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* [[Aliens and Monsters]] (''[[In Space|Space]]'' Monsters, to be precise.)

* [[Aliens of London]] (The Hydrans.)

* [[All the Myriad Ways]] (A story mission in Starfleet Command 1 has the player {{spoiler|hunt down their [[Mirror Universe]] alternate}}.)

* [[Apocalypse How]] (Pops up occasionally, this being [[Star Trek]] and all.)

* [[Barrier Warrior]] (The Lyrans ([[Insistent Terminology|That's pronounced Lear-uhns!]]) have the ESG field. Basically a ring of death that surrounds a Lyran ship and damages everything that gets too close, it's practically a death sentence if used against a smaller ship. [[Game Breaker|Gets stupidly useful in Starfleet Command 2 and its expansion when dealing with carriers]].)

* [[Explosive Overclocking]] (Weapons such as Photon Torpedoes, Fusion Cannons, and the Phaser X, can be set to overload mode. This effectively doubles the power of each, but ''will destroy that weapon if overused''. Your ship can also perform "High Energy Turns" in combat that have a random chance of ''[[Unusual Euphemism|frinxing]] up your ship but good''. Effects include damage to your ships hull and engines, and your ship may "break down", [[Space Does Not Work That Way|as in literally coast to a stop in space]] and shut down completely for several seconds. During which, of course, you are totally defenseless.)

** Not quite. The only weapon that can be destroyed by overloading it is the Hydran Fusion Beam, and only on "Suicide Overload" (it also has a normal "overload" mode, which cannot destroy the weapon). Photon Torpedoes, Disruptors, etc cannot destroy themselves no matter how many times they are fired on "overload", Sulu's line in the first game's tutorial about "overload" mode on photons causing "significantly more wear on the photon torpedo launcher" being purely for flavour. Also, High Energy Turns can only cause damage if they cause the ship to break down. "Engine doubling" on Orion ships (which, as the name suggests, doubles the power output of the ship's engines) in the Orion Pirates expansion will, however, damage the ship's engines over time.

* [[Five-Man Band]] (In Starfleet Command one and three, you assemble your own senior staff who will be under your command throughout the game. Subverted (sp?) in Starfleet Command 2, as the code and text strings remain in the game, but are inactive.)

* [[Gatling Good]] (The Ph G. It literally stands for ''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Gatling Phaser]]''. It's one of the weakest weapons of the game, however: When you consider that it fires three times per charge, and the maximum charge for any weapon is four, that means that this one phaser can fire twelve times almost in the blink of an eye before it's exhausted. And if that hits someone's bare hull...)

* [[Heroic Mime]] (Subverted. The player character speaks often, though usually only in the form of text on the screen.)

** (If you're playing a mod involving the Borg though, expect this trope full stop, unless you're rolling with a fleet of [[Mighty Glacier|Excaliburs]].)

* [[Knight Templar]] / [[Blood Knight]] (Again, the Interstellar Concordium, Starfleet Command 2's [[Big Bad]].)

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]] (Many of the races can use missiles, but the [[Larry Niven|Kzi-]] ''Mirak'' specialize in them. That was until [[Up to Eleven|Orion Pirates upped the ante to levels of insanity never before dreamt with the multi missile]]. Essentially, it's one missile that splits into six, which is bad enough. But keep in mind, a ship can only guide so many missiles at once up to a maximum limit of 12, but [[Good Bad Bugs|as the six smaller missiles register as only one]] [[Death in All Directions|it is possible to fire up to 72 missiles at one target]]!)

* [[Mighty Glacier]] (Gorn ships, in general, are flying mountains with every weapon you can use in game pointing in every direction imaginable. You do ''not'' screw with a Gorn ''light cruiser'' unless you have backup, and forget it if theres a fleet of them.)

* [[More Dakka]] (The Ph G, or "Gatling Phaser" in Starfleet Command 1 and 2. The entire purpose for the Pulse Phaser in Starfleet Command III.)

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] (''Mauler'', ''Hellbore Cannon'', ''Fusion Cannon'', ''Gatling Phaser'', ''Plasma Type R''.)

* [[Planar Shockwave]] (Everything above the fighter class generates one upon it's demise. A very [[Rule of Cool|cool one]], too.)

* [[Ramming Always Works]] (Subverted, no it doesn't. {{spoiler|Unless you're out of Nova Mines facing an army of Planet Killers, in which case you had better start your engines if you want to get out of there alive}}.)

* [[Shows Damage]]: In SFC 1, you'd start leaking glowy purple plasma trails. In the sequels, you'd see scorch marks, electrical cracklies, and bits of your ship on fire.

* [[Simulation Game]] (Spaceflight/Naval combat)

* [[Space Is an Ocean]] (The game is built on this trope.)

* [[Space Pirates]] (The Orion [[The Syndicate|Syndicate]])

* [[Spiritual Successor]] (Star Trek: Tactical Assault, developed by Bethesda Softworks, used much of the Starfleet Command formula. Meanwhile over on the XBOX 360/PC, [[Star Trek Legacy]] also shared many elements with this series.)

** (Starfleet Command 4 is being developed by Dynaverse...or was...[[Vaporware|or something]].)

*** (Spaceflight and space combat in [[Star Trek Online]] looks like it borrows quite a bit from Starfleet Command 3. This is in no way a bad thing.)

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The Hydrans. Three armed, three legged, three gendered methane breathers... with plummy British accents. The [[Universal Translator]] must have an odd sense of humor.

** Nah, they're basically shrunken versions of William Christophers "Masters" (From the Tripods Trilogy), so of course they got the British hat.

* [[The Federation]] ([[Trope Namer|Of course]].)

* [[The Plague]] (The Romulan campaign in Starfleet Command 1 revolves around checking the spread of a hideously contagious disease called "The Traveler's Death", which is essentially the Black Plague [[In Space]].)

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] (Target's hull is down to one point? [[Death in All Directions|ALPHA STRIKE]].)

* [[Tim Taylor Technology]] (Usually [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that on average, not one of the systems on your ship will be functioning at their limits, ever. This is because you only have a limited amount of power that must be divided amongst dozens of subsystems at any given time. However, the [[Wave Motion Gun|Mauler]] in Orion Pirates takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]], as unlike the other weapons it doesn't do fixed damage. The damage the Mauler does is based purely on your ships power output, and does greater or less damage accordingly.)

* [[Units Not to Scale]] (The little planets. Oy ''vey'', the little planets!)

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]] (The Player's fleet, depending on whether or not they're only intended as meat shields. Captured ships as well.)

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] (So goddamn much. See that planet? BLOW IT UP. See that moon? BLOW IT UP. See that ship? STEAL IT AND FLY IT INTO A BLACK HOLE. Alternatively, you could simply drop a Borg Cube into the game and embark on a bloody, psychopathic rampage across the Milky Way, [[You Bastard]].)

** You can set your phasers for disabling strikes and knock out the enemy's engines. A gentle nudge with the tractor beam towards the nearest black hole, and ''kaboom''. Even ''more'' dickishly, you can hold the disabled ship in front of you and blaze full speed aheard towards the '''sun.''' You may get a little crispy, but it's totally [[Worth It]].

* [[Wave Motion Gun]] (The Mauler in Orion Pirates fits the trope to a T. In both Starfleet Command 1 and 2 we have the Phaser 4 (Ph4), which is an insanely powerful weapon that can only be mounted on space stations or planets.)

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] ( {{spoiler|The Organians dissapeared in the first game to bring back an enemy in Starfleet Command 2 that could force the major powers from the first game to unite, in an effort to prepare them to repel a massive invasion from the Andromeda galaxy that would have completely wiped them all out otherwise, had they not learned to put aside their differences for a common cause}}. At least that's what [[Aborted Arc|would have happened]].)

 

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