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Updated: 21st Dec 2020

Hangar pets are often overlooked being seen as a bonus launch and forget secondary or even tertiary damage source. On some ships and with the right combinations hangar pets can add a reasonable amount to your overall DPS. Pushed far enough it is possible to get over 100k DPS from pets alone, although that could be argued to be suboptimal as you will be sacrificing other better areas which overall would give you more DPS.

To get the most out of pets one of the first choices is the skill tree. There isn’t much to talk about here you will want

• Coordination Protocols: +20% Hull Capacity and Shield Capacity for Hangar pets.
• Defensive Coordination: +20% Defence and Damage Resistance Rating for Hangar pets.
• Offensive Coordination: +20% Accuracy ...

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Hello everyone,

here is our suggestion for the latest version from the Federation Flagships, lead your following Captains to victory!

Skilltree:

Boffs:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
• Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores hull when fir...

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Hello everyone,

here is our suggestion for the latest version from the mighty Galaxy-Class. Follow the steps from Picard and write your own Story!

Skilltree:

Boffs:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
• Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores ...

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Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary Kelvin Timeline Intel Battlecruiser. The builds are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:

Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
• Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): A...

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 Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary Temporal Flight Deck-Carrier. The builds are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:

Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, replace Construction Shuttle Wing 1 with Emergency Power to Weapons 1 and replace Emergency Power to Weapons 3 with Reverse Shield Polarity 2.

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, ...

Due to the high demand for science ship builds, here is a brief overview of what is currently en vogue. One fair warning: only read on and recreate one of the builds if you want to invest hundreds of millions of energy credits, piles of Lobi and thousands of Zen.

Science ships are able to dish out incredible amounts of damage to groups, especially in elite queues.  Unlike cruisers or escorts their main sources of damage are:

1. Bridge officer skills
2. Clicky abilities from consoles
3. Secondary deflector
4. Weapons

The following builds are based exactly on this order. 

Captain class
A common mistake is to link the captain’s profession to the class of the ships when it comes to terms of maximum efficiency. This might work in other MMOs, but in STO it’s Tactical > rest...

(by @minerk, thx a lot)

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the latest Event Ship, the Kithomer Class Alliance Battlecruiser T6. We show you some Cannon and Beam builds for this ship. Enjoy!

Skilltree:

Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
• Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores hull whe...

(Screenshot by @minerk, thanks for it!)

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary NX. Like the Ferang Build, it we will use Screenshots to show the builds. They are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:

Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Cannons+Torp:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, change Directed Energy Modulation to Reverse Shield Polarity.

Doffs (for all builds):

• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
• Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta resto...

(Screenshot by @flocki3)

Hello everyone,

here is our suggestion for one of the best looking ships in the game in a finaly really useful version 🙂

Skilltree:

Boffs:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Emergency Conn Hologram: CD Reduction for Evasive Maneuvers (phoenix store, just get one!) and/or
• Shield Distribution Officer (Agent Nerul): Attack Pattern Beta restores hull when firing (delta operations pack, 12k zen pack...

(Screenshot by @tiberiusjp, thanks for it!)

Hi everyone,

here is our suggestion for the legendary Defiant. Like the Ferang Build, it we will use Screenshots to show the builds. They are focused on using Cannons but Beams could work decently too.

Skilltree:

Boffs:

Here they are for Cannons:

For Beam Overload:

For Fire at Will + Torpedo:

In case of survivability issues, replace Eng Team 1 with Emergency Power to Weapons 1 and replace Emergency Power to Weapons 3 with Reverse Shield Polarity 2.

Doffs (for all builds):

• 3x Technician: Auxiliary to Battery CD Reduction (required, could be obtained via B’tran Cluster chain for free or via commendation ranks store)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTH (expensive, rare is usually good enough)
• Energy Weapon Officer: Chance for CRTD (expensiv...