42 For "fleet exercise", read "preparations for Klayvor's coup", most likely.

85 Bozhemoi: Russian for "oh, good grief," in essence.

98 Hey, there's been a Bruce Corwin sighting!

149 An oblique reference to events in the last season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, whence come both Ezri (sort of) and Odo; canonically, she and Bashir ended up in the sack. Here, that is... unlikely.

199 No matter where he is, Odo's a cop. It'd be in his blood, if he had blood.

288 Ezri is a Trill, a member of a humanoid species who are often found keeping company, as it were, with semisentient symbionts. These creatures, which are implanted in the abdominal cavity of their humanoid hosts, bestow the memories and echoes of the personalities of their previous hosts on the current one, making for a sort of "serial immortality" effect that's not unlike the way many Time Lords' personalities shift after regeneration. In the source show, she's introduced in the seventh season as the new host for the Dax symbiont, and changes her last name accordingly. In UF, Jadzia Dax is still alive and well, so Ezri's on her own - and just as happy about it.

315 Carcatera began his naval career with the United States Navy, transferring to Starfleet only after political wrangling denied him the Navy command he wanted. Haineley remembers him as a young, squeaky-voiced ensign fresh out of Annapolis, and didn't like him much then, either.

385 Probably my favorite Boba line yet. Actually, this whole scene makes me giggle. I love the image of Tom making a funny story out of Boba ending up in the Sarlacc because of a "misunderstanding" with a recently-carbon-frozen Jason Solo.

406 Lekku is the secret "sign language" of the twi'leks, who "speak" it with the two tentacles on their heads (which are also called lekku).

410 Presumably this was after Jason got his vision back and helped Tom fish Boba out of the Sarlacc.

429 Lindsay is New Avalon CSI Catherine Willows's daughter.

466 Following the honorable tradition of Starfleet fencers that includes such honored greats of graduating classes past as Jean-Luc Picard and Hikaru Sulu. Many Trills take up unusual hobbies, even those that aren't Joined.

484 Those who have seen the Hellboy movie will recognize the tajir as a very similar weapon to those odd swords Karl Ruprecht Krönen, the clockwork Nazi, uses.

508 The ahn-woon is a Vulcan dueling weapon. It consists of a leather strap with a loop at one end. In a traditional duel between two Vulcan males in pon farr, the ahn-woon is resorted to if both combatants survive the first phase of the duel, which is fought with a glaive-like weapon called a lirpa (as seen in the Star Trek episode "Amok Time").

607 B'Hala is the ancient (and long-lost) holy city of the Bajoran Prophets, a sort of Bajoran Jerusalem.

619 It's true; young Dukat here is the son of the last Cardassian military governor of occupied Bajor, the infamous Gul Skrain Dukat, and he holds a Bajoran passport. More on this in a bit.

745 Nita Daran is an original character.

813 As you might have guessed if you're familiar with the source material, the elder Dukat's career has taken a rather different turn from the one seen on TV. There are elements that are similar, though, and this is one of them - "Anjohl Tennan" was an actual Bajoran alias Dukat used, albeit for completely different reasons, on Deep Space Nine.

The backstory for the Dukats - what they're doing on Bajor, why Dukat the Elder has adopted the identity of a Bajoran militiaman while the galaxy thinks he's dead, and so on - is fully developed; it's just a question of finding a place to relate it.

913 The O'Briens adopted B'Elanna sometime during the Third Symphony gap.

955 An alternate spelling of d'k tagh; I have lately adopted it for no more compelling reason than the space in the more common spelling has always bugged me a little.

968 I envision the Klingon "battle engineer" as a sort of combination starship engineer and combat demolitionist, part Scotty, part Special Forces.

1041 Early in their acquaintanceship, Sumire's disdain for Sakura's rural roots was genuine and biting; now, as friends with a bond forged in the most desperate battles, they look back on those days and laugh at what petty fools they were.

1063 Sumire has taken a more-than-passing interest in Kaitlyn's career, and indeed in her life; partly it's because she has a genuine affection for Kate, and partly it's her way of doing something to help indirectly bolster Gryphon's peace of mind. There are bits and pieces of Kate's fall on Ishiyama floating around besides this one, further illustrating the dealings between them, that haven't found a home yet (though one incident, a wine-soaked evening at Sumire's country retreat, is alluded to with Koriand'r's appearance in Raven: Blood Ties #2).

1073 Maybe one of these days Heather will get lines.

1088 A high-performance landspeeder. In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bitches that he can't get much for his speeder (which I've always suspected was kind of the Tatooinian equivalent of a shitbox Camaro - it's even the appropriate shade of primer brown) because the XP38 killed demand for older models.

1155 Not the first time this has happened to Utena, if you recall Reflections in Transition.

1185 If I had it to do over again, I would probably have settled Kate and the other adult Duelists in New Avalon from the start, to make the logistics easier. At the time I decided on Tomodachi, I figured Kate probably wouldn't want to go straight back to her old hometown after graduating from DSM, and I had some ideas about things to do with the Duelists and the NIT Motor Club, but that never came together, and so in the end the Tomodachi thing turned out to be kind of a dead end.

1220 He came closer than he would've expected, too.

Closer, heck, he was the first third of it. He was the warmup act. ALC

1238 This point in any Duelist party is about when the photo of Utena and Saionji asleep in Toronto gets hauled out.

1282 Not only is New Avalon the seat of the International Police, Claremont is full of people with unusual talents and a generally low opinion of Psi Corps tactics, and it's right next to Salutown - and only a Psi Cop with a genuine death wish would show his face anywhere near the Althenian Sisterhood convent out by Mignola Point. The Little Sisters of Althena do not take kindly to the Corps, and for all that their neighbors think of them as sweet, harmless, pious Salusian girls who sell nice baked goods and jam, believe me, you do not want to cross someone who has devoted her life to the service of the Salusian goddess of the hearth. Defense of the home and the helpless is part of Althena's purview, and not for nothing is she known as Our Lady of the Sword.

1312 Harkness Street is named for Marvel Comics mystic Agatha Harkness.

1327 Reputed to be the ghost of a student who threw herself from the window there in a fit of despair back in the 2380s, not long after the school opened.

1344 In the original draft of this scene, which was set a few months later, this was Kara Zor-El, but as things got readjusted, Kara hadn't arrived yet - and besides, what would she be doing at a high school? She's Kryptonian, she was fully educated by Zetan standards by the time she was old enough to walk. At any rate, Courtney is something of a self-appointed welcoming committee at Harkness Street High, largely because the older Titans made her feel welcome when she transferred in from out of town, and she's a believer in paying things forward.

1348 Indeed, Mr. Carter Hall is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian prince. Well, sort of. It's complicated.

1443 Such is the legend of Braxa the Hutt that many ambitious Hutts, such as Vorgo, intimate that they are linked with his syndicate when they aren't - which becomes all the more amusing when you reflect that Braxa is merely an alias for Slaarti, the Hutt Jedi. He and his team have done an admirable job of establishing his cover identity, since he has done none of the things Braxa is credited with.

1531 Now, now, don't look like that. Let's give the kid a chance to see what he can do when he's not painted into a corner by a plotline established 20 years before he was ever born, shall we?

1547 Anakin is a cabdriver in UF because one of his establishing scenes in Attack of the Clones simply screams "I was inspired by some Lucasfilm employee's addiction to Crazy Taxi." I mean, come on, the speeder's taxicab yellow, there are nutty stunts and a dubious shortcut... "OK, Anakin - let's go make some crrrrraaaazy money!"

1622 The Leopard-CV is a Battletech dropship. It's ostensibly a version of the ubiquitous Leopard (which normally carries a lance of 'Mechs) configured to carry AeroSpace Fighters instead, but in illustrations it looks totally different.

1648 Apart from the fact that I swiped his name, I doubt this character has anything to do with the dead Jedi Master heard about but never seen in Attack of the Clones.

1667 Anakin's apprenticeship to Saionji was something Anne, Truss, and I started batting around after we saw Attack of the Clones. One thing that was obvious to all of us - apart from the fact that George should really get someone else to write dialogue for him - was that Anakin would've done better with a different sort of teacher. (He'd also have done better if he wasn't a square peg being shoved into a predestined round plot, but that's a whole different can of worms.) Many entertaining moments from their hypothetical career together emerged from those sessions - but first they have to survive the Black Rose...

1690 It's the old Black Rose spiel from Revolutionary Girl Utena, though the new Black Rose Order is connected to the old only in a few ways we haven't explored yet.

1697 "Welcome to the revolution" paraphrases a line in the Def Leppard song "Kings of Oblivion".

...Gah. Robbing the cradle, much?

>
>385 Probably my favorite Boba line yet. Actually, this whole
>scene makes me giggle. I love the image of Tom making a funny story
>out of Boba ending up in the Sarlacc because of a "misunderstanding"
>with a recently-carbon-frozen Jason Solo.

I was rather amused by this, too. =)

>745 Nita Daran is an original character.

I wondered about that.

>
>The backstory for the Dukats - what they're doing on Bajor, why Dukat
>the Elder has adopted the identity of a Bajoran militiaman while the
>galaxy thinks he's dead, and so on - is fully developed; it's just a
>question of finding a place to relate it.

I've wondered about this, too, but it was implied in the story it would be covered later.

>968 I envision the Klingon "battle engineer" as a sort of
>combination starship engineer and combat demolitionist, part Scotty,
>part Special Forces.

I hadn't foreseen the demolitionist part, but I can see it. Just like sending an engineer into a bridge house in Red Alert 2.

>1063 Sumire has taken a more-than-passing interest in Kaitlyn's
>career, and indeed in her life; partly it's because she has a genuine
>affection for Kate, and partly it's her way of doing something to help
>indirectly bolster Gryphon's peace of mind. There are bits and pieces
>of Kate's fall on Ishiyama floating around besides this one, further
>illustrating the dealings between them, that haven't found a home yet
>(though one incident, a wine-soaked evening at Sumire's country
>retreat, is alluded to with Koriand'r's appearance in Raven: Blood
>Ties #2).

I always had the suspicion there was something going on in this that wasn't being shown onscreen. Guess I was wrong.

>
>1073 Maybe one of these days Heather will get lines.

Indeed! It's hard to visualize these things sometimes, too, when you have no idea what someone looks like.

>
>1088 A high-performance landspeeder. In Star Wars, Luke
>Skywalker bitches that he can't get much for his speeder (which I've
>always suspected was kind of the Tatooinian equivalent of a shitbox
>Camaro - it's even the appropriate shade of primer brown) because the
>XP38 killed demand for older models.

Which fits in, of course, with Luke's lack of money. It's little realistic touches like these that sometimes seems missing from Lucas' later Star Wars movies...but I look back and think, and there was the diner, the club with the deathsticks guy...they were there. I guess I'm barking up the wrong tree. Hrm.

>
>1155 Not the first time this has happened to Utena, if you
>recall Reflections in Transition.

Yep. Not quite as funny, though, when they've already gone all the way. =)
Still amusing, though.

>1220 He came closer than he would've expected, too.
>
>Closer, heck, he was the first third of it. He
>was the warmup act. ALC

I wonder if Saionji didn't already realize this as soon as he saw Juni. Perhaps he would have if he weren't so focused on deceiving Touga.

>
>1238 This point in any Duelist party is about when the photo of
>Utena and Saionji asleep in Toronto gets hauled out.
>
>1282 Not only is New Avalon the seat of the International
>Police, Claremont is full of people with unusual talents and a
>generally low opinion of Psi Corps tactics, and it's right next to
>Salutown - and only a Psi Cop with a genuine death wish would show his
>face anywhere near the Althenian Sisterhood convent out by
>Mignola Point. The Little Sisters of Althena do not take
>kindly to the Corps, and for all that their neighbors think of them as
>sweet, harmless, pious Salusian girls who sell nice baked goods and
>jam, believe me, you do not want to cross someone who has devoted her
>life to the service of the Salusian goddess of the hearth. Defense of
>the home and the helpless is part of Althena's purview, and not for
>nothing is she known as Our Lady of the Sword.

Never DID quite finish Lunar: SSS, but I remembered Althena as soon as I saw the name the first time. I don't remember her faith being very militant, but the Salusian take on practicality is something I immensely appreciate, something I wish we saw more of in the real world.

>1327 Reputed to be the ghost of a student who threw herself
>from the window there in a fit of despair back in the 2380s, not long
>after the school opened.

...As long as it's not someone who got killed in the girls' bathroom, that sounds fine.

>
>1344 In the original draft of this scene, which was set a few
>months later, this was Kara Zor-El, but as things got readjusted, Kara
>hadn't arrived yet - and besides, what would she be doing at a high
>school? She's Kryptonian, she was fully educated by Zetan standards
>by the time she was old enough to walk. At any rate, Courtney is
>something of a self-appointed welcoming committee at Harkness Street
>High, largely because the older Titans made her feel welcome when she
>transferred in from out of town, and she's a believer in paying things
>forward.

I'm sure there's no shortage of attractive, young blondes in comics.

>
>1348 Indeed, Mr. Carter Hall is the reincarnation of an
>ancient Egyptian prince. Well, sort of. It's complicated.

I'm pretty sure this is Hawkman, though I'm no comics buff. How come it seems to me the cool aspects of these characters, like the Egyptian connection, always get buried by the lame aspects, like wings and silly hawk helmets?

>
>1443 Such is the legend of Braxa the Hutt that many ambitious
>Hutts, such as Vorgo, intimate that they are linked with his syndicate
>when they aren't - which becomes all the more amusing when you reflect
>that Braxa is merely an alias for Slaarti, the Hutt Jedi. He and his
>team have done an admirable job of establishing his cover identity,
>since he has done none of the things Braxa is credited with.

AH. Now that's an interesting revelation.

>
>1531 Now, now, don't look like that. Let's give the kid a
>chance to see what he can do when he's not painted into a corner by a
>plotline established 20 years before he was ever born, shall we?

Seriously. I know Hayden Christensen isn't the world's greatest character actor (a great one would have been able to pull something salvageable from Lucas' lines) but it was NOT all his fault.

>
>1547 Anakin is a cabdriver in UF because one of his
>establishing scenes in Attack of the Clones simply
>screams "I was inspired by some Lucasfilm employee's addiction
>to Crazy Taxi." I mean, come on, the speeder's taxicab yellow,
>there are nutty stunts and a dubious shortcut... "OK, Anakin - let's
>go make some crrrrraaaazy money!"

It was one of the more fun scenes in the movie, though. =)

>
>1622 The Leopard-CV is a Battletech dropship.
>It's ostensibly a version of the ubiquitous Leopard (which
>normally carries a lance of 'Mechs) configured to carry AeroSpace
>Fighters instead, but in illustrations it looks totally different.

Is the Leopard that big, blocky brick of a ship you always see in Mechwarrior 4?

>1667 Anakin's apprenticeship to Saionji was something Anne,
>Truss, and I started batting around after we saw Attack of the
>Clones. One thing that was obvious to all of us - apart from the
>fact that George should really get someone else to write dialogue for
>him - was that Anakin would've done better with a different sort of
>teacher. (He'd also have done better if he wasn't a square peg being
>shoved into a predestined round plot, but that's a whole different can
>of worms.) Many entertaining moments from their hypothetical career
>together emerged from those sessions - but first they have to survive
>the Black Rose...

Of course, this goes back to the fundamental problem with Jedi teachings, which Utena in S4M7 has already set them on the road to correcting. I never realized he would have done better with a teacher like Saionji, but as soon as I'd read it here, I said, 'OHHHHHH, of COURSE!'. Aside from them being so similar, Saionji is a better teacher simply because he's not held down by the Jedi's long-standing total-peace-or-overwhelming-evil dichotomy crap. One of the reasons I appreciated KotOR2 so much was how obviously incomplete these two philosophies were made. (Kreia, in particular, is your character's mentor, totally grey morally, and has some powerfully written dialogue.)

>
>1690 It's the old Black Rose spiel from Revolutionary Girl
>Utena, though the new Black Rose Order is connected to the old
>only in a few ways we haven't explored yet.

Saionji must have had to choke back some bile to get this line right.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard