Here's the thing. The best thing about the show is not the space fights. It's not about the strange new worlds. Strictly speaking, it's not even the resource management. It was about the people interacting with each other and being good to each other while navigating peril.
That's not something you get from FTL, or Eve Online. Mass Effect comes close.
Heh. You and me both! I tried to make a solo tabletop RPG that captures the feeling of captaining a ship with a close crew. Most sci-fi games are skin-of-your-teeth survival, grunge future, or dystopian, and doesn't really capture the more idealistic or social aspect of captaining.
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