Nemesis's Imperial fleet is, it single-handedly destroys hundreds upon hundreds of Borg cubes—remember, the Borg, the nigh-unstoppable cyborg menace—as soon as it enters the Milky Way. Later, it takes over the Romulan Star Empire, almost exterminates the Klingons, annexes the Federation, and crushes the Dominion in the only battle between the two. Furthermore, Nemesis is scared by [[TheEmperor Emperor]] [[EvilOverlord Palpatine]]. And ''then'' Palpatine himself is merely a tool of [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]].
** The Shadowfleet, in a way. A powerful fleet of cloaked warships ready to use the most underhanded methods... cannot confront the Empire directly [[spoiler: and are wiped out as soon as discovered by them.]]
** Also, remember when the ''Emperor's Will'', the 19km-long Super Star Destroyer with a superlaser capable of melting continents, was the most powerful war machine in the Milky Way galaxy? Yeah, well, then we meet the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Death Star]], protected from supernatural tampering by TheEmperor himself. It exists in canon, but still, it's pretty clear that, as far as superweapons go, TheEmperor wins hands down.

* CompleteMonster: Several characters could likely be seen as this, including Lord Hieronymus Darkstar, the Borg Queen, Emperor Palpatine and [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]].
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many, but Kirk's rallying of Starfleet [[spoiler:after the Battle of Sector 001]] is perhaps the most magnificent.
** [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker's escape from and destruction of the Orion Syndicate]] also scores pretty high on the list.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: RobotBuddy R2-D2 (a.k.a. Artoo), to a guard at Darkstar's palace.
--> “And where might you be going?” he asked tersely.
--> Artoo whistled and beeped a long explanation that involved the guard, his mother, a randy Gammorean and duct tape.

* EvilIsSexy: Mara thinks this of Darth Nemesis [[spoiler:and is therefore disappointed when he is redeemed]].

* MagnificentBastard: Khan Noonien Singh pulls this off to a T. He even fools [[spoiler:Grand Admiral Thrawn]]!

* MoralEventHorizon: Arguably, the Federation Shadowfleet's destruction of Remus. Darth Nemesis's retaliatory destruction of the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS, though still evil, is more acceptable because Nemesis thought that the Klingons were responsible for what happened to Remus.

* Forgotten Superweapon: The ''Excalibur'', a war machine from one of the ancient Sith Empires that fought TheRepublic in the ''Star Wars'' universe. Its technological level is at least equal to that of the Empire. Without it, the Federation remnant would no longer exist. But it's also a bit of a subversion: despite saving the Federation fleet, the Battle of Romulus demonstrates that it isn't nearly as powerful as Kirk needs it to be.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: For a certain value of "goodness". When the hulking, black-armoured cyborg Darth Vader appears, the Romulan admiral thinks that Vader is just a thug, not a proper Sith Lord like the young, handsome Darth Nemesis.

* DefensiveFeintTrap: Luring the enemy right into a ColonyDrop—on a ''Star Destroyer''. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ''And it works.'']]
* TheDon: Lord Darkstar of the Orion Syndicate.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Darth Vader, to Grand Admiral Thrawn.
* TheEmpire: Obviously, the Galactic Empire from the Star Wars galaxy. Darth Nemesis at first founds a very similar organisation; later he renames it the New Empire, while being under the impression that he is forever out of touch with the original Galactic Empire. When [[spoiler:reinforcements from the Empire arrive]], Nemesis declares it to be the Imperium, which is a decisive factor in…
* EnemyCivilWar: The Imperium which Darth Nemesis establishes in the Milky Way galaxy clashes with [[spoiler:the Imperial (i.e. part of the actual Galactic Empire) reinforcements led by Grand Admiral Thrawn]]. It's kicked off in a pretty spectacular fashion, with a huge space-battle between a Star Destroyer of Nemesis's Imperium and [[spoiler:an actual Imperial Star Destroyer]]. On the other hand, there's a serious case of GreyAndGreyMorality between the Imperium and [[LaResistance Kirk's Federation remnant]].

* TheFederation: The United Federation of Planets. When it faces off against Darth Nemesis's offensive, it's almost immediately overrun, but its remnants are still putting up a fight.

* GoodIsImpotent: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Spectacularly]] averted by [[spoiler:the redeemed Luke Skywalker]].
* TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:Imperator Luke Skywalker of [[TheKingdom the Imperium]]]] is shaping up to be one of these.

* IdiotBall: Kirk attacks Romulus (effectively Nemesis's capital), engaging in open battle with Nemesis. Given that he only has 600 ships left and that Nemesis's fleet has used its overwhelming technological advantage to crush them easily whenever they engaged it, this seems to be a ''ridiculously stupid'' idea which probably exists purely so that Kirk goes off on his own out of despair, which is needed for the plot.

* IdiotBall: Kirk attacks Romulus (effectively Nemesis's capital), engaging in open battle with Nemesis. Given that he only has 600 ships left and that Nemesis's fleet has used its overwhelming technological advantage to crush them easily whenever they engaged it, this seems to be a ''ridiculously stupid'' idea which probably exists purely so that Kirk goes off on his own out of despai, which is needed for the plot.

** The Battle of Romulus starts with an advantage to the Federation remnant, attacking the fairly weak forces defending Romulus. Then the whole story is completely changed by the arrival of [[spoiler:a fresh, new Imperial sector fleet led by TheChessmaster Grand Admiral Thrawn, ''doubling'' the number of Imperial ships in the Milky Way.]] Then Nemesis's sector fleet arrives. The Federation remnant enters the battle with 600 ships, and leaves it with 19.

* SmugSnake: Lord Hieronymus Darkstar isn't nearly as tough as he thinks he is. Khan has something of this characteristic when he confronts Darth Vader.

* CompleteMonster: Several characters could likely be seen as this, including Lord Darkstar, the Borg Queen, Emperor Palpatine and [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]].

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:

* HeelFaceTurn: Most importantly, [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker. Also, his Imperial fleet turns from just another group of Palpatine's minions to a new, independent Imperium which is a genuinely positive force, even clashing with [[TheEmpire the Galactic Empire]].]]

* IronicEcho: The Borg when they first encounter Nemesis's fleet, and Nemesis when his fleet [[spoiler:destroys Unimatrix 001, the heart of the Borg Collective.]]
--> “We ARE THE BORG, YOUR TECHONOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND PREPARE TO BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.”

* MagneticHero: Captain Kirk and Darth Nemesis. The former is pretty much the only reason why the Federation keeps fighting, whereas the latter is charismatic enough to [[spoiler:get a formerly Imperial fleet to oppose the Empire itself.]]
* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:The ''Emperor's Will'', the flagship of Nemesis's fleet, is renamed the ''Imperator's Will'' to signify independence from TheEmpire and loyalty to the Imperator of the Imperium. More importantly, the Milky Way Imperials' territory being the Empire then the New Empire then the Imperium.]]

Artoo whistled and beeped a long explanation that involved the guard, his mother, a randy Gammorean and duct tape.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: For a certain vavlue of "goodness". When the hulking, black-armoured cyborg Darth Vader appears, the Romulan admiral thinks that Vader isn't a proper Sith Lord next to the young, handsome Darth Nemesis.

[[spoiler:Darth Nemesis is eventually revealed to be a fallen Luke Skywalker, who instead of jumping as in the canon timeline, joined Darth Vader at Bespin.]] The Imperial fleet sets out to find a way back to their galaxy, securing their position and gathering information by attacking the Romulans and the Federation: or at least, it starts that way; when they discover that they can't get home, they conquer for conquest's sake. Meanwhile, [[TheCaptain Captain]] [[TheKirk James T. Kirk]] (largely TheHero) and [[Nakama his crew]] find themselves in the 24th century as well, and end up rallying the Federation and its allies against [[TheEmpire the Galactic Empire]]. In the background, the nigh-omnipotent Q plays a game of chess with a mysterious silver-eyed adversary, using pieces that represent the various forces involved. All of this takes place against the backdrop of an impending universal apocalypse, brought on by the Federation's abuse of time travel.

Shortly after the events of ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', an Imperial fleet under the command of a Sith Lord named Darth Nemesis is transported to the Star Trek Galaxy of the late 24th century. It turns out that they arrived in the middle of Borg space, and that they are not only in a different galaxy, but far in the future.

[[spoiler:Darth Nemesis is eventually revealed to be a fallen Luke Skywalker, who instead of jumping as in the canon timeline, joined Darth Vader at Bespin. They set out to find a way back to their galaxy, securing their position and gathering information by attacking the Romulans and the Federation. Meanwhile, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew find themselves in the 24th century as well, and end up rallying the Federation and its allies against the Imperial forces. In the background, the nigh-omnipotent Q plays a game of chess with a mysterious silver-eyed adversary, using pieces that represent the various forces involved. All of this takes place against the backdrop of an impending universal apocalypse, brought on by the Federation's abuse of time travel]].

* TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:Imperator Luke Skywalker of the Imperium]] is shaping up to be one of these.

* HeelFaceTurn: Most importantly, [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker. Also, his Imperial fleet turns from just another group of Palpatine's minions to a new, independent Imperium which is a genuinely positive force, even clashing with the Galactic Empire.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many, but Kirk's rallying of Starfleet [[spoiler:after the Battle of Sector 001]] is perhaps the most magnificent.
** [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker's escape from and destruction of the Orion Syndicate]] also scores pretty high on the list.

* ImprovisedWeapon: a lot of the Starfleet (all that remains) is fitted with additional weapons. Also, see DefensiveFeintTrap, above.
* IronicEcho: The Borg when they first encounter Nemesis's fleet, and Nemesis when his fleet destroys Unimatrix 001, the heart of the Borg Collective.

* OhCrap: Kirk, when [[spoiler:a new, entire, fresh Imperial sector fleet]] arrives during the Battle of Romulus—and again during the same battle, when Nemesis reinforces them, cutting off their escape.

* CurbStompBattle: The Sith Lord Darth Nemesis versus the greatest hundred Klingon warriors. Also, [[spoiler: Luke versus the cybernetically enhanced Dum and Dee, during the escape from Darkstar's palace.]]
** On a larger scale, Imperial technology—a hyperdrive that can travel across a whole galaxy within days rather than decades like the warp drive, hypermatter reactors powerful enough to keep hyperdrive running, and turbolasers and proton torpedoes which easily overpower their enemies's weapons, to name but a few—means that Nemesis's takeover of the entire Alpha Quadrant proceeds without much difficulty.

* Forgotten Superweapon: The ''Excalibur'', a war machine from one of the ancient Sith Empires that fought TheRepublic in the ''Star Wars'' universe. Without it, the Federation remnant would no longer exist.

* TheWorfEffect: To establish how powerful Nemesis's Imperial fleet is, it single-handedly destroys hundreds upon hundreds of Borg cubes—remember, the Borg, the nigh-unstoppable cyborg menace—as soon as it enters the Milky Way. Later, it takes over the Romulan Star Empire, almost exterminates the Klingons, annexes the Federation, and crushes the Dominion in the only battle between the two. Then [[TheChessmaster Grand Admiral Thrawn]] arrives, and Nemesis is terrified.

** Also, remember when the ''Emperor's Will'', the 19km-long Super Star Destroyer with a superlaser capable of melting continents, was the most powerful war machine in the galaxy? Yeah, well, then we meet the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Death Star]].

* BiggerBad: Despite being the most powerful villains in the story, Palpatine and [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]] have virtually no direct impact on the plot. A more plausible candidate for BigBad is Grand Admiral Thrawn.

* RousingSpeech: Many, many, many—especially by James Kirk, Darth Nemesis and [[spoiler:the redeemed Luke Skywalker]].

* CurbStompBattle: Darth Nemesis versus the greatest hundred Klingon warriors. Also, [[spoiler: Luke versus the cybernetically enhanced Dum and Dee, during the escape from Darkstar's palace.]]
** On a larger scale, Imperial technology means that Nemesis's takeover of the entire Alpha Quadrant proceeds without much difficulty.

* DefensiveFeintTrap: Luring the enemy right into a ColonyDrop.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Naturally. It includes Star Trek: The Next Generation, the crew of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series, and most of the characters from the six Star Wars films. This is a really, really big fanfic.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]], Khan Noonien Singh and Grand Admiral Thrawn.

* TheWorfEffect: To establish how powerful Nemesis's Imperial fleet is, it single-handedly destroys hundreds upon hundreds of Borg cubes—remember, the Borg, the nigh-unstoppable cyborg menace—as soon as it enters the Milky Way. Later, it takes over the Romulan Star Empire, almost exterminates the Klingons, annexes the Federation, and crushes the Dominion in the only battle between the two.

* MoralityKitchenSink: [[TheEmpire The Galactic Empire]], the Borg Queen and the Orion Syndicate are unambiguously evil, although even they are surpassed by [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]]. Then there's the Imperium, which is a steadily lightening shade of grey. There's also the very morally ambiguous Shadowfleet, a secret army which uses very questionable means to defend TheFederation. On the white end of the scale, there's the Klingons and the Federation remnant, but [[GoodIsImpotent their only real success is staying alive]].

* TheEmpire: Obviously, the Galactic Empire. Darth Nemesis at first founds a very similar organisation; later, as part of his gradual HeelFaceTurn, he renames it the New Empire, while being under the impression that he is forever out of touch with the original Galactic Empire. When [[spoiler:reinforcements from the Empire arrive]], Nemesis declares it to be the Imperium, which is a decisive factor in…
* EnemyCivilWar: The Imperium that Darth Nemesis (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker]]) establishes in the Milky Way galaxy doesn't get on well with [[spoiler:the Imperial (i.e. part of the actual Galactic Empire) reinforcements led by Grand Admiral Thrawn]]. It's kicked off in a pretty spectacular fashion, with a huge space-battle between a Star Destroyer of Nemesis's Imperium and [[spoiler:an actual Imperial Star Destroyer]]. On the other hand, there's a serious case of GreyAndGreyMorality between the Imperium and [[LaResistance Kirk's Federation remnant]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After the death of the Borg Queen, the Borg pull off one of these.]]

* GreyAndGreyMorality: Between the Federation remnant and the Imperium of [[spoiler:the redeemed Luke Skywalker]].

* BiggerBad: Despite being the most powerful villains in the story, Emperor Palpatine and [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]] have virtually no direct impact on the plot. A more plausible candidate for BigBad is Grand Admiral Thrawn.

* CurbStompBattle: Darth Nemesis versus the greatest hundred Klingon warriors. Also, [[spoiler: Luke versus the cybernetically enhanced Dum and Dee, during the escape from Darkstar's palace.]] On a larger scale, Imperial technology means that Nemesis's takeover of the entire Alpha Quadrant proceeds without much difficulty.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many, but Kirk's rallying of Star Fleet [[spoiler:after the Battle of Sector 001]] is perhaps the most magnificent.

* EnemyCivilWar: The Imperium that Darth Nemesis (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker]]) establishes in the Milky Way galaxy doesn't get on well with [[spoiler:the Imperial (i.e. part of the actual Galactic Empire) reinforcements led by Grand Admiral Thrawn]]. It's kicked off in a pretty spectacular fashion, with a huge space-battle between a Star Destroyer of Nemesis's Imperium and [[spoiler:an actual Imperial Star Destroyer]]. On the other hand, there's a serious case of GreyAndGreyMorality between the Imperium, which is pretty much TheKingdom, and [[LaResistance Kirk's Federation remnant]].

* FascistButInefficient: The Shadowfleet, a secret force devoted to protecting TheFederation, is billed as this powerful hidden menace, but their [[MoralEventHorizon brutal destruction of Remus]] only gets the EvilOverlord Darth Nemesis to destroy the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon Empire]] (thus depriving the Federation remnant of allies) and inspires the Romulans to view Nemesis as their protector and avenger.

* MoralityKitchenSink: The Galactic Empire, the Borg Queen and the Orion Syndicate are unambiguously evil, although even they are surpassed by [[spoiler:Gary Mitchell]]. Then there's the Imperium, which is a steadily lightening shade of grey. There's also the very morally ambiguous Shadowfleet, a secret army which uses very questionable means to defend TheFederation. On the white end of the scale, there's the Klingons and the Federation remnant, but [[GoodIsImpotent their only real success is staying alive]].

* SmugSnake: Lord Hieronymus Darkstar isn't nearly as tough as he thinks he is.

* TheStarsAreGoingOut: By the galaxy cluster.

* CompleteMonster: Several characters could likely be seen as this, including Lord Darkstar, the Borg Queen, Palpatine and [[spoiler:Garry Mitchel]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many, but Kirk's rallying of Star Fleet [[spoiler: after the Battle of Sector 001]] is perhaps the most magnificent.
* AGodAmI: Q believes this. So does [[spoiler:Garry Mitchel]].

* SceneryGorn: A number of the battle scenes qualify, as does the Empire's [[spoiler:Base Delta Zero on Quo'nos]].
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Gary Mitchel]] and Grand Admiral Thrawn.