u/Kenji_03

Shout out to flash games:

FlashTrek: Broken Mirror – Online Gameplay | Kongregate

This is a "trading" game on it's surface, buy in one sector and sell in another with a bit of ship combat. However, the entire game changes once you save up enough to "colonize" an uninhabited planet. It morps into a lite version of a 4x game / RTS game from there, letting you roleplay becoming a super power in the star trek universe. Training ships, managing shipyards, etc.

It all wraps up with you fighting off a borg invasion before the game has nothing left for you beyond conquering all of the alpha quadrant.

Absolutely fantastic little economy game that I am willing to bet next to no one knows about.