Waaay to easy if you max your gun (for big ships) and your 4 fighter bays (for everything else). Then spend some points on repair and you're done.
And it simply sucks whenever every frickin' enemy there is is outside the screen.
For the rest; great game, great story, and as everybody said; keep the text longer on-screen, and give us some kind of visual clue we're actually doing a short-range-hyper-jump.
Honestly, I like playing this game. The things I don't like about it however are it's easiness, and the fact that the perfect's, nice's, poor's and miss's obstruct the view. Apart from that; sweet game.