The Unity Saga

"I'm sure there's nothing to fear in letting Admiral Thrawn examine our works of art." —Captain Picard, Worlds Without End Part VI

The Unity Saga is an epic Star Trek/Star Wars crossover by Chuck Sonnenberg telling the story of Unity, the path to peace between two galaxies. The story is told in two trilogies:

The Road To Unity

• I: Worlds Without End
• II: Shadows of the Night
• III: Against All Odds

The Price Of Unity

• IV: Paradise Lost
• V: Blood of Heroes
• VI: Dawn of Forever

Totaled, the saga is 250 chapters in length. Did we mention it's epic?

Read it here.

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• Affably Evil: Thrawn, of course.
• Alternate History: Janeway among her various time related abilities can see the past the way it would have been (the way the fans know it) were it not for the two galaxies interacting.
• Anyone Can Die: At least a few major characters from both franchises bite it in each of the six parts. The original characters don't exactly make it through unscathed either.
• Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence: Picard.
• Author Tract: The author's favourite Star Trek captain is Benjamin Sisko and his least favourite one is Janeway. And boy does that show in this fic.
• Back From the Dead: Captain Lennox invokes Better to Die Than Be Killed, refusing to let the Borg gain access to the Imperial data in his head. The Borg counter with this trope.
• Because Destiny Says So: Throughout, but it becomes most prominent in the latter half of the series.
• Big Bad: Several, including Emperor Palpatine, but The Oracle really has to take the cake.
• Big Damn Heroes: Several, even the Borg manage to pull this off against The Vong.
• Bus Crash: Troi is killed off screen by Data. Followed by an explanation ensuring there is no coming back.
• Butt Monkey: Commander Borui. Justified somewhat, in that she's generally a terrible councilor.
• The Chessmaster: The Oracle.
• Chickification: Seven of Nine in her relationship with Luke.
• Cosmic Plaything: Sebastian.
• Cybernetics Will Eat Your Soul: A recurring motif brought together by the various cyborgs of both universes. In this series, it's more attitude than reality.
• Doorstopper: The digital version.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Dozens, including some planets that a fan of either series has come to know well.
• Evil Versus Evil: The Galactic Empire vs. the Borg Collective.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Blood of Heroes.
• Foregone Conclusion: Anyone familiar with the author's Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide won't be too surprised at the latter half of Janeway's character arc.
  • No, he made Janeway competent.
• Freudian Excuse: Done most tragically with Ben Skywalker.
• Heel Face Revolving Door: Luke.
• Heel Face Turn Several, most notably the Borg.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: Never check a free dewback's hide.
• I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight: Luke gets one in Against All Odds.
• It Got Worse: So much.
• Kill'Em All: The list of characters who survive is shorter than the list of ones who get killed off at various points in the books.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: Star Trek and the Star Wars Expanded Universe already each have Loads and Loads in their own right. Here they're all thrown into the mix, with a few original characters on top of that.
• Love Before First Sight: Luke and Seven.
• Ludd Was Right: This is what Senator Alixus believes which is why she supports the Vong.
• The Man Behind the Man: This trope is everywhere in Shadows of the Night. The Ssi-Ruuk are tricked into attacking The Republic by the Borg, who are under the leadership of Anansi (a.k.a. Grand Admiral Thrawn), who is being manipulated by Darth Whind, who is being possessed by the reborn Emperor Palpatine, all according to the grand plan of Ben Sisko.
• The Mole: Data in Worlds Without End.
• Oh Crap

"Sir, Borg cubes coming out of warp!" "What? How many? I said how many," "One hundred twelve, sir."

• Picard when he realizes that, yes, there is much to fear by letting Thrawn examine their works of art.

• Organic Technology: the Vong.
• The Peter Principle: Though Chuck doesn't care for Janeway as a captain, he portrays her as being quite competent in certain other endeavours owing to her background as a science officer. For example, she figures out how to run transporter beams through hyperspace.
• Pet the Dog: For the author. Though he beats up on the Voyager crew a lot in his reviews of that show, he generally shows most of them at their best here and even allows them to grow, and/or, have heroic deaths. The mere fact that he chooses to leave Capt Okona out of the story rather than including him to give him a savage humiliating death shows restraint.
  • He also simply has Neelix Put on a Bus early on and never return. Now that's willpower.
• Redemption Equals Death: Unsurprisingly for Star Wars, which lives by this trope, this is the resolution of Ben Skywalker's character arc.
  • Data sacrifices himself to destroy the Death Star after killing Troi and betraying Seven.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers: Q can make sound in space, because he has no respect for the physics of vacuum.
• Shout-Out: The fic makes a few references to StarDestroyer.Net's Conquest and Star Crossed.
  • Picard questions his right to commit genocide against the Borg in a very similar manner to the Doctor in "Genesis of the Daleks."
    • Much more likely this is a call back to the other times Picard has pondered this subject, regarding both the Borg and the Crystalline Entity.
• Suspiciously Apropos Music: Seven of Nine and "Puff the Magic Dragon." NOT in regards to marijuana use.
• Temporal Paradox: The Oracle.
• Techno Babble: Used realistically.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: Seven tends to talk like this, though she is rediscovering her emotions throughout much of this story.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: A rare heroic example by most of the main characters, but especially Sisko and Empress Leia.
• Worthy Opponent: Delric Taar, who despite being an Imperial TIE pilot who gets a good number of kills including Tom Paris is a very likable and engaging character, and one of the most developed throughout the whole story.
• Xanatos Gambit / Evil Plan: The Oracle's schemes.
• You Can't Fight Fate: A major theme.