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Part of the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, continuing the story of Star Trek: Voyager past the series finale. There are fourteen books in the series as a whole:

  • Homecoming
  • The Farther Shore

(This first duology begins exactly where the show left off, and features the crew's early attempts to reintegrate into the Federation).

  • Old Wounds
  • Enemy of my Enemy

(These two are collectively titled Spirit Walk. The starship Voyager itself is literally relaunched, with several new characters)

  • Full Circle (A "second pilot" of sorts, bringing the series through the double Wham Episode of Janeway's death (in the Next Generation novel Before Dishonor) and Star Trek: Destiny.
  • Unworthy (In which Voyager leads a new mission back to the Delta Quadrant).
  • Children of the Storm.
  • The Eternal Tide Janeway returns.
  • Protectors.
  • Acts of Contrition
  • Atonement
  • A Pocket Full Of Lies
  • Architects of Infinity
  • To Lose the Earth

Initially written by Christie Golden, Kirsten Beyer took over beginning with Full Circle and has written all titles in the series since. Beyer had previously written Fusion in the String Theory pre-TV finale trilogy of Voyager novels, as well as the short story "Isabo's Shirt" from the tenth anniversary celebration compilation Distant Shores.


This series contains examples of:

  • Aborted Arc: The changeling arc, set up in the two Spirit Walk books. By the end of the second novel, Enemy of my Enemy, arch-foe the rogue changeling has taken control of the government on the planet Kerovi. No-one knows he's there, and he's evidently up to something worrying. It seems as though the arc is being set up to be a big one, but it's swiftly dropped in Full Circle. He's apparently discovered, and arrested by the Kerovi authorities. In fact, the changeling dies off screen. We don't even visit Kerovi following Enemy of my Enemy.
    • Due to the shift in authors (going from Christie Golden to Kirsten Beyer), as well as the new mission on Voyager's part following the time jump from shortly after Voyager's return in 2378 to a post Star Trek: Destiny time frame in 2381, several characters who were established as part of the new status quo of Voyager's cast are rotated out in Full Circle - some leave ( Harry breaks up once and for all with Libby, whose role as an agent for Starfleet Intelligence no longer features as Project Full Circle takes Voyager away from the Federation and back to the Delta Quadrant, Counselor Astall takes an indefinite leave of absence, making way for Counselor Hugh Cambridge) and some are killed off during the Borg invasion ( both Akolo Tare, who was raped by a hologram during the holo-strike, and Jarem Kaz, whose previous host was still being an active part of Jarem's present, are casualties of the battle).
    • The time jump also renders the tension of the Voyager veterans and the Starfleet officers who'd survived the Dominion War an entirely moot point, after having taking up a significant portion of the four books preceding Full Circle.
  • Absent-Minded Professor: Commander O'Donnell, who captains the Demeter by virtue of his scientific genius but leaves the day-to-day command decisions to his first officer (who has more hands-on starship experience). This comes back to bite him when said first officer tries to mutiny in Children of the Storm.
  • Affably Evil: Crell Moset, sort of, though in his case it's a crippling need to be liked. He genuinely wants the subjects of his invasive medical experiments to appreciate him. He's not really cruel in the usual sense, he's just totally lacking in empathy, and believes his science takes priority. Not only does he take steps to try and make his victims feel at ease - including singing pleasant songs - but the closest he gets to threatening is childish pique when people won't let him perform his experiments. In a Continuity Nod to Star Trek: The Battle of Betazed, he seems to genuinely think the Betazoids were selfish in the extreme for taking back their planet and preventing his earlier work.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Discussed in particular detail in A Pocket Full of Lies when Nancy Conlon becomes temporarily fixated on trying to improve Starfleet security protocols to prevent such events as admirals attempting to pursue personal vendettas or alien life forms taking control of key personnel. As Harry Kim tries to point out to her, such ideas have been attempted in the past, many of which involved augmenting the ships' computers to make them more intuitive and aware of when officers are issuing out-of-character orders, but in practise such ideas cannot be put into practise due to the risk of the computers subsequently asking too many questions if for some reason said officers have to do something unexpected or dangerous because the alternative is a more dangerous threat.
  • Always Someone Better: It's not always easy for Eden to command the Voyager fleet in the shadow of Janeway's legendary memory, especially after Janeway's return to life.
    • B'Elanna is this at first for Nancy Conlon, Voyager's new Chief Engineer, but they become fast friends as soon as B'Elanna makes it clear that she's not after Nancy's job.
  • Amazon Brigade: The qawHaq'hoch, a Klingon cult consisting of female warriors only. Interestingly, it's never explained why they only accept females. Possibly it's "just tradition" - but it's one they're quite serious about. They draw attention to their status as an Amazon Brigade by using a symbol for birth (Ie., an aspect of life exclusive to women) as the glyph signifying the correct tunnel to their headquarters (see, Only Smart People May Pass, below).
  • Anachronic Order: The post-Destiny novels have this relationship with the rest of the Novel Verse. While they were being released concurrently with the other Relaunches, the VOY Relaunch remains chronologically set in the year after Destiny (2381-2382). This has allowed them to focus on their own narrative and not be beholden to later, larger events like Star Trek: The Fall (meaning they can still use Nan Bacco as she's still alive at this point in the chronology).
    • The final VOY Relaunch novel ends in 2382 with Janeway and company departing the Milky Way with the alien Edrehmaia to explore a neighboring Galaxy. This neatly reconciles the Novel timeline and explains where the VOY characters were throughout the later novels.
  • Antagonist Title: Children of the Storm, although given that this is Starfleet the antagonists are more "potential friends now unfortunately opponents" than genuine villains. There's a lot of Blue-and-Orange Morality and misunderstanding involved. Nonetheless, the Children are the primary antagonists of the novel.
  • Apocalypse Maiden: Afsarah Eden, avatar of the Omega Continuum, created to kill the Q and capable of destroying the entire universe. Thankfully, her human side wins out.
  • Arc Welding: A rather pleasing example with the exploits of Kahless in Full Circle, linking the Voyager Relaunch to the ongoing Klingon saga in interesting ways. In Star Trek: A Time to..., Kahless had replaced himself with a hologram (equipped with a mobile emitter) and wandered off to Cygnet IV, supposedly to "do whatever (he) felt like". It was also a test, allowing him to give his usual Hurricane of Aphorisms when the ruse was discovered. In Full Circle, though, it's revealed why he was on Cygnet IV specifically. The secret headquarters of the qawHaq'hoch are located there, and he's keeping the plates spinning in the plan to keep Miral (B'Elanna and Tom's daugher) safe from the fanatics trying to kill her. Further, the mobile emitter for his holographic replacement was created by B'Elanna herself.
  • The Assimilator: The Indign in Unworthy, who consist of six races literally joined together. They're trying to imitate the Borg Collective and the interdependence of the hive mind.
  • The Atoner: Poor Reg Barclay takes the incident with Meegan (see Nice Job Breaking It, Hero) very seriously indeed. He's still chasing her trail as of Acts of Contrition.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: The Indign are, as mentioned above, a collective race consisting of six species integrated together symbiotically. Only one of the six is humanoid. The others are a moth-like creature, a non-corporeal race, a silicon-based sphere, a bio-mimetic lifeform coating the sphere, and a cytoplasmic creature that clings to the humanoid like a parasitical centipede.
  • Blessed with Suck: Those with Sky Spirit DNA, if only because Crell Moset wants to do experiments on them. In other words, they don't know how to unlock the potential benefits from their genetic heritage, but it makes them a target for the villains.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Indign are quite reasonable and not overtly hostile, aside from their religious beliefs, which involve the Borg Collective as a model of divinity. The Indign capture spacefarers and "sacrifice" them to the Borg - condemning them to A Fate Worse Than Death - but they don't actually mean any ill-will.
  • Bluff the Imposter: In the Spirit Walk books; the "make up an incident wholescale" variant, to confirm suspicions that Chakotay isn't actually Chakotay.
  • Body Horror: The experiments conducted by Crell Moset on the Loran colonists warped them into monsters, at least physically. The relatives of one of the supporting characters end up in beastial bodies while retaining their human intellects. It's mentioned that a Federation Think Tank is working on potential means of restoring them, but it's not revealed if they're ever successful.
  • Bus Crash: In Eternal Tide, Amanda Rogers is erased by a Negative Space Wedgie that nobody understands, to the extent that Q Junior is the only one among the Q who remembers her.
  • The Butcher: Crell Moset is referred to as "the Butcher of Bajor" at several points.
  • The Captain: Chakotay, sometimes. He ends up leaving Starfleet for a while after his Heroic BSoD, but eventually returns to command Voyager. Also, Afsarah Eden is the captain for a while, before getting a promotion to fleet commander. Later, we add Captain Farkas to the list, along with Commanders O'Donnell and Glenn, all of whom command other ships joining Voyager on its latest mission.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The Children of the Storm. Their individual skill set is determined by their resonance, which gives a unique color for each.
  • Continuity Nod: Many, including nods to Star Trek: The Battle of Betazed in the Spirit Walk books (as part of Crell Moset's backstory) and, in the same duology, to The Left Hand of Destiny (mention of the Battle of Boreth). There are also major tie-ins with Star Trek: Destiny and Star Trek: A Time to... in the later books, notably Full Circle.
  • Cool Ship: Project Full Circle throws together a whole fleet of them for a mission back to the Delta quadrant. It includes two Vesta-class ships (see Star Trek: Destiny), and an experimental Emergency Medical Vessel for the EMH. The ships are all equipped with security holograms as well. Most significantly, they feature the new Quantum Slipstream Drive finally perfected in Star Trek: Destiny.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: The Galen was designed to be run primarily by holograms, which leaves them extremely short-handed when called upon for duties that can't be performed by photons and forcefields.
  • The Cynic: Cambridge. He even mentions the first thing he does when reporting aboard a starship is locate the nearest Escape Pod to his quarters.
  • Dead Guy Junior: Michael Owen Paris, named for his great-grandfather and his grandfather.
  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: In A Pocket Full of Lies, the crew decide to try and appeal to the alternate Janeway by bringing Tuvok back from the Titan to talk to her due to his long history with the ‘original’ Janeway, but this backfires as that same sentiment leads to Tuvok becoming overly invested in the alternate Janeway’s reasons for her current attitude.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Chakotay gives a truly epic speech on the topic in Full Circle. In a session with Counselor Cambridge, he accuses Starfleet Command of almost criminal negligence in its treatment of the Voyager crew. Despite everything they did and their loyal service throughout their time in the Alpha Quadrant, Starfleet still doesn't trust them (or so Chakotay suggests). Also, he feels they've been dismissed out of hand simply because they didn't participate in the Dominion War. Chakotay bitterly insists that they've never been appreciated and that he's tired of people who are only alive because he bled for them judging and harassing him.
  • Elaborate Underground Base: The qawHaq'hoch have one on Cygnet IV. The subtle Continuity Nod to Star Trek: A Time to... is quite pleasing (see Arc Welding, above).
  • Energy Being: The Children of the Storm.
  • Engineered Public Confession: In Atonement Seven gets Commander Briggs to lay out his entire plan regarding the catomic plague and its cause, unaware that Seven's combadge had been modified as a one-way transmitter and that Fleet Admiral Akaar and President Bacco are listening.
  • Evil Counterpart: In A Pocket Full of Lies, the Krenim Imperium are revealed to have their own equivalent of the Department of Temporal Investigations, the Temporal Defence Agency. However, while the DTI is dedicated to preserving history even if the time travellers want to create a "better" timeline, the Agency's goal is to ensure Krenim supremacy, to the extent that they go to great lengths to create a pointless conflict on a particular planet between two races because a timeline where those races are at peace would have prevented the Krenim expanding.
  • Faking the Dead: B'Elanna Torres does this in order to stay safe from enemies. Tom, her husband is in on the deception, but Harry Kim isn't, and doesn't take it well when he finds out he was lied to.
  • Fictional Document: The Royal Protocol document, bane of Starfleet Officers everywhere. A complete list of dos and don'ts for interacting with alien royals, it's a necessity if diplomatic incidents are to be avoided. It's mind-numbing in its detail. It's full of little rules along the lines of "when greeting the King, touch your head to the ground three times and then wave your left hand. Oh, and under no circumstances wear purple". An important plot point arises when it's realized "Royal Protocol" has a very different meaning to the Borg.
  • Florence Nightingale Effect: Seven of Nine falling in love with Counselor Cambridge, though it's noted that she ends their professional relationship before embarking on a personal one.
  • Foil: Eden is what Janeway might have been without the influence of the Voyager crew: a strong, capable, but very lonely woman with a great potential for destruction.
  • For Science!: As always, Crell Moset's motivation for everything he does. He may be working for the rogue changeling, but really he's performing medical experiments for his own scientific curiosity.
  • Gesundheit: Tom in Protectors, when B'Elanna announces her sudden craving for a ghebjebaQ joqngogh.
  • God Is Dead: The Indign were recently surprised to learn that the Borg Collective, which they view as their divine model, has departed, a result of the events in Star Trek: Destiny (which the Indign missed). They actually take the revelation surprisingly well.
  • Good Is Old-Fashioned: Kahless and his traditionalist philosophies get this from other Klingons, on occasion. But with the Klingon Empire reconfiguring itself in light of Martok’s reforms, the tide is turning. Kahless eventually tells Smug Snake Kopek that he is going to become obsolete:
    "You will fall, Kopek, because you live only to hold on to your power and to accumulate more. Martok works daily to restore the empire to the path of honour, and there is no place for you on that path. You will learn the true way, or you will reap the seeds of self-destruction you have so carefully sown”.
  • Heroic BSoD: Chakotay, following Janeway's death.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: The Eternal Tide features a scene in which the main characters argue over who's going to pull one of these. Chakotay decides to do it, but is saved by Q Junior, who along with Afsarah Eden sacrifices himself to prevent the destruction of the multiverse and/or the Q Continuum.
  • Heroic Vow: B'Elanna tries a few, particularly in the Spirit Walk books, presumably as part of her effort to embrace her Klingon heritage more readily.
  • Higher-Tech Species: The Anschlasom, among the most technologically advanced aliens in the entire Star Trek Novel 'Verse. Even the Caeliar are explicitly said to be less sophisticated.
  • Hold Your Hippogriffs: The old Cardassian saying, "the enemy of my enemy...is still my enemy, but may prove useful". Also serves as a Title Drop for the second Spirit Walk novel.
  • I Have No Son!: Julia Paris says this when she discovers that Tom lied to her about B'Elanna and Miral's deaths. She gets better, and they reconcile.
  • "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: A verbal one between Janeway and Eden; see Apocalypse Maiden above.
  • If I Wanted You Dead...: Invoked regarding Q; while he proclaimed himself Janeway’s enemy in Eternal Tide for her indirect role in his son’s death, it’s observed in A Pocket Full of Lies that if Q was genuinely angry at Janeway he would have probably destroyed her already.
  • It's All About Me: Crell Moset, who seems to think the Betazoids were selfish for taking back their planet from Dominion occupation, preventing him from continuing his experiments there.
  • The Jeeves: Janeway's hyper-efficient Vulcan aide.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Admiral Montgomery. Although he's such a jerk at first that his heart of gold is quite a surprise when it shows through. Then again, this is Star Trek; pleasant people need not apply to the admiralty...
    • Most people find Counselor Hugh Cambridge to be an insufferable jerk upon first meeting him, but most of those people eventually realize he can be loyal and sympathetic to his friends. It just takes a lot to punch through the facade he puts up.
  • Killed Off for Real: No less than Kathryn Janeway herself...only not actually in this series. Instead she dies in the Next Generation novel Before Dishonor. The first four Voyager relaunch books take place before this, Full Circle moves between timeframes both prior to and after the event, and Unworthy onward are set fully afterward. Naturally, the death divided the fan community. That said, its aftermath, explored in Full Circle, is considered by some to be the highlight of the series. Janeway returns in The Eternal Tide.
    • Dr. Kaz was also killed off in Full Circle, dying at the Battle of the Azure Nebula (part of the tie-in with Star Trek: Destiny). As he was a joined Trill, this was essentially a double death; the symbiont perished with its current host.
      • Also killed off in Full Circle was the novel-exclusive Lyssa Campbell, who'd featured in all of Christie Golden's prior Voyager novels, including the pre-relaunch ones, and had been bumped up to regular character during Spirit Walk, taking over Harry's position at Ops after his promotion to Security Chief.
    • The Eternal Tide kills off Q Junior.
  • Legendary in the Sequel: The Huanni race were introduced in the novel The Last Roundup, in the person of cadet Skalli Jksilli. When a new Huanni character shows up in the Voyager Relaunch, mention is made of the august career Skalli has enjoyed, becoming a great diplomat.
  • Literal-Minded: Funnily enough, Dr. Sharak, the Tamarian. Because his native language is constructed around metaphor, he's had to adapt to the direct references of Federation Standard and so takes idiomatic expressions at face value. It seems he's learned too well how to think and express himself in a non-Tamarian manner.
  • Losing the Team Spirit: The Voyager crew really have difficulty functioning together following Janeway's death. It doesn't help when Tom and B'Elanna fake B'Elanna's death, as well as that of baby Miral. As of Children of the Storm it seems they've recaptured the team spirit, though.
  • Mad Scientist: Crell Moset.
  • Meaningful Funeral: For Janeway in Full Circle.
    • For each of the 785 people lost to Omega in The Eternal Tide, a star disappears from a holographic sky. At the end, a blaze of light erupts over their monument.
  • Meaningful Name: The Indign; the word means “unworthy”. The Indign are a collection of races which the Borg have judged "unworthy" of assimilation.
    • The Planarians.
  • Mind over Matter: The Children of the Storm. They're an example of the non-corporeal subtrope, where their primary interaction with the outside world is via telekinesis. This includes travelling through space in "ships" held together and propelled by the power of thought.
  • Mind Rape: Fistrebil in Full Circle, who is addicted to the pain of others and apparently trawls her victims' memories to experience it in its full intensity. Tuvok defeats her with some good old Vulcan mental discipline, though.
  • The Mole: Willem Batiste is a member of Species 8472.
    • One of the Eight possessed Nancy Conlon as a back-up plan if their main plan in Acts Of Contrition failed.
  • Mother of a Thousand Young: The "Mother" of the Children of the Storm - basically, an intelligent gas giant. The non-corporeal children are her "thoughts".
  • Negative Space Wedgie: In The Eternal Tide, the fleet discovers a rift into the Omega Continuum that could destroy the universe.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Reg Barclay is technically responsible for the escape of Sealed Evil in a Can the Eight and the murders of several Neyser. He was trying to get the EMH a girlfriend.
    • Dr. Zimmerman's attempt to help The Doctor forget his feelings for Seven actually causes The Doctor's memory to degrade to the point he has to be deactivated until Reg can repair him.
  • Non-Human Lover Reveal: Batiste, though long after he and Eden stopped being lovers.
  • Noodle Incident: Although Nancy Conlon was involved, we still don't know exactly how the da Vinci made Troyius "disappear" during the Borg Invasion.
  • Not Listening to Me, Are You?: In Full Circle, Chakotay isn't listening to Janeway as she recounts her latest meeting with the admiralty. Janeway therefore gets his attention by mentioning how Admiral Nechayev supposedly turned up naked, with Admiral Montgomery offering no comment.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Tuvok returns in A Pocket Full of Lies, he is suffering a loss of emotional control after the pointless death of his son in the recent Borg invasion, to the extent that he nearly beats a man to death trying to interrogate him about the location of the alternate Janeway’s missing daughter.
  • Offered the Crown: Brenna Covington tries to convince Seven of Nine to replace her as she dies - that is, become the next Queen of Covington's artificial Borg Collective. The lure is tempting on a basic emotional level, but naturally Seven doesn't accept.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: The remnants of the Borg Collective, in the end. As Full Circle ties in to Star Trek: Destiny, we see the Borg in their "you will be annihilated" mindset.
  • Only Smart People May Pass: Entry to the qawHaq'hoch headquarters requires correctly choosing one of several possible passages. Janeway selects the correct one after carefully considering the glyphs marking each doorway. She deduces that the symbol in question, "birth", relates to the qawHaq'hoch's Amazon Brigade status, though of course her tricorder translated the old glyphs for her, no doubt taking something away from the designer's intent.
  • Other Me Annoys Me: In A Pocket Full of Lies, Janeway is put out to meet an alternate version of herself who has become a leader in a protracted, pointless conflict on a distant planet for reasons her counterpart will not adequately explain. The attitude is later justified as it turns out that the other Janeway has been manipulated to become excessively invested in this conflict as part of a plan to keep her out of the way.
  • The Power of Friendship: In Acts of Contrition, Tom Paris is forced into a custody battle for his and B'Elanna's daughter, Miral, as well as their unborn child, with his mother, Julia. When it comes time for the presentation of character witnesses for him, the first is the husband of Samantha Wildman (who was not there because she was sent away by Paris on an important mission.) The second is the Vulcan Lieutenant Vorik, whom Paris never expected to speak on his behalf, especially since they'd had words earlier in the book. After this, the judge asks if there are any more witnesses and Tom's counsel, Shaw, replies that there are and requests a recess. The recess is granted and Tom, curious, asks who else is there to speak for him, as he didn't think he had that many friends. Shaw presents him with a long list, explaining that "...every person I asked gave me the names of two or three more who would be happy to speak for you, and all of them are here today. ... They all said the same thing: 'If Tom Paris needs me, I'm there.'"
  • Prophecy Twist: In Klingon mythology, the Curse of the Gods, as well as the apparent eventual return of the gods. It's hinted that "the gods" were a race of Precursors who genetically influenced the Klingons. The myth of the first Klingons "killing the gods who created them" may therefore refer to an uprising or attack on these beings. The prophecized Curse of the Gods, that may destroy the Klingon Empire, is in fact a genetic "time-bomb" that represents a genetic mutation whereby Klingons are born as non-sapient, highly destructive animals. The mutation is also beneficial - in fact, it's likely that natural selection favours these mutant forms. Miral Paris, who is supposedly the Kuvah'magh, or Klingon saviour, at least according to some interpretations, is prophesised to prevent the future death of Klingon civilization by finding the Gods, bringing them back to the Klingon homeworld. Or so it's hinted. At any rate, they have many generations before the mutant births become common.
    • In any case, Q Junior "saves" Miral from her destiny through unspecific means in Eternal Tide.
  • Proud Warrior Race: B'Elanna and Tom are waist-deep in Klingon prophecy, and all the bat'leth-wielding fun this inevitably entails, due to their daughter being the Kuvah'magh. B'Elanna has been trying to make an effort to acknowledge her Klingon heritage, but as is often the case with Klingons it blew up in her face.
  • Put on a Bus: Astall, as of Full Circle.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: The Borg war (see Star Trek: Destiny for more information).
  • Quest for Identity: Part of Captain Eden's reason for joining the fleet, as her adoptive fathers lied to her about her origins and the only clue lies in a Delta Quadrant artifact.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Admiral Montgomery somewhat, despite his earlier appearances.
    • As of Protectors, however, his Obstructive Bureaucrat side is on full display again, since he fears being blamed for the failure of the Full Circle fleet and tries to pass the blame on a traumatized post-resurrection Janeway. It finally comes to a head in Atonement, where his willful negligence causes Akaar to force his resignation.
    • General Mattings of the Confederacy of the Worlds of the First Quadrant isn't as arrogant and condescending about the Federation as most of the rest of the government. He prefers blunt honesty to "polite lies", and isn't afraid to admit his government's shortcomings.
  • Refusing Paradise: Janeway reasons that, while death will always be waiting for her, the chance to save Q Junior and her people will never come again.
    • Seven refuses to join the Caeliar gestalt, choosing to stay with her friends and develop her humanity.
  • Resurrected for a Job: Q Junior, who can no longer enter his own future and believes that means he will die, resurrects Janeway in the belief that she can save him. He is wrong; it is his own choice that ends up causing his death.
  • Retcon: Some of Janeway's interactions with Lady Q in ''Before Dishonor'' are reinterpreted by The Eternal Tide, suggesting among other things that Janeway isn't always very good at understanding whether Lady Q is talking about Q or Q or even Q (we can hardly blame her...)
  • Rousing Speech: An unusually bitter and troubling example given by Janeway's sister Phoebe at Janeway's funeral, encouraging Starfleet to make the Borg pay for her death.
    "For the love I bear her, and for the love each of you still carry with you, I call upon you not to rest until those who are responsible for my sister's death are made to answer for what they have done. If you truly honor what she lived for, if you truly wish to memorialize the contributions she made to this Federation, do not forget how she lived, or how she died. Do not seek to heal this wound. Keep it open. And let it give you the strength you need to find and destroy the monsters who took her from us. Do not take 'no' for an answer. She wouldn't have."
  • Sadistic Choice: When one of the Eight attempts to possess the Doctor, he is only able to destroy it by dumping his segregated memory file. Which also erases almost all the memories he has of Seven.
  • Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The Warriors of Gre'thor, a Klingon religious sect dedicated to finding the Kuvah'magh... so they can kill her.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Paris points out to a very green Ensign who was assigned to get rid of him that he comes from 5 generations of Starfleet flag officers, that he can play the political game very well, and unless the Ensign's superior wants to have the Head of Starfleet Medical, Admiral Montgomery and Admiral Akaar all asking questions the Ensign better give him what he wants. He later threatens the next person up the line with contacting the Federation President directly.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: The Eight, disembodied criminal minds, who are now loose thanks to a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero on the part of Reg Barclay.
  • Sequel Hook: Again, the Eight. Eventually, they wind up possessing officials from civilizations hostile to Voyager, creating an alliance between the Turei, Devore, Vaadwaur and others.
    • Protectors has several: the Confederacy, the catom disease, and what seems to be a Love Dodecahedron involving Cambridge, Seven, her old love Axum from "Unimatrix Zero", the Doctor, and possibly even Commander Glenn and Mr. Barclay.
  • The Shrink: Astall is clearly a type two. Hugh Cambridge is clearly a type three, sometimes of the "tough love" subtype. Rori Austen in Protectors is also a type three, which is fortunate, since Janeway needs all the help she can get.
  • Significant Anagram: Captain Eden was told by her "uncle" Jobin that she was rescued from the planet Sbonfoyjill. She eventually realized, after trying to locate it in databanks and finding nothing, that sbonfoyjill is an anagram for "Jobin's Folly".
    • In the sense of a Meaningful Name, we have Dreeg. Guess which of the vices he appears motivated by.
  • Space Fighter: In the wake of the Borg Invasion, Starfleet finally decides to construct dedicated fighter craft, which are put to use in The Eternal Tide in a skirmish with the Tarkon.
  • Spirit Advisor: Black Jaguar, who actually takes on corporeal form at one point, thanks to Chakotay unlocking the potential of his Sky Spirit DNA. She's a dangerous advisor, whose appearance heralds a great trial and who tends to destroy those who prove unworthy of her.
  • Starfish Aliens: The Greech and many other components of the Indign; the Children of the Storm; the "wave forms" in Protectors.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: Tillum Drafar shows a variant on this, with the view that mothers should not be working outside the home. Among his people, biological necessity compels women with young children to dedicate their time entirely to the infant. When confronted with B'Elanna Torres, who balances her work with her motherhood, he implies she is a poor mother for doing so and initially treats her dismissively, offending her. Essentially, his people, new to the Federation, are not yet able to fully put aside their instincts when dealing with aliens. B'Elanna, once she understands the reason for his prejudice, manages to challenge it in a non-confrontational but effective manner.
    • In the Confederacy of the Worlds of the First Quadrant, a society descended from refugees fleeing their planets' destruction, fertile females dedicate themselves to birthing children, and gain near-universal adoration from the people for doing so. Many Confederates are even borderline hostile at the idea that there could possibly be anything greater or more important than honoring the people and gaining respect through pregnancy. B'Elanna (again) nearly gets into an ugly argument with a Confederacy woman at a reception.
  • Suicide Attack: The Children of the Storm try a few of these. One of the advantages of travelling in a highly-compressed sphere of noxious gases held together by the power of thought is that you can blow it up and take much of your surroundings with you.
  • Take a Third Option: In The Eternal Tide, a rift into the Omega Continuum must be sealed to prevent the destruction of the universe, but the most obvious way to seal it would essentially erase the Q Continuum from existence. Q Junior takes a third option by working with Afsarah Eden to seal it himself, sacrificing his own life but preserving the existence of the Q Continuum and just knocking a few million years off the life span of the universe as opposed to the trillions it would have lost otherwise.
  • Taking the Kids: B'Elanna - as part of the staged separation she and Tom Paris play out, so as to eventually fake B'Elanna and Miral's deaths.
    • Later, Julia Paris (Tom's mother) tries to pull a variant on both of them, legally challenging her son and daughter-in-law for custody of Miral and her unborn brother, on the grounds that they are unfit parents. She loses, but eventually she and Tom come to a reconciliation.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In some novels, the Voyager crew themselves were reduced to this; things got pretty complicated between them. As of Children of the Storm, they seem to have settled into smoother friendship again.
  • Thank Your Prey: Both Chakotay and B'Elanna engage in this. Chakotay is usually a vegetarian, but when he finds it necessary to kill deer for food in the absence of edible plants, he does so. He offers ritualized thanks to its spirit. B'Elanna, undertaking the wilderness trek that is the Challenge of Spirit, also gives thanks to an animal she's slain, in keeping with her efforts to reembrace her Klingon side.
  • There Are No Therapists: Averted, very much so. See The Shrink, above.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: A Pocket Full of Lies turns out to be essentially a sequel to both "Year of Hell" and "Shattered"; the temporal disruption Chakotay experienced was caused by a Krenim attack, as they discovered data packages created by Seven in the original campaign against Annorax's temporal weapons ship (which still exist even if the ship was never created) and decided to get Janeway out of the way so that she couldn't stop the Imperium expanding further, only to end up trapping an alternate version of Janeway instead.
  • To Absent Friends: Word for word, in Children of the Storm.
  • Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: In Protectors, it is revealed that the Doctor still has feelings for Seven - and since his holographic thoughts and memories don't fade like a human's, he always will. Even when Dr. Zimmerman gives him a "patch" to mute them, he still reacts with panic when she's in danger.
  • Villain Team-Up: Apparently, the Vaadwaur, Turei and Devore. Also, most alarmingly, The Voth. And it's all due to The Eight.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Mad Scientist Crell Moset experiences one of these, in Enemy of My Enemy. In fact, Dr. Kaz deliberately induces one in him, as a form of vengeance.
  • Vision Quest: An important part of the Spirit Walk duology. Chakotay even brings aspects of his vision into the real world at one point, thanks to his souped-up DNA. This includes his Spirit Advisor Black Jaguar, who briefly becomes corporeal enough to help him in battle.
  • Warrior Poet: Emperor Kahless.
  • Working with the Ex: Captain Asfarah Eden and her ex-husband Willem Batiste work together on Project Full Circle. There is still considerable hurt between them, as they openly acknowledge. Of course, their inability to relate to each other isn’t surprising given that Batiste is actually a member of Species 8472.
  • You Have Failed Me: The rogue changeling comes close to this several times when Crell Moset's research proves fruitless.


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