Thanks for the shout out, BenKii! I really enjoyed your video. For obvious reasons I know the game footage backwards and inside out, and I loved your editing choices. Really nicely done - made me giggle on multiple occasions :^)
not only he wanted to bork with her, he also kissed her lips and feet. @@DanielAppleton-lr9eq Q..."Q???" Female Q.."What are you doing with that dog?" "I'm not talking about the puppy?
@@matthew8153 Sisko punched him out. I think that when he stopped blaming Picard for Wolf 359, the destruction of his ship, the death of his wife, he shifted it to Q because he set things up for the Borg to encounter us.
@@BenKii Nah, there's an in-game tutorial voiced by Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) herself for some Klingon words but it's mostly solving a mystery. But it's interesting viewing things from a young warrior's point of view onboard a Bird of Prey. You can do some pretty funny things too, such as accusing Gowron himself and other silly stuff, and some touching moments at times (surprising for a Klingon game). But no need to know Klingon at all... If you've seen the TV series "Shogun" (or "Samurai" as it was known in Japan) with Chamberlain, it works a similar way. Many ppl speak only Klingon, but all the important stuff is spoken in English or translated as necessary... Fitting as you play as a Klingon yourself. I heard it's next to impossible to get a hold of as well, and even harder to make it run on modern systems. But if you find, it, try it.
Wow what an awesome game. Surprised I didn't hear of it earlier though I miss the days of actual actors performing cutscenes since nowadays they're all 3D generated.
It's one of seventeen obscure _Star Trek_ productions from 1988 to 2016. I created a playlist entitled "Rare Treks" which has all of them that are on RUclips. The only ones missing are the "Orion Rendezvous" planetarium slideshow (featuring the voices of LeVar Burton, Majel Roddenberry, and Jonathan Frakes), Data's instructional videos from the _Federation Science_ exhibit (starring Brent Spiner), the complete half-hour of _"Star Trek_ Live," and the unreleased "Borg Q-Uest" VHS game starring John de Lancie as Q a couple years before _Borg._
Installed this game on an old Mac in the late 90s. I couldn't run it, but it assimilated my computer. Many documents that had previously listed as "file" were now listed as "borg file".
@@BenKii That's one I somehow missed back in the day. I hope he does as well. I'll be watching out for your video if he does! Love the channel, keep it up!
The one thing I'll note to this is that there was an audiobook version of the game story which added voiced dialogue to Cadet Furlong - it actually makes more sense of the story (even if your versions of his responses are more fun). I kinda wish they'd integrated the voiceover as an optional track in the game
Fun fact, Ensign Targis is the second person to be assimilated by the borg on the Enterprise E in First Contact guess that ten year time jump didn't do her any favours
This just further illustrates why they need to just go ahead and remaster DS9 and Voyager properly (Hell you could even give Enterprise a fresh coat while at it). But with as little actual effort as is needed with AI now, its practically a no cost production and given most things are digitally distributed nowadays, you wouldnt even have to pay that much for distribution and you could let the digital sales help fund a physical collectors edition. I know I have spent more in the last 2+ years on trek than I have in the preceding 60. The markets are out there. You just have to sell products customers ACTUALLY want. So ultimately even if there isnt massive sales for it (DS9 absolutely would be big) the insanely low cost ratio for such a project would undoubtedly make it a profitable enterprise (pardon the metapunning) But honestly its good to strike while the iron is hot. Especially off the recent string of successes trek has finally started to rack up again.
I think this is the first video of yours I’ve watched, and I’ve subscribed in the hopes of more _juicy_ Star Trek gaming content down the line. It’s always possible that content about other stuff would also catch my eye… but speaking for myself, you’ve got about 10x the chance of it doing so when it’s based and red alert pilled Trekkie bait. Live long, and prosper 🖖
Wish this video had the funniest scene in it. If you inject yourself with the wrong hypo (thus not going into a trance before being borgified) Q stops the scene and all of the actors break character and storm off in disbelief.
I bought ths back when it came out (and Mad Dog Macree), i disagree it did not look back when it was 27 years ago. I was amazed as it was first time I had seen FMV and only just got a CD ROM.
I admit, my mind remembers Star Trek Borg as good as what this remaster looks like. So maybe our minds are capable of up-scaling images just like AI can do. Something to think about. 🤔
3:16 you not gonna believe this.... just the other day I was watching a review of Voyager, and *THIS GUY* shows up as a Bajoran in an episode. I was like "Where do I know that guy from? Surely appeared as a human somewhere..." couldn't put my finger on it, but didn't go looking for it or dug anything up from the Voyager database online, anywhere.... all the thinking, I did to myself "Why do I know that guy?!" now, three or four days later, I see this video in my feed, *_curiously_* containing THAT FACE as related content. coincidence!? _dramatic lean in_ I THINK NOT!
It's that mysterious algorithm at it again. It knows things. :D But seriously, Star Trek has had a history of actors playing many roles. Tuvok for instance played a human on the Enterprise-B on the Star Trek Generations movie and another separate character on DS9 before eventually playing Tuvok on Voyager. And of course many many other examples but way too many to list here.
@@BenKii yeah... you know the _weird _*_ER_* thing? by my account, this is about the 10th time this happens. not only with Star Trek, with many other things, that I just _think_ about without telling anyone and suddenly I see in my recommendations. I just remembered where I think I saw that guy, in TNG he was the father of a kid on the Enterprise. I distinctly remember him picking up a toy and telling his kid something like "Tidy up! I have to get to work!", and later on that kid shows up in engineering and gets him in trouble. I'm sure _this_ will get me the clip in question, as a recommended video.
Hmm, now that you mention it (looking it up now) it is the same person. She must've beamed aboard the Enterprise during that Borg battle. And now she's causing problems for Picard.
MORE GAMES NEED TO BE MADE LIKE THIS!! THIS IS ACTUALLY AWESOME!!! GOSH REAL PEOPLE! FINALLY IN ALL THAT RETARDED 3D SCHMANGLE !! REAL LIFE VIDEO GAMES STILL RULE!! 👍😳😳😍😍🤩 AWESOME VIDEO!! 😍😍🤩🤩😍😍😍
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I somehow recall all of the live action footage was released as an extra on a dvd somewhere. I can't recall exactly which, but I swear it was. Perhaps a voyager set? I could be totally wrong.
Wow. I actually have this game still, not been able to play it for years mostly because of the terrible video quality. It looked just about ok on an old CRT, but the fake scan line effect looks awful on a modern screen. That upscaling is incredible.
@@BenKii If you dont even know what 2K and so on is, why use those terms? a 4:3 image, 1920x1440/1440p is obviously less than 2K. 1440p in 16:9 is exactly 2.5k, 2560x1440.
@@flexydex8754 Hey, just wanted to let you know that I changed the title and thumbnail to be more accurate to what the resolution actually is. Thanks again for pointing out the mistake. :)
Thanks for the shout out, BenKii!
I really enjoyed your video. For obvious reasons I know the game footage backwards and inside out, and I loved your editing choices. Really nicely done - made me giggle on multiple occasions :^)
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I thought your remaster was awesome! Well obviously, I made a video about it. :D
@@BenKii Well you have a new sub here, and I'm watching through your videos now. I really hope your channel does well :^)
This feels like something Red Letter Media would enjoy playing through!
@@snackplaylove RLM is awesome! It would be great to see Mike and Rich try out Borg and see what they think about it.
BTW Mr. Davies, do you also plan on remastering Star Trek Klingon? I feel like that FMV game deserves your expert abilities as well.
I will say this, the sight of an Excelsior class doing a three point NOPE turn is hilarious.
The only thing missing was the back up sounds lol
Good old John! What would Star Trek the next generation be without him.
Or *Voyager ?* Q got along WAY BETTER with Janeway than Jean - Luc.
not only he wanted to bork with her, he also kissed her lips and feet. @@DanielAppleton-lr9eq
Q..."Q???"
Female Q.."What are you doing with that dog?"
"I'm not talking about the puppy?
@@DanielAppleton-lr9eq
Sisko knew how to put Q in his place.
@@matthew8153 Sisko punched him out. I think that when he stopped blaming Picard for Wolf 359, the destruction of his ship, the death of his wife, he shifted it to Q because he set things up for the Borg to encounter us.
The remaster is exceptional work.
I had played Startrek: Klingons back then with a friend, but never ST: Borg.
Thanks for posting this !
I never got around to playing the Klingon game. Heard you had to learn Klingon to play it.
@@BenKii Nah, there's an in-game tutorial voiced by Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) herself for some Klingon words but it's mostly solving a mystery.
But it's interesting viewing things from a young warrior's point of view onboard a Bird of Prey. You can do some pretty funny things too, such as accusing Gowron himself and other silly stuff, and some touching moments at times (surprising for a Klingon game).
But no need to know Klingon at all... If you've seen the TV series "Shogun" (or "Samurai" as it was known in Japan) with Chamberlain, it works a similar way.
Many ppl speak only Klingon, but all the important stuff is spoken in English or translated as necessary... Fitting as you play as a Klingon yourself.
I heard it's next to impossible to get a hold of as well, and even harder to make it run on modern systems. But if you find, it, try it.
Wow what an awesome game. Surprised I didn't hear of it earlier though I miss the days of actual actors performing cutscenes since nowadays they're all 3D generated.
Westwood Studios produced easily the BEST FMV stuff ever recorded for video games.
It's one of seventeen obscure _Star Trek_ productions from 1988 to 2016. I created a playlist entitled "Rare Treks" which has all of them that are on RUclips.
The only ones missing are the "Orion Rendezvous" planetarium slideshow (featuring the voices of LeVar Burton, Majel Roddenberry, and Jonathan Frakes), Data's instructional videos from the _Federation Science_ exhibit (starring Brent Spiner), the complete half-hour of _"Star Trek_ Live," and the unreleased "Borg Q-Uest" VHS game starring John de Lancie as Q a couple years before _Borg._
This is the kind of game where you intentionally pick all the wrong choices, just to see the funny remarks.
I still have my old copy of this. It was frustrating, but DeLancie made it so much fun.
That upscaling is amazing. Great work
Had this back in the day, basically a choose your own adventure game. It was fun and definitely different. I'm glad to see it get the 4k treatment.
Installed this game on an old Mac in the late 90s. I couldn't run it, but it assimilated my computer. Many documents that had previously listed as "file" were now listed as "borg file".
I just loved that many of the background actors from TNG and DS9 were in the game. Like that short haired brunette when you emerge from the turbolift
John De Lancie is such a good actor. I love every appearance he's made in Trek
It's a pretty funny video, I could remember when Star Trek borg came out because I also enjoyed the DS9 games, which were available.
Yup, DS9 Harbinger (point and click adventure) and DS9 The Fallen (3rd person shooter) were pretty awesome back in the day. :)
John de Lancie is a treasure.
I played this game in the 90s. Glad to see it's still got a presence!
For a long time I thought I was the only one who remembered this game. I loved this when I was a kid. Crazy seeing it in HD.
I know right?! I hope the guy who did this remaster also works on the other Star Trek FMV game (Star Trek Klingon).
@@BenKii That's one I somehow missed back in the day. I hope he does as well. I'll be watching out for your video if he does! Love the channel, keep it up!
I played this so much back in the day! It was such a cool interactive movie
The one thing I'll note to this is that there was an audiobook version of the game story which added voiced dialogue to Cadet Furlong - it actually makes more sense of the story (even if your versions of his responses are more fun). I kinda wish they'd integrated the voiceover as an optional track in the game
Holy cow! I didn't know this existed. And it's even got Q narrating his parts. I'll have to check this out. Thanks.
@BenKii it's available on Audible. I listened to it recently the whole cast does it
Getting real Old School Sierra vibes with this game.
This was well done and funny. Thanks for wake n bake vid on a Saturday morning!
Ah, I loved that game. I wished it was longer, but otherwise pretty revolutionary for the time.
this is one of the best videos ive ever watched thank you :)
Fun fact, Ensign Targis is the second person to be assimilated by the borg on the Enterprise E in First Contact guess that ten year time jump didn't do her any favours
I played this so many times even though it was always the same. I love it so much
I still own the original CDs for this game but when I bought it in the store I didn't realize it was for a MAC so I have NEVER played it. LOL.
This was actually a great game! They should definitely fully remaster it and release it again!
This just further illustrates why they need to just go ahead and remaster DS9 and Voyager properly (Hell you could even give Enterprise a fresh coat while at it). But with as little actual effort as is needed with AI now, its practically a no cost production and given most things are digitally distributed nowadays, you wouldnt even have to pay that much for distribution and you could let the digital sales help fund a physical collectors edition.
I know I have spent more in the last 2+ years on trek than I have in the preceding 60. The markets are out there. You just have to sell products customers ACTUALLY want. So ultimately even if there isnt massive sales for it (DS9 absolutely would be big) the insanely low cost ratio for such a project would undoubtedly make it a profitable enterprise (pardon the metapunning) But honestly its good to strike while the iron is hot. Especially off the recent string of successes trek has finally started to rack up again.
fraking Awesome Video!👍🤟✌🖖
This is one of seventeen "rare treks":
1988: _"Star Trek_ Adventure" (Hollywood)
1991: _"Star Trek_ Adventure II" (Orlando)
1992: "Orion Rendezvous"
1992: _Federation Science_ - Data's instructions
1993: "A Klingon Challenge"
1994: "Borg Q-Uest" (unreleased)
1996: _Klingon_
1996: _Borg_
1997: _Starfleet Academy_
1998: _The Experience_ - "Klingon Encounter"
2000: _Klingon Academy_
2003: "The Young Hunter: A Klingon Folktale"
2004: _The Experience_ - "Borg Invasion"
2008: _The Exhibition_ - "USS _Titan"_
2009: _Starfleet Academy SCISEC Briefs_
2010: _"Star Trek_ Live"
2016: _The Starfleet Academy Experience_ - "Intercepted & Decoded Message"
Fascinating!
AYOOOO WORD LMFAO, let the enterprise handle that! We will all hit the brig for that captain dammit 😂😂😂😂
I enjoyed that crew and story more than any modern Kurtztrek
Looks amazing! And I didn't realize it had so many options ...
still the best episode of star trek the next generation
fitting, considering that the best next gen movie is galaxy quest.
i still have the original star trek Borg game, its still works on my old windows xp laptop
I would love to play this
I know it didn't look that way, but it is how I remember it. I was just 9, all those games were amazing :)
Indeed, it's fascinating how we remember games looking better than how they actually are.
edit: Guess we upscaled it in our minds. :D
9:29 Ah, I can see it clearly now that it's not 232p... That classic look from your co-workers when you've done f*cked up big time.
I have this game, I have played it a few times, it was really fun to play, I also have the Klingon game that was fun to play also.
I think this is the first video of yours I’ve watched, and I’ve subscribed in the hopes of more _juicy_ Star Trek gaming content down the line. It’s always possible that content about other stuff would also catch my eye… but speaking for myself, you’ve got about 10x the chance of it doing so when it’s based and red alert pilled Trekkie bait. Live long, and prosper 🖖
There will most certainly be more Trekkie games. And even if it isn't Trek based, I always infuse Star Trek into whatever I'm doing. :)
Q is the Loki of the Star Trek universe.
Capitan Stoobing and Capitan Picard, uncanny resemblance.
Spectacular find
Interesting, need to try it someday.
God... I loooovvveeee this game. It looks AMAZING! Great review... check out the audiobook if you're ever bored. Faved and subbed!!
Great game, iplayed it many times! And still have it !
John DeLancie is amazing.
Love the inclusion of Star Trekkin’ 😆
I still have my copy of BORG. Unfortunately, I don't have a system that can play it.
Wish this video had the funniest scene in it. If you inject yourself with the wrong hypo (thus not going into a trance before being borgified) Q stops the scene and all of the actors break character and storm off in disbelief.
Yeah, I really liked that scene too but had to cut it. Couldn't find a way to make it fit in the video.
Good video!
The best part of this is playing it on a tablet.
This is great! I actually still have this game
That was awesome 💯😎
I really hope this happens with the Star Trek: Klingon game too!
I bought ths back when it came out (and Mad Dog Macree), i disagree it did not look back when it was 27 years ago. I was amazed as it was first time I had seen FMV and only just got a CD ROM.
I admit, my mind remembers Star Trek Borg as good as what this remaster looks like. So maybe our minds are capable of up-scaling images just like AI can do. Something to think about. 🤔
3:16
you not gonna believe this.... just the other day I was watching a review of Voyager, and *THIS GUY* shows up as a Bajoran in an episode.
I was like "Where do I know that guy from? Surely appeared as a human somewhere..."
couldn't put my finger on it, but didn't go looking for it or dug anything up from the Voyager database online, anywhere.... all the thinking, I did to myself "Why do I know that guy?!"
now, three or four days later, I see this video in my feed, *_curiously_* containing THAT FACE as related content.
coincidence!? _dramatic lean in_ I THINK NOT!
It's that mysterious algorithm at it again. It knows things. :D
But seriously, Star Trek has had a history of actors playing many roles. Tuvok for instance played a human on the Enterprise-B on the Star Trek Generations movie and another separate character on DS9 before eventually playing Tuvok on Voyager. And of course many many other examples but way too many to list here.
@@BenKii yeah... you know the _weird _*_ER_* thing? by my account, this is about the 10th time this happens.
not only with Star Trek, with many other things, that I just _think_ about without telling anyone and suddenly I see in my recommendations.
I just remembered where I think I saw that guy, in TNG he was the father of a kid on the Enterprise.
I distinctly remember him picking up a toy and telling his kid something like "Tidy up! I have to get to work!", and later on that kid shows up in engineering and gets him in trouble.
I'm sure _this_ will get me the clip in question, as a recommended video.
Is that redhead the same girl that crawls into the engineering Jeffrey's tube in first contact and gets assimilated?
Hmm, now that you mention it (looking it up now) it is the same person. She must've beamed aboard the Enterprise during that Borg battle. And now she's causing problems for Picard.
Very entertaining
MORE GAMES NEED TO BE MADE LIKE THIS!! THIS IS ACTUALLY AWESOME!!! GOSH REAL PEOPLE! FINALLY IN ALL THAT RETARDED 3D SCHMANGLE !! REAL LIFE VIDEO GAMES STILL RULE!! 👍😳😳😍😍🤩 AWESOME VIDEO!! 😍😍🤩🤩😍😍😍
THANK YOU, I'M GLAD YOU LIKED IT! BTW, WHY ARE WE YELLING?!
@@BenKii : NO ONE YELLING, I JUST READ BETTER BIGGER LETTERA EASIER TO SEE THATS ALL. 👌
AWESOME!!!! RIBBIT!
Thank you!! Ribbit right back at ya! :)
I have this game for the playstation and for it's time it is a really good game.
Where? As far as I know this was only released for PC and Mac computers.
I got the game in the 90s. I don't remember where. Maybe Kmart.
I wish they rereleased this game.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I somehow recall all of the live action footage was released as an extra on a dvd somewhere. I can't recall exactly which, but I swear it was. Perhaps a voyager set? I could be totally wrong.
Not much into the extras on the Star Trek dvds. As far as I know, the Borg footage was only ever shown in the game itself.
So, is this entire upscaled video somewhere to watch? I loved this game!
www.borgremastered.com
Wow
Has anyone tried disabling that item of Borg tech by hitting it with a baseball bat?
Don't be ridiculous....
I used a crowbar and went Gordan Freeman mode on it. It still exploded. :D
Still, ya' gotta' love the classics. Can't hack the classics. @@BenKii
Wow. I actually have this game still, not been able to play it for years mostly because of the terrible video quality. It looked just about ok on an old CRT, but the fake scan line effect looks awful on a modern screen. That upscaling is incredible.
Hilarious....
neat
Ha! Nice
I wish somebody would get rid of Ai completely I’m bloody sick of it already😡
If we did that then this remaster wouldn't exist and that would be sad. :(
Sigh! 1440p is 2k!!!!! Not 4k! 2160p is 4k!
Oh.... oops. Math was never my strong suit at the academy.
I love this stupid game.
*nowhere near 4K
True but it's a lot easier to say than 1440p. I mean would that technically be considered 2k?
@@BenKii If you dont even know what 2K and so on is, why use those terms?
a 4:3 image, 1920x1440/1440p is obviously less than 2K. 1440p in 16:9 is exactly 2.5k, 2560x1440.
@@flexydex8754 Ah, I see. Thanks for enlightening me on the proper usage of those terms.
@@flexydex8754 Hey, just wanted to let you know that I changed the title and thumbnail to be more accurate to what the resolution actually is. Thanks again for pointing out the mistake. :)
@@BenKii you are very welcome.
Never played this one.
Nice avatar. Kinda looks familiar. :D
Yeah, kinda does.@@BenKii