Unintentional fun things to do in Trek games

[Kinggodzillak]

It's always nice to find some loophole in a game that lets you get up to mayhem the developers never envisaged, and one Trek game that I had a lot of unintentional fun with was Star Trek Away Team. It's during the Starfleet Academy mission, where you have to get to Data's lab and rescue him before the bad guys can get to him.

You enter the building that houses the lab, and in the first room you'll find 2 security guards in your way. Kill one and stun the other, then move on to the next room. Again, 2 guards, and again kill one and stun the other.

Go rescue Data from the two bad guys (again, if you can, kill one and stun the other) and then move your team to hide behind a console near the back door of the building so you can't be discovered, then scroll back to those first two rooms to watch the fun that's about to ensue.

The three stunned security guards will eventually wake up, and each will call for backup. Then they'll see their colleague's body and call for a medic. So that's two more officers beaming into each of the three rooms. Those six will see the dead bodies and call for more medics. The first guard will wander around aimlessly and call for a medic every time he spots his friend's dead body, as will all those other guards and medics. Now as things get crowded they begin wandering to and fro between the three rooms, eagerly reporting bodies that have already been reported a hundred times now.

And thus you have created a mechanism capable of producing infinite security guards.

See that transporter glow? That never stops. Soon the entire building will be clogged with guards and medics yelling at each other and calling for even more backup ("POSSPOSSPOSSPOSSPOSSIBLE SECURITY BREACH!"). I've never played this out to its logical conclusion (the old PC I used to play this on began to struggle around the 300-guard mark) but I suspect the Academy would be swamped within a couple of hours. North America would be under siege within a day and the Federation President would have to quarantine Earth.

Funny way to go though.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Well, in the old Simon & Shuster text adventures such as the Kobayashi Alternative, the game wouldn't take cursing very well. In fact, the game would warn you, but if you continued, on the 3rd warning, you'd have doctors carting you away , and the game would end. As a kid, I found that rather amusing and found it to be my favourite part of the game.

 

[Kor]

I used to enjoy shooting Neelix in Voyager: Elite Force. Unfortunately, it led to "game over."

Kor

 

[Kinggodzillak]

Oh, that reminds me of another one; using the 'unclip' cheat during Elite Force's final boss flight to fly around the level. If you fly off the map and out into nothingness you'll actually find Voyager's bridge out there somewhere, with all the characters waiting to perform the next cutscene.

Remember one of the boss's attacks is creating little explosions under your feet, so that you have to keep moving? If you reclip and land on the bridge he'll resume doing that, and you can kill the entire bridge crew that way.

Unfortunately if you then go back and kill the monster then the cutscene will play, and with no characters left alive to say anything you'll have to reset your PC to get out of there. But there are a couple of characters you can kill who don't have a line in that cutscene (I think Seven is one of them), so if you kill them and then beat the monster it'll cut back to Voyager crew cheerfully discussing your victory oblivious to their two fallen comrades.