For the Academy Build, click here.

The Acheros is the most "romulan" box ship, and I like it. Captain is an engineer, tacticians would use some other personal traits and captains abilities (moar attack, less repair).

These are my trays:

• Gravity Well and the various tractor beams can mess with engines.
  
• Quantum Phase torpedoes + TS/HY will drop their shields.
  

What BOFF abilities, set-bonus clickies, weapons, and/or consoles are good for disabling weapons, or at least a target's ability to fire? "Placate" effects only seem to keep a target from shooting at me, but they can still target my teammates, so it's not ideal for a "support" build.

It's again specializing and skilling 4 BOs same way.


This solution is impressive when your Captain is already nicely equipped and you gave some love to your BOs.
Essentially these abilities buff your damage (percentages!) and resistances or debuff foes. Situation awareness is built into abilities or the BOs AI do the job.
And these things tend to stack.

Pick 4 any (any) Bridge Officers for your away team.

1. Train them by 4 Specialisation Manuals in Command.
   
2. Teach them by 4 Training Manuals  Return Fire-3.
   
3. Teach them by 4 Training Manuals  Hammer and Anvil-3.
   
4. Teach them by 4 Training Manuals from NPC   Shock and Awe-1.
   
5. Select Command as active specialisation and select Skills.
   
6. DONE!
   
   
   

If you can not create the manuals on your own: send me an ingame mail with 12 PADDS - I build them for you.

   

P.S. No video this time

This solution is effective and rather cheap - suitable for Chars Level 30+

1. Pick 4 any (any) Bridge Officers for your away team.
   
2. Train them by 4 Specialisation Manuals as Temporal Operatives.
   
3. Teach them by 4 Training Manuals Paradox Bomb-3.
   
4. Select Temporal Operative as active specialisation and select Skills.
   
5. DONE!
   
   

If you can not create the manuals on your own: send me an ingame mail with 8 PADDS - I build them for you.

My Videos on YouTube on such a team: WATCHIT

See Fancy Pic:

After running through 12 builds on the Crystal event, it occurred to me that maybe each event has an 'ideal' build. I'm going to post what I find - feel free to jump in with your ideas and results!
First one: BREACH EVENT: Jem'Hadar, Vorgon Xyfius, Polaron Beams and Kinetics



Result: Meh

This is my most loved set up for Science Captains on Ground, suits me fine in Ground Elite PVEs:

The most dirty trick in this is to have the set weapon as secondary and a favorite beast as primary.

Two hyped ground weapons (herold staff, boolean) have deficiencies in single target damage or firing rate. Or they are freezing you in place while loading up their 2ndary attack.

I prefer the Plasma Wide Beam Rifle for its quick Special/Secondary attack that cooperates with the Temporal Operative Specialization or a Krieger Wave weapon that also has a reasonably quick 2ndary attack and a KPerf proc. As high cost, but very cool alternative to the set body armor I like the 23rd Century Experimental Environmental suits:

Account Name: @seven311

Character Names: Sevu - SCI main
Sevv - Tac alt

Your Current Rank: Fresh 65. I played years ago and recently came back.
                                           Been getting into the reputations again and 
                                           learning new content.

Time Zone: Texas Central time,  GMT -5?  UTC -6

How did you get into Star Trek Online?   Ive always been a fan since i watched
                                                          The Next Generation on tv as a kid. 

How long have you been playing for? A few years back in 2012 up to 50. Recently came
                                                     back and dusted off the T5u wells ships. SCI is awsome.

What would be your best piece of advice to a new STO player?  Yes theres alot of micromanagement
                                                                                           sometimes. But just take it slow, Have fun,
                                                                                           ask questions, and it will all fall in place.
                                                                                           There seems to be alot of friendly and helpfull
                                                                                           people in this community

What’s your favourite career type (Engineering, Science or Tactical)?  Science for sure.

What’s your favourite ship? So far it would hafta be the Wells Temporal Science Vessel T5U. But ive been
                                       drooling over that Annorax, Maybe someday. I plan on trying a T6 temporal ship soon.

What’s your best and worst STO moment?  Memories of the winter event with old friends.
                                                              Putting those Type 2 phaser pistols on all our bridge members and ourselves, and
                                                              running old episodes watching all the mobs get turned off like TV sets. Can't recall any
                                                              worst moments realy.  And those are just memoriest realy, Not best moments. I do love it when
                                                              I get there just in time to transfer shields and hazzard emitters on someone, then turn and drop 
                                                              grav wells and torpedo spreads on there attackers.

What are some of your other interests?  Survival/crafting games, VR,  I'm a pretty casual gamer.

What’s your favourite band? Hard to pick a favorite. But i listen to everything. Pink Floyd, Beastie Boys,
                                         some classical, even some country.  Pink Floyd hasta be one of my favorites though.
                                         I come home after a hard day and listen to them and they ease my mind. Star Trek
                                         can have the same kind of effect.

Anything else you want to say?

I played this game years ago back in 2012ish.  Its one of those games i can never forget and always seem to come 
back to now and then.  I'm still in my old fleet. There sort of dead atm. So ide need to leave it if u guys will have me here. 
Last login has been a year or so. But for now its saving me from those random fleet invite spams.
An old friend of mine @stankybug is in ur fleet. U might know him as Tiggobittys.  We go all the way back to
Everquest 1 in 99 or 2000. Been a long time. I still remember when we first met and he was running all the 
way across the Dreadlands to meet up with the group. We've played games together ever since. Here is his old forum post
http://strikegroup.info/forum/showthread.php?tid=57   Lookin to get into an active Fleet to enjoy this game with Maybe i'll see u in game. I'm usualy on Sevu@seven311

Darkthorne and I are putting together a series of youtube tutorials on how to play STO - but we need a CLEVER name!

Send us your suggestions, ideas, etc., PLEASE!

Thanks!

Mom and Darkthorne

(more to follow!)

CLR—Infected Space[2:43]— Dmg(DPS) —Aurora 17,151,436(107,196) Jenora Kel 15,525,262(95,247) Angelika 9,964,962(61,894) Tybee 6,751,839(41,422) Taavam 6,068,812(51,431) Selene 0(0) 

   
   
   
   
   

I owe this ship design to TiberiusJP and hours of chatting with that friendly dude. Theory crafting with him was sometimes taxing, sometimes fun and always helpful

The ship is built to max exotic damage and uses Temporal Operative Specialization abiliities. Tactical BO abilities have been forfeited for a 360° Exotic Damage at Will aspect. Duty Officers combine a Drake Build with Technicians for Exotic Damage - those are not cheap, and at took me 2 weeks to pile the ECs for them. You can go for a 3-DCE Drake and also do well - the ISA Combat Reader pic is from a run I did before I got the Technicians.

This is the build in STO Academy: CLICK

The Academy does not offer the Gamma Reputation Impulse drive. These are the item details, where I pinked up why I love that thing on Science vessels:



In the space skill setup you will see many picks from the tactics department, shunned by many "Science" Captains. Reading tooltips thrice helps, I pinked up again the relevant sections. I pick these on any science vessel:


Here is how I use the ship's many abilities, massively eased by utilizing key binds:


Finally: NUMBERZ!