Heh, I'd vote for the "worst" for Privateer 2. I hated it because it was NOT the game I wanted to play, and I wanted a "real" sequel to the original Privateer so badly.
I doubt "Origin" could make a Wing Commander game now. All of the flight people are gone, the Origin brand has been gutted...
The ultimate "like Privateer game" was Space Rogue. I say that because it was an Origin product, it came out before any of the Wing Commander games, and it had a lot of the same concepts. It had repair droids, etc. Chris Roberts worked on it (he was not the designer), and it's fairly obvious...