Line #26 Characters/StarTrekOnlineTheBorgAndUndine


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3	! Allies
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5	[[folder: Omega Force]]
6	A joint task force created by Admiral D'Vak in the interest of Federation and Klingon protection against the Borg. The Federation half of the task force is run by Military Assault Command Operations (M.A.C.O.) and the Klingon half is run by the Klingon Honor Guard. It is headquartered in Starbase Deep Space Nine and Battle Group Omega.
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8	* EnemyMine: Federation and KDF interests who started this group agreed that working together was more likely to stop the Borg. The Romulans joined later.
9	* GodzillaThreshold: The Borg were enough of this to put this task force together.
10	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The Romulan Republic doesn't get their own unique armor for this Task Force, instead getting the PlayerCharacter's allied faction armor. This carried through to every other reputation except New Romulus rep, which doesn't even ''have'' a ground set.
11	[[/folder]]
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13	[[folder: 8472 Counter-Command]]
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15	An off-shoot of the Dyson Joint Command formed in response to increased Undine attacks, the Counter-Command aims to defend worlds in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants from Undine attacks and if possible take the fight back to fluidic space.
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18	* EnemyMine: The same as previous reputations, though downplayed. [[spoiler: The events that lead to the Counter-Command's formation also leads to the end of the Klingon-Federation War]].
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21	[[folder: Dr. Eric Cooper]]
22	--> Played by Dave Rivas
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24	A scientist who has been studying the Dyson Sphere and the Iconian systems, aiding Tuvok in trying to shut down the Solanae Dyson Sphere jump system. [[spoiler: Replaced by an Undine.]]
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26	* AbsoluteXenophobe: [[spoiler: Undine!Cooper wants to destroy all life in normal space, as he sees them as an infestation that must be cleansed. He's even worse in this regard than most of his race.]]
27	* ActualPacifist: He's shown to hate fighting, freaks out when you hand him a phaser and, if you handed him a phaser prior and he decides to stay behind, he outright refuses to use one again. [[spoiler: The real Dr. Cooper, as met in "A Gathering Darkness", wasn't this. The fact Cooper starts behaving like this was is the first hint of what happened to him.]]
28	* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:He's the main BigBad of the Solanae Dyson Sphere story arc, though he's not actually defeated until the first mission of the Delta Quadrant arc.]]
29	* BigNo: [[spoiler:His last words, when he's "repurposed" by his own ship.]]
30	* BreakThemByTalking: When the [[spoiler:Undine]] invade the Jenolan Dyson Sphere, he starts to taunt Tuvok for allowing it to happen. It doesn't work. [[spoiler: Undine!Cooper, however, actually has been broken by talking to him. He tried to do it again to Tuvok (telepathically), only to get his MindRape reversed on him and for Tuvok to get all the information he needed on the attack on Qo'noS.]]
31	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Undine!Cooper was "repurposed" by his LivingShip. It's implied that the target of that repurposing [[HumanResources was his biomass]].]]
32	* DoomedByCanon: Cooper in "A Gathering Darkness" [[spoiler: wasn't the Undine we had been introduced to earlier (but canonically later), because the Undine were ''attacking him''.]]
33	* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:Most of Cooper's dialogue to Tuvok and the player is this, after he's outed as an Undine infiltrator.]]
34	* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:Of Hakeev. Large Ham villian? Check. LoveToHate by the player base? Check. Voiced by Dave Rivas? Check. Involved with Borg technology? Check. Tricked by the Iconians? Double Check.]]
35	* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: He does this from time to time.
36	* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:The real Cooper is implied to have been killed or assimilated onboard the U.S.S. ''Venture''. The Undine use his death or assimilation at the hands of the Borg to replace him in the Federation.]]
37	* [[spoiler:LargeHam]]: [[spoiler:Undine!Cooper does love to rant about how great he is...]]
38	* TheMole: [[spoiler:He's an Undine infiltrator working inside the Alliance's attempt to understand the Solanae Dyson Sphere's technology. He also lays the groundwork for the Undine's invasion of the Alpha Quadrant via the two spheres in "Surface Tension".]]
39	* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:The real Cooper views the escape of the Borg nanovirus from his lab on Kessik IV to be his. He certainly didn't enjoy watching his experiment assimilate the planet and its people.]]
40	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His attempt [[spoiler:to MindRape Tuvok during the Undine attack on Earth in "Surface Tension" backfires spectacularly. Tuvok is able to take a peek into Cooper's mind instead, and learns that the assault on Earth Spacedock is just a diversion from the Undine's real target, [=Qo'noS=]. This gives the Klingons, Starfleet, and the Romulan Republic a chance to mount a successful defense of the Klingon homeworld, saving both planets and leading to a new alliance between the three powers, who before the Undine invasion were at each other's throats over ownership of the Jenolan Dyson Sphere.]]
41	** And then he makes the same mistake in "Escalation", [[spoiler:launching another mental attack on Tuvok, which the player helps fight off in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind. Tuvok and the player are able to track Cooper via his mind link, and find the Undine's command bioship. Tuvok mind melds with it, and convinces it that a ceasefire with the Federation is preferable to an Iconian takeover, leading to an angry Cooper being "repurposed" by his own LivingShip.]]
42	* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: The real Dr. Eric Cooper is actually very brave and understated. His Undine duplicate is a LargeHam and very disrespectful, letting you know which one is which and when he was replaced.]]
43	* ProtectionMission:
44	** At one point, you need to protect his hide from Swarmer attacks.
45	** Again in ''A Gathering Darkness'', though in this case, [[spoiler: its because Cooper needs back up to open the doors for you to enter the facility.]]
46	* SayMyName: When [[spoiler:Tuvok revealed that he used his EvilGloating to pry out information over the Undine's true target]], Cooper's quite pissed off, shouting Tuvok's name in anger.
47	-->'''[[spoiler:Undine!Cooper]]''': Tuvok? TUUUUUVVVVVOOOOOKKKKK!
48	* UncertainDoom: The exact fate of [[spoiler:the real Dr. Cooper is unknown. The likeliest scenarios are that he was killed or assimilated with the ''Venture's'' crew in "Fluid Dynamics", though Tuvok notes there's a chance he may have been captured instead.]]
49	* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The revelation that he's been replaced by an Undine is a major plot twist in "A Step Between Stars".]]
50	* YouSoundFamiliar: His voice actor also plays Hakeev and Va'Kel Shon.
51	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In "Mindscape", Tuvok and the player are able to drive Cooper out of the former's mind and confronts him on his own bioship. Tuvok is able to convince the Bioship that, by working together, the strong shall survive. When Cooper attempts to deflect that, the bioship thinks otherwise and destroys Cooper.]]
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54	! The Borg
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56	[[folder: General]]
57	A cybernetic race of terrifying power and strength.
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60	* AdaptiveAbility: Borg can develop shields to fight against energy blasts.
61	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted with the Borg Cooperative.
62	* ArmCannon: They possess these as weapons.
63	* AssimilationPlot:
64	** They assimilate crews, ships, and even planets in the game.
65	** They can temporarilly assimilate player characters and Bridge Officers with their powers.
66	* EvilIsNotAToy: The Romulans playing with their technology causes all manner of terrible things.
67	* RockBeatsLaser: Bat'leths and other melee weapons are actually more effective against them versus energy weapons.
68	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Serves as TheVirus infecting and converting Starfleet officers.
69	* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: The Borg are terrifying to the Alpha and Beta Quadrants (and everyone else who encounters them) due to their ability to take this away.
70	* HiveDrone: The majority of enemies the [=PCs=] face.
71	* VillainWorld: The Borg make a couple of these in the Alpha Quadrant.
72	* ZombieGait: The game version ones have their show counterpart's.
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75	!Undine
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77	[[folder: General]]
78	A race of shapechangers from Fluidic Space that are the [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]] of the initial game.
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81	* AbortedArc: Were originally planned to be the GreaterScopeVillain of the game but were eventually replaced with the Iconians.
82	* ArcWords: "The weak will perish", carried over from their appearance on ''Star Trek: Voyager''. [[spoiler: When Tuvok mind melds with the 8472 command ship, he convinces it to make peace with the Federation because "Together, we are strong. The strong will survive."]]
83	* {{Archenemy}}:
84	** Tuvok. No, seriously. They hate Voyager even more than the Borg.
85	** The Borg. They are the only race to actively resist assimilation and become an existential threat to their existence.
86	* DemotedToExtra: They are ultimately a fairly minor villain in the game despite their initial mass build-up.
87	* DisproportionateRetribution: Decide to conquer the whole of the Alpha Quadrant in retaliation for being attacked. [[spoiler: It wasn't even the Federation but the Iconians impersonating them.]]
88	* EarthShatteringKaboom: Just as in ''Voyager'', they do this to worlds conquered by the Borg. They also try to do this to several Alliance planets, but are thwarted.
89	* FantasticRacism: They consider themselves to be superior to all other races and view the races from our dimension to be inferior "weak" life forms that must be purged.
90	--> '''Undine:''' The weak shall perish!
91	* FireballEyeballs: Following the Season 9 revamp, some Undine now display this when employing psionic abilities. [[spoiler: Undine!Cooper]] briefly gets these as well when Tuvok figures out the Undine's plans in "Surface Tension".
92	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Occasionally get these when employing telepathic powers.
93	* ImplacableMan: They're immune to Borg assimilation. [[spoiler:Then the Borg find a way to do so... [[SpannerInTheWorks then you stop them from learning how.]]]]
94	* TheManBehindTheMan: The Undine mastermind several schemes but are, ultimately less important than the Iconians.
95	* MeaningfulName: They are named for a water sprite in mythology.
96	* MindRape: Their telepathic powers have allowed them to ''weaponize'' this, using their powers to literally get inside someone's head and leave them completely incapacitated.
97	* NoSell: When you face the Undine in the second mission, your measly ''Miranda''-class cruiser/TOS ''Constitution''-class cruiser/NX-01 can do jack squat and you have to survive until TheCavalry arrives.
98	* ParanoiaFuel: Have this affect on the races of the Alpha Quadrant.
99	* SpannerInTheWorks:
100	** They screw around with ''all sides''. The Klingons are not happy with it at all and they're not happy that the Federation don't realize this.
101	** They end up as their own SpannerInTheWorks when their attack on [[spoiler:Tuvok and subsequent attacks on Earth and Qo'noS unite the Federation and the Klingon Empire.]]
102	* StarfishAliens: The Undine are among the more bizarre alien races the player will encounter in the game with their tripod stance, shape-shifting ability, formidable telepathic powers, and supercharged genetic makeup that can (mostly) resist Borg assimilation.
103	* StormingTheCastle: The Undine invade Earth Spacedock [[spoiler:as a diversionary tactic to invade Qo'noS]].
104	* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:They believe the Alpha Quadrant powers broke their peace agreement with Captain Janeway, which is why they resumed their invasion of the Milky Way. Truth is, they were duped by an Iconian FalseFlagOperation.]]
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