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Bridge officer ability

From Star Trek Online Wiki

Overview

Bridge officers have a wide range of abilities they can use, starting at rank I and continuing to a possible rank III. Their abilities follow a system of rarity. Most of the Bridge Officer abilities are common and are trained from basic candidates or from the Bridge Officer Trainer. Other abilities are only obtained from uncommon, rare or very rare Bridge Officers. These are given through the “New Officer” mission, or can be bought from the Exchange.

Your Captain can also teach your own bridge officers abilities. The abilities they can teach depend solely on which personal skills you picked for yourself. An example would be the personal skill Starship Cannon Weapons; when this is skill is learned to its full nine ranks, it enables you to train your Tactical Bridge Officers to use the Commander rank space ability Cannon: Rapid Fire III. For a list of the skills that teach Bridge Officers advanced abilities, see List of skills teaching level 3 abilities

Color Key

In the tables below, the background color of the table cell showing the rank of the ability is specifically colored to indicate where the skill normally comes from. These colors are as follows:

• Green: Abilities learned from the Bridge Officer Trainer or Bridge Officer Requisition vendor
• Blue: Abilities that are learned from uncommon, rare or very rare Bridge Officers
• Purple: Abilities that are obtainable primarily from Captain training

Note: Players have seen some Captain trained Rank III abilities ^[1] listed on non-common Bridge Officer candidates. They are seemingly very hard to acquire. It could also be a bug, but this is not confirmed.

Abbreviations

Some of the descriptions below and also in the ability articles use common MMORPG abbreviations, these are:

• AoE: Stands for Area-of-Effect. See main article: AoE.
• DoT: See main article: DoT
• HoT: The same as DoT, however implies to heals rather than damage.
• Buff: See main article: Buff
• Debuff: See main article: Debuff

Ground Abilities

Space Abilities

Notes

Bridge officer space abilities can only be used if the officer is of appropriate rank and is sitting at an appropriately ranked station. Even an Engineer of the rank Commander can only use Ensign/Bekk and Lieutenant abilities when he or she is assigned to a Lieutenant Engineering station on your ship. This is why obtaining new ships becomes so important, as they unlock better consoles, which in turn gives you access to more abilities in space.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Attack Pattern Omega III on a Bridge Officer Candidate. (Source image)
2. ↑ This ability is also referred to as Hypospray - Masiform D in-game and in release notes.
3. ↑ Tactical Team was originally called Security Team in Star Trek Online, then later renamed. There are still some references in release notes and in-game tooltips for skills that still call it Security Team.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Rank I of these abilities are innate to Federation Science starships
5. ↑ Attack Pattern Omega III can currently be obtained through Captain training and from a non-common Bridge Officer candidate.
6. ↑ This skill is called both Auxiliary to Battery and Auxiliary Power to the Emergency Battery in-game.
7. ↑ This skill is called both Auxiliary to Dampeners and Auxiliary Power to the Intertial Dampeners in-game.
8. ↑ This skill is called both Auxiliary to Structural and Auxiliary Power to the Structure Integrity Field in-game.
9. ↑ Directed Energy Modulation III can only be obtained through engineering captains training officers with 9 points in Weapon Systems Performance.