PICARD VS ROMULANS

Level by Franky

Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth, with the help of Doggett TV's video walk

Picard begins this level where the previous chapter (Kidnapping of Picard) ended, in that bug-ridden area called the Hall of the Borg Queen. Go down the steps, push the button to open the door and step forward to alert a harpy. Stay near the door, because if you venture too far into the room a flameblower guy will materialize behind you and incinerate you before you can react. Don't wait for the harpy to approach, but instead turn right a bit past the entrance, hop up E and follow around left to a ledge where you'll be relatively safe from the three flameblower guys who by this time will have appeared below. At this point in my game the harpy simply vanished, which may or may not happen with you.

When the flameblower guys were all dead, I had to go down and climb on the central block marked "Rescue" in order to make the harpy re-appear. When it dies it drops the BATTERY, which is to be placed in a receptacle at the end of the W steps to activate a portal where the E ledge used to be.

When you step into the next area you're immediately attacked by two Borg, who drop the REVOLVER and revolver ammo. At the SE corner of the room and at the middle of the W wall are antigravity tiles, but only the corner tile allows you to face N or W and jump up to grab a hole in the ceiling. Pull up to find a number of blocks, four of which are pushables. Push these four blocks down the nearest floor hole, drop down the gravity well in the corner and start moving the blocks onto their corresponding marked tile at the corners of the glass-enclosed E control room (the block W of you when you drop down is pushed further W, etc.).

When you've finished doing that, the lasers go down at the W control room, allowing you to enter and loop around right to stoop under the console for a large medipack. Enter the NW alcove for a cut scene of another laser. Pull the block marked "power" two times, go over it and push the button to turn off the lasers blocking the E control room. Go there, stoop under the console for flares and shoot the second "power" panel from the left for the ZODIAC KEY.

Exit the control room and go to the dark NW corner. Although there's no telltale antigravity tile here, there's a ceiling hole you can jump up and grab by facing S or E. In this upper area there's only one pushblock and one floor hole (middle of the S wall). Move the block there (after picking up the large medipack it was hiding) and push it down to the lower room. Jump down after it and move it onto the nearby marked tile (cut scene of a block lowering in the first upper room). Go back up there via the SE opening and find the lowered block for SECRET #1.

Get back down and find the receptacle for the Zodiac Key in the middle of the S wall. The lasers go down in the opening next to you, but a Borg comes stomping toward you as well. This one drops the LASER SIGHT when he dies. When you approach the red lasers at the end of the passage, they magically disappear, so enter to do battle with a Borg who attacks from your left. Tip: You can save revolver ammo by combining the Revolver and Laser Sight and shooting the Borg in the head, which requires only two rounds. He drops a large medipack. Pull the bodies of the dead soldiers away from revolver ammo and a large medipack. At some point a second Borg will appear from the other end of the room, and he drops nothing.

Push the buttons to activate three elevators. The order of use doesn't seem to be important, so ride Elevator 1 up to a passage with a glass floor. Follow to Official Accommodations, where again the lasers blink out as you approach. The bodies in this hallway don't hide anything. Two Borg will attack, one of whom drops revolver ammo. The six side rooms are interesting but mainly empty. Starting at the entrance, the first one on the left has a large medipack in the flower bed. The last one on the left has a pushable display case that hides SECRET #2.

Ride the elevator back down and get on Elevator 2. When you arrive at what looks like the waiting room in a hospital ward, shoot the Borg and take his revolver ammo. The first room on the right has an empty cabinet. Ditto for the next room and the one after that. The last room, however, has a pushable bookshelf, but when you approach it a Borg who has been coming down the hallway may appear from behind. Kill him, pick up the PORTABLE DATA he drops and pull the bookshelf away from the ENERGY CELL.

Go back down and ride Elevator 3 up to a long passage, at the end of which is a closed door and a keypad. Refer to your Portable Data and punch the numbers 4021 into the keypad and hit the star key to open the door. Enter the control room and shoot two waiting Borg. Pick up their revolver ammo and a second ENERGY CELL. The darker power panel in the E wall is a pushable, so pull it into the room and go around for BRIDGE KEY 2. There's nothing more to do here, so ride the elevator back down and exit to the room where the portal first brought you.

Go to the NW corner, where Bridge Key 2 turns off the lasers blocking the opening. Near the end of the passage is the CROSSBOW with 3 x explosive arrows, and the lasers blink off as you approach them. Blow away two Borg as you enter the hallway, pick up their 2 x large medipack and face three more bays with buttons. These elevators go down instead of up, and you need to be ready at the bottom facing W with the up arrow key depressed or you'll have to make the trip again. Start with Port 1 and enter the Computer Auxiliary Core.

Shoot the Borg and claim a third ENERGY CELL. In the NE corner is a large medipack, and in the SW corner is a pushblock that hides SECRET #3. Pull it back two times, get up on it and push a button that causes part of the middle N console to explode and reveal SECRET #4. Another Borg appears near the NE corner and drops the STAR KEY. Exit and ride the elevator back up.

Enter Port 2 and ride down to a generator room. Shoot two Borg and approach the plinth on the central slab when the blue lightning isn't flashing, and SECRET #5 will register. Exit this room and use the Port 3 elevator to access the Deuterium Reservoir. Follow the arrows and shoot the Borg for revolver ammo. Loop around right at the wall and push the button to create a small explosion. You suspect that this may have something to do with a secret, and indeed it does. Follow the arrows back toward the entrance and turn right at the last console for SECRET #6.

There's an antigravity pad in the SE corner. Stand facing S at the back edge of the tile and jump up to open a ceiling trap door. Jump up again, this time facing N (or W) and jump up to grab the opening. Pull up into a mirror room. Go W and N to a pushblock, pull it two times E and go around it to find the fourth ENERGY CELL. Work your way past the invisible force fields and drop back down to the room below. Exit to the elevator hall and continue through the E passage to the room where the portal brought you. Run across to the SE corner and use the Star Key to turn off the lasers blocking the adjacent passage.

Shoot the Borg inside for his ENERGY CELL, push the button at the end of the passage to turn off the lasers and enter a hallway with receptacles for your five Energy Cells. The door opens, so enter the passage and the red lasers blink off as you approach them. Shoot the Borg in the shuttle docking bay as shuttle craft explode all around you, follow the central path and loop around right past one of the remaining shuttles to enter through its nose and end the level.