Line #3 Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/350px-uss_bajor_7954.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:The USS ''Bajor'' on patrol.]]
3	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9733520/1/Bait-and-Switch Bait and Switch]]'' is a ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fanfic by Tropers/{{StarSword}}-C, and a {{novelization}} of his Foundry mission series [[Recap/StarTrekOnlineFoundryBaitAndSwitch of the same title]], starring his Federation Tactical Officer character from the game.
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5	Captain Kanril Eleya is the commanding officer of the ''Galaxy''-class starship USS ''Bajor'' and is on a survey mission when the ship is reassigned to the Beta Ursae region around Deep Space 9 for civil defense. What is expected to mostly be a routine show-the-flag mission becomes vastly more critical when the Orion Syndicate raids backwater planets all over the sector block and kills or kidnaps sixteen thousand people. Eleya's ship is reassigned again to a task force mounting a counteroffensive.
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7	What started as just one FanFic featuring Eleya grew into a full-on [[TheVerse 'verse]] of its own comprising a number of works featuring Tropers/StarSword's characters from the game. Sorted by character, then by InUniverse date:
8	[[index]]
9	* Captain Kanril Eleya (Federation Starfleet):
10	** ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'': Two-parter. When Jake Sisko asks Future!Eleya why she joined Starfleet, Eleya fills him in on some of her {{backstory}}.
11	** "Fanfic/TheUniverseDoesntCheat": One-shot. After getting her first command [[YouAreInCommandNow because everyone senior to her was assimilated]], Eleya takes the ''KobayashiMaru'' Test to formalize her right to command.
12	** "Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans": One-shot. Eleya takes command of the USS ''Bajor'' for its maiden voyage.
13	** ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch\|STO}}'' (this page)
14	** "Fanfic/PastContinuous": One-shot adapting [[http://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission:_Of_Bajor "Of Bajor"]], collab with Gulberat. Eleya works with Admiral Tayben Berat during the occupation of Deep Space 9 by time-shifted Dominion forces.
15	** "Fanfic/AnAnomalousNightmare": One-shot. The ''Bajor'' becomes trapped in an anomaly en route to New Romulus.
16	** "Fanfic/TheRoadNotTaken": A WhatIf of Eleya set in 2409, where she stayed in the Bajoran Militia and became a captain (O-3) rather than transferring to Starfleet and becoming a captain (O-6).
17	** ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'': Two-parter. The ''Bajor'' takes part in a test of a sensor array and is thrown into fluidic space when something GoesHorriblyWrong.
18	** ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'': {{Novelization}} of the Cryptic mission "The Other Side". The ''Bajor'' gets dispatched to deal with incursions from the MirrorUniverse.
19	** ''Fanfic/TheHeadhunt'': Two-parter. The ''Bajor'' responds to a reported break-in at Facility 4028, and security chief Lieutenant Dul'krah, Clan Korekh is assigned to investigate.
20	** "Fanfic/{{Frostbite}}": One-shot. The ''Bajor'' drops Tess Phohl and Birail Riyannis off on an uninhabited world to investigate ruins while they go deal with a distress call, and the away team is captured by the Breen.
21	** "Fanfic/ToAbsentFriends": One-shot. Eleya mourns the death of her old friend T'Var in a traditional Bajoran manner during the Bajoran Day of Remembrance.
22	** ''Fanfic/TwoSidesOfACoin'': Two-parter: The ''Bajor'' is diverted from the Delta Quadrant and encounters an OldFlame of Eleya's.
23	** "Fanfic/LastRights": One-shot. When a MauveShirt from the ''Bajor'' is killed on Kobali Prime, the Kobali ask for the body to turn him into one of them. Eleya has to decide what to do about it.
24	** ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness'': Eleya delivers a peace proposal to the Vaadwaur, then becomes entangled with the Borg.
25	** ''Fanfic/BeatTheDrumsOfWar'': {{Novelization}} of the Cryptic mission "Blood of the Ancients", and a CrisisCrossover. The Iconians launch their invasion, and Eleya is assigned to a task force under Admiral D'trel that hopes to stop them.
26	** "Fanfic/MistletoeOnMirhassa"
27	** "Fanfic/BrotherOnBrotherDaughterOnMother": Eleya and Lieutenant Rachel Connor attack a Borg outpost and run into a temporal entanglement.
28	** ''Fanfic/DidntExpectThat'': Agent Franklin Drake of Section 31 warns Eleya that "the Albino" wants her dead.
29	** "Fanfic/ShortestWarEver"
30	** "Fanfic/RemembranceOfTheFallen": One-shot {{crossover}} with ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters'', with a FramingDevice of Takeshi6's character Tiana Lanstar in 2413 recalling how Eleya tutored her and her now-deceased wife at Starfleet Academy in 2403, and helped her celebrate the Bajoran Day of Remembrance.
31	* Captain Brokosh (Klingon Defense Force):
32	** ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'': {{Novelization}} of the Cryptic mission "Second Star to the Right, Straight on 'til Morning". The IKS ''[=mupwI'=]'' leads a Klingon Defense Force raid on Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.
33	** ''Fanfic/StrangeTimesAreUponUs'': Brokosh and crew accidentally transport themselves to 1859 Earth. HilarityEnsues.
34	* ''Khre'Riov'' Morgan t'Thavrau (Romulan Republican Force):
35	** ''Fanfic/LegacyOfChRihan'': {{Novelization}} of the Romulan tutorial. The harvest festival in i'Haanikh is interrupted by the Tal'Shiar, and Morgan is forced to reveal a past she's tried to forget for twenty-one years.
36	** ''Fanfic/EmaelMosekhesailho'': Two-parter. ''Arrain'' Sahuel t'Khnialmnae, Morgan's tactical officer, tells her backstory as an intelligence officer in the Tal'Shiar.
37	** "Fanfic/AenrhienVailiuri": One-shot. Morgan's ship travels into the Delta Quadrant and tangles with the Kazon. Doesn't end well for the Kazon.
38	** ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'': Two-parter with worffan101. Morgan and D'trel must play diplomat and forge a peace treaty with the Romulan Star Empire.
39	** "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn": One-shot. Lieutenant Commander Jaleh Khoroushi, Morgan's ops officer and Starfleet liaison, gets ADayInTheLimelight in a modified ChristmasEpisode.
40	** "Fanfic/FlaihhsamSSpahkh": Morgan visits the memorial to Ambassador Spock on Vulcan, and reminisces about meeting him in her childhood.
41	** "Fanfic/HeisheRinanovai": A chance find by looters in the ruins of Romulus leads to a personal revelation for Morgan.
42	[[/index]]
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44	The stories share characters and continuity with each other (cameos are somewhat common), and more recently with FanFics by fellow ''STO'' fan fiction author Worffan101. Kanril Eleya has also appeared in ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters'', which the author considers an AlternateUniverse.
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46	This page has the disambiguation "(STO)" appended to distinguish it from the trope BaitAndSwitch of same name.
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48	!!Tropes present in the original ''Bait and Switch'':
49	* AdaptationExpansion: The most prominent addition is the ''Bajor's'' crew and the various scenes of their interactions.
50	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Seeing as how it's canonically a major trade language in the Federation. A couple of Breen bit characters are specifically stated to be speaking "accented but intelligible Earth Standard English."
51	* TheAlternet: While listening to her security officer play his ''vodchakh'' in chapter eight, Eleya reflects on having watched professional ''vodchakhim'' on something called "the extranet".
52	* AttackPatternAlpha: Eleya refers to both "attack pattern Picard Lambda" and "defensive pattern Kirk Alpha" in early fights.
53	* BattleCouple: Chapter eight reveals that JG K'lak and Ensign [=McMillan=] from the ''Bajor's'' security department are one of these. Eleya doesn't want to break up their relationship but she does mention she's going to have [=McMillan=] moved to a different superior. [[spoiler:In the end she lets it slide after K'lak points out [=McMillan's=] job as his TargetSpotter also involves being his bodyguard, and [[BodyguardCrush them being in a relationship]] makes her ''more'' determined to guard him.]]
54	* BeamSpam: The full ten phaser banks of a ''Galaxy''-class starship pack a wallop when you're not constrained by a special effects budget.
55	* CallARabbitASmeerp: Downplayed and lampshaded. Eleya notes that Dul'krah's "vodchakh" is functionally very similar to a violin, although it has seven strings instead of four.
56	* CallBack: During the fight with the Jem'Hadar in chapter five Eleya flashes on the destruction of the USS ''Odyssey'' in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E26TheJemHadar "The Jem'Hadar"]], then takes steps to [[DefiedTrope prevent]] the ''Bajor'' from [[RammingAlwaysWorks suffering the same fate]].
57	* ContentWarnings: The version posted on the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' forums has a warning of minor sexual content above chapter four. It's Eleya mentioning [[EatingTheEyeCandy feeling her nipples hardening from seeing Gaarra working out]].
58	* ContinuityNod:
59	** In chapter three Eleya and Gaarra dance to ''alba ra'', Talarian electronic rock music that turned up in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman "Suddenly Human"]].
60	** In chapter eight Dul'krah plays the Fourth Concerto by Tor Jolan on his vodchakh. Tor Jolan was a Bajoran composer mentioned in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E23Crossover "Crossover"]].
61	** Chapter nine has Eleya recalling ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline's'' Featured Episode "Spectres" when Grell is identified as a Section 31 operative.
62	* CatapultNightmare: Eleya's recurring nightmare of an Orion attack on the Bajoran Militia frigate she was a noncommissioned officer on many years ago, where she nearly died. The occurrence in chapter one ends with her losing consciousness after being stabbed in the right kidney by an Orion matron.
63	* TheDeadHaveNames: Chapter eight opens with Eleya in the USS ''Bajor's'' morgue. In her narration she rattles off the names of the five members of her crew who died in the fights in chapters six and seven, and feels guilty that, with the exception of Crewman Cdebaat from Security, she didn't know any of them beyond that.
64	* DescriptionInTheMirror: Done in the first chapter to describe viewpoint character Eleya.
65	--> "As always, my dark green eyes are drawn first to [[ScarsAreForever the two angry pink lines across my left cheek]]."
66	* DidYouJustHaveSex: Eleya strolls onto the bridge after having a one night stand while ashore at Deep Space 9. Tess spots it immediately and gives her a look.
67	--> '''Eleya:''' What?\
68	'''Tess:''' What do you mean, ‘what,’ Eleya? You walk in here looking like a [[HoldYourHippogriffs grayth that just dined on prize alicorn]] and expect nobody to notice?
69	* DreamIntro: This and its side story ''Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans'' both open in Captain Kanril Eleya's recurring FlashbackNightmare of her being near-fatally stabbed defending her ship against a boarding action ten years earlier.
70	* DrinkingContest: Happens offscreen at Deep Space 9 between a Klingon ''Bajor'' crewman and his counterpart from a KDF ship, as an alternative to the former killing the latter for calling him a traitor. According to Dul'krah, both passed out after four shots of Romulan ale and had to be dragged home.
71	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Some details such as ranks are different in this story than in later ones. For example, Davos on Eleya's Bajoran Militia gun crew is said to have the rank of "crewman" in the first chapter, but he's identified as a private first class in "Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans".
72	* EatingTheEyeCandy: Eleya watching Gaarra pumping iron in the officers gym.
73	--> He runs a few quick reps as a warmup, then replaces the bar, ups the weight, and starts pumping the iron with a look of intense concentration on his face. 'Course his face isn’t the only thing I’m looking at--''Prophets, get your head out of the gutter, Eleya.''\
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75	Nope. Despite my best efforts I can feel my nipples hardening against my sports bra so I grab my water bottle and leave the room. Maybe we'd best just try to avoid being in the gym at the same time.
76	* EverythingIs3DPrintedInTheFuture: There is a brief mention that one of the supplies the USS ''Bajor'' takes on when she docks at Deep Space 9 is "replicator mass" (because replicating stuff from pure energy would require [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale frankly ludicrous amounts of power]]).
77	* EnsignNewbie: Ensign Esplin, the communications officer for most of the story, is on her first tour out of ROTC.
78	* ExoticExtendedMarriage: {{Inverted\|Trope}} with the Pe'khdar: Eleya mentions in an internal monologue that they don't practice marriage or even anything resembling a permanent relationship at all. Instead, children become the responsibility of the mother's entire clan.
79	* ExplosiveInstrumentation: A console on the ''Bajor's'' bridge explodes when a torpedo punches through the shields and hits the hull, injuring an ops noncom.
80	* FacePlant: Eleya arrives in Ten Forward and everyone within scrambles to attention. A drunken Bolian crewman trips over himself and faceplants.
81	* FailsafeFailure: {{Defied\|Trope}}. The ''Bajor'' is a testbed for a warp core redesigned to be much safer to operate than the first-run ''Galaxy''-class cores, such as on the ''Enterprise''-D. Instead of using lots of matter and antimatter in the chamber and relying on dilithium to moderate it, it simply uses the minimum amount required to keep the reaction going, which means a core shutdown just involves turning off the fuel. As a side benefit it's also more fuel-efficient, which is useful with the Federation engaged in multiple wars.
82	* FantasticArousal: Eleya gives a gasp when Gaarra strokes the ridges on her nose.
83	* FantasticNamingConvention: The Pe'khdar, a race created for the fic, give their names as "[Prefix]'[Suffix], Clan [X]". The prefix acts like a given name, while the suffix is passed from their same-sex parent. So, for example, the USS ''Bajor's'' security chief is Dul'krah, Clan Korekh.
84	* FantasticShipPrefix: When the TranslationConvention from the Romulan language is in effect, Romulan Republic ships use the prefix ch'M'R, for ch'Mol'Rihan (New Romulus), while Imperial Romulan and Tal'Shiar ships both use ch'R for ch'Rihan (Romulus). In Federation standard they use RRW and IRW respectively.
85	* FantasticSlurs[=/=]NicknamingTheEnemy: Multiple characters, though mainly Eleya, refer to the Orions as "greenskins" or "greenies". Eleya also once calls the Borg "boltheads". Meanwhile Senior Chief Athezra Darrod refers to the Klingons as "Klinks," a term [[FanNickname borrowed from STO fandom]].
86	* FireBreathingWeapon: During the away mission in chapter seven Eleya's tricorder picks up traces of fuel from a flamethrower, and she later inadvertently sets off said flamethrower's fuel tank with a grenade. Near the end of the chapter, a Bajoran Militia captain describes the Orion slave-raiders as having given up trying to break into a building that some Militiamen had barricaded themselves into. Instead, they used the flamethrower to set it on fire.
87	* FirstPersonPerspective: Eleya is both narrator and participant in the story.
88	* FutureFoodIsArtificial: Via replicators, and discussed at some length. Eleya favors cooked food over replicated, even going to the trouble of bringing back a takeout box of handmade jumja sticks from an eatery on Deep Space 9, and believes that replicated tastes artificial because it's exactly the same every time you eat it.
89	* GargleBlaster: The Hathon hammer, a cocktail made from one measure of Klingon bloodwine, two shots of kava juice, and one shot of Cardassian kanar. Eleya sips it slowly because like its name says, it hits like a hammer.
90	* HoldYourHippogriffs:
91	** When Eleya arrives back on the bridge after her one night stand with Gaarra, Tess remarks that she looks "like a [[labelnote:grayth]]cat[[/labelnote]] that just dined on prize [[labelnote:alicorn]]parakeet[[/labelnote]]."
92	** When Gaarra gets tongue-tied at the prospect of the ''Bajor'' having a Cardassian bartender in Ten Forward, said bartender says to him, "[[labelnote:vole]]cat[[/labelnote]] got your tongue, Commander Reshek?"
93	* HumansAreWhite: Averted; not even the aliens are consistently white. Eleya and Gaarra are light-skinned, but Birail has brown skin, and [=LtJG.=] Warragul Wirrpanda, the sole human among the ''Bajor's'' command crew, is of Australian Aboriginal descent.
94	* HypocrisyNod: Eleya mentions to Gaarra the morning after their second night together that she feels more than a little hypocritical about sleeping with him, since she's going to have to break up two of her {{Mauve Shirt}}s for violating Starfleet fraternization policy the exact same way (having sex with your direct subordinate).
95	* InSeriesNickname: Eleya usually calls Tesjha "Tess". Birail is "Biri".
96	* {{Infodump}}: A brief one at the start of chapter six explaining how warp factors work. Short version: up to warp nine, speed = ''c'' * warp factor ^(10/3). Above warp nine, it's a vertical asymptote to warp ten. This is straight out of the ''ST:TNG Technical Manual''.
97	* InterspeciesRomance: Ensign Kate [=McMillan=], a human female, and JG K'lak, a Klingon male.
98	* IntroductionByHookup: After an admin shift while the ''Bajor'' is docked at Deep Space 9, Eleya changes into civvies and goes out for dinner and a drink at Quark's, where she picks up another Bajoran named Gaarra and sleeps with him. Next morning before departure she walks into her ready room to meet her new ops officer, and you can guess the rest.
99	* IsThisThingStillOn: In chapter seven, after Ens. Kate [=McMillan=], acting as JG K'lak's TargetSpotter, is overheard through Eleya's combadge giving him a reference for a large stump that looked like K'lak's ... ''something'' (he fired before she could say what).
100	--> '''K'lak:''' ''(secondhand via [=McMillan's=] combadge)'' Ensign, what are you doing comparing a tree stump to my--\
101	'''[[NumberTwo Tess:]]''' [=McMillan=], you know your combadge is still transmitting, right?\
102	'''[=McMillan=]:''' OH GOD!\
103	'''Birail:''' ''(stifles laughter)''
104	* ItGetsEasier: Mocked when Ens. Esplin gets post-battle jitters after the ''Bajor'' rescues the SS ''Shargrash'' from some Jem'Hadar. Eleya calls her over for a friendly chat and has this to say:
105	---> “I’m not going to rely on cliché here: the first battle isn’t the hardest, it’s just the first. And frankly, as pathetic as that one was, I guarantee the next will be harder. You do your job and work with your crewmates and you get through. The rest is up to the Prophets.”
106	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: A narration version in chapter three. Eleya walks into her ready room [[IntroductionByHookup after her one-night stand]] to meet her new ops officer.
107	--> '''Eleya:''' Oh, ''hell''.\
108	'''Eleya (narrating):''' Standing at attention--not figuratively, thank the Prophets, that would've been just ''perfect''--is Gaarra, [[IntroductionByHookup the guy I went to bed with last night]].
109	* LudicrousGibs:
110	** In Eleya's nightmare, she's saved by an MP squad that uses a blast assault phaser to kill the matron attacking her. Her torso explodes and covers Eleya in gore.
111	** In chapter seven an Orion mook takes four phaser rifle shots simultaneously from Eleya's away team.
112	---> "His shield generator explodes with a shrieking crack and sends bits of him everywhere."
113	* MythologyGag: Chapter two has a brief mention of Eleya straightening the hem of her jacket as she stands up, something Creator/PatrickStewart frequently did on-camera that got nicknamed the Picard Maneuver.
114	* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: {{Inverted\|Trope}} when Eleya introduces herself to the audience in chapter one, since Bajorans' given and family names are [[FantasticNamingConvention given in reverse order]].
115	--> "My name is Eleya. Kanril Eleya."
116	* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Used many times, usually taking the form of "[character] swears". An example from chapter two:
117	--> "After a moment [Admiral Marconi] swears, crumples the report and angrily throws it over the railing where it bounces off the helmeted head of a Breen crewman standing at a kiosk across the way."
118	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Eleya beats an Orion matron to death in chapter seven, evidently flashing on the boarding action aboard the ''Kira Nerys'' where she was nearly killed. Actually, she beats the matron way past death and has to be tackled off the corpse by Tess.
119	* NotInFrontOfTheKid: {{Parodied\|Trope}} when Tess has her DidYouJustHaveSex reaction to Eleya's one night stand. Doubles as ThinkOfTheCensors given the {{NSFW}} content policies of the two sites it was first posted on.
120	--> '''Tess:''' So, how was he?\
121	'''Eleya:''' Mmmm. He was damn good.\
122	'''Tess:''' Details.\
123	'''Eleya:''' Not now, Tess, there are {{ensign\|Newbie}}s present.
124	* OhMyGods:
125	** Eleya being Bajoran, insert "Prophets" anytime a human would say "God".
126	** Tess once takes the name of "Phelha" in vain. The author's notes for that chapter explain Phelha as an Andorian war goddess, and that Tess herself is actually agnostic.
127	* TheOnlyOne: DoubleSubverted. Instead of being literally the only ship responding to Dreon VII, the ''Bajor'' is just the closest and fastest of the three ships responding and gets there fifteen minutes earlier, long enough for Eleya et al. to solve the problem on their own.
128	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Nalak Lang, the USS ''Bajor's'' answer to [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Guinan]], is an elderly Cardassian who lived through the Dominion's aborted attempt to exterminate his species in Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E25E26WhatYouLeaveBehind "What You Leave Behind"]]. His first wife and his children didn't make it.
129	* PardonMyKlingon: Played straight several times, with among other things Eleya dropping Bajoran curses such as ''"phekk"'' and ''"sher hahr kosst"'', but also inverted once: Eleya learned the word "schmuck" from an Academy classmate.
130	* PointDefenseless: Averted. The ''Bajor'' is able to pick off multiple incoming torpedoes with its phasers, and fighters are easy pickings.
131	* PrecisionFStrike: Gaarra manages to corner Eleya in the gym.
132	--> '''Gaarra:''' Well, look at it this way: You think it's any easier for me? You fucked your ops officer, ''I'' fucked ''my'' commanding officer.
133	* PresentTenseNarrative: The fic is told entirely from Eleya's perspective as the events happen.
134	* RammingAlwaysWorks: {{Defied\|Trope}}. Referencing the destruction of the USS ''Odyssey'' in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9: "The Jem'Hadar"]], a Jem attack ship tries to ram the ''Bajor''. Difference is, Eleya throws all power onto the navigational deflector, which is built for fending off kinetic impacts. The Jems only succeed in crippling their own ship, and a phaser shot to the torpedo bay is enough to finish them off.
135	* RankUp: Gaarra joins the ''Bajor's'' command crew because Eleya's previous ops officer, T'Var, was promoted off the ship and given her first command.
136	* RedShirt:
137	** Four unseen ''Bajor'' crewmen who were killed by a torpedo hit to deck 10 in chapter six.
138	** Zigzagged in chapter seven, which features four bit characters from the ''Bajor's'' security department (traditional redshirts) beaming down with Eleya, Tess, and Birail for an away mission. They end up with varying levels of characterization, two peel off early and act as a sniper and spotter, one gets shot in the second firefight but survives, and the last gets his neck broken by an Orion matron.
139	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder[=/=]StupidQuestionBait: In chapter nine Admiral Amnell Kree finishes a mission briefing and asks if there are any questions. Eleya snidely wonders aloud where they got an operational {{codename}} like [[OperationBlank "Blue Friday"]].
140	--> '''Kree:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Random number generator.]] Any ''pertinent'' questions?
141	* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Pointedly averted multiple times. For instance, JG Park swings the ''Bajor'' clear of an oncoming Orion battleship with "only" hundreds of meters to spare.
142	* SexyDiscretionShot: Used the first two times Eleya and Gaarra slept together.
143	** The first time the two of them didn't even make it out of Quark's. Cut to Eleya arriving on the ''Bajor's'' bridge the next morning.
144	** The second time they got as far as him unzipping her uniform jacket, then end chapter.
145	** Averted the third time, which doesn't cut to afterwards but instead just leaves it undescribed.
146	* ShootTheHostageTaker: Eleya orders Orion {{mooks}} to surrender. Mook grabs a fourteen-year-old girl and threatens to kill her. K'lak [[BoomHeadshot snipes him in the head]] from behind.
147	* ShoutOut:
148	** During The Nightmare, one-shot character Crewman Davos drops the line [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Bloody pirates."]]
149	** The above explanation of why replicator food tastes artificial is lifted from the ''Star Trek'' science book ''Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek''.
150	** At the start of chapter two Eleya's playing a holodeck adaptation of ''Literature/StarCarrier: Earth Strike''.
151	** In chapter six, Tess's and JG Park's "Conn, you gotta give me an Ivan." "Always wanted to try one!" exchange is borrowed from the pilot of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
152	** In chapter seven, Eleya takes a page out of Jack O'Neill (from the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "The First Commandment"), demanding of an admin petty officer who's being an ObstructiveBureaucrat if it says "Captain" anywhere on her uniform.
153	** One of the ships making up the Marduk Carrier Battle Group is the USS ''[[Series/BabylonFive Ivanova]]'', although InUniverse it's named for a captain who fought in the Earth-Romulan War.
154	* SnipingTheCockpit: During the battle over Dreon VII in chapter six, Tess hits the crew compartment of an Orion interceptor with one of the ''Bajor's'' aft phasers. A few minutes later she hits the bridge of an Orion corvette with a salvo of quantum torpedoes.
155	* TargetSpotter: Ens. Kate [=McMillan=] to JG K'lak during an away mission in chapter seven. Played for laughs during the second firefight of the chapter, where [=McMillan=]'s overheard giving the following instruction to K'lak:
156	--> "Reference, large stump that looks like your--" ''(K'lak shoots)''
157	* TranslationConvention: Gaarra's and Eleya's conversation in the first half of chapter four is mostly in the Kendran dialect of Bajoran, dubbed as English.
158	* TranslatorMicrobes: The universal translator has trouble dealing with the Gorn language for a couple seconds.
159	* UnevenHybrid: A minor character named Corpsman Watkins working in the ''Bajor's'' sickbay is mentioned to have some Betazoid blood.
160	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: The first chapter has this line when Eleya is facing a {{Stripperiffic}}ally clad Orion matron who likes to use knives:
161	--> "There’s a muffled thrum from somewhere above me as the [[WaveMotionGun spinal phaser cannon]] finally fires, then she’s upon me, having pulled two more knives from I’m-not-sure-I-want-to-know-where."
162	* WaveMotionGun: There's a mention that the ''Kira Nerys'' had a spinal phaser cannon that took a while for the bridge crew to bring to bear, during which the Orions managed to beam a few {{boarding part\|y}}ies aboard. But once they ''did'' get the target into the firing arc, they one-shotted it.
163	* TheWorfEffect: The USS ''Defiant'' is described as having been thoroughly trashed and under repairs by a rogue Cardassian legate playing warlord.
164	* WrittenSoundEffect: Eleya describes the sound of a grenade leaving a GrenadeLauncher as "a sound that goes something like ''choonk''".
165	* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: Used in chapter 9 when Eleya is inspecting the repairs made by her chief engineer to a hull breach.
166	--> '''Eleya:''' Will the repairs hold if we get into another firefight?\
167	'''Bynam:''' We replaced and sealed all of the damaged pressure hull plates to better than shipyard spec, ma’am. Triple-checked it myself.\
168	'''Eleya:''' I’ll take that as a maybe.\
169	'''Bynam:''' Ha! Little miss negative.
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171	!!Tropes present in SpinOff stories without their own pages:
172	* TaughtToHate: A considerable amount of ink is spilled in Rachel Connor's StoryArc on Earth-humans' dislike of genetic augments since the Eugenics Wars, to the point of teaching a severely slanted version of the Wars' history in schools. Rachel Connor was involuntarily turned into a genetic augment as an adult and struggles a lot with InternalizedCategorism over it, which she's gradually coaxed out of. In "Fanfic/FleshAndBlood", Kanril Eleya compares this to how she was taught in Bajoran temple school that "all Cardassians serve the Pah-Wraiths and all humans are cowards", which ended up putting her off of organized religion for most of a decade after she learned a more nuanced version of history from TheAlternet.

Context Fanfic / BaitAndSwitchSTO