Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Odo’s Investigation

This Shockwave game from the Star Trek website is a holodeck simulation to test your detective skills. You have 30 minutes to solve a crime by asking witnesses around the station followed by asking the three suspects a total of four questions between them.

Every time you change location, it takes 2 minutes, then talking to a witness takes 4 minutes. Unless you get lucky, you won’t be able to solve in on your first try as you need to find the one witness that disagrees with a question later on. Witnesses are also in different locations each time, so you need to remember who you talked to.

That said, even though Odo tells you off for accusing with no evidence if you get the suspect wrong, you don’t actually need to encounter the key witness for a correct answer, so you can get it right by random choice. You can even skip straight to accusing without talking to any witnesses. Of course, this ruins the game, but I imagine people did it to submit high scores after they had played.

There are three different scenarios in this, although instead of progressing through them, the scenario is picked randomly at the start.

Where to get Odo’s Investigaton

• Archive.org

How to play Odo’s Investigation on Windows 11

Download the zip from the above link, install “sw_lic_full_installer.msi” and then drag odo.dcr to SPR.exe

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