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Bridge Commander isn’t the first space sim set in the Star Trek universe, but it is undoubtedly the best one. Previously released games such as Starfleet Academy and Klingon Academy just supplied ammunition to those who believed that the nature of combat in the Star Trek universe couldn’t be translated into an interesting game. The Star Trek universe minimizes the role of small fighter craft and focuses on large, durable starships, and yet vessels in previous Star Trek sims handled like fighters instead of like more-formidable craft.

The Academy games inappropriately tried to pigeonhole the fast-paced dogfights of conventional space sims like X-Wing and Wing Commander into games based upon the Star Trek universe. And although Totally Games helped to fashion many of those conventions through its work on the X-Wing games, it has avoided making the same mistakes made by the creators of those earlier Star Trek space sims. In Bridge Commander, battles are slow-paced tactical contests in which success doesn’t depend upon quickly lining up targets for your ship’s forward guns. Combat perfectly resembles the battles depicted in the various TV series and in movies like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Totally Games did make some gameplay compromises in order to permit Bridge Commander’s battles to be so similar to those in the Star Trek movies and series. As you’d expect given their immense size, ships change directions sluggishly, but generally movement also just doesn’t seem to flow smoothly, and it’s sometimes inordinately difficult to close range or effectively outmaneuver even slower vessels. While there are computer-controlled assists available to let you better intercept targets, it still seems as though the developers were so determined to prevent battles from devolving into turning chases that they artificially crippled your ability to track and circle enemies. Even if that’s the case, those compromises were worthwhile, since they make these Star Trek vessels feel like large naval ships instead of fighter planes.