Space Quest V
| Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation |
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| Developer(s) | Dynamix |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Director(s) |
Mark Crowe David Selle |
| Producer(s) | Mark Crowe |
| Designer(s) | Mark Crowe |
| Programmer(s) | David Sandgathe |
| Artist(s) | Shawn Sharp |
| Composer(s) | Timothy Steven Clarke Christopher Stevens |
| Series | Space Quest |
| Engine | SCI |
| Platform(s) | DOS |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation is a graphic adventure game released on February 5, 1993.
Space Quest V is unusual in the series in that it is primarily a specific parody of Star Trek; while there are some references to other fiction movies, like Predator, Alien, and The Fly, the game never moves too far away from its primary target. Roger's new ship features a command bridge and several officers to whom he can give orders, and eventually adopts a facehugger mascot called Spike, who "isn't quite housebroken": he leaves puddles of caustic acid behind him wherever he goes.
The game starts with a dramatic opening and Roger mid-mission on his ship: he is then revealed to be playing in a flight simulator, shaped suspiciously like the Millennium Falcon, at the StarCon Academy. Roger cheats to pass an aptitude test, and he's then given his own command — the garbage scow SCS Eureka — which looks (and functions) like an oversized vacuum cleaner. (Eureka is also a brand of vacuum cleaners.) The game involves several small missions, similar to ones seen in typical Star Trek episodes. Some missions are:
Roger's son from the future saved him at the beginning of SQIV, and later he shows a hologram of Roger's son's mother. Roger meets this woman in SQV and must protect her, or else his son would not exist, and thus neither would Roger.
The main plot is to stop a mutagenic disease that is spreading through the galaxy by discovering its source, and fighting everyone that got infected. In the end, the disease infects the crew members of the SCS Goliath, the StarCon flagship, whose toupee-wearing commander, Raems T. Quirk (a rather blatant spoof of Captain James T. Kirk), subsequently attacks the Eureka. In the end, Roger sacrifices his ship to get rid of the plague - and suddenly, if temporarily, becomes the commander of the fleet's flagship.
Roger is presented in a more positive light than usual. He's still a bungler and flies a ship that's falling apart at the seams, but along the adventure he gains the genuine respect of his crew and gets the girl in the end.
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