From my own estimations you need about 2,500 antimatter for a 2 hour voyage. Skill check difficulty rises at about 21 per minute so with a skill level of 2,500 you will start to fail hazards at the 2hr mark and you have just enough antimatter in a decent 6.5 ship to run you to the next dilemma. So, if you're not familiar with 'the Big Book of Behold Advice' look for the link along the right side of this sub's front page - it's a wonderful (and frequently updated!) resource detailing how some very knowledgeable STT players rate the relative desirability of the various Legendary (golden / 5-star) and Very Rare (VR / purple / 4-star) crew cards are.

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This includes 'I think so and so is cheating in the event' posts. If you suspect someone is cheating report it to DB, this is not the place for it.Check the stickied event thread for questions about the current and following week's events.Helpful Links. Notable Variants of Riker, Bashir, Culber and Physician trait crew (Tier 5 or better in the Big Book)Riker - Desperate Riker and Riker Q are T3; the Chef and Little John variants are T4; Augment Riker is T5Bashir - Captive Bashir is T1; the Dress Uniform and RAF Julian variants are T3; Bell Riots Bashir is T4; Prince Bashir is T5. (Sources differ about whether Changeling Bashir counts as a variant, but he's in anyway because he has the Physician trait; see below.)Culber - Dr. Hugh is T4.Physician trait (excluding Bashir and Culber variants already mentioned)- Tier 1: Indulgent Seven; Mirror Phlox; Warship EMA- Tier 2: Dr. Pollard- Tier 3: Changeling Bashir; Katra McCoy; Reverend Phlox; Torpedo Surgeon McCoy- Tier 4: Captain Beverly Picard; Defensive Phlox; Doc Crusher; Dr.

Katherine Pulaski; Dr. La Forge; Victorian Pulaski- Tier 5: Author Doctor; Christine Chapel; Crell Moset; 'Dark Ages' McCoy; Dr.

'Bones' McCoy; Merry Men Crusher; Mirror Beverly Crusher; Mobile Doctor; Phlox Au Naturel; Virtuoso Doctor. So, if you're not familiar with 'the Big Book of Behold Advice' look for the link along the right side of this sub's front page - it's a wonderful (and frequently updated!) resource detailing how some very knowledgeable STT players rate the relative desirability of the various Legendary (golden / 5-star) and Very Rare (VR / purple / 4-star) crew cards are.They take everything into account, the crew's viability in events, Voyages, Gauntlet, ship battle bonuses, whether it's part of one or more collections. And they divide up both types of crew, the 5-stars and the 4-stars, into 10 tiers, with Tier 1 being the best overall crew, on down to Tier 10 being the worst.So when I make comments in event threads noting the 'Tier 5 or better' variants, like I did here with the Rikers, Bashirs and Culbers, I'm saying 'here are the better-rated variants of crew that will grant small or medium bonus in the event'. As you may know, high bonus always goes to the Featured Crew (in this case, Riker Odan, 1701 Bashir and Mycelial Culber), but the thread topnote will list those.A few reasons I list crew that are Tier 5 or better:.If I just list every variant, it takes more time to type & it's no more useful than if someone just goes to their Vault and searches for the names Riker, Bashir or Culber themselves.Numerous crew have useful variants that don't have 'their' name as part of the card's name.

The Tier 2 VR 'Alan-a-Dale', the Tier 2 legendary 'Captain Killy' and the Tier 3 VR 'The President of Earth'. If you just searched by name in the Vault, you'd miss these are variants of TNG's La Forge, Disco's Tilly and VOY's Doctor, respectively. And on rare occasions, you'll have something like 'Colonel Worf' which DOES turn up in a name search, yet does not count as a variant (in this case, it was TNG Worf's grandfather).I believe many people treat the Big Book's advice as gospel, hence better-tier crew are more likely to get picked in Beholds than lower-tier crew, and thus are more likely to belong to a given player's Collection than lower-tier crew. (Yes, I know about confirmation bias, so sue me).Last but not least, part of why higher-rated crew get those ratings is because they usually have higher base numbers and/or proficiency numbers than lower-rated crew. So an immortalized Riker with a 1,200 base will perform better in the upcoming event than an immortalized Riker with a 1,000 base, much less a 800 base, and so forth. That's a great question, the answer to which I just learned recently. The tiers are relative within each rarity group; the Big Book is meant to compare Legendaries to other Leggos, or Very Rares to other VRs, but trying to compare Legendaries to VRs is like comparing apples to oranges.Legendaries just have such higher base stats, I've heard it said that within a given tier, a 1-of-5-star Legendary (at Level 100 and Fully Equipped) will probably perform as well as a 4-of-4-star Very Rare that's maxxed out.

So then you give that Legendary a citation, and the 2-of-5-star Legendary will outperform the 4/4 Very Rare, etc and so on.

As the Enterprise holds her own against a swarm of energy creatures determined to keep the crew from completing their mission, Q leads Picard on a journey through his past, where a force even greater than Q and with an even wider cruel streak wreaks havoc on the galaxy.In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Bruce Gibson and Dan Gunther are joined once again by Earl Grey's Amy Nelson to discuss the second book of the Q Continuum series, Q-Zone. We talk about stardate snafus, peer pressure, bad parenting, 0's gang of evil-doers, the end of the TKon Empire, and wrap up with our final thoughts and ratings.In the news segment, we discuss the upcoming e-book release, I, The Constable by Paula Block and Terry Erdmann, a new activity book called Search for Spock by Robb Pearlman, a resolution to the issue with Discovery novel pre-orders at Amazon UK, and we talk about the IDW comic releases for October, including some news about the Star Trek: Discovery comics.

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