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---->'''Dr. Quint:''' (''scans a dead ensign'') Death in battle...if he were a Klingon he'd be ecstatic.
---->'''Q:''' Oooh! I '''like''' this guy!
---->'''Dr. Quint:''' (''scans a dead ensign'') Death in battle...if he were a Klingon he'd be ecstatic.
---->'''Q:''' Oooh! I '''like''' this guy!
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* PercussivePrevention: This is the only way to keep [[spoiler: Lt. Furlong]] from being assimilated.
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** What makes it funnier is that there's an almost identical scene later with a piece of captured Borg tech, and the correct answer is DontTouchItYouIdiot.
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* FissionMailed: The first time the player goes into the "Bijani Pain Trance" it looks like it's sending him to the typical white death screen, before Q explains what's really going on.
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* NoOSHACompliance: An early puzzle requires the player to reconfigure a console. This involves interacting with a selection of four configuration nodules. The nodules are all identical. Three of them will shock anyone who touches it. One of those three will ''fatally'' shock anyone who touches it. Absolutely no warning labels are visible.
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* NoOSHACompliance: An early puzzle requires the player to reconfigure a console. This involves interacting with a selection of four configuration nodules. The nodules are all identical. Three of them will shock anyone who touches it. One of those three will ''fatally'' shock anyone who touches it. Absolutely no warning labels are visible. (Note that this isn't TrialAndErrorGameplay; you can use your tricorder to figure out which one is which.)
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* ChewingTheScenery: Q, occasionally. As (almost) always, de Lancie's performance sells what might easily instead have come across as {{Narm}}.
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* DrJerk: What little we see of the real Doctor Quint is not endearing. That Q can take over his body and act like his usual pompous ass self without anyone thinking Quint is acting oddly speaks ''volumes''.
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'''''Star Trek: Borg''''' is an interactive movie/computer game and audiobook set in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe. It was written by Hilary Bader, was directed by James L. Conway, and featured an original score by Dennis [=McCarthy=]. It was released in 1996 by Simon and Schuster for Mac OS and Windows 95.
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* NonStandardGameOver: The first choice in the game. If you choose the bag of the Sprint's belongings twice, Q will make the game program close without letting you save. This forces you to watch the opening cutscenes again, which also serves as a lesson to the player to save often.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the "wrong choice" endings has Q, in full Borg makeup and prosthetics, drop character, walk offstage (while the camera follows him), and complain about how you're not taking it seriously to the production crew, who grumble along with him.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Q, occasionally. As (almost) always, de Lancie's performance sells what might easily instead have come across as {{Narm}}.
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* OneLetterName: Q mentions that his name is "short for Q."
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* PostModernism: Making a particular mistake late in the game [[spoiler: (using the wrong hypospray setting on yourself)]] causes Q to groan that he needs to take a break in an alternate reality; "Come on everybody, let's go. He's such an amateur!" The soundtrack stops abruptly, and the Starfleet officers and Borg wander off, chatting together like actors taking five. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny and a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Meta-Awesome.]]
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* PostModernism: Making a particular mistake late in the game [[spoiler: (using the wrong hypospray setting on yourself)]] causes Q to groan that he needs to take a break in an alternate reality; "Come on everybody, let's go. He's such an amateur!" The soundtrack stops abruptly, and the Starfleet officers and Borg wander off, chatting together like actors taking five. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny and a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Meta-Awesome.]]
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* ItsUpToYou: Initially averted. Your ship is about to face the Borg, but as you're a new, low-ranking member of the crew, you're going to be sent out of danger. Then Q appears, and everything else is on your watch.
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* TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have been destroyed by the Borg]].
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* TakeOurWordForIt: Using the tricorder on Lt. Counselor Biraka informs you that, among other things as a general badass, he won a silver medal for ''low-gravity Equestrian jumping'' at the Federation Olympics.
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* TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have been destroyed by the Borg]].
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* ForWantOfANail: Q invokes it by name. The nail is Lt. Sprint. If he had lived during the initial attack, the Righteous would not have been destroyed and the player character's father would have lived.
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* PostModernism: Making a particular mistake late in the game causes Q to groan that he needs to take a break in an alternate reality; "Come on everybody, let's go. He's such an amateur!" The soundtrack stops abruptly, and the Starfleet officers and Borg wander off, chatting together like actors taking five. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny and a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Meta-Awesome.]]
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* PostModernism: Making a particular mistake late in the game [[spoiler: (using the wrong hypospray setting on yourself)]] causes Q to groan that he needs to take a break in an alternate reality; "Come on everybody, let's go. He's such an amateur!" The soundtrack stops abruptly, and the Starfleet officers and Borg wander off, chatting together like actors taking five. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny and a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Meta-Awesome.]]
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* Q / Doctor Thaddeus Quint (John de Lancie): A seemingly-omnipotent being who has taken an interest in the welfare of Cadet Qaylan Furlong. Q gives the cadet a special hand phaser and tricorder to aid him on his mission. Occasionally he will also mock the player if he's not succeeding. For purposes of the story, he takes the body and role of the ship's chief medical officer, Dr. Thaddeus Quint (also played by Murray Rubinstein), but Qaylan continues to see Q in his true form.
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* Q / Doctor Thaddeus Quint (John de Lancie): (Creator/JohnDeLancie): A seemingly-omnipotent being who has taken an interest in the welfare of Cadet Qaylan Furlong. Q gives the cadet a special hand phaser and tricorder to aid him on his mission. Occasionally he will also mock the player if he's not succeeding. For purposes of the story, he takes the body and role of the ship's chief medical officer, Dr. Thaddeus Quint (also played by Murray Rubinstein), but Qaylan continues to see Q in his true form.
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Battle of Wolf 359 is in 2367. First Contact is in 2373. So the Borg attack 10 years later in 2377 can\'t be First Contact
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After Q transports the ''Righteous'' ten years in the future to avoid rewriting history,]] another Borg ship appears on sensors. Captain Andropov orders an intercept course, and... [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact well, we already know what happens next, don't we?]] [[spoiler:Thankfully no Excelsior-class ships appeared to get caught in the destruction of ''that'' Borg ship, and the only ship reported destroyed before that was being commanded by an Admiral.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After Q transports the ''Righteous'' ten years in the future to avoid rewriting history,]] another Borg ship appears on sensors. Captain Andropov orders an intercept course, and... [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact well, we already know what happens next, don't we?]] [[spoiler:Thankfully no Excelsior-class ships appeared to get caught in the destruction of ''that'' Borg ship, and the only ship reported destroyed before that was being commanded by an Admiral.]]course.
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--->"This is Lieutenant Sprint Do you think he knows he's gonna die? I don't think so. Don't bother saying hello, just makes saying goodbye that much harder."
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* {{Irony}}: Near the end of the game Captain Andropov orders the Righteous to head for earth in order to help fight off the attacking Borg vessel. However since no Excelsior-class ships were seen during the battle to defend earth in [[StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]], and none were reported destroyed. It's possible that the crew of the Righteous didn't make it to the battle until it was already over.
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* ItsUpToYou: Initially averted. Your ship is about to face the Borg, but as you're a new, low-ranking member of the crew, you're going to be sent out of danger. Then Q appears, and everything else is on your watch.
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* {{Irony}}: Near the end of the game Captain Andropov orders the Righteous to head for earth in order to help fight off the attacking Borg vessel. However since no Excelsior-class ships were seen during the battle to defend earth in [[StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]], and none were reported destroyed. It's possible that the crew of the Righteous didn't make it to the battle until it was already over.
* ItsUpToYou: Initially averted. Your ship is about to face the Borg, but as you're a new, low-ranking member of the crew, you're going to be sent out of danger. Then Q appears, and everything else is on your watch.
* ItsUpToYou: Initially averted. Your ship is about to face the Borg, but as you're a new, low-ranking member of the crew, you're going to be sent out of danger. Then Q appears, and everything else is on your watch.
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* BlackComedy: Q often tells jokes when someone is about to, or has just died.
--->"If Lieutenant Sprint were still alive he might be able to save the ship. But he's been dead for four hours! No wonder they don't want him on the bridge."
--->"This is Lieutenant Sprint Do you think he knows he's gonna die? I don't think so. Don't bother saying hello, just makes saying goodbye that much harder."
--->"I'm sorry... he's just to stupid to live."
--->"If Lieutenant Sprint were still alive he might be able to save the ship. But he's been dead for four hours! No wonder they don't want him on the bridge."
--->"This is Lieutenant Sprint Do you think he knows he's gonna die? I don't think so. Don't bother saying hello, just makes saying goodbye that much harder."
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* LargeHam: Q, in spades.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When your character returns to the ''Righteous'' after [[spoiler:being assimilated, the crew almost kills you until your teammates assure them that you are still yourself]], after which nobody seems even slightly uncomfortable about the situation, even when you punch or [[GroinAttack kick the nads of]] your ship's chief medical officer.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When your character returns to the ''Righteous'' after [[spoiler:being partially assimilated, the crew almost kills you until your teammates assure them that you are still yourself]], after which nobody seems even slightly uncomfortable about the situation, even when you punch or [[GroinAttack kick the nads of]] your ship's chief medical officer.
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* Captain Nikolai Andropov (Barry Lynch): [[TheCaptain Commanding officer]] of the USS ''Righteous''. He's stern and gruff, but he's very professional and by-the-book.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. In fact, the only bad ending where Biraka dies is the one where [[spoiler:the Borgified and another drone assassinate the entire bridge crew.]]
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Subverted in that it's used to describe someone else. When Thaddeus Quint is introduced, Q describes how he tried (and failed) to save the life of Lt. Sprint, and adds, "Well, what do you expect? He's a doctor, not a security officer!"
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'''''Star Trek: Borg''''' is an interactive movie/computer game and audiobook set in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe. It was written by Hilary Bader, was directed by James L. Conway, and featured an original score by Dennis [=McCarthy=]. It was released in 1996 by Simon and Schuster for Mac OS and Windows 95.
!!!Plot and Gameplay
In the midst of a new Borg incursion 10 years after the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet Cadet Qaylan Furlong is given an opportunity by Q (John de Lancie) to go back in time and prevent his father's death in the historic battle.
Q sends Qaylan to the USS ''Righteous'', his father's Excelsior-class starship, just before the Battle of Wolf 359. Originally, the ship's security officer Coris Sprint was killed by a Borg intruder over four hours before the battle. Q gives Qaylan control of Sprint's body at this point, allowing him to change history. Since Sprint is Bijani (a heretofore unseen alien race) he has the ability to go into a "Bijani Pain Trance" which allows him to complete jobs even when feeling immense pain. This later becomes an important plot point in allowing the character to complete the game.
Meanwhile, Q takes over the role of Dr. Thaddeus Quint, whose personality is similar to Q's.
At several points throughout the game, the player [Qaylan] is given multiple choices about what actions should be taken in various situations. The results vary based on whatever actions are chosen. If the player chooses poorly, Q will reset time and allow him to try again. If the player makes too many mistakes, however, Q becomes bored and the game ends.
!!!Cast
* Cadet Qaylan Furlong / Lt. Coris Sprint: The game's player character. Because the story is seen through this character's point of view, he never appears on camera. It is implied that he is male, is approximately 19 years old, and bears a physical resemblance to his father. Q gives Qaylan control of Bijani security officer Coris Sprint (briefly portrayed by Tarik Ergin), which allows him to interact with the crew of the ''Righteous''.
* Q / Doctor Thaddeus Quint (John de Lancie): A seemingly-omnipotent being who has taken an interest in the welfare of Cadet Qaylan Furlong. Q gives the cadet a special hand phaser and tricorder to aid him on his mission. Occasionally he will also mock the player if he's not succeeding. For purposes of the story, he takes the body and role of the ship's chief medical officer, Dr. Thaddeus Quint (also played by Murray Rubinstein), but Qaylan continues to see Q in his true form.
* Lt. Ralph Furlong (Jeff Allin): Conn officer and father of Qaylan. He has an easy-going personality which contrasts greatly to that of Captain Andropov.
* Captain Nikolai Andropov (Barry Lynch): [[TheCaptain Commanding officer]] of the USS ''Righteous''. He's stern and gruff, but he's very professional and by-the-book.
* Ensign Anastasia Targus (Marnie [=McPhail=]): Operations officer. She has an outgoing personality and deep-seated emotional issues stemming from her time as a Cardassian prisoner of war. She has a cybernetic implant on her forehead to counteract the effects of the torture she endured at their hands.
* Commander Bennington Biraka (John Cothran Jr.): Ship's counselor. Biraka likes everyone and does his best to keep the crew together. He offers both encouragement and pearls of wisdom during difficult situations.
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!!!''Star Trek: Borg'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After Q transports the ''Righteous'' ten years in the future to avoid rewriting history,]] another Borg ship appears on sensors. Captain Andropov orders an intercept course, and... [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact well, we already know what happens next, don't we?]] [[spoiler:Thankfully no Excelsior-class ships appeared to get caught in the destruction of ''that'' Borg ship, and the only ship reported destroyed before that was being commanded by an Admiral.]]
* BodySnatcher: Q transfers Cadet Furlong into Lt. Sprint's body while he takes over Dr. Quint's. The cadet still sees him as Q in a blue uniform.
* DeadAllAlong: For some bizarre reason, Sprint is treated this way when it's time for Q to reveal that you're really Cadet Furlong (though at least the real Dr. Quint gets to live).
* DeadpanSnarker: It's a ''Star Trek'' game featuring Q.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: At different points in the game, you can punch Q in the face or [[GroinAttack kick him in the joy department]].
* FunctionalAddict: The Cardassians addicted Targus to neural stimulation as a form of torture. She's a functional officer now thanks to her implant, but interfering with its normal operation can bring her addiction roaring back.
* FunPersonified: Hit the wrong code into the turbolift manual control, and you might get treated to Q's idea of fun while you're running around doing boring things; Turning deck eleven into his own personal party deck. Complete with NiceHat.
-->'''Q:''' Why? ''Because I can!'' [[UnEvilLaugh Nya ha ha ha ha ha hah!]]
* HeroicMime: Sprint never speaks beyond grunts and groans, but his fellow crewmembers don't seem to expect him to. This being the ''Star Trek'' universe, it could be a characteristic of the Bijani culture or species.
* HollywoodPsych: Averted. Counselor Biraka's reasonably accurate Phenomenological analysis of Quint and, by extension, Q himself, is so bang on that it shuts him up completely.
-->'''Q:''' Spare me the psychology, counselor. You don't have the tools to analyze me!\\
'''Biraka:''' Your problem is very straightforward, doctor. You desperately want to be... liked.\\
'''Q:''' If I wanted to be liked, all I'd have to do is snap my fingers, and I'd be liked! [[CassandraTruth I'm an omnipotent being masquerading as Dr. Quint.]] [[RealityWarper Whatever I want to happen, happens.]]\\
'''Biraka:''' (''laughs'') [[WeirdnessCensor Interesting fantasy...]] Alright, let's play that through. Then why don't you?\\
'''Q:''' Why don't I what?\\
'''Biraka:''' Make everyone like you.\\
'''Q:''' Because I don't ''want'' to!\\
'''Biraka:''' No! Because you want them to like you of their own free will and, phenomenologically speaking, you can't force them to do something of their own free will!\\
'''Q:''' Sophistry, Biraka.\\
'''Biraka:''' Truth, Quint. Let me give you some free advice: If you want to be liked, try making yourself likable. (''pats Q on the shoulder, walking away'')\\
'''Q:''' Ahhh! (''makes a strangling motion with his hands in frustration before dropping them, [[IHaveNothingToSayToThat suddenly at a loss for words as a contemplative look crosses his face]]'')
* ItsUpToYou: Initially averted. Your ship is about to face the Borg, but as you're a new, low-ranking member of the crew, you're going to be sent out of danger. Then Q appears, and everything else is on your watch.
* {{Irony}}: If you let your dad get Borgified, you have to [[ShootTheDog kill him yourself]], where Q will comment:
-->'''Q:''' Well, didn't you want to kill Borg?
* NoOSHACompliance: An early puzzle requires the player to reconfigure a console. This involves interacting with a selection of four configuration nodules. The nodules are all identical. Three of them will shock anyone who touches it. One of those three will ''fatally'' shock anyone who touches it. Absolutely no warning labels are visible.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: All it takes is the snap of Q's fingers. It helps that he is Q.
* PostModernism: Making a particular mistake late in the game causes Q to groan that he needs to take a break in an alternate reality; "Come on everybody, let's go. He's such an amateur!" The soundtrack stops abruptly, and the Starfleet officers and Borg wander off, chatting together like actors taking five. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny and a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Meta-Awesome.]]
* RealityWarper: As Q says himself, whatever he wants to happen happens.
* RefusalOfTheCall: At the start, you can refuse Q's offer to go back to the ''Righteous'' and fight the Borg. He takes a bit of convincing and expresses his disappointment in you, but you can turn him down. Of course, that means it's game over.
* SaveScumming / TrialAndErrorGameplay: Many of the "puzzles" rely on doing something fatal, then letting Q bring you back to the decision point so you can try again. In a creative twist, one "puzzle" calls for the player to deliberately become Borgified so he can learn their access codes, then get killed and have Q bring him back to where he would have ''needed'' those access codes.
* SeriesContinuityError: The uniforms, tricorders, and phasers; during Wolf 359 everybody should be have ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''-style ones but instead have ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''-style versions. The Borg however still maintain their ''TNG'' appearance as opposed to their ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' makeover.
* TooDumbToLive
** Grab the wrong power module towards the beginning and Q pretty much says this.
** [[spoiler: Some of the choices you need to proceed are the dumbest possible options you could take (such as starting a fight on a Borg cube or knocking out your own father) that result in either your death or assimilated by the borg to get pieces of information you couldn't get otherwise. The fact Q [[DeathisCheap keeps bringing you back to life by turning back time]] makes things a lot more clever.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When your character returns to the ''Righteous'' after [[spoiler:being assimilated, the crew almost kills you until your teammates assure them that you are still yourself]], after which nobody seems even slightly uncomfortable about the situation, even when you punch or [[GroinAttack kick the nads of]] your ship's chief medical officer.
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!!!Plot and Gameplay
In the midst of a new Borg incursion 10 years after the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet Cadet Qaylan Furlong is given an opportunity by Q (John de Lancie) to go back in time and prevent his father's death in the historic battle.
Q sends Qaylan to the USS ''Righteous'', his father's Excelsior-class starship, just before the Battle of Wolf 359. Originally, the ship's security officer Coris Sprint was killed by a Borg intruder over four hours before the battle. Q gives Qaylan control of Sprint's body at this point, allowing him to change history. Since Sprint is Bijani (a heretofore unseen alien race) he has the ability to go into a "Bijani Pain Trance" which allows him to complete jobs even when feeling immense pain. This later becomes an important plot point in allowing the character to complete the game.
Meanwhile, Q takes over the role of Dr. Thaddeus Quint, whose personality is similar to Q's.
At several points throughout the game, the player [Qaylan] is given multiple choices about what actions should be taken in various situations. The results vary based on whatever actions are chosen. If the player chooses poorly, Q will reset time and allow him to try again. If the player makes too many mistakes, however, Q becomes bored and the game ends.
!!!Cast
* Cadet Qaylan Furlong / Lt. Coris Sprint: The game's player character. Because the story is seen through this character's point of view, he never appears on camera. It is implied that he is male, is approximately 19 years old, and bears a physical resemblance to his father. Q gives Qaylan control of Bijani security officer Coris Sprint (briefly portrayed by Tarik Ergin), which allows him to interact with the crew of the ''Righteous''.
* Q / Doctor Thaddeus Quint (John de Lancie): A seemingly-omnipotent being who has taken an interest in the welfare of Cadet Qaylan Furlong. Q gives the cadet a special hand phaser and tricorder to aid him on his mission. Occasionally he will also mock the player if he's not succeeding. For purposes of the story, he takes the body and role of the ship's chief medical officer, Dr. Thaddeus Quint (also played by Murray Rubinstein), but Qaylan continues to see Q in his true form.
* Lt. Ralph Furlong (Jeff Allin): Conn officer and father of Qaylan. He has an easy-going personality which contrasts greatly to that of Captain Andropov.
* Captain Nikolai Andropov (Barry Lynch): [[TheCaptain Commanding officer]] of the USS ''Righteous''. He's stern and gruff, but he's very professional and by-the-book.
* Ensign Anastasia Targus (Marnie [=McPhail=]): Operations officer. She has an outgoing personality and deep-seated emotional issues stemming from her time as a Cardassian prisoner of war. She has a cybernetic implant on her forehead to counteract the effects of the torture she endured at their hands.
* Commander Bennington Biraka (John Cothran Jr.): Ship's counselor. Biraka likes everyone and does his best to keep the crew together. He offers both encouragement and pearls of wisdom during difficult situations.
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!!!''Star Trek: Borg'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After Q transports the ''Righteous'' ten years in the future to avoid rewriting history,]] another Borg ship appears on sensors. Captain Andropov orders an intercept course, and... [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact well, we already know what happens next, don't we?]] [[spoiler:Thankfully no Excelsior-class ships appeared to get caught in the destruction of ''that'' Borg ship, and the only ship reported destroyed before that was being commanded by an Admiral.]]
* BodySnatcher: Q transfers Cadet Furlong into Lt. Sprint's body while he takes over Dr. Quint's. The cadet still sees him as Q in a blue uniform.
* DeadAllAlong: For some bizarre reason, Sprint is treated this way when it's time for Q to reveal that you're really Cadet Furlong (though at least the real Dr. Quint gets to live).
* DeadpanSnarker: It's a ''Star Trek'' game featuring Q.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: At different points in the game, you can punch Q in the face or [[GroinAttack kick him in the joy department]].
* FunctionalAddict: The Cardassians addicted Targus to neural stimulation as a form of torture. She's a functional officer now thanks to her implant, but interfering with its normal operation can bring her addiction roaring back.
* FunPersonified: Hit the wrong code into the turbolift manual control, and you might get treated to Q's idea of fun while you're running around doing boring things; Turning deck eleven into his own personal party deck. Complete with NiceHat.
-->'''Q:''' Why? ''Because I can!'' [[UnEvilLaugh Nya ha ha ha ha ha hah!]]
* HeroicMime: Sprint never speaks beyond grunts and groans, but his fellow crewmembers don't seem to expect him to. This being the ''Star Trek'' universe, it could be a characteristic of the Bijani culture or species.
* HollywoodPsych: Averted. Counselor Biraka's reasonably accurate Phenomenological analysis of Quint and, by extension, Q himself, is so bang on that it shuts him up completely.
-->'''Q:''' Spare me the psychology, counselor. You don't have the tools to analyze me!\\
'''Biraka:''' Your problem is very straightforward, doctor. You desperately want to be... liked.\\
'''Q:''' If I wanted to be liked, all I'd have to do is snap my fingers, and I'd be liked! [[CassandraTruth I'm an omnipotent being masquerading as Dr. Quint.]] [[RealityWarper Whatever I want to happen, happens.]]\\
'''Biraka:''' (''laughs'') [[WeirdnessCensor Interesting fantasy...]] Alright, let's play that through. Then why don't you?\\
'''Q:''' Why don't I what?\\
'''Biraka:''' Make everyone like you.\\
'''Q:''' Because I don't ''want'' to!\\
'''Biraka:''' No! Because you want them to like you of their own free will and, phenomenologically speaking, you can't force them to do something of their own free will!\\
'''Q:''' Sophistry, Biraka.\\
'''Biraka:''' Truth, Quint. Let me give you some free advice: If you want to be liked, try making yourself likable. (''pats Q on the shoulder, walking away'')\\
'''Q:''' Ahhh! (''makes a strangling motion with his hands in frustration before dropping them, [[IHaveNothingToSayToThat suddenly at a loss for words as a contemplative look crosses his face]]'')
* ItsUpToYou: Initially averted. Your ship is about to face the Borg, but as you're a new, low-ranking member of the crew, you're going to be sent out of danger. Then Q appears, and everything else is on your watch.
* {{Irony}}: If you let your dad get Borgified, you have to [[ShootTheDog kill him yourself]], where Q will comment:
-->'''Q:''' Well, didn't you want to kill Borg?
* NoOSHACompliance: An early puzzle requires the player to reconfigure a console. This involves interacting with a selection of four configuration nodules. The nodules are all identical. Three of them will shock anyone who touches it. One of those three will ''fatally'' shock anyone who touches it. Absolutely no warning labels are visible.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: All it takes is the snap of Q's fingers. It helps that he is Q.
* PostModernism: Making a particular mistake late in the game causes Q to groan that he needs to take a break in an alternate reality; "Come on everybody, let's go. He's such an amateur!" The soundtrack stops abruptly, and the Starfleet officers and Borg wander off, chatting together like actors taking five. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny and a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of Meta-Awesome.]]
* RealityWarper: As Q says himself, whatever he wants to happen happens.
* RefusalOfTheCall: At the start, you can refuse Q's offer to go back to the ''Righteous'' and fight the Borg. He takes a bit of convincing and expresses his disappointment in you, but you can turn him down. Of course, that means it's game over.
* SaveScumming / TrialAndErrorGameplay: Many of the "puzzles" rely on doing something fatal, then letting Q bring you back to the decision point so you can try again. In a creative twist, one "puzzle" calls for the player to deliberately become Borgified so he can learn their access codes, then get killed and have Q bring him back to where he would have ''needed'' those access codes.
* SeriesContinuityError: The uniforms, tricorders, and phasers; during Wolf 359 everybody should be have ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]''-style ones but instead have ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''-style versions. The Borg however still maintain their ''TNG'' appearance as opposed to their ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' makeover.
* TooDumbToLive
** Grab the wrong power module towards the beginning and Q pretty much says this.
** [[spoiler: Some of the choices you need to proceed are the dumbest possible options you could take (such as starting a fight on a Borg cube or knocking out your own father) that result in either your death or assimilated by the borg to get pieces of information you couldn't get otherwise. The fact Q [[DeathisCheap keeps bringing you back to life by turning back time]] makes things a lot more clever.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When your character returns to the ''Righteous'' after [[spoiler:being assimilated, the crew almost kills you until your teammates assure them that you are still yourself]], after which nobody seems even slightly uncomfortable about the situation, even when you punch or [[GroinAttack kick the nads of]] your ship's chief medical officer.
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