Starfleet Command ( 1999 Quicksilver Software, Win) is a direct conversion of Star Fleet Battles to a real time Videogame with a three-dimensional display. Star Fleet Battles can be complex to play, but the complexity is rooted in the range of available tactics rather than in the fundamental mechanisms of the game. Much of the gameplay revolves around allocating energy amongst various ship functions (such as shields or phasers) and the widely varied technologies available to different races. The core game design is a good representation of combat in Star Trek, in which the third dimension is rarely mentioned and ships manoeuvre in a way which is intuitively rather than physically convincing. The game is played on a hexagonal grid with counters, in two dimensions.
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In addition, while the various films and television series have concentrated on the more pacifist and cooperative aspects of the original show, the game has focused on developing its militaristic elements, creating a Future History suitable for a Wargame. Instead, the game continuity adds a wide variety of new alien races, ship types and technologies. As a result, the Star Trek feature films, and later developments in the core franchise, are not reflected in the Star Fleet Universe. The licence allows the game to include elements from the television franchise only as it existed before 1979. However, the limitations of the licence under which the game is produced, and the extent to which the various themes found in the original material were differently emphasized by the game developers and later television shows, led to the creation of a separate continuity (the Star Fleet Universe) for the game.
Star Fleet Battles was first developed as a game of tactical combat between starships in the Star Trek universe.
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