Next Chapter: Storm Before the Calm

Yes, apparently The Fifth Element and Mass Effect exist in the Star Trek universe. Don't ask about Adrian's Curse, though; I made that one up for flavor.

I'm making a few chronology changes to the official storyline. I'm telling the same story as "The Other Side" but I'm setting it after "Surface Tension" and Reality Is Fluid. The part where Eleya tells her parents she's basically been reassigned to Antarctica is in reference to a "Surface Tension" fix fic I'm developing.

And of course, Eleya's one of those officers who never really wanted to be an admiral anyway. In the immortal words of James T. Kirk, "Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you, don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there, you can make a difference."

Gul Antos turned up in the diplo mission "Standoff", and Riker's "good news, bad news, indifferent news" line is a reference to a Rowan Atkinson sketch titled "Pink Tights and Plenty of Props".