I played so many hours of Klingon Academy. Spent a lot of time just in ship battles. That was back when game manuals were huge. It had entries on all the weapons, their capabilities, everything.
Star Trek Generations was probably my first game but I was a bit too young for the puzzle solving and never was able to beat it back then. And Dominion Wars was another one. I guess I was primarily a ships battle kind of guy. Prepped me for games like Elite Dangerous and No man’s sky. Glad they’re making new space sims nowadays there was a drought for so long!
This is a fun quote to bandy around but I’d argue when it comes to AI it’s more that we’re in the honeymoon phase. The platforms are building the user bases. Not to say aggressive monetization isn’t just over the horizon.