40 Fun Facts About Star Trek Fleet Command

Which Enterprise engineer guided new players through the tutorial missions when Star Trek Fleet Command launched?

Scotty led newcomers through the first run of missions, which opened with a distress call from a nearby colony. After that the advice became looser and players chose their own path.

Star Trek Fleet Command was first set in which branch of Star Trek history, the one the 2009 reboot film began?

Kelvin timeline stories were the game's whole world for its first two years, because it was conceived to line up with the reboot films. Other eras of the franchise were only announced in 2020.

Which starship, able to jump across the galaxy by the mycelial network, has its own arc in Star Trek Fleet Command?

USS Discovery brought its jump drive into the game, so long warp times could be skipped. Each jump burns a resource called Cultivated Mycelium, refined from spores that are mined or dropped by enemies.

Which mobile publisher, also behind Monopoly Go!, launched Star Trek Fleet Command with CBS Interactive?

Scopely launched the game in November 2018 and went on to buy its co-developer, Digit Game Studios, the following May.

In Star Trek Fleet Command, the Ferengi D'Vor is a mining ship built to gather which precious resource?

Latinum is what the D'Vor exists for: its mining bonus for the raw resource is listed at 12,000 per cent, against 160 per cent for its general mining.

Which no-win Starfleet Academy test did Star Trek Fleet Command turn into a playable simulation with prizes?

Kobayashi Maru is the rescue drill no cadet is meant to beat. The game's makers ran it as a two-week leaderboard challenge in February 2021, with prize packages for players who topped the board.

Which reboot-film Dr McCoy actor sparred with Sonequa Martin-Green in 2021 promos for Star Trek Fleet Command?

Karl Urban stood for the reboot films and Martin-Green for the newer television era. Across four short spots the pair mocked each other's ships and tactics.

Which Original Series con man flies a getaway ship called the Stella in Star Trek Fleet Command's Outlaws arc?

Harry Mudd named the ship himself, and Stella is also his wife's name in the Original Series. In the game he joins forces with Khan to raid the vaults of a district called The Exchange.

Which android is alone aboard the crashed Enterprise-D when Star Trek Fleet Command's Next Generation arc opens?

Data greets the player at the crash site with no memory of what happened. The arc then becomes a hunt for crewmates scattered across the galaxy with no way to call for help.

Which Star Trek Fleet Command item protects a player's station from attack but bars that player from attacking others?

Peace Shield protection cuts both ways: while it is up, its owner cannot attack other players, so raising one means choosing safety over raiding.

Which Romulan villain of the 2009 reboot film is among the officers players can recruit in Star Trek Fleet Command?

Nero is one of the costliest officers to train, needing four times the usual experience to level up. His ability rewards setting an enemy ship on fire, raising weapon damage while it burns.

Which Star Trek series supplied the engineer Rutherford and the medic Tendi as officers in Star Trek Fleet Command?

Lower Decks officers Rutherford and Tendi arrived in May 2022, with missions that sent the Cerritos on a routine geological survey and dragged the ship into the centre of a hollow planet.

Officers in Star Trek Fleet Command are rated Common, Uncommon, Rare or which top grade, the hardest to recruit?

Epic officers are the scarcest in the recruit pool, and at higher ranks they can also demand faction credits before they will be promoted.

Star Trek Fleet Command began on phones; which platform did it officially reach in 2021 after an Early Access test?

Windows PC players got the game on 20 September 2021, with an adjustable window on a bigger screen and free recruit tokens as a welcome gift.

Which resource joins tritanium and dilithium on Star Trek Fleet Command's main screen and is the first tutorial reward?

Parsteel is the first thing a new player earns, as the reward for the opening distress-call mission. A fourth resource completes the set shown on the main display.

Which of Star Trek Fleet Command's four ship classes gains no combat edge over any of the others?

Survey ships sit outside the triangle in which Explorers beat Interceptors, Interceptors beat Battleships and Battleships beat Explorers. They are also far weaker in a fight.

Which sleeper ship from the Original Series episode Space Seed is a mining vessel in Star Trek Fleet Command?

Botany Bay carried Khan and his followers in suspended animation. In the game it is the ship for a rapid mining activity in the Outlaws arc, which pays for rewards in a faction store.

Which ship arrived in Star Trek Fleet Command with the game's fastest warp speed and an Astrometrics Scan ability?

USS Voyager can turn its Astrometrics Scan on another player's ship to reveal where that player's station is, which makes it a tool for revenge after a raid.

Which Star Trek Fleet Command station building, added with the Strange New Worlds arc, replays missions from older arcs?

Holodeck missions are drawn from older stories such as the Borg and Outlaws arcs, and finishing them unlocks the officer Reginald Barclay, who teaches players how the building works.

Which faction joined Star Trek Fleet Command in part two of its Deep Space Nine arc, earned by defeating Jem'Hadar?

Bajoran reputation is built in Dominion space, and the faction's store pays it back in Favors, strong buffs that a player keeps for good.

In Star Trek Fleet Command's Mirror, Mirror missions, a cruel Spock arrives from a universe ruled by which power?

Terran Empire rule is the Federation's ideals turned inside out. The game's evil Spock arrives through an ion storm and wants to get home and wipe out the Romulans for good.

What does Star Trek Fleet Command call the powerful group targets that alliance members team up to destroy?

Armadas come in grades, and the scarcest carry the richest cargo. Beating them pays out credits for packs that can hold the complete plans of powerful ships.

Which fourth faction in Star Trek Fleet Command has its own zone of space, opened by completing the mission Retrofit?

Augment space stays closed until Retrofit is done. Destroy enough marauders there and Suliban bounty hunters turn up, growing stronger as the player's reputation with the faction rises.

In Star Trek Fleet Command, destroying Borg Tactical Probes rewards players with an inert form of which Borg technology?

Nanoprobes go to the refinery, where the player chooses between an active kind for promoting Borg officers and a charged kind for upgrading a probe-hunting ship.

Which Star Trek Fleet Command feature, launched with the Next Generation arc, sends spare officers on assignments?

Away Teams are unlocked by building a Shuttle Bay, and their assignments can take anything from a couple of hours to several days to finish.

In Star Trek Fleet Command, which ability of an officer works only while that officer leads a ship's bridge?

Captain Maneuver is its name, and it switches off if the officer moves to a side seat. The second talent, the Officer Ability, works from any of the three bridge positions.

In Star Trek Fleet Command, the USS Franklin is built to hunt which enemy from the film Star Trek Beyond?

The Swarm takes 24 times the usual damage from the Franklin, the century-old ship that the stranded crew relaunch in the film to chase Krall.

Which hostile species arrived in Star Trek Fleet Command with its first arc based on the series Enterprise?

Xindi ships in the game strike the hull directly, ignoring a ship's outer defences. The story is set 200 years after the series, with the species newly admitted to the Federation.

In Star Trek Fleet Command, an ability called Advanced Sensors reveals which hidden hostiles from fluidic space?

Species 8472 ships evade ordinary sensors, and destroying them yields Exotic Biotoxins, which are refined into rewards and a travel token for certain Delta Quadrant systems.

Which ship does the Mirror Universe's Spock fly, in a twisted ISS version, in Star Trek Fleet Command?

Jellyfish is a two-star explorer in the game, but its ISS twin was a prize for top-level players, won through limited-time leaderboard events.

Which Strange New Worlds actor reprised La'an Noonien-Singh for Star Trek Fleet Command's animated short Hurak Invasion?

Christina Chong voices La'an as she faces a sudden planetary assault during the conflict with House Hurak, a storyline players already knew from the game's missions.

Which ship with Romulan roots was added to Star Trek Fleet Command as a destroyer of Borg Tactical Probes?

Vi'dar story missions cast it as an immensely powerful independent ship that broke free of its chains to fight the Borg. Simply reaching a Borg system costs Transwarp Cells.

Digit Game Studios, the Star Trek Fleet Command developer bought by its publisher in 2019, is based in which capital?

Dublin is home to the studio, which signed a multi-year partnership with the publisher in 2015, three years before their Star Trek game came out.

Which common explorer, built at shipyard level one, do Star Trek Fleet Command's tutorial missions have players upgrade?

Realta is the humble first ship, and members of its crew later returned as familiar faces in the game's animated short Hurak Invasion.

Which damage type, added to Star Trek Fleet Command beside kinetic and energy, ignores all standard mitigation?

Isolytic damage arrived during the Delta Quadrant arc, and the developers compared it to radiation: a barrier that stops an arrow does nothing against it.

Territory Capture added which area to Star Trek Fleet Command's galaxy map, where alliances fight Takeovers for zones?

Origin Sector systems are grouped into zones, and the alliance that wins a zone's Takeover gains services that only its own members can switch on.

Which species' stations must Star Trek Fleet Command alliances destroy as group targets to build an Alliance Starbase?

Cardassian stations arrived with the Deep Space Nine arc, and wrecking them lets an alliance raise a shared base that harvests plasma from storms.

Which original Star Trek Fleet Command character recommends missions after the tutorial and has her own animated short?

Maia takes over once the guided tutorial ends, suggesting a looser run of early missions, and her story was later retold as one of the game's short films.

Which Star Trek Fleet Command battleship shares its name with Shran's Andorian warship from the series Enterprise?

Kumari is a three-star battleship in the game. On television, Shran was devastated when his ship of that name was destroyed by a remote-controlled Romulan prototype.

The first enemy ship a new Star Trek Fleet Command player destroys, answering a distress call, belongs to which species?

Nausicaan ships are the game's first target practice: the opening tutorial sends the player's lone ship to find the source of a colony's call for help and shoot one down.