I'll start by saying that worst kind of 4x game is one where the outcome is certain, but the game refuses to end unless you complete 100 turns of pointless busywork.

Fortunately, Master of Orion was designed with this in mind and provided us with the Diplomatic victory, so that a winner is declared if they have 2/3rds of the galactic population. Unfortunately, this galactic council never actually forms because for some incomprehensible reason the developers decided to tie it to races meeting, an event that is increasingly less likely to occur the more lopsided the game is due to that increasing the probability of isolated trash civilisations that don't scout or do anything.

Fortunately, Master of Orion provides us with a second win condition, economic victory, which causes a player with absurd relative economic power to be declared the winner. This economic power, much like the population from the diplomatic victory, could be used to grind out a conquest victory trivially, but that's an utter slog that takes 100+ turns instead of a mere 10.

Unfortunately, if you are Klackon (or any uncreative race) and you miss the coin toss in this situation, you are now doomed to either wait 200 turns for another trash incredibly far behind race to research galactic economics (after you gave them advanced city planning, of course!), grind out a conquest victory over the next 150-200 turns (bombing planets takes an eternity and troop transports are finnicky micro hell), wait 150 turns for the council formation failsafe, wait 250 turns for the score victory, or grind out a conquest path to Orion (that is of course on the other side of the map) and win a science victory over the course of about 100 turns. The correct route to victory of course is to simply not play a game that forces you to wait around for 100+ turns in a clearly won position.

I don't care about win condition balance if it means I need to suffer through games like this. Vanilla at least I could set everyone to trade goods + research focus, put my fleet to sleep and quickly smash out a science victory (even though that was also a hellish slog already just with waiting for AI turns). Something has got to give; force the council to form much earlier, allow the galactic stock exchange to open without building a planetary stock exchange somehow, make the stock exchange not an optional tech, or delink science victory from Orion. I don't care which one it is, I just want Klackons to be literally playable on huge maps.