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* MixedAncestry: Alicia Gantumur is Welsh by birth, but she reveals in this story that her mother is Kurdish.
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* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: Averted in the DistantFinale: Eleya describes her newborn [[spoiler:daughter Taryn]] as "wrinkled and red in the face and perfect."
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** [[Film/StarTrek "I've never beamed twenty people from two targets onto one pad before!"]]
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* StupidestThingIveEverHeard:
-->'''Gaarra:''' So, we're going to [[spoiler:have a daughter]].\\
'''Eleya:''' Probably. Remember, time is a rope.\\
'''Gaarra:''' ''(laughing)'' That has got to be the silliest metaphor I've ever heard in my life!
-->'''Gaarra:''' So, we're going to [[spoiler:have a daughter]].\\
'''Eleya:''' Probably. Remember, time is a rope.\\
'''Gaarra:''' ''(laughing)'' That has got to be the silliest metaphor I've ever heard in my life!
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* MultipleChoiceFuture: [[spoiler:Reshek Taryn]], a TimePolice officer, describes the overall timestream using the metaphor of a rope, made of strands of probabilistic outcomes. [[WordOfGod The author explains further in related forum posts]] that some outcomes are more probable than others (as a way of explaining {{alternate timeline}}s' tendency towards InSpiteOfANail similarities).
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* TakeThat: In addition to describing the Temporal Cold War timeline(s) as a "cesspool of nonsense", the story lists an apparent victory by Creator/DonaldTrump in an alternate timeline as one of the factors leading to the creation of the Terran Empire.
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* TakeThat: In addition to describing the Temporal Cold War timeline(s) as a "cesspool of nonsense", the story lists an apparent victory by Creator/DonaldTrump in an alternate timeline as one of the factors leading to the creation of the Terran Empire. (And in real life, that has unfortunately come true, so we could be in for a lot of trouble....)
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* FrontlineGeneral: Eleya is addressed as Commodore Kanril during the mission, which rather than being an actual rank as in TOS, follows the modern US Navy usage: a form of respect for someone below the rank of admiral who has been given a job that would normally be assigned to one.
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Because they aren't affected by Borg DeflectorShields, the [=MACOs=] use firearms during their ground assault up to and including a modified M2 Browning heavy machine gun.
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Belka Saris is really Reshek Taryn, Eleya and Gaarra's daughter from a possible future and a member of Starfleet's TipTopSecret TimePolice unit.]]
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Belka Saris is really Reshek Taryn, Eleya and Gaarra's daughter from a possible future and a member of Starfleet's TipTopSecret OverTheTopSecret TimePolice unit.]]
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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: [[spoiler:"I was--''will be'' born in 2421."]]
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[[http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/comment/13055272/#Comment_13055272 "Brother on Brother, Daughter on Mother"]] is a ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fanfic by Tropers/StarSword, with the assistance of Tropers/{{Worffan101}}. Written for [[http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1221252/ulc-27-extra-lives-entry-thread Unofficial Literary Challenge #27]], it stars Captain Kanril Eleya of the USS ''Bajor''.
Leading a multinational task force against the Borg as a commodore, Eleya discovers an EnemyCivilWar between the Borg Queen and her progenitor One of One. Using the fighting as a distraction, she lands a MACO unit led by Lieutenant Rachel Connor in a Borg installation to retrieve data. But with Connor and her team, little is completely as it seems.
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!!Tropes:
* {{BFG}}: An M2 Browning heavy machine gun (modified with an ammunition replicator) carried as a squad automatic weapon by Connor's heavy weapons specialist Jose Luiz. "It puts huge holes in Borg." Also K'lak snipes a Borg drone off Luiz's back using an anti-materiel phaser that blows it to fragments.
* CallBack: One of One reappears from ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness'', and Starfleet's continuing manpower issues since the Iconian War get a mention. Additionally the Vaadwaur are now fighting the Borg alongside the Delta Alliance.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Apparently ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' and the Temporal Cold War arc in STO never took place in ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'''s continuity, though Taryn briefly refers to an AlternateTimeline that was a [[TakeThat "cesspool of nonsense"]] from conflicting temporal incursions and was ultimately erased from existence entirely. TheVerse instead seems to draw its version of ENT events from ''Fanfic/ReimaginedEnterprise'', since it's mentioned that NX-01 was commanded by Chen Hwai (and there was apparently ''another'' version where Abner Bowman was in charge instead).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Lieutenant Rachel Connor, an illegal human Augment and a MACO officer, created by Worffan101.
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:A possible November 2421 where Eleya is now an admiral and she and Gaarra, who is commanding the ''Bajor'' on a five-year mission, have several sons. She delivers a daughter, whom they name Taryn.]]
* EnemyCivilWar: By releasing One of One back in ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness'', Eleya seems to have accidentally created one in the ''Borg Collective''.
* ForWantOfANail: The MirrorUniverse is explained as having split off from a similar timeline to the prime universe, one where the Western Roman Empire took slightly longer to fall due to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Aetius Flavius Aetius]] overthrowing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_III Emperor Valentinian]] (instead of Valentinian assassinating him) and defeating the Vandals, "then the Nazis, [[Creator/DonaldTrump Trumpers]], [[Literature/StarTrekFederation Optimum]], and the [[FamousFamousFictional Krasnov junta]] were a little more successful."
-->'''[[spoiler:Reshek Taryn]]:''' But then [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact import Borg from the future]] and--\\
'''Gaarra:''' The rope, what, frayed?
* ForeignCussWord: Alicia Gantumur once swears in Kurdish.
* IronicEchoCut: Eleya deploys the ground attack teams and remarks to the audience that "it's all up to the gropos now."
-->'''Eleya:''' I hate this part.\\
''(scene transition)''\\
'''Rachel Connor:''' I love this part.
* LivingLieDetector: Rachel Connor's enhanced senses allow her to pick up on subtle telltales from somebody lying. But this doesn't translate to being any better at lying herself: Gantumur doesn't believe her explanation for surviving an assimilation attempt, [[spoiler:and Reshek Taryn comments that she cleans Connor out every time they play poker]].
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Belka Saris is really Reshek Taryn, Eleya and Gaarra's daughter from a possible future and a member of Starfleet's TipTopSecret TimePolice unit.]]
* NoSell: Because of her BioAugmentation, Connor can no-sell ''Borg assimilation''.
* ShoutOut:
** {{Lampshaded}} when it looks like Taryn is going to make a reference to ''Series/DoctorWho'' by quoting the TimeyWimeyBall line from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]" and Eleya finishes the quotation for her.
** [[Film/StarTrek "I've never beamed twenty people from two targets onto one pad before!"]]
* SpottingTheThread: Petty Officer Belka Saris was added to Connor's team right before the mission, and Connor's enhanced senses pick up something off about one of her explanations. [[spoiler:Later Master Chief Kinlo discovers that Belka actually erased part of the data, and Eleya forces her to come clean about her real intentions: she's TimePolice stopping One of One from learning how to TimeTravel.]]
* TakeThat: In addition to describing the Temporal Cold War timeline(s) as a "cesspool of nonsense", the story lists an apparent victory by Creator/DonaldTrump in an alternate timeline as one of the factors leading to the creation of the Terran Empire.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Timey-wimey ''rope'', actually. The true nature of time is explained as being like a rope made of strands of probabilistic outcomes. As explained by Tropers/StarSword [[WordOfGod in related posts]] and by Taryn in-universe, a rope can tangle and loop back on itself, but if you pull on it the strands all move in basically the same direction (an "inertia" property meant to explain [[InSpiteOfANail why you keep having basically the same people in basically the same place]]). But if damaged (by major temporal incursions), it frays. {{Enforced}} in that the author was deliberately trying to come up with a more inclusive explanation for the nature of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' TimeTravel, as well as one that didn't lead to the TimePolice looking like "either idiots or tyrants ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or idiotic tyrants]])".
* TookALevelInBadass: The Borg under One of One. Two spheres take down a ''tactical cube'' thanks to additional weapons.
* WeHaveReserves: Connor remarks disgustedly about the expendability of Borg drones, having once been one herself.
* YouAreInCommandNow: An entire ''Defiant'' wing ends up led by a lieutenant commander because the formation flagship was destroyed offscreen.
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Leading a multinational task force against the Borg as a commodore, Eleya discovers an EnemyCivilWar between the Borg Queen and her progenitor One of One. Using the fighting as a distraction, she lands a MACO unit led by Lieutenant Rachel Connor in a Borg installation to retrieve data. But with Connor and her team, little is completely as it seems.
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!!Tropes:
* {{BFG}}: An M2 Browning heavy machine gun (modified with an ammunition replicator) carried as a squad automatic weapon by Connor's heavy weapons specialist Jose Luiz. "It puts huge holes in Borg." Also K'lak snipes a Borg drone off Luiz's back using an anti-materiel phaser that blows it to fragments.
* CallBack: One of One reappears from ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness'', and Starfleet's continuing manpower issues since the Iconian War get a mention. Additionally the Vaadwaur are now fighting the Borg alongside the Delta Alliance.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Apparently ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' and the Temporal Cold War arc in STO never took place in ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'''s continuity, though Taryn briefly refers to an AlternateTimeline that was a [[TakeThat "cesspool of nonsense"]] from conflicting temporal incursions and was ultimately erased from existence entirely. TheVerse instead seems to draw its version of ENT events from ''Fanfic/ReimaginedEnterprise'', since it's mentioned that NX-01 was commanded by Chen Hwai (and there was apparently ''another'' version where Abner Bowman was in charge instead).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Lieutenant Rachel Connor, an illegal human Augment and a MACO officer, created by Worffan101.
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:A possible November 2421 where Eleya is now an admiral and she and Gaarra, who is commanding the ''Bajor'' on a five-year mission, have several sons. She delivers a daughter, whom they name Taryn.]]
* EnemyCivilWar: By releasing One of One back in ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness'', Eleya seems to have accidentally created one in the ''Borg Collective''.
* ForWantOfANail: The MirrorUniverse is explained as having split off from a similar timeline to the prime universe, one where the Western Roman Empire took slightly longer to fall due to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Aetius Flavius Aetius]] overthrowing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_III Emperor Valentinian]] (instead of Valentinian assassinating him) and defeating the Vandals, "then the Nazis, [[Creator/DonaldTrump Trumpers]], [[Literature/StarTrekFederation Optimum]], and the [[FamousFamousFictional Krasnov junta]] were a little more successful."
-->'''[[spoiler:Reshek Taryn]]:''' But then [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact import Borg from the future]] and--\\
'''Gaarra:''' The rope, what, frayed?
* ForeignCussWord: Alicia Gantumur once swears in Kurdish.
* IronicEchoCut: Eleya deploys the ground attack teams and remarks to the audience that "it's all up to the gropos now."
-->'''Eleya:''' I hate this part.\\
''(scene transition)''\\
'''Rachel Connor:''' I love this part.
* LivingLieDetector: Rachel Connor's enhanced senses allow her to pick up on subtle telltales from somebody lying. But this doesn't translate to being any better at lying herself: Gantumur doesn't believe her explanation for surviving an assimilation attempt, [[spoiler:and Reshek Taryn comments that she cleans Connor out every time they play poker]].
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Belka Saris is really Reshek Taryn, Eleya and Gaarra's daughter from a possible future and a member of Starfleet's TipTopSecret TimePolice unit.]]
* NoSell: Because of her BioAugmentation, Connor can no-sell ''Borg assimilation''.
* ShoutOut:
** {{Lampshaded}} when it looks like Taryn is going to make a reference to ''Series/DoctorWho'' by quoting the TimeyWimeyBall line from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]" and Eleya finishes the quotation for her.
** [[Film/StarTrek "I've never beamed twenty people from two targets onto one pad before!"]]
* SpottingTheThread: Petty Officer Belka Saris was added to Connor's team right before the mission, and Connor's enhanced senses pick up something off about one of her explanations. [[spoiler:Later Master Chief Kinlo discovers that Belka actually erased part of the data, and Eleya forces her to come clean about her real intentions: she's TimePolice stopping One of One from learning how to TimeTravel.]]
* TakeThat: In addition to describing the Temporal Cold War timeline(s) as a "cesspool of nonsense", the story lists an apparent victory by Creator/DonaldTrump in an alternate timeline as one of the factors leading to the creation of the Terran Empire.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Timey-wimey ''rope'', actually. The true nature of time is explained as being like a rope made of strands of probabilistic outcomes. As explained by Tropers/StarSword [[WordOfGod in related posts]] and by Taryn in-universe, a rope can tangle and loop back on itself, but if you pull on it the strands all move in basically the same direction (an "inertia" property meant to explain [[InSpiteOfANail why you keep having basically the same people in basically the same place]]). But if damaged (by major temporal incursions), it frays. {{Enforced}} in that the author was deliberately trying to come up with a more inclusive explanation for the nature of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' TimeTravel, as well as one that didn't lead to the TimePolice looking like "either idiots or tyrants ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or idiotic tyrants]])".
* TookALevelInBadass: The Borg under One of One. Two spheres take down a ''tactical cube'' thanks to additional weapons.
* WeHaveReserves: Connor remarks disgustedly about the expendability of Borg drones, having once been one herself.
* YouAreInCommandNow: An entire ''Defiant'' wing ends up led by a lieutenant commander because the formation flagship was destroyed offscreen.
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