Like so many other Starfleet vessels, the USS Righteous was destroyed by the single-minded Borg. Not only did the ship meet its fate at Wolf 359, so did your father, who was serving onboard. Now, ten years later, the Borg is back to threaten life as we know it once again.

As a lowly cadet, you're not permitted to engage the enemy. However, the near-omnipotent Q has other plans. Yes, that Q--Jean-Luc's friendly nemesis. Uniquely, rather than providing the opportunity to face the Borg with an agenda of patriarchal vengeance, Q snaps his in the first place. Let the time line be damned.

Borg's puzzles do evidence slight improvement, but are nevertheless relatively simple, with the exception of a few ringers thrown in to drag out gameplay. As with Star Trek Klingon, each puzzle is basically a decision point requiring action on your part before a preset time limit is reached. Though a wrong choice results in death for everyone onboard, sometimes making no decision at all is the correct alternative.

Unlike its conundrums, acting in Borg is excellent. John de Lancie, of course, is the standout. However, most actors carry off their performances with great aplomb, on par with that seen in prime-time weekly episodes of the current Trek shows. And, as with Star Trek Klingon, you do get more than just a game in the package. While Klingon had its language lab, Borg has The Picard Dossier, a mini Omnipedia on the Borg, and related Trek history. Articles, photos, and video clips offer up a solid collection of trivia.

While the Star Trek series is supposedly a thinking person's bag, you'd never get that from these puzzles. Near the game's conclusion is one absolutely tedious conundrum where you must disarm a Borg by entering a five-digit code on a ten-key pad. Get it wrong, and the USS Righteous is destroyed...again and again and AGAIN, until you finally get it right. Forty minutes of the three hours I spent playing Borg was invested in solving this one puzzle. Thirty-plus times, I watched the USS Righteous get vaporized and heard Q say "All this work and the outcome is the same." Well, that's precisely how I felt about the game. It's too much work and not enough fun.

What's more, there's no way to bypass many repetitive scenes, resulting in the drudgery of sitting painfully through many repeated video segments--the game's unique form of punishment for incorrect decisions.