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Description

Star Fleet Command is the tactical, ship-to-ship combat simulator set in the world of Star Trek. It is based on the 20+ year old bookshelf game "Star Fleet Battles," and it follows its rules almost to the letter.

You can choose to play your a career that will span 30 years as the captain of a Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn, Hydran, or Lyran ship. You begin with a small frigate class ship, and as you complete missions you gain presitge that is then spent on acquiring larger ships, and better crew.

The campaigns are randomly generated by the "Dynaverse" generator, with certain key missions that will come up as you go through you 30 year career. Missions range from escorting and patrols, to space monster investigation and starbase assault.

There are over 300 different ships and ship mods to choose from and a wide array of weaponry. Phasers, Photons, Disruptors, Missles(Drones), Expanding Sphere Generators, Plasmas, Hellbores, Fusion Beams, Mines, Marines, and Fighters. Effective management of the ships energy resources on the fly is critical, especially with all the weapons, shields, ECM, ECCM, tractor beams, shield reinforcments, and other options available for you to use.

The game is played on a 2D plane, like the original boardgame's "hexmap."

The developers also released the .dll files to the public, so anyone adept at C++ programming can use these files to construct ships, missions, even entire campaigns. These can be dowloaded at thier website.

Alternate Titles

  • "星际迷航:星舰指挥官" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
  • "SFC" -- Common Abbreviation

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User Reviews

"Where's that damn torpedo?" Terrence Bosky Bronze Star Contributing Member (5237) 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars
Great mission editor but poor campaign mode. William Shawn McDonie Bronze Star Contributing Member (1163) unrated
The First good Star Trek game i've played Krystman (8) 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars

The Press Says

GamesFirst! Oct 08, 1999 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
FileFactory Games / Gameworld Network Sep 27, 2002 91 out of 100 91
Electric Games 1999 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Oct, 1999 81 out of 100 81
WomenGamers.com Sep 21, 1999 7.5 out of 10 75
Jeuxvideo.com Nov 25, 1999 15 out of 20 75
GameSpot Aug 27, 1999 7.5 out of 10 75
Game Over Online Aug 28, 1999 73 out of 100 73
Absolute Games (AG.ru) Sep 01, 1999 70 out of 100 70
GameStar (Germany) Aug, 1999 68 out of 100 68

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Trivia

A limited version that only has a Federation Cruiser (i.e. Enterprise) and a Klingon D-7 cruiser was released under the name of "Starfleet Command: Neutral Zone". It can be found in budget section of game stores.


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Bastion (15) on Jul 12, 2000.
 

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