Pointers about key officers, ways to source them.
T'Pring
Gas Miner
Hidden Stash
Increase gas mining speed + IP*
Three of Eleven
Efficient Gas Acquisition
Resource Protection Protocol
Enhanced T'Pring
Stonn
Ore Miner
Pack Rat
Increase or mining speed + storage*
Four of Eleven
Efficient Ore Acquisition
Cargo Optimization algorithm
Enhanced Stonn
Barot
Crystal Mining
Deceptive Weakness
Increase crystal mining speed
Eleven of Eleven
Efficient Crystal Acquisition
Advanced Warp Theory
Improved crystal mining + warp*
Ten of Eleven
Multiplicative Extraction
Tribble Mining Collective
Increase mining speed of the ship
Two of Eleven
Storage Optimization
Extraction Protocol
Increases mining speed for all minerals + storage*
Raphael DuPont
Grade III Miner
Hidden Stash
Increases mining speed for G3 minerals + IP*
Joaquin
Firewall Protection
Data Miner
Increases mining speed for data + IP*
Elea Makinen
Advanced Mining
Isogen Mining
Besides increasing Isogen mining speed, as captain, she increases the ship's overall mining speed
Airiam
Isogen Miner
Cybernetic Tactician
Increase Isogen Mining Speed
Helvia
Parsteel Miner
Gold Rush
Parsteel mining speed + warp*
Domitia
Dilithium Miner
Hurry Home
Dilithium mining speed + warp*
K'Bisch
Tritanium Miner
Defensive Mining
Tritanium mining speed
Quark
Don't Let Them Take Anything
Take Everything They Have
Mining speed increase + IP*
Arrock
Exploit Market Opportunities
Diversify
As captain, increases mining speed of concentrated latinum while his officer ability increases mining speed as a whole
Fess
Pursue Profit Where You Find It
Cut Corners If You Need To
Increases mining speed as captain while officer ability is to reduce protected cargo
IP* : Increased Cargo Protection. Increases the amount of cargo that won't get stolen if the miner is hit by another player
storage* : Increased ship's cargo capacity
warp* : Increase ship's warp speed
Helvia
Parsteel Miner
Gold Rush
Increase warp speed when the ship is empty
Domitia
Dilithium Miner
Hurry Home
Increases warp speed when the ship is full
Eleven of Eleven
Efficient Crystal Acquisition
Advanced Warp Theory
Increases warp speed in general
Geoffrey Hadley
Galaxy Traveler
Survey Trainer
As captain he can increase a ship's warp speed by 15%
Klaa
Hot Pursuit
Critical Strike
As captain he increases the ship's impulse speed by 25%
Pan
Getting Up To Speed
Mistakes Were Made
As captain he increases the ship's impulse speed by 20%
Michael Burnham
Steadfast
Intuitive
As captain she increases the ship's impulse speed by 15
TOS Pavel Chekov
Young Genius
Security Plans
As captain he increases an explorer's impulse speed by 10
Cadet Montgomery Scott
Sturdy ship
Warp Theory
He increases any ship's warp range (max = 6)
TOS Montgomery Scott
A Garbage Scow
She'll launch on Time
As captain, he increases an explorer's warp range by 4 (can be further increased via synergy)
Ghrush
What's Mine is Mine
Fight or Flight
Increases a ship's warp range by a percentage of the ship's range
Grace Chen
Chen is the ultimate hostile grinder killing explorer and survey type hostiles while taking very little damage. This ability works for hostiles level 50 and below
T'Laan
She reduces the damage taken from kinetics when dealing with interceptor and battleship type hostiles whose kinetics deal massive damages. Unfortunately, most of these types of hostiles also carry energy weapons which she has no effect on
Beverly Crusher
Both her abilities are excellent to reduce damage when dealing with hostiles/armadas
Marlena Moreau
She reduces damage from hostiles
Cath
Similar to T'Laan, she reduces damage from kinetics. With slightly better percentages at each level.
William T. Riker
As captain, he doubles the weapons damage against armadas every single round. His officer abilities further increases the weapons damage against any Federation hostile/armada by 100%
Beverly Crusher
Both her abilities are excellent to reduce damage when dealing with hostiles/armadas
Deanna Troi
Her captain ability decreases the crit chance of armada targets while the officer ability increases the weapons damage against any Romulan hostile/armada by 100%
Geordi La Forge
His captain ability increases rewards from Armadas while his officer ability increases the weapons damage against any Klingon hostile/armada by 100%
Khan Noonien Singh
With armada battles usually lasting many rounds, his officer ability means your ship will be firing critical hits all the time. This results more damage (depending on your research).
Rom
His captain ability means your ship completes 1 whole round without sustaining damage while his officer ability increases the number of shots your ship fires.
Khan Noonien Singh
His captain's ability reduces the target's ability to mitigate damage while his officer ability increases chance of critical hits
Otto
Otto increases the attack of officers on the bridge and provides synergy to Khan
Joachim
He reduces damage from the base and defending ships
Most of the officers can be sourced via the various methods such as:
Jaylah can also be sourced by launching and defeating the swarm armada. The launcher's reward chest occasionally drops Jaylah shards.