Neutral Zone
Three targets plus a hole in front of the middle one. Shoot the targets three times to light a random mission:
- Ferengi: Multiball, but starts with only two balls. Shoot the Neutral Zone for additional balls (maximum of four). The "Start Mission" hole awards Jackpot (Ten Million times the number of balls), and the left yellow targets increase the Jackpot by two million per hit (maxing at 70 million with 4 balls in play).
- Romulan: Three Romulan Warbirds will appear (left orbit, Alpha Quadrant ramp and Beta Quadrant ramp) which the player can force to cloak by shooting the corresponding shot. The mission goal is to cloak all ships simultaneously for a 30 million award. Hitting any of the righthand "Klingon Assistance" targets brings a Klingon Bird-of-prey out of cloak, thus blocking one of the Warbirds (first hit blocks the left orbit ship, second the Beta Quadrant ramp ship; the Alpha Quadrant ramp is never "blocked") and expediting completion of the goal.
- Cardassian: Two ball Multiball with the Jackpot placed in the Neutral Zone. Value of the Jackpot is depending on the Enterprise shields, and are decreased (between one and three levels) by any shot fired by the Cardassians as follows:
- Shields at 100%: 50 Million
- Shields at 83%: 30 Million
- Shields at 66%: 25 Million
- Shields at 50%: 20 Million
- Shields at 33%: 15 Million
- Shields at 17%: 10 Million
- Shields at 0%: 5 Million
As with Borg Multiball (see below), hitting the left orbit Spinner builds the shields back up, thus reincreasing the jackpot amount.
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Famous quotes containing the words neutral and/or zone:
“The lonely Earth amid the balls
That hurry through the eternal halls,
A makeweight flying to the void,
Supplemental asteroid,
Or compensatory spark,
Shoots across the neutral Dark.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. There was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.”
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