If we talk about Star Control Classics it is worth to mention TimeWarp project started in distant 1998 year.
It is a fun-made melee engine that implement melee with multiple ships at the same time, additional camera views (zoom in, zoom out using keys), all ships from SC1, SC2 and many fan-made vessels, mini games like defending starbase and flying on huge map and upgrading your ship.
TW-Light fork is currently playable on modern systems
https://tw-light.appspot.com/
