Not the prettiest, but you get FMV goodness with some of the original crew. Starfleet Academy is a classic bridge perspective ship simulator with very in depth controls and missions that require a lot more from you than shooting to kill. It tries many things, and being fun is not one of them. Expect long story-driven campaigns, ships being cannon fodder, and a lot of MP / skirmish fun.Īrmada 2 is the same but more: more races, more ships, more techs, more glitches.īirth of the Federation is more of a Master of Orion-like, grand strategy with very, very limited control over your ships in battle. Star Trek Armada is a very traditional Starcrafty RTS. Free to try, definitely not everyone's cup of tea. Star Trek Online takes the flight model from SFC and crams it into a themeparky MMO and adds ground sections.

I'm not sure it's possible to run Dominion Wars at all these days.

Star Trek Legacy takes the same rough idea, simplifies it further, but adds different eras to play in and adds a lot more polish than the SFC games had, plus focus on multi-ship control.ĭominion Wars. Unfinished, rushed, buggy, but it scratched the itch for me. Starfleet Command 3 simplifies some systems, takes out a lot of ship variety and playable races, but adds custom ship layouts.

Starfleet Command 2, or its standalone expansion, Orion Pirates, if you can find them, are more of the same idea, with a tiny bit of polish and a whole lot more content. Okay, without knowing what you know and starting from Starfleet Command (that's what you got, right?), here are your choices:

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