* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Vrenn gets one right in the first chapter, channeling his anger and skill to defeat the cheating Gold Lancer and avenge his friends. Especially kicking the cheater right through the window with both feet.
-->''Gensa, the victory!''
* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the (entirely serious) novel, an [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Orion woman]] is named [[PrematurelyBald Rogaine]]. Note that it was published three years before minoxidil was approved for use as a hair restorer, but it's hard to avoid a sense of {{Narm}} reading passages about how attractive she is when you picture her with no hair.
** Similarly, the chief of Klingon Intelligence is named "Meth", a decade before the epidemic of crystal meth abuse in the U.S.
* TearJerker:
** The reappearance of [[spoiler:Zharn]], now stripped of most of his sense of identity and unable to mature as a person.
** [[spoiler:Dr. Tagore]] sharing the story of [[spoiler:his wife]]'s death and his guilt over having allowed her to suffer so long because he thought there must be a better choice.
** Dr. Tagore's joy when he realizes that Krenn actually stopped a war between the Klingons and the Federation; "Like Lancelot, when his miracle finally came." (Which in itself references a great TearJerker moment in ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''.)
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