Star Trek: Starfleet Command

Release Date: August 12, 1999

Strategy, science fiction, tactics, in space, Star Trek, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet, LAN

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A tactical game based on the popular board strategy set in the Star Trek universe. Players have the opportunity to play the role of the starship commander and stand up to fight enemy units.

Finally, a starship naval combat game worthy of the name

STAR TREKTM.

Using data from the best-selling strategy board game, Star Fleet BattlesTM, Starfleet CommandTM puts you in the captain's chair for the most amazing real-time space combat experience ever created.

Dozens of multifunctional display panels offer instant access to every critical system.

Choose to play as the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Hydrans, Lyrans, or Gorn. Each alien race has its own ships and user interface!

Experience a 30 year campaign that takes you from Lieutenant Commander of a frigate to a Rear Admiral in control of a task force including Destroyers, Heavy Cruisers, and Dreadnoughts.

Game Play

Starfleet Command was inspired by the board game Star Fleet Battles from Amarillo Design Bureau. SFB has been a popular, long-running franchise since its beginnings in the pre-movie Star Trek years. Its years of play testing and playing made it a prime candidate for conversion to a computer game.

Starfleet Command uses a great deal of the SFB material, but has also made some changes and enhancements; one of the most important of these is that the game is no longer turn based, but occurs in real time in a 3D environment. (Diehard SFB players can take advantage of the game speed slider to make it run almost as slowly as a turn based game, though!). But you shouldn’t think that we tried to turn it into a first person shooter, or even a dogfight simulator. The ships in Starfleet Command are vast warships, and like ships in the age of sail a naval engagement between these vessels is a deliberate and almost stately affair. Their turning radius, speed, and rate of recharging all combine to make handling one of these ships a job for a real captain - one who knows his ship and its capabilities, and has a pretty good idea of what his enemy is working with, too.

The most successful captains even know what the enemy is thinking, despite the fact that they’re not members of the same species.

Last updated on August 14, 2015