This is the best Star Trek simulation I've played (and I've been looking for a good one since the early 1980s).  Many ship designs (and the ability to customize them), several races to play, good graphics, and well-done music and sound effects.  Nothing like catching an enemy in a tractor beam and slugging it out while transporting marines onto his ship.  The tutorials are also very informative. There are some problems with the game, though.  In one of the federation scenarios, I couldn't win without sacrificing a ship (though I should have been able to use a tractored enemy ship as the sacrifice).  The game is a first-class flight simulator, but not much else.  You don't really get a sense that moving about the galaxy changes the game in any meaningful way.  Also, even though you have crew members who have names, they are nothing more than statistical probabilities that can help or hinder game play, not communicative crew members.  After finishing all of the scenarios (which I have not), I imagine this game does not have much replay value beyond customized skirmishes that you can create.  Altogether, the price of this game makes it a good value, and probably one of the better games in the Starfleet Command series.