PCPP Game Guide 2/PCPP_GG2.iso/PCPP/hints/borg.txt

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STAR TREK: BORG
Walkthru
by Richard Lawson


This walkthru will get you to the ending of Star Trek: Borg in the most efficient way possible.
However, part of the fun of this game is to try the alternate paths. Despite the fact that they end badly
for you, it's still fun, especially hearing John De Lancie taunt you along the way. A lot of the solutions
to the puzzles are obtained by going down a path that fails - such as the Borg command console code
and the hypo spray sequence. Q, however, always gives you another chance, and snaps you back to a
place where you can try again. I encourage you to try different things and see where they lead you.

Okay, long intro, Q appears, and offers you a choice. Grab the phaser. Now to the Righteous, where
you take over the body of Sprint. Click on the phaser; you'll shoot the Borg. More stuff happens, and
Ensign Targus tries to drag the Borg off the bridge. The Borg revives and grabs Targus in one hand
and accesses a panel with the other. Fire the phaser at the panel the Borg is accessing. This time it's
dead.
Now to isolate the security console. You see four squares in front of you. Click on the fourth square
(the one on the far right), then the third square (this procedure is outlined in the tricorder Q gave
you).
Now to the elevator. This is tricky. The code to computer core control is 150619. Click on the "1" and
wait for the screen to freeze. Then *quickly* click on 5, 0, 6, 1, 9. You only have a short time to do
this before the puzzle times out and you go to the wrong branch. Oh, and going to the wrong branch
leads to a fairly humorous encounter with Q.
After getting to computer core control, you're confronted with an unknown Borg device. There are lots
of things you can do, but the right answer is to do nothing... don't click anywhere, just wait for the
scene to continue on its own. Now, time to go Borg hunting.
Your father offers you a choice of hands. Go ahead and choose one - you'll always lose, but it leads to
some nice scenes where you get Borgified while Q stands over you, taunting you. There are a few
ways to go down this path, all leading to the destruction of the Righteous. Eventually Q will put you
back where you have to choose one of your father's hands.
The correct answer is to click on your father's chin. You'll knock him out. While he's laying on the
floor, click on his phaser. Then wait until you turn the phaser over and a round button is revealed on
the bottom of the handle. Click on it. More scenes where your father kills the Borg and you acquire its
implant.
You have a few ways to try and access the implant. The correct answer is to click on Ensign Targus's
neural interface - the round thing on her forehead. After putting it on her, you're confronted with a
choice of what to do once it starts taking over her mind. Simply click on the implant. Q will grab your
hand and ask you if you're sure. He's just trying to throw you off. When you replay the scene, click on
the implant again. You've just saved Ensign Targus.
Now, to the Borg ship. There are many, many different paths you can take here. They're fun to try.
Again, what follows is the quickest way to the end - although you miss some fun scenes along the
way.
Okay, here come some Borg - do nothing, just let them pass. Next you come to a Borg command
console, where you have four large circles along the top of the console. Click on the first circle, then
the third circle twice, then the fourth circle, then the second circle twice. (Repeating) The correct
sequence is: 1 3 3 4 2 2.
You've accessed the override code (remember it: 61330). Now you need another implant. Here comes
a Borg. Wait for Targus to step in front of you, then click on her arm. That's right, you need a living
Borg. Your father hands you a hypo. You'll see three tiny circles along the top of the hypo. Click on
the first circle, then the third circle twice, then the first circle again. (Repeating) The correct sequence
is 1 3 3 1.
Now, to find a Borg. The first one to come along isn't quite a Borg. Do nothing to the Q-Borg (unless
you want to scan it with your tricorder). Wait for the next Borg to come along. Click on your own
hand - the one not holding the hypo. You get Borgified.
Incidentally, my favorite "failed" scene happens when you enter the wrong sequence into the hypo
spray and then inject yourself.
Okay, to the end. First, a bit of fun. You get into a conversation with your father and Q. A targeting
circle appears over Q. Wait for it to move below his belt, then click on it. I didn't know a Q had, er,
that kind of an anatomy.
Now, for the final puzzle, and this one had me tearing my hair out for two days figuring it out. A
Borg has accessed Ops, and you have to try and stop it. Notice the thick lines along the bottom of the
screen. A lighted circle will appear and stop at the center of one of those lines. Click on it.
A collection of circular symbols will appear on the screen. Does the layout look familiar? Kinda looks
like a telephone keypad, eh? In fact, it's the Borg equivalent. It's numbered like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Remember the override code? Click on the circles in this sequence: 6 1 3 3 0. On to the happy ending.
Again, though, lots of the fun of this games is in trying different things. You can get Borgified a
dozen different ways, and the ship can get blown up lots of different times - it's actually a pretty cool
sequence. Also, the tricorder Q gave you has lots of information, as told by Q. He interjects some dry
witticisms. My favorite one is what he has to say about Vulcans.

Hope you enjoyed the game!

-Richard