Space opera as a genre is dead, Open Freespace is probably our last best hope (TM)
Freespace 2 on it is excelent, well worth a GOG buy. Xbox 360 controller works really well.
And there's even hope of a wing commander conversion:
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index...Commander_Saga
*DUH* just realized I'm once again the guy late to the party...*choughcpthindsight*