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** At another point he's asked to figure out security locks on a Borg computer, and this time they say it's ''explicitly'' because he's a security officer. Perhaps the term's a little more encompassing in the future.
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** At another point he's asked to figure out security locks lock programs on a Borg computer, and this time they say it's ''explicitly'' because he's a security officer. Perhaps the term's a little more encompassing term "security officer" encompasses things like malware/firewalls in the future.future?
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* 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.
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* 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.nice hat.
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* DeathAsGameMechanic: you need to make the right sequence of choices. If you don't already know them, you have to die over and over again until the right choice is made. However, at one point you have to choose the "wrong" path so you can learn important information from the Borg before you die, information that will be necessary to succeed later on in your next chance at life.
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** One timeline involves losing your father's rigged game and him letting go off alone, where he gets Borgified. Another involves you taking too long to guess and getting fully Borgified when you're surprised from behind.
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** One timeline involves losing your father's rigged game and him you letting him go off alone, where he gets Borgified. Another involves you taking too long to guess and getting fully Borgified when you're surprised from behind.
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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.
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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 soon orders an intercept course.
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---> (After you fail to make even this choice) "You've had your chance!" (Q gives the player a game over)
---> (After clicking the choice) "Good, okay, lets try again!" (Takes you back to the first decision)
---> (After clicking the choice) "Good, okay, lets try again!" (Takes you back to the first decision)
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---> (After (''After you fail to make even this choice) choice'') "You've had your chance!" (Q gives (''Gives the player a game over)
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--->(After (''After clicking the choice) choice'') "Good, okay, lets try again!" (Takes (''Takes you back to the first decision)decision'')
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** During the first decision in the game (Go with Q or run away like a coward), if you sit there and not make a choice after 2 loops, Q will talk to the player directly, mocking them for understanding how the game works.
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** During the first decision in the game (Go with Q or run away like a coward), if you sit there and not don't make a choice after 2 loops, Q will teleport to the white void and talk to the player directly, mocking them for not understanding how the game works.
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---> *After you fail to make even this choice* "You've had your chance!" *Q gives the player a game over*
---> *After clicking the choice* "Good, okay, lets try again!" *Takes you back to the first decision*
---> *After clicking the choice* "Good, okay, lets try again!" *Takes you back to the first decision*
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---> *After (After you fail to make even this choice* choice) "You've had your chance!" *Q (Q gives the player a game over*
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** During the first decision in the game (Go with Q or run away like a coward), if you sit there and not make a choice after 2 loops, Q will talk to the player directly, mocking them for understanding how the game works.
---> "What is this? The first time you've used a computer? You see this!? It's a cursor! Use it to click on objects on the screen...here, click on me!"
---> *After you fail to make even this choice* "You've had your chance!" *Q gives the player a game over*
---> *After clicking the choice* "Good, okay, lets try again!" *Takes you back to the first decision*
---> "What is this? The first time you've used a computer? You see this!? It's a cursor! Use it to click on objects on the screen...here, click on me!"
---> *After you fail to make even this choice* "You've had your chance!" *Q gives the player a game over*
---> *After clicking the choice* "Good, okay, lets try again!" *Takes you back to the first decision*
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** Strictly speaking, the "nail" is Quint not thinking to try a hypospray on the Borg while it's fighting Sprint.
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** Strictly speaking, the "nail" is Quint not thinking to try a hypospray {{hypospray}} on the Borg while it's fighting Sprint.
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* SketchySuccessor: Mercurius Singletary, the Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death, wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough afterward to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]... Though it's [[spoiler: ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: Mercurius Singletary, the Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death, wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough afterward to stop it.the hack from going through. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]... Though it's [[spoiler: ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, the day. Singletary's inexperience aside.inexperienced actions just hastened the ship's destruction.]]
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* ThousandYardStare: At first Qaylen can't stop staring at his father, though as Q notes, it's not as if the guy can recognize who he ''really'' is. As a result, the slightly weirded-out elder Furlong believes him to have gone into one of the trances endemic to Sprint's species at one point.
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* ThousandYardStare: At first Qaylen can't stop staring at his father, though as Q notes, it's not as if the guy can recognize who he ''really'' is. As a result, at one point the slightly weirded-out elder Furlong believes him to have gone into one of the trances endemic to Sprint's species at one point.species.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Does Qaylen get to keep his Q-enhanced tricorder?
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* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Starfleet Command is portrayed as unjust for not allowing Qaylan to participate in the defense against the Borg attack. However, considering he's still a cadet with zero field experience it makes sense.
** Q, virtually every time he makes a criticism, has some valid points.
** Starfleet Command is portrayed as unjust for not allowing Qaylan to participate in the defense against the Borg attack. However, considering he's still a cadet with zero field experience it makes sense.
** Q, virtually every time he makes a criticism, has some valid points.
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* SketchySuccessor: Mercurius Singletary, the Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death, wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]... Though it's [[spoiler: ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: Mercurius Singletary, the Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death, wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough afterward to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]... Though it's [[spoiler: ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
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* HopeSpot:
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* HopeSpot: Several of the failed loops have these moments:
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** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: Mercurius Singletary, the Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death, wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]...
**Borg]]... Though it's [[spoiler: Ultimately ultimately averted, as it turns out only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
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** You can attempt to link the [[spoiler: Borg implant to the ship's mainframe]]. Q [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't even let you]] ''attempt'' this option, in one of the only times he'll stop you before you do something monumentally stupid.
---> ''This one's free.'' '''Don't do it.'''
---> ''This one's free.'' '''Don't do it.'''
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** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that Singletary being a greenhorn had relatively little to do with the destruction of the ship and only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
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** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that Singletary being a greenhorn had relatively little to do with the destruction of the ship and only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.them, Singletary's inexperience aside.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: The Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]...
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: The Mercurius Singletary, the Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death death, wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]...
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that Singletary being a greenhorn had relatively little to do with the destruction of the ship and only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that Singletary being a greenhorn had relatively little to do with the destruction of the ship and only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ''Righteous'' and (almost) all its hands are saved, but Qaylen and his father have still missed ten years of each others' life, and Coris Sprint, a hero and dear friend to Targus, Furlong and others [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble is dead again for the first time]], for some reason. Also, ''this'' ship may have been saved, but nearly forty more were lost in Wolf 359, with eleven thousand dead or assimilated.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ''Righteous'' and (almost) all its hands are saved, but Qaylen and his Qaylen's father have has still missed ten years of each others' life, Qaylen and his mother's lives, and Coris Sprint, a hero and dear friend to Targus, Furlong and others [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble is dead again for the first time]], for some reason. Also, ''this'' ship may have been saved, but nearly forty more were lost in Wolf 359, with eleven thousand dead or assimilated.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ''Righteous'' and (almost) all its hands are, saved, but Qaylen and his father have still missed ten years of each others' life, and Coris Sprint, a hero and dear friend to Targus, Furlong and others [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble is dead again for the first time]], for some reason]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ''Righteous'' and (almost) all its hands are, are saved, but Qaylen and his father have still missed ten years of each others' life, and Coris Sprint, a hero and dear friend to Targus, Furlong and others [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble is dead again for the first time]], for some reason]].reason. Also, ''this'' ship may have been saved, but nearly forty more were lost in Wolf 359, with eleven thousand dead or assimilated.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The ''Righteous'' and (almost) all its hands are, saved, but Qaylen and his father have still missed ten years of each others' life, and Coris Sprint, a hero and dear friend to Targus, Furlong and others [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble is dead again for the first time]], for some reason]].
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* BlindObedience: When a Borg gets Targus by the throat, Q's first reaction is to tell you to shoot her. If you do so, everyone on the bridge will stare at you like you're an idiot (including Targus before she goes down). Q ''freezes time'' with them making this expression and calls you out on this.
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* BlindObedience: When a Borg gets Targus by the throat, Q's first reaction is to tell you to shoot her. If you do so, everyone on the bridge will stare at you like you're an idiot (including Targus before she goes down). Q ''freezes time'' with them making this expression and calls you out on this.this, telling you to use your head.
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** In spite of the fact that you intervene to save Sprint's life so you can continue inhabiting his body, [[spoiler:Q still says he's dead when the ship is transported into the future. Just why he has to die when everyone else's life is saved is unclear, unless they didn't feel like paying his actor more money or something.
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** In spite of the fact that you explicitly intervene to save Sprint's life so you can continue inhabiting inhabit his living body, [[spoiler:Q still says he's dead when the ship is transported into the future. Just why he has to die when everyone else's life is saved is unclear, unless they didn't feel like paying his actor more money to show up in the end sequence or something.something]].
* LetsSplitUpGang: At one point, your father and you-as-Sprint are patrolling the ship, looking for Borg. When he suggests splitting up, doing so leaves him alone a a corridor with a waiting, shield-adapted Borg. At least you get to work out your abandonment issues by blowing his Borgified self away.
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* PensieveFlashback: Before Q and Qaylan step in to alter the timeline, we see a flashback of the destruction of the ''Righteous'', with them observing.
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* PensieveFlashback: Before Q and Qaylan step in to alter the timeline, we see a flashback of the destruction of the ''Righteous'', with them invisibly observing.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Q doesn't seem that concerned about potentially rewriting his history. [[spoiler: At the end, he admits that he didn't think you'd actually manage it, and he invokes a TimeTravelEscape to preserve the course of events.]]
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** Q doesn't seem that concerned about potentially rewriting his history. [[spoiler: At the end, he admits that he didn't think you'd actually manage it, and he invokes a TimeTravelEscape to preserve the course of events.]] ]]
** In spite of the fact that you intervene to save Sprint's life so you can continue inhabiting his body, [[spoiler:Q still says he's dead when the ship is transported into the future. Just why he has to die when everyone else's life is saved is unclear, unless they didn't feel like paying his actor more money or something.
** Q doesn't seem that concerned about potentially rewriting his history. [[spoiler: At the end, he admits that he didn't think you'd actually manage it, and he invokes a TimeTravelEscape to preserve the course of events.
** In spite of the fact that you intervene to save Sprint's life so you can continue inhabiting his body, [[spoiler:Q still says he's dead when the ship is transported into the future. Just why he has to die when everyone else's life is saved is unclear, unless they didn't feel like paying his actor more money or something.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Cadet Furlong's father was killed by the Borg when he was only nine, and when the ''Cheyenne'', the ship he's training on, is preparing to battle them, he wants to stay and help out. Q frames this as a desire to kill Borg out of vengeance, and considering the choice to do something besides leave involves grabbing a phaser from Q, it seems Qaylan agrees.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Cadet Furlong's father was killed by the Borg when he was only nine, and when the ''Cheyenne'', the ship he's training on, on is preparing to battle them, he wants to stay and help out. Q frames this as a desire to kill Borg out of vengeance, and considering the choice to do something besides leave involves grabbing a phaser from Q, it seems Qaylan agrees.
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* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Thanks to Q, Qaylen has enough of Sprint's memories and skills to pass as him to his friends and do his job while in his body.
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* At another point he's asked to figure out security locks on a Borg computer, and this time they say it's ''explicitly'' because he's a security officer. Perhaps the term's a little more encompassing in the future.
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** [[spoiler: At one point you've got to hook a Borg Guidance Implant into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing and crying out in agony/ecstasy due to her addiction. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypospray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty. Q curtly tells you she'd be better off dead.
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** [[spoiler: At one point you've got to hook a Borg Guidance Implant into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing and crying out in agony/ecstasy due to her addiction. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypospray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty. Q curtly tells you she'd be better off dead.]]
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** [[spoiler:At one point you've got to hook a Borg Guidance Implant into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing and crying out in agony/ecstasy due to her addiction. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypospray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty. Q curtly tells you she'd be better off dead.
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** [[spoiler:At [[spoiler: At one point you've got to hook a Borg Guidance Implant into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing and crying out in agony/ecstasy due to her addiction. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypospray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty. Q curtly tells you she'd be better off dead.
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** [[When Furlong puts the implant on the Borg-thingy everything seems fine...until the thingy realizes the Guidance Implant comes from a dead Borg rather than a live one. Ka-boom.]]
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** [[When [[spoiler: When Furlong puts the implant on the Borg-thingy everything seems fine...until the thingy realizes the Guidance Implant comes from a dead Borg rather than a live one. Ka-boom.]]
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** One timeline involves losing your father's rigged game and letting go off alone, where he gets Borgified. Another involves you taking too long to guess and getting fully Borgified when you're surprised from behind.
** Part of the "correct" timeline revolves around allowing Qaylen-as-Sprint to be temporarily turned into a Borg, in order to get an important code.
** Part of the "correct" timeline revolves around allowing Qaylen-as-Sprint to be temporarily turned into a Borg, in order to get an important code.
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** One timeline involves losing your father's rigged game and him letting go off alone, where he gets Borgified. Another involves you taking too long to guess and getting fully Borgified when you're surprised from behind.
** Part of the "correct" timeline revolves around allowing Qaylen-as-Sprint to be temporarily turned into a Borg, in order to get an important code. And then permanently so that his species' mental compartmentalization can let him keep his free will.
** Part of the "correct" timeline revolves around allowing Qaylen-as-Sprint to be temporarily turned into a Borg, in order to get an important code. And then permanently so that his species' mental compartmentalization can let him keep his free will.
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* TheBigGuy: As a Bijani, Quint is described by the others as an "ox" who doesn't feel pain or fear (at least not as humans do). Makes for a good security officer, though a Borg can still kill him.
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* TheBigGuy: As a Bijani, Quint is described by the others as an "ox" who doesn't feel pain or fear (at least not as humans do).fear. Makes for a good security officer, though a Borg can still kill him.
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* BlindObedience: When a Borg gets Targus by the throat, Q's first reaction is to tell you to shoot her. If you do so, everyone on the bridge will stare at you like you're an idiot. Q ''freezes time'' with them making this expression and calls you out on this.
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* BlindObedience: When a Borg gets Targus by the throat, Q's first reaction is to tell you to shoot her. If you do so, everyone on the bridge will stare at you like you're an idiot.idiot (including Targus before she goes down). Q ''freezes time'' with them making this expression and calls you out on this.
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* DopeSlap: If you use the tricorder to try to scan the Borg confronting you on the bridge, Q snatches it asks what you're doing and smacks you with said tricorder.
* 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''.
* 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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* DopeSlap: If you use the tricorder to try to scan the Borg confronting you on the bridge, Q snatches it it, asks what you're doing and smacks you with said tricorder.
* DrJerk: What little we see of the real Doctor Quint is not endearing. That Q can take over his body and act like his usualpompous ass pompous-ass self without anyone thinking Quint is acting oddly speaks ''volumes''.
* 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
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* 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. She should only need the implant for another year, tops, before she recovers completely.
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* FreakOut: [[spoiler:In one bad timeline, Targus suffers a ''hard'' relapse of her addiction when exposed to a Borg guidance implant for the second time, losing control of herself and trying to jam it in her head. While she's restrained and recovers control of herself, the delay allows the device the Borg had placed upon the ship earlier to take over and the ship is destroyed]].
* 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.She should only need the implant for another year, tops, before she recovers completely.
* 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.
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:At one point you've got to hook a Borg-thingy into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing in pagony. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypo spray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty.
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** [[spoiler:At one point you've got to hook aBorg-thingy Borg Guidance Implant into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing and crying out in pagony.agony/ecstasy due to her addiction. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypo spray hypospray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty. Q curtly tells you she'd be better off dead.
** [[spoiler:Later on, it seems for a moment that she can resist the urge to reconnect another implant to her head long enough to to connect it to the Borg-thingy in the computer core and save the ship...nope. FreakOut. Ka-boom.]]
** [[When Furlong puts the implant on the Borg-thingy everything seems fine...until the thingy realizes the Guidance Implant comes from a dead Borg rather than a live one. Ka-boom.]]
** [[spoiler:At one point you've got to hook a
** [[spoiler:Later on, it seems for a moment that she can resist the urge to reconnect another implant to her head long enough to to connect it to the Borg-thingy in the computer core and save the ship...nope. FreakOut. Ka-boom.]]
** [[When Furlong puts the implant on the Borg-thingy everything seems fine...until the thingy realizes the Guidance Implant comes from a dead Borg rather than a live one. Ka-boom.]]
* ImplacableMan: The Bijani Pain Trance, activated by adrenaline, allows members of the race to perform actions without pain or fear while their brain is out to lunch.
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** A rather nonsensical example. Furlong and Andropov note a weird Borg device twiddling away on one of their consoles and ask Qaylan-as-Sprint what they should do. Sure, as Security Officer, Sprint deals with threats to the ship, but wouldn't consulting, say, a ''qualified engineer'' make more sense? And, of course, all of "Sprint's" limited options besides ignoring it lead to disaster.
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** A rather nonsensical example. Furlong and Andropov note a weird Borg device twiddling away on one of their the consoles in their computer core and ask Qaylan-as-Sprint what they should do. Sure, as Security Officer, Sprint deals with threats to the ship, but wouldn't consulting, say, a ''qualified engineer'' make more sense? And, of course, all of "Sprint's" limited options besides ignoring it lead to disaster.
* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:After you're Borgified in a couple of timelines, you can shoot your Dad.]]
* RecoveredAddict: Averted with Targus. She's ''recovering'', and has another year, tops before she can be totally free of her implant. [[spoiler: Events force her to hook a Borg Guidance implant to herself and the sensations reawaken her addiction.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: The Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]...
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: At one point, the Borg stick some weird device upon one of your consoles. If you do ''anything'' besides ignore it and let it have its way with your ship, it'll activate the self-destruct.
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: At one point, the Borg stick some weird device upon one of your consoles. If you do ''anything'' besides ignore it and let it have its way with your ship, it'll activate the self-destruct.
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* SketchySuccessor: The Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and implies that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]...
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
*StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: StupidityIsTheOnlyOption:
** At one point, the Borg stick some weird device upon one of your consoles. If you do ''anything'' besides ignore it and let it have its way with your ship, it'll activate theself-destruct.self-destruct.
** [[spoiler:You also have to put yourself into a Pain Trance and get Borgified at one point.]]
** [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as it turns out that only a ''very'' specific and unlikely set of circumstances would have saved them.]]
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** At one point, the Borg stick some weird device upon one of your consoles. If you do ''anything'' besides ignore it and let it have its way with your ship, it'll activate the
** [[spoiler:You also have to put yourself into a Pain Trance and get Borgified at one point.]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Subverted. [[spoiler:Targus volunteers to place a Borg Guidance Implant upon a piece of Borg technology. It's played up as her being able to resist the urge to connect it to herself due to HeroicWillpower and finally overcoming her addiction for good...but no, her addiction is back full force, and she'll screw things up.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: Cadet Furlong's father was killed by the Borg when he was only nine or ten, and when the ''Cheyenne'', the ship he's training on, is preparing to battle them, he wants to stay and help out. Q frames this as a desire to kill Borg out of vengeance, and considering the choice to do something besides leave involves grabbing a phaser from Q, it seems Qaylan agrees.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Cadet Furlong's father was killed by the Borg when he was only nine or ten, nine, and when the ''Cheyenne'', the ship he's training on, is preparing to battle them, he wants to stay and help out. Q frames this as a desire to kill Borg out of vengeance, and considering the choice to do something besides leave involves grabbing a phaser from Q, it seems Qaylan agrees.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: After a death that comes from tampering with Borg technology, Q notes that he really hates human hubris, and notes that the Borg may be boring but at least they don't fiddle with things they don't understand.
* AllLovingHero: Counselor Biraka is one of these. He's even fond of ''[[{{Jerkass}} Quint]]'', and sees his abrasiveness as a need to be liked.
* AllLovingHero: Counselor Biraka is one of these. He's even fond of ''[[{{Jerkass}} Quint]]'', and sees his abrasiveness as a need to be liked.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie:
** One timeline involves losing your father's rigged game and letting go off alone, where he gets Borgified. Another involves you taking too long to guess and getting fully Borgified when you're surprised from behind.
** Part of the "correct" timeline revolves around allowing Qaylen-as-Sprint to be temporarily turned into a Borg, in order to get an important code.
** Averted in Q's case. He only takes on the appearance of a Borg without actually being converted, and thus John (de Lancie) does ''not'' become a zombie.
* TheBigGuy: As a Bijani, Quint is described by the others as an "ox" who doesn't feel pain or fear (at least not as humans do). Makes for a good security officer, though a Borg can still kill him.
** One timeline involves losing your father's rigged game and letting go off alone, where he gets Borgified. Another involves you taking too long to guess and getting fully Borgified when you're surprised from behind.
** Part of the "correct" timeline revolves around allowing Qaylen-as-Sprint to be temporarily turned into a Borg, in order to get an important code.
** Averted in Q's case. He only takes on the appearance of a Borg without actually being converted, and thus John (de Lancie) does ''not'' become a zombie.
* TheBigGuy: As a Bijani, Quint is described by the others as an "ox" who doesn't feel pain or fear (at least not as humans do). Makes for a good security officer, though a Borg can still kill him.
* BlindObedience: When a Borg gets Targus by the throat, Q's first reaction is to tell you to shoot her. If you do so, everyone on the bridge will stare at you like you're an idiot. Q ''freezes time'' with them making this expression and calls you out on this.
* DisappointedInYou: If you refuse to come with him and avenge your father, Q contemptuously accuses you of only wanting to save your own skin.
* DopeSlap: If you use the tricorder to try to scan the Borg confronting you on the bridge, Q snatches it asks what you're doing and smacks you with said tricorder.
* DopeSlap: If you use the tricorder to try to scan the Borg confronting you on the bridge, Q snatches it asks what you're doing and smacks you with said tricorder.
* FeelNoPain: Even when not in a trance Bijani apparently don't feel pain, at least not the way most humanoids do. At one point (while being assimilated during a bad ending) Q has to explain that the unfamiliar sensation Qaylen is experiencing ''is'' in fact pain.
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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.
* 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.
* 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.
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* ForWantOfANail: 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.
** Strictly speaking, the "nail" is Quint not thinking to try a hypospray on the Borg while it's fighting Sprint.
* 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. She should only need the implant for another year, tops, before she recovers completely.
** 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.
** Strictly speaking, the "nail" is Quint not thinking to try a hypospray on the Borg while it's fighting Sprint.
* 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. She should only need the implant for another year, tops, before she recovers completely.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:At one point you've got to hook a Borg-thingy into Targus's head. It starts assimilating her and she begins writhing in pagony. Q-as-Quint tells you that any more sedative would leave her a vegetable. If you give her a hypo spray anyway, she relaxes, smiles...and then her face goes slack, her eyes empty.
* IOweYouMyLife
** Prior to the game, Sprint rescued Targus from captivity and torture at the hands of the Cardassians.
** After Qaylen-as-Sprint saves her from the Borg implant she mentions that she owes him her life twice over.
** Prior to the game, Sprint rescued Targus from captivity and torture at the hands of the Cardassians.
** After Qaylen-as-Sprint saves her from the Borg implant she mentions that she owes him her life twice over.
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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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* MercyKill: In one failed loop, a partially-Borgified Furlong pleads for this.
* NonStandardGameOver: The first choice in the game. If you choose the bag ofthe Sprint's Furlong'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.
* NonStandardGameOver: The first choice in the game. If you choose the bag of
* NotQuiteDead: The Borg Q-as-Quint hyposprays wakes up unexpectedly quickly, gets Targus by the throat, and hacks the ship unless "Sprint" shoots the console, which fries him for good.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor:
** A rather nonsensical example. Furlong and Andropov note a weird Borg device twiddling away on one of their consoles and ask Qaylan-as-Sprint what they should do. Sure, as Security Officer, Sprint deals with threats to the ship, but wouldn't consulting, say, a ''qualified engineer'' make more sense? And, of course, all of "Sprint's" limited options besides ignoring it lead to disaster.
* At another point he's asked to figure out security locks on a Borg computer, and this time they say it's ''explicitly'' because he's a security officer. Perhaps the term's a little more encompassing in the future.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: In addition to his medical degree, Counselor Bennington Biraka has command-line qualifications in security, operations, navigation and tactical.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor:
** A rather nonsensical example. Furlong and Andropov note a weird Borg device twiddling away on one of their consoles and ask Qaylan-as-Sprint what they should do. Sure, as Security Officer, Sprint deals with threats to the ship, but wouldn't consulting, say, a ''qualified engineer'' make more sense? And, of course, all of "Sprint's" limited options besides ignoring it lead to disaster.
* At another point he's asked to figure out security locks on a Borg computer, and this time they say it's ''explicitly'' because he's a security officer. Perhaps the term's a little more encompassing in the future.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: In addition to his medical degree, Counselor Bennington Biraka has command-line qualifications in security, operations, navigation and tactical.
* PensieveFlashback: Before Q and Qaylan step in to alter the timeline, we see a flashback of the destruction of the ''Righteous'', with them observing.
* QuicklyDemotedWoman: Ensign Anastasia Targus ''was'' a Lieutenant like her academy buddies Furlong and Sprint, but after being captured and tortured by the Cardassians she was demoted to Ensign due to her lingering mental issues (namely an addiction to neural stimulation), and spent a year and a half on medical leave before being reinstated.
* TheQuietOne: This, going into trances, and being physically and emotionally durant seem to be the Bijani "hats". It's unclear whether or not they're mute or just quiet, but no one thinks it's weird when Qaylan-as-Sprint [[HeroicMute never, ever says anything]].
* TheQuietOne: This, going into trances, and being physically and emotionally durant seem to be the Bijani "hats". It's unclear whether or not they're mute or just quiet, but no one thinks it's weird when Qaylan-as-Sprint [[HeroicMute never, ever says anything]].
* SketchySuccessor: The Security Officer who takes the place of Sprint after his death wastes precious time shooting the Borg that infiltrates the bridge instead of isolating the Ops console from his hacking, and can't work quickly enough to stop it. Q notes that the officer is barely older than Qaylan, and that Sprint's experienced actions would have saved the ship. And then the guy [[CurbStompBattle tries to rush the Borg]]...
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: At one point, the Borg stick some weird device upon one of your consoles. If you do ''anything'' besides ignore it and let it have its way with your ship, it'll activate the self-destruct.
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: At one point, the Borg stick some weird device upon one of your consoles. If you do ''anything'' besides ignore it and let it have its way with your ship, it'll activate the self-destruct.
* TechnologyUplift: Q gives you one at the start of the game by handing you an extremely advanced version of the tricorder with cosmic qualities, information on the Borg, and also his ''delightful'' personality built in.
* ThousandYardStare: At first Qaylen can't stop staring at his father, though as Q notes, it's not as if the guy can recognize who he ''really'' is. As a result, the slightly weirded-out elder Furlong believes him to have gone into one of the trances endemic to Sprint's species at one point.
* TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have been destroyed by the Borg.]]
* ThousandYardStare: At first Qaylen can't stop staring at his father, though as Q notes, it's not as if the guy can recognize who he ''really'' is. As a result, the slightly weirded-out elder Furlong believes him to have gone into one of the trances endemic to Sprint's species at one point.
* TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have been destroyed by the Borg.]]
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* TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have been destroyed by the Borg.]]
* TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have been destroyed by the Borg.]]
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** [[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 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.]]
*TimeTravelEscape: Used at the end when [[spoiler: TrickedOutTime: [[spoiler:History records the ''Righteous'' is saved when it should have as having been destroyed being hit by an unknown Borg weapon and vaporized during the Borg.]]Battle of Wolf 359. Your actions during the game not only save it, but also you to collect important data about the Borg that Starfleet never learned in the "proper" timeline. Q solves the obvious canon issues this would cause by sending the ship forward ten years at the moment it's hit]].
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Since in the original timeline it didn't occur to Quint to use a hypospray to knock out the Borg fighting Sprint, the security officer was killed and thus couldn't save the ''Righteous'' four hours later. Q fixes that.
* YouKilledMyFather: Cadet Furlong's father was killed by the Borg when he was only nine or ten, and when the ''Cheyenne'', the ship he's training on, is preparing to battle them, he wants to stay and help out. Q frames this as a desire to kill Borg out of vengeance, and considering the choice to do something besides leave involves grabbing a phaser from Q, it seems Qaylan agrees.
* YouKilledMyFather: Cadet Furlong's father was killed by the Borg when he was only nine or ten, and when the ''Cheyenne'', the ship he's training on, is preparing to battle them, he wants to stay and help out. Q frames this as a desire to kill Borg out of vengeance, and considering the choice to do something besides leave involves grabbing a phaser from Q, it seems Qaylan agrees.
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* 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. On top of that, the opening framing sequence takes place about ten years after the Battle of Wolf 359, which places this movie somewhere during Voyager's sixth season, well after the point that the grey-shouldered uniform was introduced in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact,'' while the Lieutenant in charge of Cadet Furlong's unit is wearing the TNG-style uniform...
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* 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. On top of that, the opening framing sequence takes place about ten years after the Battle of Wolf 359, which places this movie game somewhere during Voyager's sixth season, well after the point that the grey-shouldered uniform was introduced in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact,'' while the Lieutenant in charge of Cadet Furlong's unit is wearing the TNG-style uniform...
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* 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.
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* 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. On top of that, the opening framing sequence takes place about ten years after the Battle of Wolf 359, which places this movie somewhere during Voyager's sixth season, well after the point that the grey-shouldered uniform was introduced in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact,'' while the Lieutenant in charge of Cadet Furlong's unit is wearing the TNG-style uniform...
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