History VideoGame / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineTheFallen

While responding to a Bajoran distress signal, the USS ''Defiant'' finds itself under attack by an enigmatic new race called the Grigari. Meanwhile, Major Kira visits Obanak Keelen, an old friend she fought alongside with during the occupation. Obanak has rejected his people's faith in the Prophets since the occupation, and has instead turned to the Pah-Wraiths.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Given what we know about the Pah-Wraiths from the show, we can assume that Obanak isn't in a good place, assuming his consciousness survived.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The ending monologues allude to the series finale. Sisko feels that he hasn't seen the Pah-Wraiths for the last time. Kira on the other hand wonders what might happen if the Pah-Wraiths came into contact with someone truly evil, rather than just corrupting a formerly good man like Obanak. Guess what happens in the show...

** Obanak, in a way. He genuinely believes that the Pah-Wraiths want to help the Bajorans, whereas the Prophets did nothing to prevent or stop the occupation of Bajor.
** At first glance, the Kaal-Taan are nothing more than religious zealots. When they are first seen, they kill defenseless civilians while attacking Obanak's Pah-Wraith monastery, and are even willing to blow themselves up to take you with them. As it turns out, they were absolutely right about Obanak, even if they likely didn't know what exactly he was up to.

* Foreshadowing: The ending monologues allude to the series finale. Sisko feels that he hasn't seen the Pah-Wraiths for the last time. Kira on the other hand wonders what might happen if the Pah-Wraiths came into contact with someone truly evil, rather than just corrupting a formerly good man like Obanak. Guess what happens in the show...

* EmergencyWeapon: Kira and Sisko get their phasers, which regenerate their ammo, so the player can always fall back on that. It's actually better to use the Phaser against individual enemies to conserve ammo for other weapons, and it's the only weapon that can change it's frequency to bypass shields and forcefields, making it useful throughout the game. Worf is actually at quite a disadvantage since he gets his Bat'leth instead.

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** Several Vorta in the game use their telekinetic powers if you try to kill them in melee combat.

* ScareChord: The game loves to do this. Some environments have audio cues that make you think the place is about to fall apart. Others are used to indicate danger, but the game sometimes uses those cues completely out of the blue.
The game's audio files are aptly named, such as bad_plce_cue.mp3 and crescndo_stab.mp3!

A single-player, third-person shooter by The Collective and published by Simon & Schuster, set in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' universe. It loosely follows novels by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens called ''Millennium: The Fall of Terok Nor'', ''The War of the Prophets'', and ''Inferno''.

While responding to a Bajoran distress signal, the USS Defiant finds itself under attack by an enigmatic new race called the Grigari. Meanwhile, Major Kira visits Obanak Keelen, an old friend she fought alongside with during the occupation. Obanak has rejected his people's faith in the Prophets since the occupation, and has instead turned to the Pah-Wraiths.

The game contains examples of these tropes:
* ArtificialStupidity: Grigari often fail to pathfind to you even after aggroing them.

** When they aren't hyper-aware of everything to the point of making Spider-Man's spider-sense look slow, you can use the phaser rife's sniper mode to kill the person next to a given enemy and they won't notice.

** Remember how the first Vorta we saw had telekinetic powers? Well, while those never appeared on the show again, some Vorta in the game actually use this if you try to kill them in melee combat.
* DeflectorShields: The Grigari have personal shields. And they have unlimited capacity, too.
** In a few select missions, the player can also find belts that grant them a personal shield, but unlike it's enemy counterpart, it's capacity is limited.
** The final boss also has a personal shield, but thankfully, it's capacity is limited. Also, the weapons you have by that point easily bypass it.

** Unlike it's Voyager counterpart Elite Force, which came out the same year, The Fallen does not highlight objects you can interact with on your HUD. You do get the Tricorder in exchange, but it doesn't show every console, for example, and targeting can be wonky.

* UnusableEnemyEquipment: Whereas Elite Force allowed you to pick up any enemy weapon if it's one you are supposed to get anyway, The Fallen does not do this. Even if you are using the same weapon as the enemy, you can't even pick up their power-cells to get some ammo for yours. This is particularly glaring during the Arduria-levels - even if the shock-blade you found earlier runs low, you can't pick up any of the ones the Jem'Hadar use.

** The game's audio files are aptly named, such as bad_plce_cue.mp3.
*** Just listen to crescndo_stab.mp3!

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: The Protagonists are usually on their own. In their shared missions, they start at completely different points. You never encounter the other two protagonists outside of cutscenes and the interlude-segments, although you can sometimes communicate with them. Even if you start near allied NPCs, don't expect them to follow you or do anything useful.
** This leads to some very unusual situations compared to the show. Sisko's very first mission has him go to a damaged Bajoran ship to rescue survivors completely alone. Worf, meanwhile, personally fights of the Grigari boarding partys and repairs the Defiant at the same time.

** Cardassian scientist Terell will do anything necessary to get her hands on the Orb she studied years ago on Deep Space 9 in order to turn it into a weapon. However, she is also said to mistrust the Dominion and seeks to liberate her people from it. During the final episodes of the show, the Dominion indeed turns on the Cardassians and even attempts to exterminate the entire population of Cardassia Prime.
*** Additionally, while she is desperate to turn the Orb into a weapon against the Dominion, she ultimately realizes that the Orb itself is pure evil. While she fails to destroy the Orb herself, she is the one who provides Sisko, Kira and Worf with the knowledge on how to do so.

** At first glance, the Kaal-Taan are nothing more than religious zealots. When they are first seen, they kill defenseless civilians while attacking Obanak's Pah-Wraith monastery, and are even willing to blow themselves up to take you with them. As it turns out, they were absolutely right about Obanak, even if they likely didn't know what exactly he was up to.

* NightmareFuel: Star Trek isn't exactly known to be a horror franchise, even with terrifying species like the Borg out there. This game on the other hand loves to create a creepy atmosphere, be it through dim lighting, music, creepy ambient sounds or all three of those (though it will also occasionally play scary music in brightly lit areas, and sometimes not even to warn the player of a threat, but simply to mess with him).
** The Grigari try really hard to be among the creepiest species in the whole franchise. While they will not go out of their way to attack you unless you provoke them, it's difficult to predict if they feel threatened. If they target you, they will point a (harmless) red laser beam similar to a Borg drone and pursue you. Their appear as a bipedal semi-humanoid species, but it's clear that they are more machine than man, if not completely artificial. They also never speak nor do they have discernible faces aside from the aforemented eye-laser, but somehow, they do breathe in this raspy, low tone, and their breathing appears to intensify if they are pursuing a threat. And to top it all off, they have shields, making many of your weapons useless against them, and can apparently tell if you are trying to scan them to get their shield frequency.
*** It doesn't help that their boarding capsules are shown to be able to pierce Starfleet shields and cut their way through armored hulls. The Defiant becomes a victim of this despite it's ablative armor.

** The counter-insurgency program from the Season 3 episode "Civil Defense" reappears, this time triggered on purpose by Terell during her raid on DS9.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: The Protagonists are usually on their own. In their shared missions, they start at completely different points. You never encounter the other two protagonists outside of cutscenes and the interlude-segments on DS9, although you can sometimes communicate with them. Even if you start near allied NPCs, don't expect them to follow you or do anything useful.

* CallBack: The counter-insurgency program from the Season 3 episode "Civil Defense" reappears, this time triggered on purpose by Terell during her raid on DS9.

** Cardassian scientist Terell will do anything necessary to get her hands on the Orb she studied years ago on Deep Space 9 in order to turn it into a weapon. However, she is also said to mistrust the Dominion and seeks to liberate her people from it. During the final episodes of the show, the Dominion indeed turns on the Cardassian and even attempts to exterminate the entire population of Cardassia Prime.
** Obanak, in a way. He genuinely believes that the Pah-Wraiths want to help the Bajorans, whereas the Prophets did nothing to prevent or stop the occupation of Bajor.

A single-player, third-person shooter by The Collective and published by Simon & Schuster, set in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' universe. It loosely follows novels by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens called ''Millennium: The Fall of Terok Nor'', ''The War of the Prophets'', and ''Inferno''.

A single-player game by The Collective and published by Simon & Schuster, set in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' universe. It loosely follows novels by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens called ''Millennium: The Fall of Terok Nor'', ''The War of the Prophets'', and ''Inferno''.