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Screen fades in you are a Borg a member of the collective in your alcove and was just awaken with new directives.
Objective 1 Assimilate the federation colony on Ivor Prime leave none behind.
Objective 2 Board the USS Lexington sabotage ship and crew. '96 dead 22 wounded'
Objective 3 Your ship is a the Borg cube attacking sector 001 in the battle of First Contact. Destroy as many ships as you can, Before Enterprise E reinforcements arrive.
Objective 4 Your task along with other Borg is to repair your ship while in battle, You are sent to different areas of the ship for repair. On your last task you suddenly get blown out the side of the cube and are set adrift in space for 35+ years.
You are found by a starship of your chosen faction. They use Born Nano probes to regenerate your body an limbs, You wake up in sickbay in recovery and that's how your story story begins as a Liberated Borg in 2410..
As a Liberated Borg you will have access to Special Borg tech Ships, Weapons & game Items are all cross factional and not tied to just Liberated Borg playable race.
Lock Box Borg Ships R&D Borg tech Zen store Borg items Lobi store weapons Dilithium store Borg items. Latinum store Borg Pets
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The Borg | |
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Star Trek race | |
A Borg insignium, designed by Rick Sternbach (first appeared in the episode Q Who)[n 1] | |
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Base of operations | Delta Quadrant |
Leader | The Borg are one single mind which is sometimes represented by the Borg Queen |
The Borg are a fictional alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek franchise. The Borg are cybernetic organisms, linked in a hive mind called 'the Collective'. The Borg co-opt the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of 'assimilation': forcibly transforming individual beings into 'drones' by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. The Borg's ultimate goal is 'achieving perfection'.[1][2] Aside from being recurring antagonists in the Next Generation television series, they are depicted as the main threat in the film Star Trek: First Contact. In addition, they played major roles in the Voyager series and serve as the way home to the Alpha Quadrant for the isolated Federation starshipUSS Voyager. The first encounter between humans and the Borg is depicted in the 2nd season of the series Enterprise in the episode 'Regeneration' in which the phrase 'you will be assimilated; resistance is futile' is heard by the crew of the Enterprise for the first time.[3]
The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which 'resistance is futile'.
- 1Depiction
- 4Borg appearances
- 5Origin
- 6Other Non-canon media appearances
Depiction[edit]
The Borg are cyborgs, having outward appearances showing both mechanical and biological body parts. Individual Borg are referred to as drones and move in a robotic, purposeful style ignoring most of their environment, including beings they do not consider an immediate threat. Borg commonly have one eye replaced with a sophisticated ocular implant. Borg usually have one arm replaced with a prosthesis, bearing one of a variety of multipurpose tools in place of a humanoid hand. Since different drones have different roles, the arm may be specialized for myriad purposes such as medical devices, scanners, and weapons. Borg have flat, white skin, giving them an almost zombie-like appearance.
Some Borg have been shown to be far stronger than humans; able to easily overpower most humans and similar species. Typical Borg have never been seen to run, instead moving in a deliberate fashion, never retreating. Borg are highly resistant to energy-based weapons, having personal shielding which instantly adapts to it. In various episodes, phasers and other energy weapons tend to quickly become ineffective as the Borg are able to adapt to specific frequencies once a ship or an individual drone is struck down. Later attempts to modulate phaser and other weapon frequencies have had limited success. Borg shields have, however, proven to be ineffective protection against projectile or melee weapons, but this could prove problematic, given the fact of space travel, specifically puncturing the hull with an errant shot.
Borg possess a 'cortical node' which controls other implanted cybernetic devices within a Borg's body, and is most often implanted in the forehead above the retained organic eye. If the cortical node fails, the Borg eventually dies. Successful replacement of the node can be carried out on a Borg vessel.
Borg Collective[edit]
An occupied Borg 'alcove' prop on display at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum
Borg civilization is based on a hive or group mind known as the Collective. Each Borg drone is linked to the collective by a sophisticated subspace network that ensures each member is given constant supervision and guidance. The mental energy of the group consciousness can help an injured or damaged drone heal or regenerate damaged body parts or technology. The collective consciousness not only gives them the ability to 'share the same thoughts', but also to adapt with great speed to tactics used against them.[4] Drones in the Collective are never seen speaking, but a collective 'voice' is sometimes transmitted to ships.
'Resistance is futile'[edit]
Individual Borg rarely speak, though they do send a collective audio message to their targets, stating that 'resistance is futile', generally followed by a declaration that the target in question will be assimilated and its 'biological and technological distinctiveness' will be added to their own. The exact phrasing varies and evolves over the various series episodes and film.
The complete phrase used in Star Trek: First Contact is:
“ | We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.[5] | ” |
Nanoprobes[edit]
Nanoprobes are microscopic machines that inhabit a Borg's body, bloodstream, and many cybernetic implants. The probes perform the function of maintaining the Borg cybernetic systems, as well as repairing damage to the organic parts of a Borg. They generate new technology inside a Borg when needed, as well as protecting them from many forms of disease. Borg nanoprobes, each about the size of a human red blood cell, travel through the victim's bloodstream and latch on to individual cells. The nanoprobes rewrite the cellular DNA, altering the victim's biochemistry, and eventually form larger, more complicated structures and networks within the body such as electrical pathways, processing and, Seven of Nine states that the Borg assimilated the nanoprobe technology from 'Species 149'. In addition, the nanoprobes work to maintain and repair their host's mechanical and biological components on a microscopic level, allowing regenerative capabilities.
Though used by the Borg to exert control over another being, reprogrammed nanoprobes were used by the crew of the starship Voyager in many instances as medical aids.
The capability of nanoprobes to absorb improved technologies they find into the Borg collective is shown in the Voyager episode 'Drone', where Seven of Nine's nanoprobes are fused with the Doctor's mobile emitter which uses technology from the 29th century, creating a 29th-century drone existing outside the Collective, with capabilities far surpassing that of the 24th-century drones.
The Borg do not try to immediately assimilate any being with which they come to contact; in fact, Borg drones tend to completely ignore individuals that are identified as too weak to be an imminent threat or too inferior to be worth assimilating. Captain Picard and his team walk safely past a group of Borg drones in a scene from the film Star Trek: First Contact while the drones fulfill a programmed mission. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode 'Mortal Coil', Seven of Nine told Neelix that the Kazon were 'unworthy' of assimilation and would only serve to detract from the Borg's quest for perceived perfection.
Travel[edit]
The Borg are a spacefaring race, and their primary interstellar transport is known as a 'Borg Cube' due to its shape. A cube was first seen in the Next Generation episode 'Q Who?' in 2365. Common capabilities of cubes include high speed warp and transwarpdrives, self-regeneration and multiple-redundant systems, adaptability in combat, and various energy weapons as well as tractor beams and cutting beams. Additionally, different types and size of Cubes have been observed as well as Borg Spheres and some smaller craft.[6]
As with most other Star Trek races, the Borg also have transporter capability.
Assimilation[edit]
Assimilation is the process by which the Borg integrate beings, cultures, and technology into the Collective. 'You will be assimilated' is one of the few on-screen phrases employed by the Borg when communicating with other species. The Borg are portrayed as having found and assimilated thousands of species and billions to trillions of individual life-forms throughout the galaxy. The Borg designate each species with a number assigned to them upon first contact; humanity being 'Species 5618'.
When first introduced, the Borg are said to be more interested in assimilating technology than people, roaming the universe as single-minded marauders that have assimilated starships, planets, and entire societies to collect new technology. They are discriminating in this area, finding certain races, for example the Kazon, to be technologically inferior and not worthy of assimilation. A Borg infant found aboard a Borg Cube in 'Q Who?' shows that the Borg will even assimilate children. The Borg then place the assimilated children into maturation chambers to quickly and fully grow them into mature drones.
Patrick Stewart as Locutus, the assimilated Jean-Luc Picard
In their second appearance, 'The Best of Both Worlds', they capture and assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard into the Collective, creating Locutus of Borg (meaning 'he who has spoken', in Latin).
The method of assimilating individual life-forms into the Collective has been represented differently over time. When we see the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation, assimilation is through abduction and then surgical procedure. In Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Voyager, assimilation is through injection of nanoprobes into an individual's bloodstream via a pair of tubules that spring forth from a drone's hand. Assimilation by tubules is depicted on-screen as being a fast-acting process, with the victim's skin pigmentation turning gray and mottled with visible dark tracks forming within moments of contact. After assimilation, a drone's race and gender become 'irrelevant'. After initial assimilation through injection, Borg are surgically fitted with cybernetic devices. In Star Trek: First Contact an assimilated crew member is shown to have a forearm and an eye physically removed and replaced with cybernetic implants.
The Borg also assimilate, interface, and reconfigure technology using these tubules and nanoprobes. However, in Q Who? we see a Borg apparently trying to assimilate, probe or reconfigure a control panel in engineering using an energy interface instead of nanoprobes.
Some species, for various stated reasons, are able to resist assimilation by nanoprobe. Species 8472 is the only race shown to be capable of completely rejecting assimilation attempts. Other species, such as the Hirogen, have demonstrated resistance to assimilation as well as Dr Phlox, who was able to partially resist the assimilation process in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode 'Regeneration'.[7]
Concept[edit]
The Borg represented a new antagonist and regular enemy that was lacking during the first season of TNG; the Klingons were allies and the Romulans mostly absent. The Ferengi were originally intended as the new enemy for the United Federation of Planets, but their comical appearance and devotion to capitalist accumulation by free enterprise failed to portray them as a convincing threat. The Borg, however, with their frightening appearance, their immense power, and their sinister motive, became the signature villains for the TNG and Voyager eras of Star Trek. In Voyager episode 'Q2', even Q tells his son 'don't provoke the Borg.'
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) writers began to develop the idea of the Borg as early as the Season 1 episode, 'Conspiracy', which introduced a coercive, symbiotic life form that took over key Federation personnel. Plans to feature the Borg as an increasingly menacing threat were subsequently scrapped in favor of a more subtle introduction, beginning with the mystery of missing colonies on both sides of the Neutral Zone in 'The Neutral Zone' and culminating in the encounter between Borg and the Enterprise crew in 'Q Who?'.[8]
Borg Queen[edit]
Alice Krige as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact
Before the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996), the Borg exhibited no hierarchical command structure. First Contact introduced the Borg Queen, who is not named as such in the film (referring to herself as “I am the Borg. I am the Collective.') but is named Borg Queen in the closing credits. The Queen is played by Alice Krige in this film and in the 2001 finale of Star Trek: Voyager, 'Endgame'. The character also appeared in Voyager's two-part episodes 'Dark Frontier' (1999) and 'Unimatrix Zero' (2000), but was portrayed by Susanna Thompson.[9] Whether or not all of these appearances represent exactly the same Queen is never confirmed. In First Contact, the Borg Queen is heard during a flashback of Picard's former assimilation, implying that she was present during the events of 'Best of Both Worlds'.
The Borg Queen is the focal point within the Borg collective consciousness and a unique drone within the Collective, who brings 'order to chaos', referring to herself as 'we' and 'I' interchangeably. In First Contact, the Queen's dialogue suggests she is an expression of the Borg Collective's overall intelligence, not a controller but the avatar of the entire Collective as an individual. This sentiment is contradicted by Star Trek: Voyager, where she is seen explicitly directing, commanding, and in one instance even overriding the Collective. The introduction of the Queen radically changed the canonical understanding of the Borg function, with the authors of The Computers of Star Trek noting 'It was a lot easier for viewers to focus on a villain rather than a hive-mind that made decisions based on the input of all its members.'[10]First Contact writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore have defended the introduction of the Queen as a dramatic necessity, noting on the film's DVD audio commentary that they had initially written the film with drones, but then found that it was essential for the main characters to have someone to interact with beyond mindless drones.
Borg appearances[edit]
The Borg were introduced on syndicated television on May 8, 1989, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Q Who?', and rose to further prominence in the famous two part cliffhanger 'Best of Both Worlds, Part I'[11] which aired on June 18, 1990, with the sequel airing on September 24, 1990. In the Star Trek in-universe timeline, the earliest the Borg have been displayed is in the 1996 blockbuster Star Trek: First Contact.
The Next Generation[edit]
The Borg first appear in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second-season episode 'Q Who?', when the omnipotent life-form Q hurls the Enterprise-D across the galaxy to challenge Jean-Luc Picard's assertion that his crew is ready to face the galaxy's dangers and mysteries. The Enterprise crew is overwhelmed by the Borg, and Picard begs for and receives Q's help in returning the ship to its previous coordinates.
The Borg next appear in The Next Generation's third-season finale and fourth-season premiere, 'The Best of Both Worlds'. Picard is abducted and assimilated by the Borg and transformed into Locutus, the Latin for 'he who speaks'. Picard's knowledge of Starfleet's strengths and strategies is gained by the Collective, and the single cube destroys the entire Starfleet armada at Wolf 359. The Enterprise crew manages to capture Locutus, gain information through him which allows them to destroy the cube, and then reverse the assimilation process.
In the fifth-season episode 'I, Borg', the Enterprise crew rescues an adolescent Borg they name 'Hugh'. The crew faces the moral decision of whether or not to use Hugh (who begins to develop a sense of independence as a result of a severed link to the Collective) as a means of delivering a devastating computer virus to the Borg, or return to the Borg with his individuality intact.[12] They decide to return him without the virus, but in the sixth-season episode 'Descent', a group of rogue Borg who had 'assimilated' individuality through Hugh fall under the control of the android Lore, the 'older brother' of Data. Lore also corrupts Data through the use of an 'emotion chip', simultaneously deactivating Data's ethical subroutines and only projecting negative emotions to it. Under this programming, Data participates in the capture of Picard, La Forge and Troi, but they are able to reactivate Data's ethical subroutines, allowing him to recognize that his current actions are wrong and leading to him deactivating Lore. Data recovers the emotion chip and the surviving Borg fall under the leadership of Hugh.
In 2017, SYFY listed 'I, Borg' among the 25 best science fiction episodes of the last 25 years.[13]
First Contact[edit]
The Borg return as the antagonists in the Next Generation film, Star Trek: First Contact. After again failing to assimilate Earth by a direct assault in the year 2373, the Borg travel back in time to the year 2063 to try to stop Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans, change the timeline, and erase Starfleet from existence. The Enterprise-E crew follows the Borg back in time and restores the original timeline. First Contact introduces the Borg Queen as played by Alice Krige, who later reprise the role on United Paramount Network for the finale of Star Trek: Voyager.
Deep Space Nine[edit]
The only screen appearance made on this series was in the premiere episode Emissary. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) was an officer on the USS Saratoga, one of the ships in the Starfleet armada dispatched to confront the Borg at Wolf 359. The Saratoga is destroyed by the Borg, killing Sisko's wife, Jennifer. During that episode, Sisko's meeting with Picard is tense as he blames Picard for the actions of Locutus. Throughout the remainder of the series, references to the Borg are made occasionally, including the design of their ship, USS Defiant, and the battle from Star Trek: First Contact being used as a plot point in Season 5 when Starfleet is spread too thin to deal with a Dominion incursion.
Voyager[edit]
The Borg make frequent appearances in Star Trek: Voyager, which takes place in the Delta Quadrant. The Borg are first seen by Voyager in the third-season episode 'Blood Fever' in which Chakotay discovers the body of what the local humanoids refer to as 'the Invaders'; which turns out to be the Borg. In 'Scorpion', the Borg are engaged in a war of attrition against Species 8472, whose biological defences are a match for the Borg's nanoprobes. In one of the few instances of the Borg negotiating, in exchange for safe passage through Borg space, the Voyager crew devises a way to destroy the otherwise invulnerable Species 8472. A Borg drone, Seven of Nine, is dispatched to Voyager to facilitate this arrangement. After successfully driving Species 8472 back into their fluidic space, Seven of Nine is severed from the Collective and becomes a member of Voyager's crew. Seven of Nine's rediscovery of her individuality becomes a recurring theme throughout the series.
Hollywood Reporter ranked 'Scorpion' as the 4th best episode of all Star Trek:Voyager in 2016.[14] And they ranked it 37th out 100 of the best of all Star Trek television episodes at that time.[15] In 2017, Den of Geek rated the pair of 'Scorpion' episodes among the top 50 Star Trek franchise episodes overall.[16]
In the fifth season, we see the Borg in 'Drone', where an advanced Borg drone is created when Seven of Nine's nanoprobes are fused with the Doctor's mobile emitter in a transporter accident. The Borg play a peripheral role in 'Infinite Regress', when Seven of Nine is exposed to a weapon against the Borg that essentially causes her to suffer from MPD, reverting to the personas of various people she assimilated while in the Collective. In 'Dark Frontier', Voyager steals and uses a transwarp coil to both rescue Seven of Nine from the Borg Queen and then knock another fifteen years off their journey home before the coil burns out.
In the sixth season episode, 'Collective', the crew of Voyager encounter a damaged cube that is holding Tom Paris, Neelix, Harry Kim and Chakotay hostage. With all the adult drones dead, the ship is run by five Borg children who are saved by Voyager and deassimilated. The later episode 'Child's Play' reveals that the cube was infected by a pathogen that Icheb, one of the children, had been engineered to act as a host for by his parents, but the crew rescue Icheb before he can be sent back to the Borg. The crew encounter the Borg again in 'Unimatrix Zero', a two-part cliffhanger between seasons six and seven.
In the seventh season we see the Borg in 'Q2', where Q's son brings Borg onto Voyager and in the series finale, 'Endgame', where Admiral Janeway from the future tries to bring Voyager back to Earth using a Borg transwarp hub. During this episode, Janeway infects the Borg with a neurolytic pathogen which infects the collective and kills the Queen.
Enterprise[edit]
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode 'Regeneration', the remnants of the destroyed sphere from Star Trek: First Contact are discovered in the Arctic along with two frozen drones. The Borg steal a research ship and send a transmission toward the Delta Quadrant before they are destroyed.
Discovery[edit]
Though the Borg do not appear, in the Star Trek: Discovery episode 'Perpetual Infinity', Captain Leland of Section 31 is infected with nanites by the time-traveling rogue artificial intelligence known as Control. Leland displays characteristics similar to Borg drones, including black veins and a heightened ability to adapt in combat, leading some fans to speculate that Control is connected to the origin of the Borg. In addition, the Borg are known for their possession of transwarp technology, which allows them to travel to any section of the galaxy in an instant. Some fans suggest the technology may have been derived from Discovery's spore drive though there is no evidence to support this as of yet.
These theories are not confirmed as a Borg origin story in any episodes to date.[17]
Origin[edit]
The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds of thousands of years (as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen). In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen merely states that the Borg were once much like humanity, 'flawed and weak', but gradually developed into a partially synthetic species in an ongoing attempt to evolve and perfect themselves.
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In TNG's 'Q Who?', Guinan mentions that the Borg are 'made up of organic and artificial life [..] which has been developing for [..] thousands of centuries.' In the later episode of Star Trek: Voyager, 'Dragon's Teeth', Gedrin, of the race the Vaadwaur, says that before he and his people were put into suspended animation 892 years earlier (1482), the Borg had assimilated only a few colonies in the Delta Quadrant and were considered essentially a minor nuisance. Now awake in the 24th century, he is amazed to see that the Borg control a vast area of the Delta Quadrant. Seven of Nine comments that the Borg's collective memories of that time period are fragmentary, though it is never established why that is.
Non-canon origin stories[edit]
The Star Trek Encyclopedia speculates that a connection could exist between the Borg and V'ger, the vessel encountered in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This idea of a connection is advanced in William Shatner's novel The Return. The connection was also suggested in a letter included in Starlog no. 160 (November 1990). The letter writer, Christopher Haviland, also speculated that the original Borg drones were members of a race called 'the Preservers', which Spock had suggested in the original series episode 'The Paradise Syndrome' might be responsible for why so many humanoids populate the galaxy. It was confirmed in the TNG episode 'The Chase' that an ancient species seeded hundreds, if not thousands of planets with their DNA, creating the Humans, Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, and many more.
The extra section of the game Star Trek: Legacy contains the supposed 'Origin of the Borg', which tells the story of V'ger being sucked into a black hole. V'ger was found by a race of living machines which gave it a form suitable to fulfilling its simplistic programming. Unable to determine who its creator could be, the probe declared all carbon-based life an infestation of the creator's universe, leading to assimilation. From this, the Borg were created, as extensions of V'ger's purpose. Drones were made from those assimilated and merged into a collective consciousness. The Borg Queen was created out of the necessity for a single unifying voice. With thoughts and desires of her own, she was no longer bound to serve V'ger.
In the graphic novel Star Trek: The Manga, the Borg resulted from an experiment in medical nanotechnology gone wrong. An alien species under threat of extinction by an incurable disease created a repository satellite containing test subjects infused with body parts, organs, and DNA of multiple species along with cybernetic enhancements put in place by advanced medical technology. The satellite was maintained by nanomachines, which also maintained the medical equipment on board. The medical facility is parked in orbit by a black hole, and along with the relativistic state of time around the black hole, allows long-term research to continue at an accelerated time scale rather than in real-time speed. As the medical facility deteriorates, so does the programming of the nanomachines. The nanomachines began infusing themselves into the patients, interpreting them as part of the satellite in need of repair. Among the patients is the daughter of the head medical researcher of the satellite. The satellite eventually falls apart in an encounter with an away team from the Enterprise under the command of James T. Kirk. In the final moments of the satellite's destruction and the escape of the crew members of the Enterprise with the patients, the subjects display qualities inherently resembling the Borg: injection of nanomachines in a fashion similar to assimilation, rapid adaptation to weaponry, and a hive mind consciousness, as all the subjects begin following the whim of the daughter. As succumbing to the disease was inevitable, and the corrupt nanomachine programming infused itself into the bodies, the final image of the page of the manga Borg origin is left with the daughter turned Borg Queen, stating, 'Resistance is futile.'
In the novel Lost Souls (the third book in the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy), the Borg are revealed to be the survivors of the Caeliar city Mantilis. Thrown across the galaxy in the Delta Quadrant and back in time to about 4500 BC by the destruction of Erigol at the climax of Gods of Night, the first book in the trilogy, a group of human survivors from the starship Columbia(NX-02) and Caeliar scientists try to survive in a harsh arctic climate. Most of the human survivors die of exposure, while several Caeliar are absorbed into their race's gestalt to give life to the others in their group mind. The Caeliar offer the remaining humans a merging of human and Caeliar, to allow both groups to survive. The human survivors are resistant and as time goes on, the Caeliar called Sedin becomes the sole survivor of her group, her mental processes and her form both degrading as time goes on. When the humans return to Sedin for help, she forces them to merge with her, unwilling to allow herself to die when a union can save her life. The forced merging of the humans and the mostly decayed Caeliar results in the creation of the first Borg. The gestalt group mind is perverted to become the collective, driven by Sedin's desperate hunger and need to add the strength, technology, and life-force of others to her own. Ironically, while the Caeliar were–albeit accidentally–involved in the creation of the Borg, they also provide the means to end it; in the 24th century, the Caeliar absorb the entire Borg collective back into themselves, ending the cyborgs' centuries-long reign of terror.
Other Non-canon media appearances[edit]
In the Star Trek novel Probe, which takes place following the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Borg are mentioned obliquely in communication with the whale-probe as spacefaring 'mites' (the whale-probe's term for humanoid races) who traveled in cubical and spherical spacefaring vessels; the Borg apparently attacked the whale-probe and damaged its memory in some fashion before the events of the film.
In the Star Trek Game Star Trek: Legacy, the Borg are featured prominently throughout the Enterprise and TOS era's before becoming a major threat in the TNG era. In unlockable motion-comics that are unlocked after completing each era, it is revealed that the Vulcan T'Uerell experimented on Borg corpses left behind from the Enterprise episode 'Regeneration', and became assimilated. It wasn't until the end of the TOS era that she made contact with the main Borg force and became a queen before she was finally killed in a fleet of Starfleet, Romulan, and Klingon ships led by Picard.
The Peter David novel Vendetta reveals that the planet killer weapon from the Original Series episode 'The Doomsday Machine' is a prototype for a weapon against the Borg. David revisited this concept in a 2007 sequel novel, Before Dishonor, which features the Enterprise-E working with Spock and Seven of Nine to reactivate the original planet killer to stop the Borg.
In William Shatner's novel The Return, Spock is nearly assimilated by the Borg, but is saved because he mind-melded with V'ger, an earlier form of the Borg, and they assume that he is already a Borg. Using the information he subconsciously acquired in the meld, Spock is able to lead a crew of Enterprise officers (consisting of the Enterprise-D crew, himself, Admiral McCoy, and the resurrected Kirk) in a Defiant-class ship to destroy the Borg central node, severing all branches of the Collective from each other and limiting their future threat.
In David Mack's novel trilogy Star Trek: Destiny, set over a year after Star Trek: Nemesis, the Borg stage a massive invasion of local space. Due to Kathryn Janeway crippling their infrastructure in 'Endgame', the Borg fear for their survival and attempt to exterminate the Federation and its neighbors. They destroy the populations of numerous Federation worlds before being dismantled by the Caeliar, the advanced species that spawned them. The crews of the Enterprise-E, the Titan, and the Aventine had made contact with the Caeliar, learned of their role in the creation of the Borg, and convinced them to end the Borg once and for all.
In the Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover comic, Assimilation2, the Borg join forces with the Cybermen. When the Cybermen subvert the Collective, the Enterprise-D crew work with the EleventhDoctor and the Borg, restoring the Borg to full strength and erasing the Borg/Cyberman alliance from existence.[18]
Writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens developed an unproduced idea for an episode which would have featured Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who encounters the Borg and is assimilated – thereby becoming the Borg Queen.[19]
In the video game Star Trek: Armada, the Borg invades a Dominion cloning facility to create a clone of Jean-Luc Picard to create a new Locutus.
In video games[edit]
The Borg appear as antagonists to the player in the following Star Trek videogame titles:
- Star Trek: Borg Contact
Activision planned to release Star Trek: Borg Assimilator, in which the player would play a Borg, but later canceled the game.
Critical reception and popular culture[edit]
The depiction of the Borg cube in 'Q Who' garnered the episode an Emmy Award nomination.[20]
TV Guide named the Borg #4 in their 2013 list of the 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.[21] The Borg are noted as a powerful cybernetic force among the Star Trek aliens, although the Federation has generally been able to thwart their plans.[22]The Borg are noted for their use of powerful starships (the Borg Cube for example), assimilation of other species, and for wanting to acquire new technologies.[23]
The phrase 'resistance is futile' became prevalent in popular culture from its use in the television show TNG.[24][25][26][27]
The Borg uttered the phrase in several Star Trek episodes and the film Star Trek: First Contact (which used the phrase as the tagline for the 1996 film). Patrick Stewart's delivery of the line, as Locutus, in 'The Best of Both Worlds' was ranked no. 93 in TV Land's list of 'The 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases'.[28] It was used as the title for an episode of the TV series Dexter.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^The insignia appears at about 35:00 in the episode Q Who, colored red-on-black rather than white-on-black of this version, to the left of Commander Riker as the away team walks into the Borg nursery.
References[edit]
- ^Star Trek: First Contact
- ^https://screenrant.com/star-trek-borg-biggest-plot-holes-make-no-sense/
- ^'Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series) - Regeneration (2003) - Quotes'. IMDb.
- ^'The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I and II' (TNG)
- ^Star Trek - First Contact (1996)Archived September 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Moviesoundclips.net. Rikeromega3 Productions 1999-2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
- ^http://www.startrek.com/database_article/borg-cube
- ^Star Trek: Voyager, season 3 episode 26 and Season 4 Episode 1 (Scorpion Parts 1 & 2)
- ^text commentary by Michael Okuda in the collector's edition of Star Trek: First Contact
- ^https://www.trektoday.com/news/150500_03.shtml
- ^Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg, The Computers of Star Trek. New York: Basic Books (1999): 147. 'It was a lot easier for viewers to focus on a villain rather than a hive-mind that made decisions based on the input of all its members.'
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- ^'Star Trek: The 15 Strongest Species, Ranked From Weakest To Most Powerful'. ScreenRant. March 29, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
- ^'Star Trek: The 15 Strongest Species, Ranked From Weakest To Most Powerful'. ScreenRant. March 29, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
- ^Hayot, Eric; Haun Saussy; Steven G. Yao (2008). Sinographies: writing China. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN978-0-8166-4724-8.
- ^Nardi, Eric Bonnie; Vicki O'Day (2000). Information ecologies: using technology with heart. MIT Press. ISBN0-262-14066-7. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
- ^Strangelove, Michael (2005). The empire of mind: digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement. University of Toronto Press. ISBN0-8020-3818-2. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
- ^'Resistance Is Futile: The New Wave of Video Games About Depression'. Playboy. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
- ^'The 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases'. TV Land. Archived from the original on March 6, 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
Further reading[edit]
- Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Daniel H. Nexon, 'Representation is Futile?: American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg' in Jutta Weldes, ed., To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics. 2003. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN0-312-29557-X. pp. 143–167.
- Thomas A. Georges. Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values. Boulder: Westview. ISBN0-8133-4057-8. p. 172. (The Borg as Big Business)
External links[edit]
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- Borg at Memory Alpha (a Star Trekwiki)
- Borg documentary at the Star Trek website
- Borg article at the Star Trek website
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Platforms: | PC, Mac |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Interactive |
Developer: | Simon & Schuster Interactive |
Genres: | Adventure / Full Motion Video |
Release Date: | 1996 |
Game Modes: | Singleplayer |
There have been a lot of Star Trek games thrown around. A few were good, most were average. Star Trek: Borg is different from past attempts since it’s an interactive movie as opposed to an all-out game. If you’ve played any FMV games before then you probably already know the logic behind it. It’s an industry that rode on the high capacity of CD-ROM discs, dazzling people with something they’ve never seen before – movies on their computer. But the novelty quickly ran out, and by the end of it you weren’t watching a really good movie or playing a good game.
In Star Trek: Borg you play the role of Cadet Furlong. Ten years ago your father was killed on the U.S.S. Righteous by a Borg attack. Q (an omnipotent being) has offered to send you back in time to prevent your father’s death from ever occurring. Once you’re flung into the past, you’ll be deciding the fate of your father and the entire crew. Any mistakes you make could end the game or change the outcome. All you have is a tricorder and your own mind to help you avoid the disasters ahead.
The first thing that’ll grab your attention is that the video in the movie is full screen. This has been done before in other products, but the quality is pretty good when compared to previous attempts. You’ll be pleased to know that John de Lancie reprises his role as Q in this game. He plays such a great role that if it weren’t for his acting, this game wouldn’t be half as good as it is. You’ll find yourself laughing at his many snide remarks and antics. There aren’t any other actors from the Star Trek universe in the game (with the exception of the Borg).
The game is very easy to play. As the video plays, an icon on the screen will appear at certain points. At these points you can make a choice as to what you want to do. You’ll also be able to pause the video at any point to analyze objects and people with your tricorder. Anything you click on with your tricorder will yield a plethora of information. There’s so much information in this game that I doubt anyone will ever read it all. The entire game unfolds as a video. It’s pretty much non-stop action until you screw something up. At that point, Q will appear to mock you and you restart. You can do this indefinitely.
The biggest problem with games of this type is the replay value. Once you’ve played through the entire interactive movie, there’s little incentive to go through it again. Even though the game touts 120 minutes of interactive video, don’t be fooled into thinking that’s how long it takes to beat the game. You have to remember that all your screw-ups are videos, as are the introduction and ending. Once you know what to do in each situation, it’s just a matter of minutes before you can walk through the entire game. Even though you’d like to think you’re making all the decisions, in reality you only control key points in the movie.
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First appearance | 'Encounter at Farpoint' (1987) (The Next Generation) |
Last appearance | 'Q2' (2001) (Voyager) |
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Species | Q |
Gender | Male |
Q is a fictional character as well as the name of a race in Star Trek appearing in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager series, as well as in related media. The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over normal human notions of time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself, being capable of altering it to his whim. Despite his vast knowledge and experience spanning untold eons (and much to the exasperation of the object(s) of his obsession), he is not above practical jokes for his own personal amusement, for a Machiavellian and manipulative purpose, or to prove a point. He is said to be almost omnipotent, and he is continually evasive regarding his true motivations.
The name 'Q' applies to the names of the individuals portrayed (all 'male' and 'female' characters refer to each other as 'Q'), it also applies to the name of their race and to the 'Q Continuum' itself – an alternate dimension accessible to only the Q and their 'invited' guests. The true nature of the realm is said to be beyond the comprehension of 'lesser beings' such as humans, therefore it is shown to humans only in ways they can understand.
Beginning with the pilot episode 'Encounter at Farpoint' of The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry with Jean-Luc Picard. He serves as a major antagonist throughout The Next Generation, playing a pivotal role in both the first and final episodes. Q is initially presented as a cosmic force judging humanity to see if it is becoming a threat to the universe, but as the series progresses, his role morphs more into one of a teacher to Picard and the human race generally – albeit often in seemingly destructive or disruptive ways, subject to his own amusement. Other times, notably during 'Deja Q' and Voyager, Q appears to the crew seeking assistance.
Gene Roddenberry chose the letter 'Q' in honor of his friend, Janet Quarton.[1]
- 1Appearances in Star Trek media
Appearances in Star Trek media[edit]
List of appearances[edit]
Many Star Trek television episodes and novels have featured Q, and often have titles that play on the letter 'Q'.
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Television[edit]
The character Q debuted in 'Encounter at Farpoint', where he puts Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew on trial, arguing that humanity is a dangerous race and should be destroyed. When they later save the life of a kidnapped alien, Q agrees to defer judgment, though he hints that it will not be the last time the crew sees him.
Q's next appearance was later in the first season, in the episode 'Hide and Q', when he decides to admit a human into the Continuum. Q believes that humanity has the potential to one day evolve beyond the Q, and he wants to understand how. He settles on Picard's first officer, Commander Riker, but Q fails to trigger the evolution and Riker remains human. Thereby losing a wager with Picard, Q is bound by the terms of the wager to stay out of humanity's path forever. Q instantly vanishes, but continues to appear in later episodes as if the wager never occurred.
In 'Q Who', he offers to divest himself of his powers and guide humanity through uncharted regions and prepare it for unknown threats. Picard argues that Q's services are unneeded (and unwanted), and Q rebuts him by teleporting the USS Enterprise to a distant system for their first encounter with the Borg. Unable to resist the Borg, Picard must ask Q to save the ship. Q returns the Enterprise home and tells Picard that other men would rather have died than ask for help. The 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Companion states that the Borg already knew about Earth and were already en route (having previously attacked Federation and Romulan outposts in the first-season episode, 'The Neutral Zone'), and that Q's actions were intended as an early warning. The Star Trek: Enterprise episode, 'Regeneration', explains that the encounter in system J-25 intensified the Borg's interest in humanity, prompting them to escalate their plans to capture Earth. Using time travel, the Borg alter the course of events depicted in Star Trek: First Contact, where they encounter the crew of the NX-01 Enterprise and inform their 24th-century predecessors of the existence of Earth. Q's actions stabilized the time stream by creating a different cause for the Borg's awareness of the Federation. This anomaly is expanded upon in the Star Trek novels as being a partial indirect cause of the Mirror Universe, whose reality diverged from the original time stream when Zefram Cochrane attempted to warn Earth and the other worlds that would form the Federation about the Borg after the events of First Contact. In the original reality, Cochrane's warnings go unheeded.[citation needed]
In 'Déjà Q', Q is punished by the Q Continuum by being made mortal; his committing of an uncharacteristically selfless act (sacrificing his life so that a race attacking him will not destroy the Enterprise) garners the return of his powers. In the same episode, Q says that Picard is 'the closest thing in this universe that I have to a friend.'
Q returns to the Enterprise in the TNG episode 'Qpid' to thank Captain Picard for helping him regain his place in the continuum. At the time Picard's 'friend' Vash is paying a visit. Q uses this opportunity to teach Captain Picard about love. This episode begins a partnership between Q and Vash which is seen again during the DS9 episode 'Q-Less'. In the TNG episode 'True Q' Amanda Rodgers, a young human student, seems to develop the powers of the Q during her internship with Dr. Beverly Crusher. Q boards the Enterprise, uninvited, to instruct Amanda and determine if she is fit to take her place in the continuum, revealing that her parents were actually Q in human form. While Amanda initially rejects Q's offer to join the continuum, she is unable to resist using her powers, and ultimately decides to explore her powers in the continuum. This episode is the first reference to Q reproduction.
Toward the end of The Next Generation, Q is less antagonistic toward Picard. In 'Tapestry', Q apparently saves Picard and helps him better understand himself, giving Picard a chance to avoid the accident that gave him an artificial heart only for Picard to choose dying as himself over living the tedious life he would have lived without the inspiration of his near-death experience (although whether Q actually appeared in this episode or was merely a hallucination Picard experienced during surgery is deliberately left ambiguous).
In the series finale, 'All Good Things..', Q gives Picard a 'helping hand' in saving humanity by helping him figure out what is causing 'antitime' to flow into the universe, which will inevitably stop humanity from ever being born.
In the DS9 episode 'Q-Less', Q at one point goads CommanderBenjamin Sisko into a bare-knuckle boxing match, all the while belittling and insulting him. When Sisko loses his temper and knocks Q down, an astonished Q says, 'You hit me! Picard never hit me!' Sisko counters frankly that 'I'm not Picard.' Q responds with a smile, saying, 'Indeed not, you're much easier to provoke.' While on the station, Q gives hints to help the crew keep their station from being destroyed by an artifact that has been brought aboard it. His interest in humankind could be explained when he says goodbye to Vash: 'When I look at a gas nebula, all I see is a cloud of dust. Seeing the universe through your eyes, I was able to experience .. wonder. I'm going to miss that.'
Q in a Starfleet uniform
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode 'Death Wish', Q pursues a rogue member of the Continuum, named Quinn, who has been inadvertently released from his asteroid prison by the crew of that ship, and who seeks asylum on the Voyager. He demands that Q make him human, as he does not wish to be a member of the Continuum any more, but Q refuses, because Quinn intends to commit suicide if he becomes human. The two parties agree to allow Captain Janeway to mediate their dispute, and after Janeway eventually finds in favor of Quinn, Q makes Quinn human, after which Quinn commits suicide.
Later, in the Voyager episode 'The Q and the Grey', Q reappears on the Voyager, asking Janeway to bear his child. He eventually reveals that the uncertainty and instability caused by Quinn's suicide divided the Continuum, causing a civil war between Quinn's progressive followers and the conservative traditionalists of the Continuum. Q believes that the birth of a new member of the Continuum could revitalize the Q by giving them something new to focus on after millennia of stagnation and boredom. Janeway refuses, and after she and her crew bring about a ceasefire in the Continuum, Q eventually mates with the female Q (Suzie Plakson) with whom he had been involved (referred to in Star Trek novels as 'Lady Q'), producing a son. Their progeny is born conscious and with all the power of any other Q, although lacking adult maturity. Q makes Janeway his godmother.
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In the episode 'Q2', which is the last televised appearance of Q, he appears on Voyager with his immature, rebellious son, who appears as a human teenager (played by John de Lancie's real-life son Keegan de Lancie, and referred to in the novels as 'Little Q' or 'q'). Q asks Janeway to mentor his son, and the two adults agree that the boy will remain on Voyager, without his powers, and either learn how to be a responsible, accountable, and productive inhabitant of the cosmos, or spend eternity as an amoeba. Eventually, the young Q comes around, but the Continuum is not entirely convinced, so in negotiation with Q, they come to an agreement. Q must eternally guard, observe, and accompany the boy to ensure his proper behavior.
Novels[edit]
The similarity between Q and Trelane, the alien encountered in the Star Trek episode 'The Squire of Gothos', inspired writer Peter David to establish in his 1994 novel Q-Squared that Trelane is a member of the Continuum, and that Q is his godfather (with it being all-but-explicitly stated that Q is actually Trelane's biological father, although the truth of this is kept an official secret).
Q's past is expanded on in the trilogy The Q Continuum, which has Q and Picard travel through Q's past, witnessing Q's first encounter with the being that inspired his interest in testing other races. This being, known as 0, is similar to Q in power and abilities (although an injury of some sort prevents 0 travelling faster than light under his own power, even if he can still teleport short distances), but whereas Q has been shown to be more of a 'merry prankster' throughout Star Trek canon, 0 is malevolent in his desires, using 'tests' as just an excuse to torture other races by changing the rules of his games so that the subjects will inevitably lose. Q ends up bringing him into the Milky Way galaxy through the Guardian of Forever, and 0 assembles other seemingly omnipotent beings from the original Star Trek, including The One, the being who impersonated God in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. However, although intrigued at 0's words about testing lesser races, Q loses his taste for 0's methods when 0's group provoke an advanced civilisation into decades of civil war and then blows up their sun just as they were about to exchange their dying old sun for a younger, fresher one, having completed their Great Endeavour despite the war. 0's group was later defeated in a battle with the Q Continuum, though the dinosaurs were left extinct as a result. Q was thus put in charge of watching over Earth and its inhabitants, while 0 was banished to just outside our galaxy and the galactic barrier erected to keep him out. 0 later returned from his banishment beyond the galaxy and sought revenge on Q, but was defeated when Picard was able to convince one of 0's old enemies to join forces with Q to stop his former mentor.
The novel The Buried Age- which explores Picard's life between the destruction of the Stargazer and his appointment to the position of captain of the Enterprise-D- ends with a cameo appearance by Q as he meets an alien woman who recently met Picard before she chose to ascend to a higher plane of existence, her tales of Picard inspiring Q's own interest in humanity. This novel also establishes why Q chose his name, as he wanted something that would be simple for humans to remember, also reasoning that, if he was ever asked why he was called 'Q', he could reply 'Because U will always be behind me'.
In the Voyager novel The Eternal Tide, Q's son sacrifices himself to save the universe, inspired by the example of the resurrected Kathryn Janeway, prompting Q to declare himself her enemy (although he swiftly gets over this hostility 'off-screen').
In the Star Trek comic series based on the alternate timeline established in the 2009 film Star Trek, Q visits that reality to take the crew of the Enterprise into their future. This allows them to interact with characters from the original timeline in the new history created by Spock's trip to the past. It also helps Q deal with a threat to the Continuum in the form of the Pah-Wraiths, which have all but destroyed the Bajoran Prophets in this timeline.
Computer games[edit]
The 1996 computer game Star Trek: Borg included live action segments directed by James L. Conway and featured John de Lancie as Q.
Reception[edit]
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In 2009, Q was ranked as the 9th best character of all Star Trek by IGN.[2]
In 2016, Time magazine rated Q as the #1 best villain of the Star Trek franchise.[3]
In 2017, Space.com rated Q as one of the '15 of the Most Bizarre Alien Species' of the Star Trek franchise.[4]
In 2018, The Wrap said that Q would be at the top of the list if we was included with ranking 39 main cast characters of the Star Trek franchise prior to Star Trek: Discovery.[43]
In 2018, CBR ranked Q the #1 best recurring character of all Star Trek.[5]
References[edit]
- ^Star Trek Creator – The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry by David Alexander p. 536
- ^'Top 25 Star Trek Characters'. IGN. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^'Star Trek's 10 Most Villainous Villains'. Time. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^Howell, Elizabeth (22 September 2017). '15 of the Most Bizarre Alien Species Featured in 'Star Trek''. Space.com. Space.com. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^'Star Trek: Ranking the 20 Best Recurring Characters'. CBR. 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
External links[edit]
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- Q at Memory Alpha (a Star Trekwiki)
- Q Continuum at Memory Alpha (a Star Trekwiki)
- Q on IMDb
- Q at StarTrek.com
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation
Windows - 1999
4.27 / 5 - 15 votes
Description of Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation Windows
Here is the video game “Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation”! Released in 1999 on Windows, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. It's a strategy game, set in a managerial, sci-fi / futuristic, turn-based, licensed title and 4x themes.
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Klingons4Lyfe2019-06-102 points
So I have the original disk for the game, but it lags like CRAZY on my Windows 10 PC. Any advice as to how to make it work? I haven't really been a PC game guy since the early 2000's so I'm not sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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vnx2019-05-080 point
Loved this game a lot. thanks
Ensign Tom2018-11-061 point
Sep 25, 2015 900MB free HD; Cara Instalasi Game dan Mod UKTS. Download Installer UKTS, 1.32, Crack, dan Mod nya (Mod tidak di download juga tak masalah). Setelah itu Instal UKTS 1.32 nya seperti biasa. Uk Truck Simulator + Patch 1.32 + Crack Full Version. Minimum System Requirements: Windows® XP/Vista/7 Processor with 2.2 GHz 1GB RAM (2GB for Windows. Truck simulator demo download.
Got it to launch, but as soon as i went into options or start a new game, the game crashes. I installed using daemon tools lite, then update, then copied cracked file and renamed to trek.exe. Messed with compatibility but no go unfortunately, i think ill stick with Distant Worlds w/ Star Trek Mod thanks.
Endy2018-10-290 point
I've tried burning this to an actual disk in Alcohol 120% format, and I tried converting MDF to ISO. It installed fine, but didn't run. I tried running the game using the 1.02 patch, didn't didn't run. Tried using the NOCD crack included. No dice. I've tried running it under both XP SP3 compatibility mode and 98/Me compatibility.
Any clues on how to get this running?
Any clues on how to get this running?
Fictionmate2018-06-11-2 points
First of all: I love ancient games, old and a little dusty looking games with outdated graphics but a lot of long term gaming fun.
I wanted to try this one but the game wont start.
I get different feedback after clicking on of three existing exes after extracting and installing (Trek.exe, TREK, ustrek) either I receive 'please put the correct cd-rom into the drive' or 'mss32.dll is missing, reinstall the game might fix that problem'.
Trying to install the patch gets me the feedback to 'first install the main game before patching it' - allthough both are in the same folder.
End of the line: I can't play the game.
Any suggestions or help available?
I tried it regularly (win7) as well as in the XP-mode. Results are identical.. :-(((
I wanted to try this one but the game wont start.
I get different feedback after clicking on of three existing exes after extracting and installing (Trek.exe, TREK, ustrek) either I receive 'please put the correct cd-rom into the drive' or 'mss32.dll is missing, reinstall the game might fix that problem'.
Trying to install the patch gets me the feedback to 'first install the main game before patching it' - allthough both are in the same folder.
End of the line: I can't play the game.
Any suggestions or help available?
I tried it regularly (win7) as well as in the XP-mode. Results are identical.. :-(((
admin2018-03-190 point
@peace: MDF / MDS is another format for ISO images. Do some research please.
peace2018-03-191 point
The files aren't iso or even the bin cue you have the wrong files.
nick2018-03-011 point
please send rip..not a dev;
missing several .dll files.
missing several .dll files.
AgeOfChange2018-02-131 point
I really like this game used to play a lot.If your a fan star trek TNG this is for you it has info on lots of the races in star trek as well as being able to plat with she major races. Hell even the borg sometimes show up.
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