Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation — What really makes this game shine is the realistic complexity of the orders you can give to your Star Trek officers: you can dock at space stations, lock on tractor beams to friends and enemies, launch probes, and try to capture the enemy. ships shining over the marines. You can also communicate with your allies, ordering them to escort a friendly vessel or to fire (whether your allies want to follow your order is another matter entirely — an Orion pirate ship on the verge of collapse will choose to leave you to deal with enemies in a hasty retreat , while the Romulan Warbird will ignore your retreat command and self-destruct while trying to take as many enemies with it as possible).