Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars

• Original Release: 2001
• Developer: Gizmo
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Platform: PC

Dominion Wars is a real time strategy game set during the Dominion Wars of Deep Space Nine. You command a fleet of 1-6 ships in fights against the Dominion and Cardassians.

However, it’s not a real time strategy game like Armada, as there’s no base management or building new ships – you select your fleet at the start of each mission. Starfleet Command does something similar, but that has a massive depth of options and micromanagement while Dominion Wars has a few basic targeting options and not a lot more. This makes you feel quite disconnected with what it happening as you set up a few things and just let your ships do their thing.

While the ships look good for the time, there’s also something lacking about the presentation of the game. You can pick characters like Sisko, Dax and Worf as captains, but other than a tiny portrait, it means nothing. There’s no voices or dialogue from them. Even when you’re controlling the Defiant, it doesn’t feel like it’s actually THE Defiant, just another generic ship. If you lose ships in a mission, the captains can still be selected like nothing has happened.

I must admit that I didn’t get very far in the campaign. A few missions in, I was on a mission to rescue Thomas Riker (the transporter clone that joined the Marquis), who is suddenly so important that it’s worth losing ships and hundreds of lives over. I spent ages going up and down the map without much luck. I found some ships and scanned them and he wasn’t on those. I don’t know if it was a bug or I did something wrong – there isn’t much in the way of guides for the game. I did do a few skirmish matches.

Dominion Wars isn’t really a bad game. The mechanics are fine. It’s just boring and lacking in extra touches.

Where to get Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars

• Collection Chamber

How to play Deep Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars on Windows 11

The above Collection Chamber link works, however the game only ran in 800×600 and I had to manually set my desktop resolution to under 1280×960 for it to load.

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