What Officers have no value in Star Trek Fleet Command? | Officer Discussion (Ask in Comments!)

With some nay new officers in the game (and new ones coming soon?) @everyone has to sit and pick through what has value and what does not. This also means we'll have to have an open forum type discussion in the comment section of this video (so you can ask about specific officer functions. If you're curious about officers, this is the place to get the answers!
Topics covered:
1. Open invitation for you to ask about officers in comments!
2. Officers in Star Trek Fleet Command that have simply no value (or little)
3. Should Trait XP play a role in usefulness?
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!
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[@lonlywolf5680]

Culber is good for helping Paul Stamets lower the costs for disco warp and summoning. So if I can lower that cost, I upgrade him when available

[@VladimirPovolni]

This was only change to this list. Culber is good

[@littleprincessnene]

I agree, that is why in the Arc store, I upgraded him to max. saved so many Mushrooms.

[@CDRNFreeRunner]

Why would you say no to Culber? I personally feel like he's quite useful on a discovery to drop down the mycelium cost

[@jamiehoward5538]

Agreed

[@nuitari1669]

I'd promote him, but not level him up. Its not like the disco can win pvp.

[@timsockriter8116]

I use him just for the summon discount.

[@AkiraMetz]

Especially because you can add him as sidecar to the scotty's to get discount & range boost.

[@Larommi]

Trash officers fill away missions for me. I have tiered more than I should of for events but they work elswhere

[@PommieUsian]

Surely you'd want to upgrade Culber for the discount on Discovery taxi abilities?

[@ProBreakers]

I wish we got this as a list I could download. I just started out and don't really know what to spend upgrade stuff on.

[@Oxus21]

Domitia’s warp speed bump works on an empty hull, despite it’s description. O Stamets/Helvia/Domitia is maximum warp crew.

[@lokrielblatterklingen9234]

Both Sulus are at the moment the only officer which have the trait "pilot". i woudnt say they are coplett usless... they give a bunch of easy lat day by day just for sending then away over and over again. I love this mechanik, it give so much officers a reason. Kuron is "free" now in ultra rekrut token. was amazed myself

[@llllib]

Chen is a "pilot" too but she is usually otherwise occupied :-)

[@LETSHEALUS]

You guys should develop an app for this that creates builds.....Since I don't have the money to develop it myself if you guys do and and charge bout 5 bucks I'd buy it! Lol

[@HeyHeyHarmonicaLuke]

Uncommon Sulu's trait is really good, if you don't have rare TOS sulu. It's for the ATA with axionic chips - it has a reasonable crit of lat

[@PommieUsian]

Uncommon Sulu & TOS Sulu are my go-to officers for the missions that require "Pilot". Unless I'm setting an away mission for overnight there's no way Chen's being used!

[@Paulostore]

I have the 2 as only pilots away officers

[@barkman1739]

Agree. Have both sulu’s pilot maxed. You have to take into account how frequently ATAs come up in addition to how good they are. Rub my lobes, and give me latinum!

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

@@Paulostore chen is a pilot

[@johnwpipes8927]

Blast…so I’m wasting xp on common officers. 😫 I’m a new player at Level 8…are there any commons I should focus on until the higher tiered officers come available?

[@WilliamAbt]

Livis is my prime health option for below decks…definitely worth upgrading…maybe save for an event

[@stleopold2]

I recently started a second account after 2+ years to see what has changed.... holy cow, officer dilution is a thing. It takes so long to unlock decent officers in the non faction chests because there are so many now

[@ebagflow]

rev would you mind doing update for what officers have no value

[@1s2dl3]

Thx for all the continued work and new videos. Was checking all day for new video hoping for the camp ops 35.

[@xgriffinx16]

Me too! That would be a very helpful video.

[@pleasedontphrackme]

@@xgriffinx16 Camping at 35 video exists. Rev did one a few weeks ago.

[@ElijaWB]

I am finding great value with TOS Spock at t3 especially on my Enterprise. TOS Kirk Captain Tos Spock and HG Worf. Vs those who haven’t been making their crit damage like they should and still run Khan it’s huge. For Troi I still can’t get behind her, she requires to be in the Capt chair and has the same exact effect as Gaila who can be in the side car vs normal armadas. (Making crits do 100% damage and taking crit chance away is same exact thing) Culber is nice for summoning, but not a high priority for some. Great video Rev

[@BreadOfPrey]

HG Worf is broken honestly. Attacking a base with my Salidin gave me 6-7 crits in an 8 round attack . Absolutely wrecks at my level (32), even at tier 1.

[@mw8504]

Kuron actually has sourcing now :)

[@epyionvx3142]

In terms of abilities and usage, you got a point, but in Away team missions and traits, this seems to require special episode lol. I personally have sulu triats and Rank maxed for flyby mission, Rima add health which is nice for AT mission as well specially for the one that gives props side by side with 10/10 Culbur defo worth it for disco summoning otherwise, no Gotta mention also that In terms of stats, Augment got the 2nd rank after borgs but Indy credits are... ugh

[@brandynnutter]

For Sulu or Chen, it is worth spending trait xp even though they are uncommon because level 3 pilot maxes out your crit chance for the Low Orbit Flyby away team mission. I routinely bring in stacks of nearly a thousand latinum from crits on those missions. I prefer Sulu because Chen is usually busy. LOL

[@chrishoward1983able]

Ive done it for sulu but chen is always busy so i haven't bothered, even though she has better stats for that mission

[@ScottMyers1]

Thanks for the tip on Sulu

[@PommieUsian]

Agreed, if you can time it right you can put Chen on an away mission overnight so you can still use her for grinding during the day.

[@Botchness]

I have to disagree with your assessment of Ahvix seshsa and tiza. Using those 3 with Ahvix as capt is great for both exchange hostiles and armadas.

[@coreymunroe8073]

Except if you're going to be in a support position for armadas. For that, I'd use Sesha as capt for her crit reduction. Negating the armada crit is super useful.

[@moonknight101]

Culber is a good officer to upgrade and many of the others are good on away teams some have key stats for some big missions so i just upgrade everything

[@RannekoPlays]

I feel like it would be better to direct people to the officers spreadsheet rather than go through officers like this. Like you said in the video itself, you aim for 10-15 minute videos, there is just not enough time to really go through specific officers in a way that is useful and memorable to a viewer. General principles, what makes an officer valuable, what should you be looking for when you spend those resources those are the kind of things I am looking for personally. Love your content in general, just wanted to share my thoughts on this kind of video.

[@benjaminzirker7557]

This video needs an update

[@robripingill4897]

Hi Rev can you do a video on G4 mining & when we're able to start getting Uncommon G4 gas ore & crystal in the faction store, & also why can't any of my maxed out Horizons make it to G4 mining areas..? I'm lvl-39 do i need to be in the 40s to get Uncommon G4..? Thanx

[@jlussier98]

Culber's officer ability should be tiered up, he increases the cost efficiency of jumping and summoning on the disco by X%(mine is at T4 and i get 20%)

[@douglouissmithh]

rev! it would be cool to take different players of different levels and go through there account and give them tips on how to optimize there game?

[@EmperorSztoid]

I still like how this officer rapid fire evaluation was done. I'd like to see more of this.

[@IANF126]

borg are great stat sticks even if they don't feel like they have useful abilities. people have mentioned culber, i'll still work with ariam because ill take any mining increase i can get but if people don't want to because the meridian is good enough, that's fine.

[@spiff2268]

So her ability doesn't stack with the Meridian?

[@IANF126]

@@spiff2268 i mean both work but they both work on your base mining rate im pretty sure. So after the meridian its only a minor increase. Also whats her face. Maniken or whatever also has isogen mining but as a captain skill i think

[@heathgleason4166]

AIRIUM is meh now for the capt ability but for the auger in a TC having a 95% chance Of burning while on a node is awesome. It’s too slow to run around killing things but it’ll hold the nodes while u run around killing with faster ships.

[@bradcutler6213]

For once I disagree with the Rev. Gorkon with woltieen and kerla is an early pvp on sally crew. As well djkoi is great on auger. As well without Lorca (scopely hates me) azetbur and gorkon in a d4 is the best i can use

[@arturofernandez4171]

Hi Paul, could you help me friend? I do not understand anything about the officers, you could put subtitles in Spanish, it is that I am and I really need to understand you

[@sweetdebbi72]

keenser is a good one for newer players to upgrade as beverly uses defence and newer players are more likely to have got picard/bev than pike/moreau

[@JMX2323]

Just maxed out DJaoki, so Auger crew Georgio/DJ/?Tyler?

[@gamerz1095]

Make guide on officers on best early game officer for offence and for mining middle game officers

[@Jpdrums317]

think we'll ever get to a point we can dismiss crew members or something like that? there's crew i dont use at ALL but am so tired of seeing shards go to them

[@davidcorsall4277]

I have Wesley, Beverly, Worf, and Geordi. No Riker, Picard, Data, or Troi. Is Wesley, Beverly, Worf a good second grinding crew? I do not think it is bad.

[@derpizzadieb]

Wesley Bev Worf is a really bad secondary grinding crew, no matter who you put as captain

[@davidcorsall4277]

No Yar either!

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Beverly and Wesley will boost your Shields. Then combine them with somebody who's going to attack. Like a Gorkon, Nero .or Marcus

[@im1066]

This video makes me sad...you don't have HG Worf.

[@PommieUsian]

Surprised that you mentioned Saru as someone that you'd upgrade. What's the rationale for Saru?

[@lonlywolf5680]

Saru works with Carol as captain, and Paul Stamets, to create a trap crew

[@johnjones6115]

Azetbur is one of my hardest-working Away Teams officers. She brings home the Targ bacon

[@RevDeuce]

Love this description!

[@tobyod]

How do I get the independent credits to upgrade 6 of 10 to Lt. Commander? It went from reasonable to insane....

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

You can mine data and then buy from the augment store. You can kill Borg probes. The event store.

[@wardaw6]

I tried 5/7/harrison with lvl33 probes on my maxed vidar and come home with 220k nanos..the next time it was 200k and the 3rd time was 210k.. is this just luck?

[@stevenkeiper8309]

So you said no to origins Stamets & Hadley. Both boost warp speed for distance raiding. If I have 3 survey ships going on a warp raid, A) Stonn, Helvia, & Domitia, B) 2/11, 4/11, & 11/11, and Ship C) Hadley, Pike, & origins Stamets. OR if you have 4 survey ships going, split Hadley & O Stamets apart.

[@rayvannostrand7575]

Best uses for hg warf? Also, seems like tos kirk n uhura are the king n queen of pvp?

[@heathgleason4166]

Kirk Spock worf on my sally is OP

[@riverstone1942]

Love Culber. Comes in REALLY handy in mid-30's when there's a hostile hunt event (need to have Chen maxed to pull this off.) Send Disco to capital star system (sol, kronos, romulus). Look for level 49 "Federation Transport", "Klingon Transport" etc. (NOT the Heavy ones.) Disco summon your best ship with PMC on. Shoot at the ship - you'll have a defeat but your ship might still be alive. When your shield is back to 50%-75% shoot it again. Or have a second ship in zone (like a Sally) and shoot at it immediately while the transport's shield is low. Once you die summon back the ship with PMC and keep going. You'll take the next shot before the transport's shield is full if you repair and summon it fast enough. I can often get it on the 4th try (2nd summon) with tier 4 enterprise, and voila! Hostile hunt done in 2 minutes, and lots of mycelium saved with Culber.

[@binarymalehim]

Kuron is now in the premium officer tab

[@arcticdreds3284]

You're tripping,.. 34 million officer XP,... Not easy to come by unless you're saving all for a rainy day... 4 or 5 million a week is more realistic on my server.

[@00joetrooper]

On my server d4s have lorca as cpt with tilly and honour guard worf please help what officers to counter this there wrecking everyone other d4s augurs and enterprises

[@RevDeuce]

That's one of the best PVP crews in the game, some of the new romulan officers coming out this month can help counter that!

[@francoisdallaire4835]

i'm lvl 23 and somehow got two lucky ultra drops on Marcus in the same week. Should I lvl him right away, 1000 faction credits will take me like 2 weeks to earn.

[@wigg666]

I have a question about 9 of 11. Is it broken? I put that one with 8 of 11 flanking Chen as captain and my ability to take on hostiles dropped from say being able to do 5 before repairs to only 2 maybe 3. Thanks

[@vwjanonomous]

What i do is look at the skills and look for YT videos (preferably Rev DUCE!) of those officers if they are not good I look at stats and see if they are worth upgrading. from there i either dont touch them or do. but all your videos are very informative so it's pretty clear on which officers are the go to.

[@rjhermans3698]

What about bottom deck officers? When you get higher levels, multiplr ships, several collecting on away missions, would be good to know which should be put on lowers amd would assume use most upgraded.

[@benjaminbowman197]

Kras is good on the merit of honour away teams. He has two of the 4 traits from memory.

[@jasc98ify]

Specifically talking about away missions, wish characters are more useful? Top 10

[@rinkevichjm]

Airaam only use is with Meridian

[@bryanjorgenson9450]

why not Origins Stamets??

[@jamesbell7696]

I'd like to see a video on when to PVP in the most effective and worthwhile ways. I mean, we could just go flying around blowing stuff up, but there's probably a best practice strategy for who, when, and how to blow up ships and bases that people (me anyway) would find helpful.

[@newbiespam6191]

Can you rank individual officers, not necessarily all just an idea? Also, rank crews (not below deck)?

[@thomastrain7934]

8k ultra shards was incredibly generous. BUT over 4 accounts and hence 32K shards, not a single unlock or level up lucky pull etc. lol. Oh well.

[@claytonnorris2540]

Hey, you said in your stream your next video would be camping 35 :( Otherwise, great information! I watch your videos as soon as they come out!

[@giannispigis4939]

after khan if we are talking for the pve aspect of the game which one should u go next?6/10 and skinny mudd as the latest video of now show his use on killing heavies?

[@mwatX15958]

Some of your ideas on officers I agree with and some of them I don't but the problem is how come they still haven't added miscellaneous shards this would help with a lot of problems because there are quite a few officers that don't get any love in the game and they need it and it's about time that you should be able to pick where you're charged go with these miscellaneous shards seriously is it scopely thinking that they would lose money doing this if that is the case how is that possible that they would please explain

[@justinwkoehn]

You skipped over Pan pretty quickly. It would be good to point out that you don't want to tier Pan, as it just increases the chance of hull-breaching yourself. He's most useful for his captains ability, so keep him t1.

[@littleprincessnene]

Would like to ask 3 Teams of Stella Officers set up (at the same time), doing Mudmada please. thanks!

[@timhundt3178]

I just got harrycourt mudd what is a good crew with him? When he goes off it’s impressive but trying to find good crew combo

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Will Tomalak or Sela be added to Ultra or Prime Recruiting? 🤔

[@rinkevichjm]

Keener is good for away teams

[@larrysigmon2582]

Are Tomalak and Sela yes or no?

[@winstonnoone6350]

Nice CFL gear!🇨🇦

[@ImperviousSC]

At ops 34, I don't have enough officer XP or faction credits to upgrade everything I have shards for to T5. I've been putting as much of my XP and limited credits into my lowest ranked uncommons and rares first, to get as many officers up to T2, T3, or ideally T4 and level 20 as I can, rather than push officers to T5 and leveling up from there. This has given me a good chunk of "decent" uncommon and rare officers, which has been incredibly useful for away missions, while my best rare and epic officers can sit on my ships to stack stats. The only officers I have taken to T5 so far have been cadet uhura, cadet mccoy, cadet scotty, tlaan, spock, and joaquin (yes, the last one was something I wish I didn't do as it wasn't a noticeable difference in the mining rate). I have spread out my trait XP among my rare and epic officers that I don't regularly use on ships to get a bunch of primary traits to level 2 or 3 if that trait regularly shows up in away missions. This way I usually have at least one officer that I can use to boost the crit chance in each mission I start (and sometimes 2 or even 3 officers to boost the crit chance). I have put more emphasis on traits that increase the crit chance in the missions where there is a big reward for the critical success, and then on the traits that show up often with moderate rewards. I've all but ignored traits that only seem to show up on the missions with dismal rewards. I'll load away missions up with the rares/epics that have appropriate unlocked traits on an away mission, and then fill up the slots with uncommons that have the better attack/health/defense stats that match the mission, or the rares that I know do not have any traits unlocked. I always start with the missions that have the better rewards first, as if I only have one officer with a specific trait unlocked and 2 missions using that trait, I'd rather that trait get used on the mission with the better reward. I've been following this pattern/algorithm for how I spend my traits and assign officers to the missions as I don't want to mess around with swapping officers between my ships and away missions, and I want to try to get the best rewards out of this relative to the time spent messing around with running these away missions. As much as I want to try to optimize the rewards I get out of away missions, I also want to run them quickly so I can get back to the seemingly infinite amount of other things there are to do in this game..... I seem to have a different mentality towards officers and how to use them than most people..... For instance, I have a T2 Keenser at level 10 right now. I've been using him regularly in away missions. His stats are meh, yes, but they are on par with other most other rare officers, and his primary trait shows up in a bunch of away missions. I only used a relatively small amount of officer XP and trait XP to make him consistently useful in away missions. I thought this was a nice bonus to the loyalty chest update, as I had saved almost all of my loyalty tokens. I think that was totally worth it.

[@mtxbluethunder]

Go Stamps Go

[@ramstein48]

Can you expand on Burnham? Seems like she should be good in pvp and deciding if I should put trait xp into the officers for her assignment

[@CaptainNero]

Troy,,,,nooo

[@bscorpion8038]

For the first time I completely disagree with your video. Thou you touch it on a few officers what you seem to fail to fully understand is that with Away Teams every officer that you level up, you have more flexibility on what officers you have to send on ATA mission. Even the common officers can help. Thou I understand that yes you want to CHOOSE wisely on what officers you lvl and spend XP on at any point in the game based on your current needs at that time. Yes I know that most will use officers on missions that need the traits but as a lower lever player with limited epics & rares to use for both my ships and ATA missions I could use more common and uncommon on ATA missions just to guarantee 100% completion if they have maxed stats. Yes I know and understand that at higher ops lvls require better officer usage in ATA mission, you can't ignore the fact that every little bit helps when F2P or low spend accounts. Just my thoughts as a mid 20's ops lvl player when Aways Missions came into the game.

[@PommieUsian]

The point of this view, at least from my point of view, is that it's about priorities. When faction credits are a premium and faction credits are necessary to level up officers, most players need to know where to start first. It's not that Rev is saying players should *never* level up the officers he suggests to pass over, it's that if you have the option to level up say Chang or Kerla, you'll get more use out of Kerla than Chang so put your credits there.

[@binarymalehim]

Isn't it Arkady because the actor died.

[@RevDeuce]

Correct

[@arcticdreds3284]

Some rares I disagree with and are great lvlers for stats, my uncommons that mostly go unused are put on away missions instead of hanging around the station.

[@connorackley5530]

So about why tal isn’t getting added, is it because he is still bugged or is there another reason why they won’t add him?

[@godhurk4h397]

Isn’t Carol good for defense and health on lower deck?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

She's good for away Mission stats. And base defense.

[@sambynum2474]

All epics that get tiered up high are great below deck. That includes the often maligned Carol and Mitchell. There's no such thing as a bad epic.

[@PommieUsian]

Carol's fantastic for most fed faction missions; she has three of the necessary traits.

[@talpeer5370]

Why upgrade the Khan crew (Pan, Navi, Joachin, Marla)? Good to get all their shards so they give transporter patterns, but why upgrading them?

[@PommieUsian]

Joachim and Marla in particular are great for base cracking. Pan & Navi are good speed run crews, especially on Vi'Dars. You can also use Navi with Khan & Joachim for base cracking as well.

[@Ardanian]

The 8k tokens gave me the last two 5 of 10 shards to unlock her, so yeah, real nice there.

[@Alex_DS]

Avix is very valuable in away teams because of survivor trait

[@stephown5374]

Color change was appropriate for the level of enthusiasm. It was like Rev was on fire. Flames flickering all over him.

[@netoonyeka]

Don’t but let see

[@merlinsdragon31]

have a question i like to grind faction with 3 ships i have sally intrepid and gladius so i use picard rare bev and chen on intrepid and pike moreau t laan on sally and want a 3rd set for grinding transports on gladius for fed rom or klingons

[@daveanthat4191]

Collect the 10 minute chest, the 10 minute chest! Argh!!

[@nuitari1669]

For M'Ral (and Otto), don't forget that for away missions that officer ability counts, and somehow I always end up having issues getting enough officers with the Attack stats being high enough.

[@Dezz005]

Rev, I was the one who asked you about Chang the other day during your stream, I appreciate you revisiting this. :)

[@beefstu84]

Has someone written down the list of yays and nays by chance?

[@PommieUsian]

I have. I'll digitize it in a couple of weeks and if I remember come back here to post - are you on Discord? I'll likely share it with the mods on Rev's channel to have it be a resource there.

[@beefstu84]

@@PommieUsian you legend, I'm on discord 👍

[@PommieUsian]

@@beefstu84 I finally got around to creating a basic spreadsheet; who are you on Discord? Once I get it presentable I'll make it more public.

[@beefstu84]

@@PommieUsian wow, amazing you came back to this after months. I'm 187 (EMP) Beefstu in rev's discord but maybe tag beefstu#5382 , I'm not that familiar with locating people

[@PommieUsian]

@@beefstu84 I know, I've been slacking and work got crazy for me. Look for it soon!

[@biggiesmalls367]

Is honourguard worf a direct replacement for khan?

[@arcticdreds3284]

I got Kuron on a lucky, didn't pay a dime. 🥰

[@geeemm135]

can someone put down a list of what he said? caus there are too many names to remember

[@bigdawgwb2013]

Yes to Culber! and Stonn on any ship rdgaf he is that good

[@TH3LON3HUNT3R]

i got Kuron from a lucky pull in the new ultra recruit

[@RevDeuce]

Great for heavy shot first round ships like Saladin, Sarcophagus, and Pilum!

[@jacobnightingale4310]

@@RevDeuce who would you pair with Kuron and how would you stack below? Just curious as I am only a few sherds from Kuron.

[@zachzervas9525]

Does 5o10 work on armada loot? Do I get more rare armada credits if using her vs not? Or does she only work on loot that goes into your ship’s cargo bay?

[@christophergorton2863]

she works on every thing even faction

[@phoking7443]

Fat mudd works on some ships. Pvp and base cracking. Sally and kelvin both rock the fat mudd

[@dolphuscolon9101]

So the faction as a group is 1st federation then romulan and last klingon. Right

[@Sharky1101]

Doesn’t officer Kras counter Yuki?

[@Paulostore]

9:36 Tier up Culber and not Paul Stames. Those 2 are the discovery ship crews (for reduce cost). U never want Paul locked and Culber reduce costs as he get higer tier.

[@PommieUsian]

You have a point about Paul Stamets; his officer ability is for defense not for summoning discounts. Culber is the only officer to upgrade for that benefit.

[@andycox5722]

Would Nero (until I get GG), HG Worf, and Marcus be a good crew on an Augur against Enterprises?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Mireck over Nero. Burn and anti Fed.

[@TnTriton225]

Who is good to use with cpt Tilly?

[@steveagz5528]

Lorca (C) then Killy, and depending on the ship, I have them in my Sally with Harrison... killer crew!!

[@merlinsdragon31]

i was thinking westly capt riker and another for killing feds