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1	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6818416/1/Star-Trek-Helen Star Trek: Helen]]'' is a fanfic based in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe set aboard the USS ''Helen'' in 2414. The ''Helen'' was trapped in the distant Triangulum Galaxy after a wormhole it entered became unstable.
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3	!!''Star Trek: Helen'' provides examples of the following tropes:
4	* {{Atlantis}}: Tomek Dai, an ancient civilization of aliens that the villains of Season One want to get their hands on.
5	* ArcWords: The Quest For Tomek Dai.
6	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Taken with the Athenans, who in other stories can reproduce without a male.
7	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Elia may be friendly and nice, but you never want to get on her bad side.
8	* BigBad: The Nadorians, they want access to Iconian technology for an unknown reason.
9	* BizarreAlienBiology: Athenans have a symbiotic relationship with a microorganism.
10	* ContinuityNod:
11	** In chapter 4, characters refer to the fanmade series ''Star Trek: Odyssey'', establishing it and the other series by Hidden Frontier as part of the continuity.
12	*** The Bajoran Drash Elia prays to the Prophets similarly to how Ro Nevin did in Odyssey.
13	** It is mentioned that the USS ''Enterprise''-D visited the Triangulum Galaxy.
14	** They encounter the USS ''Chimera'', a ''Universe''-class starship, the same class as the ''Enterprise''-J in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. (''Universe''-class was the name given by the ''Ent''-J's designer, Doug Drexler, in a blog post.)
15	** The Second Officer is an Elaysian, a species introduced in Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora "Melora"]] that hasn't appeared since in the TV canon. Elaysians ''have'' turned up in the books, though, which is where the holocommunicator idea comes from.
16	* ContinuityOverlap: With ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''.
17	* CoolStarship: The ''Helen'', its a small ship with half a galaxy after it.
18	* CrapsackWorld: The Triangulum Galaxy. The species encountered so far are either tyrants, rebels, or just stay out of things.
19	* EarlyBirdCameo: The USS ''Chimera'', a clas of ship not built for another hundred years.
20	* EvilPlan: The Nadorians, an imperialistic totalitarian species wants the ''Helen'' to get access to Tomek Dai, a planet with Iconian technology.
21	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Episode titles.
22	* FeministFantasy: The senior staff is primarily female.
23	* FirstEpisodeTwist: Like in ''Voyager'', the first chapter is hard to explain without saying they wind up in Triangulum.
24	* ForHappiness: Elia serves the role of boosting morale of the crew when she becomes the ship's bartender.
25	* GenderIsNoObject:
26	** Much like ''Voyager'' with a female dominated crew and captain.
27	** Averted with the Athenans. They're more matriarchal, so they focus primarily on women.
28	* HalfHumanHybrid: Selva and her daughter Kaiya have a mixed genetic heritage because Athenans have to reproduce with other species.
29	* TheHomewardJourney: Well, that's obvious, it is done in the style of Voyager.
30	* HumansAreWhite: Averted in that Eric Hernandez, the only Human member of the Senior Staff, is of Hispanic descent.
31	* InfiniteSupplies: Not so much in the beginning where a ship supposed to be built for extended missions didn't have enough supplies. WordOfGod is that it was supposed to be a short mission to test the ship before more extended missions.
32	* LostTechnology: This is basically the plot of Season 1, the Nadorians want access to the Iconian technology on Tomek Dai.
33	* NicknamingTheEnemy: The Nadorians did this to the Sintaro rebels, the word basically means undesirable, the rebels took the name for themselves as a TakeThat!
34	* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: Several of the main characters join a Nadorian Governor for a meal, though they did not know he was evil at the time.
35	* OfficialCouple: Drash Elia and Anlai Torvin.
36	* OneGenderRace: The fanfic introduces the Athenans, an all female species native to the Milky Way.
37	* OnlyOneName: A good portion of the aliens are introduced with only one name, including the ship's captain.
38	* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Averted with Elia, who being Bajoran worships the Prophets.
39	* SecretPolice: The Mazek Ta Bor introduced in chapter 4 is this for the Nadorian Alliance. WordOfGod is that they are even more powerful than the High Toiel who rules the Alliance.
40	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified: The Sintaro rebels are in fact the first friendly aliens they meet.
41	* ShoutOut: To ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elia gets nose beeped by a woman and later has strange dreams.
42	* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Pasori on the Omega Molecule (a molecule that is almost impossible to stabilize, and when detonated can disrupt warp speed), turning it off would according to them doom their civilization.

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