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I know that you are talking about thematics here. But im honestly worried that a regular Melee build with a "reach weapon" or a shield build is to strong for starfinder.
Motivating Ring Tone gives you a nice speedboost to get to the enemy. A Mystic can put out a ton of healing and can easily keep you alive.
Ranged Enemies deal less damage than Melee Enemies. The Corpse Fleet Officer (Level 4) deals 2d6+3 (5-15) damage with is ranged weapon and 2d6+7 (9-19) Damage with his melee Weapon. The Aeon Guard (Level 3) only deals 1D8 damage with his laser Rifle. Both of those Ranged Attacks could get completely negated by the hardness of a basic shield. The Mystics vitality network recharges 4 HP per round which are basically free healing. (It costs 1 Action to transfer those HP). This means the enemy team needs to deal at least 5 damage per round to hurt your team.
Once you are in Range you just pummel them to death. You can add Strength to your damage which means you deal more damage then anyone using a gun. You can also easily Flank when you have a buddy in Melee Range. You can reactive Strike the enemy when they shoot. Otherwise they have to step twice in order to get out of your reach (reach weapon).
Because many enemies will be ranged combatants they will probably have a worse Fort save which means you can grapple them.
I really don't want this to be true but 2 Melees + 1 Mystic + Whatever might be the default party.
More on topic. The ranged meta introduces immersion problems for me as well. In a melee world you can always argue that you mostly parry the hit but you might get a small cut. When everyone is shooting guns and rockets and no one dies it feels like we are using nerf guns. Or maybe we just miss all the time xD. I always loved Halos Solution for that problem. You actually die relatively fast but you have a energy shield which helps you tank a lot of attacks. But you need to wait for it to recharge once it gets damaged to much. In Halo, the time to kill is simply slow enough that people can run up to you and melee you.
But this is not that big of a deal breaker for me.