History VideoGame / AFinalUnity

* ContinuityNod: Multiple nods to various episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', which was still in its 7th and final season when the game was released.

* ArtificialStupidity: Space combat is the biggest (and only) letdown of this game, owing to its terrible design. Weaponry doesn't seem to work half the time, and gives no indication of when it actually does work. It's easy to get blown up and lose the game without even knowing how it happened. To make matters worse, emulating the game on modern machines causes ships to spin wildly in random directions for no apparent reason. The quickest and easiest way to get through it is to let Worf take control of combat, where he makes the Enterprise spin around and corkscrew marginally less than the target ship does.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The ''Enterprise'' rescues some Garidian refugees looking for the Fifth Scroll. It then responds to an alien attack on a research station. Finally, an Admiral calls and asks for help looking for a friend who's gone missing on a nature preserve. These three events follow one another almost directly, but literally have ''nothing'' to do with each other on a causality level. However, once the third event is completed, all three storylines come together perfectly, with the missing person investigation ultimately providing a crucial clue that leads the ''Enterprise'' right to the planet containing both the Fifth Scroll and an extremely rare Chodak ruin. Without all of these disconnected things happening at the same time -- [[spoiler:and right before the Romulans and Chodak invade the Fedaration, no less]] -- the ''Enterprise'' would never have been able to find the Unity Device in time. On the other hand, the trope may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that the Unity Device probably had the power to orchestrate them.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The ''Enterprise'' rescues some Garidian refugees looking for the Fifth Scroll. It then responds to an alien attack on a research station. Finally, an Admiral calls and asks for help looking for a friend who's gone missing on a nature preserve. These three events follow one another almost directly, but literally have ''nothing'' to do with each other on a causality level. However, once the third event is completed, all three storylines come together perfectly, with the missing person investigation ultimately providing a crucial clue that leads the ''Enterprise'' right to the planet containing both the Fifth Scroll and an extremely rare Chodak ruin. Without all of these disconnected things happening at the same time -- [spoiler:and right before the Romulans and Chodak invade the Fedaration, no less]] -- the ''Enterprise'' would never have been able to find the Unity Device in time. On the other hand, the trope may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that the Unity Device probably had the power to orchestrate them.

* InvisibilityCloak: Aside from the familiar one used by the Romulans (and their allies the Garidians), the ''Enterprise'' now has to contend with a new interstellar power using something called a "Chameleon Field" which can disguise an object as another innocuous space object such as an asteroid It primarily works by masking against sensor scans, but doesn't fool the naked eye. The Chameleon Field is encountered multiple times during the game, at one point used to [[spoiler: mask an entire inhabited planet as an uninhabitable one]].

* InvisibilityCloak: Aside from the familiar one used by the Romulans (and their allies the Garidians), the ''Enterprise'' now has to contend with a new interstellar power using something called a "Chameleon Field" which can disguise an object as another innocuous space object such as an asteroid. The Chameleon Field is encountered multiple times during the game, at one point used to [[spoiler: mask an entire habitable planet as an uninhabitable one]].

* IntelligentGerbil: In a departure from ''Trek's'' [[RubberForeheadAliens normal way of doing things]], the [[spoiler:Chodak]] are some sort of bipedal bivalve.

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:The only correct solution to the final dilemma in the game. You are informed of an impending attack by a Borg fleet and can use the unity device to either destroy the fleet or [[FinalSolution the entire Borg race]]. On the surface, it looks like you absolutely must choose one option or the other to proceed with the game... unless you notice that the control panel that presents the options has an off switch...]]

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:The only correct solution to the final dilemma in the game]].

* WaitingPuzzle: At several points in the game, there's nothing to do except wait for a message to come in from Starfleet, or wait for some analysis to be completed. This can take upwards of 10 seconds sometimes.

* FantasticCasteSystem: The Garidians have a two-caste system comprised of the Patricians and Plebians, as established in their original founding texts, the "Four Scrolls". A major portion of the game revolves around the search for a fifth scroll, which codified the rights of the Plebians while rebuking the Patricians. The discovery of this fifth scroll [[spoiler: sets off a violent revolution on Garid]].
* FantasticRacism: The Morassians are highly suspicious of the exotic animal trader Aramut simply because he is a Ferengi, despite having had no real contact with the man. Of course, it doesn't help that their contact to him it through the SmugSnake Iydia.