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Omega Force
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.
- Enemy Mine: Federation and KDF interests who started this group agreed that working together was more likely to stop the Borg. The Romulans joined later.
- Godzilla Threshold: The Borg were enough of this to put this task force together.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: The Romulan Republic doesn't get their own unique armor for this Task Force, instead getting the Player Character's allied faction armor. This carried through to every other reputation except New Romulus rep, which doesn't even have a ground set.
8472 Counter-Command
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.
- Enemy Mine: The same as previous reputations, though downplayed. The events that lead to the Counter-Command's formation also leads to the end of the Klingon-Federation War.
Dr. Eric Cooper
- Played by Dave Rivas
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. Replaced by an Undine.
- Absolute Xenophobe: 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.
- Actual Pacifist: 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. 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.
- Arc Villain: He's the main Big Bad of the Solanae Dyson Sphere story arc, though he's not actually defeated until the first mission of the Delta Quadrant arc.
- Big "NO!": His last words, when he's "repurposed" by his own ship.
- Break Them by Talking: When the Undine invade the Jenolan Dyson Sphere, he starts to taunt Tuvok for allowing it to happen. It doesn't work. Undine!Cooper, however, actually has been broken by talking to him. He tried to do it again to Tuvok (telepathically), only to get his Mind Rape reversed on him and for Tuvok to get all the information he needed on the attack on Qo'noS.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Undine!Cooper was "repurposed" by his Living Ship. It's implied that the target of that repurposing was his biomass.
- Doomed by Canon: Cooper in "A Gathering Darkness" wasn't the Undine we had been introduced to earlier (but canonically later), because the Undine were attacking him.
- Evil Gloating: Most of Cooper's dialogue to Tuvok and the player is this, after he's outed as an Undine infiltrator.
- Expy: Of Hakeev. Large Ham villian? Check.
Love to Hate by the player base? Check. Voiced by Dave Rivas? Check. Involved with Borg technology? Check. Tricked by the Iconians? Double Check. - If My Calculations Are Correct: He does this from time to time.
- Kill and Replace: 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.
- Large Ham: Undine!Cooper does love to rant about how great he is...
- The Mole: 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".
- My Greatest Failure: 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.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His attempt to Mind Rape 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.
- And then he makes the same mistake in "Escalation", launching another mental attack on Tuvok, which the player helps fight off in a Battle in the Center of the Mind. 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 Living Ship.
- Out of Character Is Serious Business: The real Dr. Eric Cooper is actually very brave and understated. His Undine duplicate is a Large Ham and very disrespectful, letting you know which one is which and when he was replaced.
- Protection Mission:
- At one point, you need to protect his hide from Swarmer attacks.
- Again in A Gathering Darkness, though in this case, its because Cooper needs back up to open the doors for you to enter the facility.
- Say My Name: When Tuvok revealed that he used his Evil Gloating to pry out information over the Undine's true target, Cooper's quite pissed off, shouting Tuvok's name in anger.Undine!Cooper: Tuvok? TUUUUUVVVVVOOOOOKKKKK!
- Uncertain Doom: The exact fate of 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.
- Walking Spoiler: The revelation that he's been replaced by an Undine is a major plot twist in "A Step Between Stars".
- You Sound Familiar: His voice actor also plays Hakeev and Va'Kel Shon.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: 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.
The Borg
General
A cybernetic race of terrifying power and strength.
- Adaptive Ability: Borg can develop shields to fight against energy blasts.
- Always Chaotic Evil: Averted with the Borg Cooperative.
- Arm Cannon: They possess these as weapons.
- Assimilation Plot:
- They assimilate crews, ships, and even planets in the game.
- They can temporarilly assimilate player characters and Bridge Officers with their powers.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: The Romulans playing with their technology causes all manner of terrible things.
- Rock Beats Laser: Bat'leths and other melee weapons are actually more effective against them versus energy weapons.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Serves as The Virus infecting and converting Starfleet officers.
- The Evils of Free Will: The Borg are terrifying to the Alpha and Beta Quadrants (and everyone else who encounters them) due to their ability to take this away.
- Hive Drone: The majority of enemies the PCs face.
- Villain World: The Borg make a couple of these in the Alpha Quadrant.
- Zombie Gait: The game version ones have their show counterpart's.
Undine
General
A race of shapechangers from Fluidic Space that are the Arc Villains of the initial game.
- Aborted Arc: Were originally planned to be the Greater-Scope Villain of the game but were eventually replaced with the Iconians.
- Arc Words: "The weak will perish", carried over from their appearance on Star Trek: Voyager. 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."
- Archenemy:
- Tuvok. No, seriously. They hate Voyager even more than the Borg.
- The Borg. They are the only race to actively resist assimilation and become an existential threat to their existence.
- Demoted to Extra: They are ultimately a fairly minor villain in the game despite their initial mass build-up.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Decide to conquer the whole of the Alpha Quadrant in retaliation for being attacked. It wasn't even the Federation but the Iconians impersonating them.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: 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.
- Fantastic Racism: 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.Undine: The weak shall perish!
- Fireball Eyeballs: Following the Season 9 revamp, some Undine now display this when employing psionic abilities. Undine!Cooper briefly gets these as well when Tuvok figures out the Undine's plans in "Surface Tension".
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Occasionally get these when employing telepathic powers.
- Implacable Man: They're immune to Borg assimilation. Then the Borg find a way to do so... then you stop them from learning how.
- The Man Behind the Man: The Undine mastermind several schemes but are, ultimately less important than the Iconians.
- Meaningful Name: They are named for a water sprite in mythology.
- Mind Rape: Their telepathic powers have allowed them to weaponize this, using their powers to literally get inside someone's head and leave them completely incapacitated.
- No-Sell: 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 The Cavalry arrives.
- Paranoia Fuel: Have this affect on the races of the Alpha Quadrant.
- Spanner in the Works:
- 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.
- They end up as their own Spanner in the Works when their attack on Tuvok and subsequent attacks on Earth and Qo'noS unite the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
- Starfish Aliens: 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.
- Storming the Castle: The Undine invade Earth Spacedock as a diversionary tactic to invade Qo'noS.
- Unwitting Pawn: 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 False Flag Operation.
