Yep!
1. Action and strategy... in spaaaace!
It is indeed a hybrid of those two genres, and similar in concept to an earlier game from the same developers, Archon, except in space.
2. That ship looks familiar...
The Earthling Cruiser looks a lot like the Enterprise.
3. Many classic sci-fi characters appear in this game
4. Or at least their names do
Each ship is identified by a captain's name pulled from a list for each race. The Earthling captains are Kirk, Solo, Adama, and others along those lines.
5. Lives are life
The health of a ship is measured in crew members; they die as it takes damage, and it's destroyed when they're all gone.
6. All the ships in the game belong to a hierarchy, but only some of them belong to the Hierarchy
Each ship has a unique price that's supposed to be appropriate to its overall power, and they can be ranked accordingly. Also, one of the factions is the Hierarchy.