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Part of the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, continuing the adventures of most of the original TNG characters and the ''Enterprise'' post-''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. Books presently include:

* ''Death In Winter'' (parts of which take place before the events of ''Nemesis'')
* ''Resistance'' (kicks off the "Borg War" storyline that continues through the next three novels and sets the stage for the CrisisCrossover ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'')
* ''Q&A''
* ''The Sky's The Limit'' (short story collection)
* ''Before Dishonor''
* ''Q Are Cordially Uninvited...'' (novella)
* ''Greater Than The Sum''
* (The ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' trilogy slots in here)
* ''Losing The Peace''
* ''Paths of Disharmony'', the Next Generation entry in the ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact'' series.
** Note that Picard and crew also have a role in other ''Typhon Pact'' novels, such as ''Plagues of Night'' and ''Brinkmanship''.
* ''Indistinguishable From Magic''
* (The ''Literature/StarTrekColdEquations'' trilogy comes after this).
* The novella ''The Stuff of Dreams''.
* (Books two and five of ''Literature/StarTrekTheFall'' come here).
* ''Takedown''
* ''Armageddon's Arrow''
* ''Star Trek: Prey'' trilogy
* ''Headlong Flight''
* ''Hearts and Minds''
* ''Available Light''
* ''Collateral Damage''
* (The ''Literature/StarTrekCoda'' Trilogy slots in here and concludes the Relaunch).

See also, ''Literature/StarTrekATimeTo'', which is the series preceding this in the chronological adventures of the Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration crew.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AbortedArc: The end of ''Resistance'' seemed to be setting up T'Lana as a romantic interest for Worf, then ''Before Dishonor'' happened. He ended up with Jasminder Choudhury, instead.
** Anything to do with T'Lana, Zelik Leybenzon, and Miranda Kadohata is effectively this, as their actions during ''Before Dishonor,'' though forgiven by Picard, were seen by enough of the audience as crossing so great a line as to make them a poor fit for the ongoing cast. Kadohata lasted longer than the other two, whose departures are handled in the first chapters of ''Greater Than The Sum,'' but she leaves the ship at the end of ''Losing The Peace.''
* AFatherToHisMen: Picard, as always. But now in particular to T'Ryssa, who acutely reminds him of one of his "children" from his experience as Kamin.
* ArcWelding: ''Q & A'' retcons all but one appearance of Q into a decades-long GambitRoulette to prepare humanity for the SecretTestOfCharacter conducted by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Them]] (with the addition of "Parallels" as Q sent Worf through parallel universes to give him useful knowledge at the crucial moment). The only apparent exception is the Sherwood Forest thing, which Q claims was just because he "liked seeing [Picard] in tights", suggesting that it was just done for the hell of it.
** ''Greater Than The Sum'' puts forward explanations and suggestions to account for various discrepancies from across the Borg's appearances, to the point of having Kadohata at one point lampshade that these questions are being answered.
%%* ArchEnemy: The Borg Queen with Janeway, Picard, and Seven of Nine.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: In-universe and out. Fans had long speculated that when the Borg cut up the ''Enterprise'' back in "Q Who?" and took those eighteen crewmembers, they might've assimilated them. "Greater Than The Sum" confirms that, yes, they did.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The possible fate of Janeway after what seems to be her death; Lady Q is a bit vague about it. We know it has bottomless cups of black coffee so it can't be that bad, right? Eventually it's more or less confirmed when Janeway returns in ''The Eternal Tide'', a novel of the Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch.]]
* TheAtoner:
** Picard, for the destruction he wrought as Locutus. While he has come to terms with it since ''First Contact'', it understandably still drives him.
** Worf, for how his actions (saving Jadzia's life instead of the Cardassian spy Lasaran's) helped drag out the Dominion War when the information Lasaran had could probably have stopped it. As a result, he feels he doesn't deserve to be in a position of such authority as second-in-command of the ''Enterprise'' when Picard offers him the post.
** Geordi in his attempts to protect Seven of Nine, due to his failure to save the female Borg Reannon (which is a ContinuityNod to the TNG novel ''Vendetta'').
* AwesomeButImpractical: It's pointed out in ''Greater Than the Sum'' that Borg Cubes are essentially this, hinting that there's more to the Collective than a simple desire for efficiency after all.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: Zelik Leybenzon in ''Q&A'' is a DrillSergeantNasty to his men, and kind of a rude dick to Geordi while on-duty, but is perfectly friendly and sociable when everyone's hanging out in Ten Forward.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The race known only as ''Them'', who threaten to destroy the Universe because it's ''boring''. And they're only stopped when Picard ''laughs at the absurdity of it''.
* BreatherEpisode: ''Q&A''. And considering that it's about the end of the freaking Universe, that's really saying something about the other books, no?
* BrickJoke: At the beginning of ''Greater Than The Sum'', T'Ryssa mentions how she got herself hired on a freighter when she was a kid until Starfleet caught up with her. At the end, Zelik Leybenzon mentions the only real excitement he's had in his new assignment was when a freighter captain pulled a weapon and claimed he wasn't going to get in trouble again for hiring underage crewmen.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: T'Ryssa is deliberately as un-Vulcan as it's possible to be. Of course, in an organization like Starfleet, her nigh-inability to behave to their acceptable standards does her some serious problems, but if given half a chance, she proves capable.
* CallBack: Pretty much every Borg-related plot thread in the {{Canon}} (and a few from the non-canon, like ''Vendetta'') gets referenced, and many become key plot points.
* CallingTheOldManOut: T'Ryssa in ''Losing the Peace'', after her father finally makes contact, looking for information on her mother (specifically, if she survived the Borg invasion):
-->"Did you try to contact her after the Odyssey went boom? Did you try to find her any time during the entire Dominion War? No, this is about you. You had a near-death experience when the Borg hit Vulcan, and by some miracle, you lived. You managed to get rescued, fixed up, and flown to a hospital on the other side of the planet, where you got a lot of time to just lie there and think about how close you came to being just more sand piled on the Forge. Now you've got this big second chance, so now you want to reach out to all those you've hurt and make amends for all your wrongs."
* TheCameo:
** A string of them feature in ''Q&A'', as various characters in the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse respond to the reality-warping taking place. Among them are Klag from ''Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire'', Shelby and Mueller from ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'', Riker and his crew from ''Literature/StarTrekTitan'', and Donatra.
** Another ''New Frontier'' captain (actually ''[[TheCaptain The]]'' [[TheCaptain Captain]] of that franchise), Mac Calhoun, appears in ''Before Dishonor''.
* CloudCuckooLander: Lt. Stevens in ''Before Dishonor'', though it turns out [[spoiler:it was all an act, as he was actually Lady Q in disguise.]]
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: T'Lana acknowledges her poor behavior in ''Before Dishonor'' by saying she was somewhere between neurotic or just outright narcissistic, and if she'd been asked to diagnose herself, she'd have canned her in an instant.
* CoolOldGuy: Montgomery Scott qualifies as of ''Indistinguishable from Magic''. He's a [[FatherToHisMen grandfather to his men]] in the Corps of Engineers, the Romulans know him simply as "The Miracle Worker", and the Klingon Empire is happy to loan him their top starship pilot because he asked nicely.
* CreativeSterility: The Borg, as before, don't innovate. Even their AdaptiveAbility is still just them utilizing knowledge from whoever they've already assimilated, rather than actually improvising a solution.
* TheDitz: [[GenkiGirl T'Ryssa]], or so it seems [[ObfuscatingStupidity at first]].
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: In ''Headlong Flight'', the ''Enterprise''-E makes contact with an alternate version of the ''Enterprise''-D from 2367, originating from a timeline where Riker was forced to destroy the Borg cube with Locutus still on it. The younger Riker is shown still grieving Picard's death and struggling to cope with the perceived burden of taking Picard's place, and is grateful for the chance to talk with the "prime" Picard about the current situation, with Picard offering him some closure on the issue.
* EldritchAbomination: The entity that created the Noh Angels is the rare benevolent version.
* ElvesVsDwarves: T'Lana vs. Worf.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Bowers mentions to Dax he hates that their ship is gossiped about as the "''U.S.S. Peculiar''".
* EvilMatriarch: The Borg Queen, naturally. (And in ''Before Dishonor'', the Borg Queen is [[spoiler:Admiral Janeway!]])
* FantasticRacism: T'Lana has a bit of this towards ''everybody who isn't Vulcan'', and Worf in particular.
* FictionalCurrency: The ''Ilec'' is a Karemma currency, evidently an alternative to the canonical ''Dirak''.
* {{Flanderization}}: ''Before Dishonor'' essentially flanderizes Worf, Seven of Nine, and Admiral Nechayev, presenting them in a surprisingly one-dimensional way, taking their various antisocial character traits (Worf's aggressive stoicism, Seven's cold precision, Nechayev's impatience and sharp tongue) and blowing them out of proportion.[[note]]Although considering what Peter David would do with Nechayev in ''New Frontier'', this might actually qualify as...[[/note]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The Borg Queen's threat to [[spoiler:Lady Q]] that the Borg are analyzing her during their conversation, and that with time they will eventually be able to assimilate and learn the skills of [[spoiler:the Q.]] This comes into play later in the climactic battle of ''Before Dishonor'', see AssPull and HopeSpot.
** T'Ryssa questions why a race as obsessed with efficiency as the Borg would design their ships in a perfect ''cube'' rather than a more energy efficient sphere, hinting that [[Literature/StarTrekDestiny there's something more to the Borg than the protagonists know about]].
** Similarly, she wonders why it's a ''Queen'', and if there's some reason from the Borg's origins which they have forgotten. Picard says they can't dwell on the idea, [[spoiler:but ''Destiny'' shows she's on the right track.]]
* GenkiGirl: T'Ryssa Chen. She is fully aware of it and is doing it intentionally to be different from the Vulcans.
* HalfHumanHybrid: T'Ryssa Chen, half Vulcan.
* HappinessInSlavery: [[spoiler:Janeway]] experiences this briefly upon being assimilated, and the Borg Queen later tries to convince Seven of Nine that she will find this in the Collective. In fact, Geordi notes that Seven's willingness to meld with [[spoiler:the Doomsday Machine]] as its pilot may be as a result of her subconsciously being more comfortable as part of the collective than as an individual being.
* HappilyMarried: Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher, who [[Literature/StarTrekTitan spend much more time on speaking terms]] than the other major couple from TNG.
* HeroInsurance: [[spoiler:At the end of "Hearts And Minds", Admiral Akaar tells Picard that his involvement in forcing former Federation President Min Zife from office has been made public, and that the ''only'' reasons Picard is not cooling his heels in the brig on his way back to Earth are Picard's sterling reputation and that he was not involved in Zife's assassination. But Akaar also makes it clear that his insurance is used up, and that he will ''never'' rise above his current rank of Captain and will be on a ''very'' tight leash for the rest of his career.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Picard has one pretty much from ''Resistance'', all the way to the end of ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sara Nave]] in ''Resistance'', narrowly avoided by Seven of Nine in ''Before Dishonor'' (but not by [[spoiler:Janeway]]). [[spoiler:Hugh]] in "Greater Than The Sum", to stop the Borg.
* HiveMind: The Borg, of course... especially the ''new'' Borg that give Starfleet an intense new war after they've "evolved" into consuming rather than assimilating. And yes, [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto]] was one of the new Borg's first snacks.
* HonorBeforeReason: Admiral Jellico submits his resignation as Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet after the Borg Invasion, despite the fact that no one could possibly hold him responsible for the horrible losses suffered. When asked why, we are told that he felt his honor demanded it.
* HopeSpot: Just when [[spoiler:the Doomsday Machine]] is finally going to serve the Borg their ass on a silver platter once and for all, the Borg Queen teleports the Cube behind it (using the time/space warping skills she apparently gleaned from the Borg's analysis of [[spoiler: Lady Q]]) and begins to absorb it, too.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Leybenzon is convinced Picard is some flabby desk-jockey who looks down on [=NCOs=] as expendable grunts.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: Starfleet Command briefly thinks that [[spoiler: Janeway]] has somehow overcome the Borg Queen, recaptured control of her body and is attempting this with the Borg Cube when it veers off course toward the sun. They were wrong.
* InsaneAdmiral: [[spoiler:Riker.]]
* JerkAss: T'Lana, Lt. Leybenzon, Lady Q (though not quite as much as her husband).
* JumpingOutOfACake: Played with. Q teleports Vash into a cake that he leaves in Picard's room, but Picard has to unlatch the door on the top to get her out.
* KilledOffForReal: Most infamously [[spoiler:Kathryn Janeway]], though it's hinted that she may be able to [[BackFromTheDead return one day]] when, after [[spoiler: Lady Q]] tells her she can't go back, she mentions how [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Spock]] [[UnexplainedRecovery got better]] after the Genesis incident. The exact situation regarding [[spoiler: Janeway's fate]] is revealed in ''The Eternal Tide'', a novel of the ''Literature/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch'', which also subtly retcons some of ''Before Dishonor's'' events by exploiting the fact that when Q talk about Q, it's never entirely clear whether they mean Q, Q or even Q...
** [[spoiler:Scotty]] has also been killed, or so it seems. They NeverFoundTheBody, so he might have made it...
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Thur chim Gliv, in ''Losing the Peace'', a Tellarite who enjoys classic human comedy.
* LampshadeHanging: In ''Indistinguishable From Magic'', a character asks what the "NCC" in starship registries stands for. The character being asked - who is a starship captain, mind you - says he has no idea. This is pretty much the author acknowledging the fact that the frequently asked question has never been officially answered.
* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Leybenzon is told transferring away from the ''Enterprise'' will nuke any chance of advancing his career, but he doesn't care. [[spoiler:Not that he lives long enough for it to matter.]]
* LivingShip: The defeated Borg cube from ''Resistance'' turns into one in ''Before Dishonor'', [[spoiler:making Janeway one of its first victims.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: In ''Greater Than The Sum'', we have this exchange between newlyweds Jean-Luc and Beverly:
-->'''Picard''': Good morning, Dr. Picard.\\
'''Crusher''': Good morning, Captain Crusher. Or would that be Howard?\\
'''Picard''': Either way, I'd be honored.
* MartialPacifist: Jasminder Choudhury, the security officer in the second half of the series. Also her chosen deputy, Rennan Konya (who first appeared as a member of the ''[[Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers da Vinci's]]'' security team).
* MathematiciansAnswer: Seven of Nine, several times in ''Before Dishonor''.
* MeaningfulRename: The ''Einstein'' is redubbed the ''Frankenstein'' by Starfleet after it's taken over by the Borg.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Discussing negotiations with the Maebrae, T'Ryssa suggests they try and act like water, rather than rock (that is, use a subtle, sneaky approach rather than headstrong). She trails off partway through and admits she has no idea where it's going.
* MoodWhiplash: The end of "Greater Than The Sum". The Borg have been defeated again, albeit at the cost of another sacrifice, but T'Ryssa seems to have found her place, and Picard and Beverly are expecting their first kid. Then comes the epilogue...
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lt. Commander Kadohata says this almost verbatim in ''Before Dishonor'' after seizing control of the ''Enterprise'' from Picard (on Starfleet orders, however).
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: It's revealed in ''Q Are Cordially Uninvited'' that Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher had a private ceremony in Picard's hometown, with just them, Picard's sister-in-law, the mayor (as officiant) and the mayor's wife in attendance. Of course, when Q's around things never go quite ''that'' simply.
* NakedOnArrival: T'Ryssa, thanks to a pleasant GeniusLoci. Then she asks if her old boyfriend lives nearby; Middle-Eastern appearance, name of Adam...
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Scotty]] in ''Indistinguishable From Magic''. He's probably dead, but for all we know he managed to transport somewhere safe in the nick of time. The other characters are all convinced he's gone...
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Miranda takes an instant dislike to T'Ryssa when the later asks if she's the namesake of the Miranda-class starships, which Miranda finds intensely unoriginal.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Zelik Leybenzon's]] death scene during the Battle of Barolia, where he allows the Borg to assimilate Starfleet’s only major defence.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: In ''Death in Winter'' bloodfire manages to jump species from Kevratans to Romulans.
* NoBiologicalSex: While assimilated drones do have sexes, artificially-born Borg drones are androgynous.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Borg to the Starfleet armada in ''Before Dishonor''. It "made Wolf 359 look like a minor skirmish".
* NoodleIncident: In homage to the original Noodle Incident, T'Ryssa Chen has the Tubegrub Incident.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Governors of Alpha Centauri and Pacifica in ''Losing the Peace'', who at first don't grasp how desperate conditions are in the refugee camps, and spend most of their time causing further unrest and complicating the resettlement efforts.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: T'Ryssa, who used to play in the forest pretending to be an elf in a case of [[StrawVulcan Your Elves Suck]].
* PardonMyKlingon: The Tellarite curse word "krught" crops up again, having been established in ''Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra''.
* PlanetOfSteves: Apparently all Voloczin (large creatures who look like an arachnid/crab hybrid) who leave their homeworld use that as their name. Thus we had a mercenary named Voloczin in ''Literature/StarTrekSevenDeadlySins'', and another Voloczin who was the ''Challenger'''s Chief Engineer in ''Indistinguishable From Magic''.
* PlutoIsExpendable: Played devastatingly straight (although technically it's not destroyed, just absorbed; its matter is redistributed into the Borg Cube).
* ThePollyanna: True to their pleasant, hospitality-based culture, the Risians are desperately trying to remain optimistic. Risa itself was destroyed in ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'', a casualty of the Borg Invasion. The refugees are attempting to retain the expected "sunny Risian" outlook. Whether it will work out for them remains to be seen. One of the biggest problems is that Risa's natives pride themselves on declaring "all that is ours is yours". Now the Risians have nothing, and instead of hospitably receiving guests they are dependent on others for aid.
* {{Polyamory}}: Geordi was given a RelationshipUpgrade with Leah Brahms in ''Indistinguishable From Magic'', even though other novels have him dating a medical officer named Tamala Harstad. ''Collateral Damage'' establishes they're both aware of this, although Geordi is uncertain about Leah's idea that they should all have dinner together.
* PungeonMaster: One of T'Ryssa's favorite pastimes.
* RageQuit: Picard. Yes, ''Picard'', during "Greater Than The Sum". In the middle of a poker game, he notices how everyone's talking about parenthood a ''lot'', and realizes Beverly's had some hand in that. Being Picard, he keeps his anger hidden but politely bows out of the game then and there.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher in "Death in Winter", and Geordi [=LaForge=] and Leah Brahms in "Indistinguishable From Magic".
* ResistanceIsFutile: Well, it's [[TropeNamer The Borg]], what'd you expect? [[spoiler:It's an extremely bad sign when they append "but ''welcome.''"]]
* TheRunaway: T'Ryssa ran away from home at age 7, after learning of the Vulcan ''kahs-wan'' survival rite that usually takes place at that time. She signed onto a freighter as ship's cook (the captain didn't particularly care that she was a young child) before being retrieved.
* SapientShip: It turns out that Borg Cubes are (to a degree) sentient, and that the Borg and their new Queen have become a part of the giant one thought deactivated at the end of ''Resistance''. Basically, the cube is a part of the collective too - in a sense, the Borg ''are'' the cube, not the drones.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In ''Q and A'', the beings known only as Them perform these on the inhabitants of ''entire universes''.
* ShaggyDogStory: Riker winds up resorting to this in ''Takedown''. His ever-more unlikely explanations as to why ''Aventine'' needs to attack communications facilities belonging to multiple nations are based in the supposed threat of the "Takedown" weapon. It's revealed that something quite different is going on.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Sela pulls this on a Kevratan rebel, in ''Death in Winter''.
* SheepInWolfsClothing: In ''Resistance'', Picard attempts to infiltrate a Borg ship by partially reassimilating into the Collective as Locutus.
* ShoutOut: The author of ''Greater Than The Sum'' mentions in the acknowledgements that the "Noh Angels" were directly inspired by the creations of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Chiaki Konaka (most likely No-Face from ''Anime/SpiritedAway'').
%%* SingleBiomePlanet: Kevratas is an ice world.
%%* SmallNameBigEgo: Bretorius.
* SmugSnake: Eborion in ''Death in Winter''. He overestimated his ability to play the Romulan nobility off of each other, and was betrayed by his own aunt. So much for his ambitions to be proconsul – Tomalak gets that position instead.
* StarfishAliens: The Noh Angel cluster entity in ''Greater Than the Sum''.
* StrawVulcan: T'Lana. There's a damn good reason Picard wants her the hell off the ''Enterprise'' at the end of ''Before Dishonour''. Even ''[[TheSpock Spock]]'' completely washes his hands of her after she fails to hear reason. She does acknowledge her own faults in ''Greater Than the Sum'', and herself admits she was completely out of line, as well as unprofessional in the extreme. [[spoiler:Sadly, possibility for redemption was lost when she died in ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Amusingly averted with the character of Thur chim Gliv, in ''Losing the Peace''. WordOfGod has pretty much confirmed that the jovial Tellarite engineer Gliv is as deliberately ''different'' from established Tellarite engineer Mor glasch Tev (of ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'') as possible.
* TheStoic: [[StrawVulcan T'Lana]], and then ''completely subverted'' after she departs, with T'Ryssa Chen.
* TakeThat: Geordi and Seven discuss a character from the novel ''Vendetta,'' with Geordi commenting that the supposed Borg experts at the time of the earlier novel said there were no female drones, and Seven being understandably confused as to why that assumption existed. This is a reference to a disclaimer that was included in many copies of ''Vendetta'' regarding the plot surrounding that character, who one of the editors attempted to remove from the novel on the basis that 'the Borg are completely sexless.' (For the record, the novel was published in 1991, Seven of Nine was introduced in 1997.)
* TearsOfJoy / DissonantLaughter: Once the Borg are eliminated, Picard weeps openly because all of the pain and hatred the Borg inflicted on him is taken away. He compares it to being freed from decades of slavery, which causes him to laugh in unrestrained joy. Riker and Dax just look at each other and shrug.
-->'''Dax:''' As long as he's happy.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: The Governor of Pacifica in ''Losing the Peace''. He was concerned about refugees' effects on the Selkie breeding islands, but might possibly have been simply annoyed by the refugees. He insisted that the delicate environmental requirements of the Selkie young risked being disrupted by the settlers, and that in the name of the children steps should be taken to remove the outsiders. Most of the refugees had nowhere else to go, and really Pacifica should have been honoring its obligations to the wider Federation by accepting them. It was a complicated situation though - the governor might well have a valid point.
* ThisMeansWar: In the epilogue of "Greater Than The Sum", the Borg finally seem to decide they've just plain had it with the Federation, and no longer want their biological or technological distinctiveness. They just want them ''annihilated''.
* TimeyWimeyBall:
** In ''Armageddon's Arrow'', the ''Enterprise'' discovers the titular ship, which is an advanced weapon created by an alien race that came back in time to destroy their enemies. During the subsequent investigation, [[spoiler:the ''Enterprise'' find the ship's past self as it is still under construction, with some of the ''Arrow'' crew crashing their own version of the ship into its past self to undo their timeline]].
** During ''Headlong Flight'', the crew of the ''Enterprise''-E interact with an alternate version of the ''Enterprise''-D from a point approximately two decades in the past, Before both ships return to their own realities, Picard gives the alternate Riker schematics for quantum torpedo technology, reasoning that they were already acquired in this timeline through time travel and any advantage over the Borg is a good one.
* TitleDrop: In ''Losing the Peace'', when a character states her current fears about the rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''. She worries that the Federation might have won the war, only to risk losing the peace to their own complacency.
* TooDumbToLive: T'Lana, [[spoiler: literally.]]
* TricksterMentor:
** Q, of course. He's been training Captain Picard over the course of most of their previous encounters, preparing him for an appearance before Them, the creators of the universe. Picard will represent all of creation before Them, and Q needs to ensure he makes a good show of it.
** This actually punches ''Literature/{{IQ}}'' out of Relaunch continuity, since in that novel it was ''Q'' who made a plea before the creator of the Universe.
*** Though "Q & A" ''also'' has a side-mention vaguely referencing "I, Q" as a fable Q told his child at one point, suggesting that in the Relaunch continuity it "happened" as an in-universe fictionalized version of the eventual confrontation with Them.
* UndyingLoyalty: In ''Before Dishonor'', Kadohata points a phaser set to kill at Worf, tells him point-blank that if he so much as twitches she'll vaporize him (and then probably turn the weapon on herself), and he ''still'' won't stand down until Picard gestures for him to do so.
* UnderwaterCity: The Pacifica capital city of hi'Leyi'a, first mentioned in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan'', is visited in ''Losing the Peace''.
* {{Unperson}}: The Romulan government does this to [[spoiler: Bretorius]] to keep him for medical experiments.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Leybenzon realizes [[spoiler:as he dies]] that his arrogance has given the Borg the means to study a potent anti-Borg weapon, screwing the Federation over but good.
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The Doomsday Machine from the Original Series;[[spoiler:turns out it's a prototype anti-Borg superweapon]], though admittedly, this was already theorized in ''Vendetta'' years ago, complete with an appearance by [[spoiler:the completed, and ''highly pissed off'' and essentially ''sentient'' version, which has since flown into something approaching Warp 10, intending to go right for the Borg Homeworld and devour it.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Geordi to Picard during ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'', in response to Picard's order to construct a [[Film/StarTrekNemesis Thalaron weapon]] with which to wipe out the Borg en-masse. Geordi outright refuses to do it, whatever the consequences to his career. In fact, a fair bit of the ''Enterprise'' plot in ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' involves Beverly calling this on Picard, too. Ezri finally gives him what for, as well.
* WhosOnFirst: Was bound to crop up when T'ryssa names some creatures "Noh Angels". One of her crewmates, not getting the reference, thinks she's saying "no angels".
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Them, the creators of the universe (as well as several other realities), and the keepers of the meaning of life. Given that they exist outside the universe, it's not surprising they aren't described- no human could likely comprehend them.
* YourMom: T'Ryssa tries yelling this at a Borg, which goes about as well as you'd expect.
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