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Hmm, I must admit to liking anything with ships in really, from Harpoon to BFG 
Full Thrust is probably my favourite, although I havent played in about 6 months after growing frustration with the 'fighter/missile balance issues' which plague straighline competitive play. Still good for non-tourney style tho'.
I like a lot about BFG, but there is still stuff which irritates me. Forcing you to use specific basing (for missiles and fighters) is a pain, and just seems clunky and not needed. A lot of other aspects of it are very elegant, but the problem is the miniatures are what interest me, and I am VERY pedantic about basing...
SFB I havent played a lot, but I would echo the opinions of others really. The issue I always had was it isnt really that hard to do a lot of the book keeping, but it can be very boring... Federation Commander (or SFB Light) looks interesting tho', and I do want to give it a go at some point.
For B5 Ive always liked B5 Wars, and have a lot of respect for the things they tried to do with the system. Very cool damage allocation (you can almost FEEL it when your Vorchan gets its whole front section ripped off by heavy fire), which is lots of fun. Not so keen on ACTA, but I do need to play it more to really say for certain, I think Maksim has it about right on this from what Ive seen.
Others I like are GOBS (amusing for using LOTS of ships, but the different dice are complicated), Silent Death (fighter rather than cap ships, but the way you chase each other round the map can be very cool) and Aerotech (Mechs in space, what could be bad  ).
As you can see from the above, I have negative things to say about a good many systems (Its my favourite aspect of wargaming, so Im picky  ). Because of this, Im actually playing round with my own rules set at the moment. With spaceships its in some ways an easy thing to do, as at its simplest you can just pinch those rules you like from other systems (movement from FT, weapons fire from B5Wars, orders from BFG, etc). Hours of entertainment 
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