Star Trek™: Starfleet Command III

It is not Starfleet Command: Orian Pirates, but it is still a great game to play.

I love the game but one thing i always hated. ship to ship combat is to close. no matter what you do the enemy and you are always right on top of each other.

Have made multiple attempts at campaigns as all factions. Even at easiest difficulty, missions are impossibly stacked against player on all but the simplest objectives. I used to enjoy this game as a kid and it was never this difficult. Enemy ships almost never miss, even when I'm performing erratic maneuvers while only about one third of my shots land. With two wingmen, I somehow lost to a single Romulan light cruiser. It's worth pointing out that Romulan ships are the weakest in the game. When playing as a Borg, my ship refused to regenerate. But when I attacked the Borg, the AI ships' hull regenerated. Reinforcing shields is a joke mechanic; it is only effective when the AI does it. If you do it, an enemy ship will either flank you with all-arc weapons so you can't shoot back (while conveniently being more maneurable in a cruiser than the player as a frigate) or simply pound your shields to ruin while you struggle to land retaliatory shots. Wingmen are useless as the enemy will gun straight for the player in an engagement.

Plays just as it did back in its day. Love this game. Wish they would get Starfleet Command II: Empires at War going again.

Like the other games in this series this game will ramdomly crash every other mission, but the gameplay is fun and while the biuldup to the story takes more time then needed it's still fun. My advise is to save before and after each mission.