Star Trek: Borg is an action-filled adventure through approximately 120 minutes of full screen video. You will plunge headfirst into the interactive STAR TREK movie and be guided by Q, an omnipotent, time-traveling godbeing. You must learn about the Borg as you serve aboard the starship U.S.S. Righteous and complete an away mission to the Borg Cube in order to defeat the galaxy's greatest menace.

You begin the experience as Cadet Furlong, a junior member of Starfleet. Q challenges you to go back in time ten years with him to the moment just before the Borg destroy the U.S.S. Righteous, vaporizing your father -- Lt. Furlong -- as well as everyone else on the ship. If you accept, Q replaces Security Officer Lt. Sprint's consciousness with your own so you can reverse history, and save your father, as well as the crew of the Righteous. Using the special tricorder Q gives you as well as your own eyes, ears and other abilities, you must gather information to help defeat the Borg. The decisions you make determine the course of the adventure as you fend off the invasion -- and your failure could doom the future of the entire Federation.

So starts Star Trek: Borg, when you first start the game it reminds you of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but after a few moments you realize that it is you who are making the decisions and you who is participating in the episode. Your first decision point is when Q appears in your quarters and gives you a choice to either save your father or leave the ship as ordered. If you choose to go with Q (the only real choice, because leaving ends the game), the rest of the game goes downhill from there. The movie is good and would make a pretty terrific episode, but the integration of the interactive component is clunky at best.

There are two types of interactivity with the system one is the Decision Point which the computer decides when and where and also what. The other is the Information Point, Q has given you a Tricorder that will help you identify everything throughout the game, and will also bridge the gap between our reality and the Star Trek universe. Unfortunately using the tricorder is not as easy to use as it looks, the navigation interface is clunky, if you are looking for one piece of information in a linear fashion it works great. But, if you want to find multiple pieces of information on the same object you are out of luck (try finding all of the settings for the Hypospray).

The game saving mechanism seems to work correctly, but I could not get it to restore my saved game. The manual says that it can be restored, and also that you can play it through to your current save point. I was unable to get any of that to work.

Star Trek: Borg is a good movie, but is it a good interactive adventure...kinda. You just want to love it because it is Star Trek and the Borg, but at some point to just have to say NO. And I think that point is now, Star Trek Borg is a valiant attempt to assimilate a computer but falls short of the mark.

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU: Pentium required - 90 MHz or better recommended
• Memory: 8 MB RAM
• Hard Disk: 30 mb
• CD-Rom: Double Speed (2x) or faster
• Video Modes: 640x480 with 16 bit color
• Input Devices: Microsoft Compatible Mouse.
• Sound Cards: 16 bit audio card 100% Sound Blaster compatible

Downloads:

• Simon & Schuster Interactive Star Trek Borg Home Page

Walkthroughs:

• Star Trek Borg Walkthrough

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