One of the best Star Trek games

Star Trek Birth of the Federation (BotF) is in my opinion one of the best Star Trek games ever (next to Armada I and Elite Force I). Here comes to absolute Star Trek-feeling because the five playable races (Cardassian, Federation, Ferengi, Klingons and Romulans) have all specially designed menus and user interfaces. There is also a different music for each of the peoples.

Since I have very often long played this game and and now and then even game, but I also a few negative points are noticed:
- The starting position can be extremely different, so in round 1 partly already is heavily influenced the game.
- The Cardassians are in my view greatly inferior (both economically and militarily and research terms). They are in every single match is always the race, which cuts off the worst (There are at the end of a diagram that are Cardis always at the bottom).
- The difficulty increase between "easy" and "normal" in my opinion is too strong. (Ex .: When "easy" to build the others in the game hardly military vessels, "normal" when they have at the beginning a relatively large fleets)
- When discovered by small nations that we discover their planet by a friendly agreement with a great power, you can no longer access the peoples. This is only possible if one has no peace treaty and infringes on the territory of the other great power and discovered the small peoples person with a ship.

But these negative points do not detract from the game as a whole but only care for me for a withdrawal from a star.

The positive sides:
- As mentioned above, its own music and graphics
- Small breeds are created with their behavior and special buildings very close to the series
- Systems consist of different planets (eg volcanic planet, desolate planet jungle planet, Class M, ocean planets etc, which all have their own characteristics and possibly also additional bonuses bring (food or energy))
- Game is very versatile (many ships, there are outposts, starbases, transport and colony ships, scouts, destroyers, battleships, etc.)
- Nations have their typical benefits (Federation has good research and solid ships, Romulans can disguise themselves, have strong Klingon ships Ferengi have coal without end, Cardassians can actually do nothing ;-))
- There are also secret, which you can rush the other in the neck

Overall, the game is highly recommended. Of fun with real Star Trek atmosphere.