One in all Star Trek’s most divisive characters is undoubtedly Q, an extra-dimensional troublemaker who delights in hassling the crew of the Enterprise, and has appeared in pretty a variety of spin-offs together with Voyager and Deep Dwelling 9. Some folks hate Q episodes, nonetheless I like them—largely ensuing from John de Lancie, who performs the character with absolute relish. In order quickly as I heard about Star Trek: Borg, an FMV sport launched by Simon & Schuster in 1996 that’s primarily an interactive Q episode, I wished to play it.
You cannot swap for horrible FMV video video video games contained in the Nineteen Nineties. These ‘interactive motion footage’ had been infamous for having low-cost manufacturing values, unhealthy performing, and missing any identifiable interactivity. What objects Star Trek: Borg aside, nonetheless, is that John de Lancie is good in it (he is good in every half), it was filmed on the an equivalent objects on account of the TV present (notably Voyager), and though it is merely as linear on account of the worst low worth range CD-ROM video video video games, it makes use of Q’s dimension-hopping powers to do one issue a bit additional attention-grabbing with the kind.
It is no Tapestry (my favorite Q episode, from season 6 of The Subsequent Experience), nonetheless it’s one among a handful of ’90s FMV video video video games that’s really nonetheless price having enjoyable with correct this second—and for additional than merely laughing at how unhealthy it’s. In any case, your mileage could differ when you don’t love Star Trek—nonetheless would you possibly can presumably have be taught this far in one other case? The sport was written by Hilary J. Bader, a creator on TNG, Voyager, and Deep Dwelling 9, and was directed by Star Trek veteran James L. Conway, which makes it really actually really feel like an actual a part of the universe.
