I’ll tell you this and I would love to know if anyone agrees; Starfield’s entire ship combat mode is stunningly similar to the Wing Commander series. I’d bet the farm some lead devs or PMs were fans of WC.
Granted you are always going to be limited within a genre however to me;
the views feel the same
ship handling is very very similar
the way you transfer power between systems is identical in practice and visual design
weapons are similar in function and feel
enemy ships come at you in similar counts and formations
you can’t control individual shield direction and you can’t ram enemies and do damage but otherwise every time space combat starts i expect a little PIP cat to start talking shit.