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STT Voyages - Dilemmas Tips for Exclusive Crew.

• Cracks in the Wall choose Choice A to preclude First Author
• Friends in Need Always choose Choice A to preclude Blow by Blow 
• If Fierce Guinan or Dr. Leonard McCoy are NOT the desired Crew then in  A Higher Duty, Part 2  Choice A Suggest a lenient sentence in the hopes of reform,
• If Janner is NOT the desired Crew then in A Life Alone, Part 1   Choice B  Advise the young Trill to look for purpose elsewhere. Will preclude A Life Alone, Part 2
• If That Gor is NOT the desired Crew then in Off the Books, Part 1 If Choice B is taken, Refuse the supposed agent's demands then Off the Books, Part 2 will not be triggered to occur.
• If Lucien is NOT the desired Crew then in Interference, Part 1 DO NOT Select Choice B, Take a sample back to the ship for further study and then Interference, Part 2 will not be triggered to occur.

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Some crew you just can’t get in the time portal, from beholds, or even event packs. The following characters are available only by voyage rewards, gauntlet rewards or by fusing multiple others. Fierce Guinan is now available as an achievement award and Colonel Worf reportedly shows up in time portal packs now and then.

I moved the Captain Avatars to their own page here .

24.02.13 – UBIQUITOUS BORG QUEEN is the first Crew only available as an Epic Level Continuum Missions reward. Ranked #3 CMD Base, #3 CMD Avg, #4 CMD Max AND #2 overall for Voyages at time of publication.

24.07.02 – EV SUIT GORN is only available as an Epic Level Continuum Missions reward. Ranked #1 ENG/SEC Proficiency Minimum Gauntlet Combo of Legendary Crew at time of publication.

22.08.02 – DATA AND SPOT are the first Crew only available as a Collection Reward – when completing Pet People.

COMMANDING OFFICER SISKO : Rare achievement Crew… Change Your Captain Name

I added Commanding Officer Sisko to this page October 2023, though he has been around since September 2018.  Stargazer Picard and Emergency Medical Holoprogram Mk.1 have also been added to the Honor Hall section below. These three were the suggestion of Captain Kumar (thanks!).

Voyage Rewards

JANNAR : A Life Alone (part one) Option A / A Life Alone (part two) Option A

LUCIEN : Interference (part one) Option B / Interference (part two) Option A

THOT GOR : Off the Books (part one) Option A / Off the Books (part two) Option B

THE CLOWN : The Beginning of the End of the World Option A / The Voice of the Prophets Option C

FIERCE GUINAN : A Higher Duty (part one) Option A or B / A Higher Duty (part two) Option A or B / A Higher Duty (part three) Option A

COLONEL WORF : Champion of the People (part one) Option A / Champion of the People (part two) Option B / Champion of the People (part three) Option B

ENSIGN PICARD : Champion of the People (part one) Option A / Champion of the People (part two) Option B / Champion of the People (part three) Option A

DR. LEONARD MCCOY : A Higher Duty (part one) Option A or B / A Higher Duty (part two) Option A or B / A Higher Duty (part three) Option B

VORI DEFENDER CHAKOTAY  : Random reward after six hours or longer. Probably very rare. Added January 4, 2023

ADMIRAL BLACK  : Random reward after six hours or longer. Probably very rare. Added March 28, 2023.  Admiral Black should be a Gauntlet Reward but whatever.

ONE WAY TICKET CHAPEL : Feature Exclusive Crew (whatever that means). Probably very rare. Added September 19, 2023.

GRADY :  Probably very rare. Barely ranked #10 on the HOT List for Security Skill Average Roll. Added December 5, 2023.

DR. SIMON VAN GELDER :  Probably very rare. Ranked #3 Medical Skill Base Maximum, #5 Medical Skill Average Roll, #9 Medical Skill Maximum Roll. Added March 12, 2024.

23.08.09- For the Dilemmas: Where Earth Meets Sky, The Cost of Living, Ladders and Chains, Blood-Red Tide, and The Buried Years – you now have a 1% chance to get a behold with Admiral Black or Vori Defender Chakotay (or a Random Legendary). There is also a 10% chance of a Super-Rare behold, and an 84% chance of a Ransom Super Rare.

For the Dilemmas: The Voice of the Prophets, A Higher Duty Part 3, A Life Alone Part 2, Champion of the People Part 3, Interference Part 2, and Off The Books Part 2 – when selecting the correct option (see above) you’ll get a behold featuring that Crew plus 2 other Super Rare Crew.

For the Dilemmas: First Author, The Tools at Hand, Friends in Need, and Burden of Proof –  you’ll get a behold featuring D’Kora Krayton and 2 other Legendary ships (now only at 500 schematics instead of 600).

Fusion Crew

So how to you max out The Duras Sisters? Just do what you did above three more times. Fuse all your 1/4* The Duras Sisters together for a Super Rare 4/4* THE DURAS SISTERS! Or you can get The Duras Sisters if you are super lucky at the Dabo Wheel.

So how to you max out Tuvix? You are going to need three more pairs of Ambassador Neelix + Security Chief Tuvok to make three more 1/4* Tuvix. You don’t have to level up Neelix or Tuvok at all, but one of them has to be 3/3* and the other 1/3* in order to fuse them. Fuse all your 1/4* Tuvix together for a Super Rare 4/4* TUVIX!

So how to you max out Evolved Janeway? You are going to need three more pairs of Captain Janeway + Mutated Paris to make four more 1/5* Evolved Janeway. You don’t have to level up Captain Janeway or Mutated Paris at all, but one of them has to be 4/4* and the other 1/4* in order to fuse them. Fuse all your 1/5* Evolved Janeway together for a Legendary 5/5* EVOLVED JANEWAY!

So how to you max out One Zero Zero One? You are going to need three more pairs of One Zero + Zero One to make four more 1/5* One Zero Zero One. You don’t have to level up One Zero or Zero One at all, but one of them has to be 4/4* and the other 1/4* in order to fuse them. Fuse all your 1/5* One Zero Zero One together for a Legendary 5/5* ONE ZERO ZERO ONE!

So how to you max out Indulgent Seven? You are going to need three more pairs of Indulgent Seven + Mobile Doctor to make four more 1/5* Indulgent Seven. You don’t have to level up Indulgent Seven or Mobile Doctor at all, but one of them has to be 4/4* and the other 1/5* in order to fuse them.

Fuse all your 1/5* Indulgent Seven together for a Legendary 5/5* INDULGENT SEVEN!

Considering the complexity of this character fusion, you may want to simply use Honorable Citations to make a 5/5* Indulgent Seven because it would be easier.

So how to you max out Reunion Spock and Kirk? You are going to need three more pairs of Anxious Kirk + Fal-tor-pan Spock to make four more 1/5* Reunion Spock and Kirk. You don’t have to level up Anxious Kirk or Fal-tor-pan Spock at all, but one of them has to be 4/4* and the other 1/5* in order to fuse them.

Fuse all your 1/5* Reunion Spock and Kirk together for a Legendary 5/5* REUNION SPOCK AND KIRK!

Considering the complexity of this character fusion, you may want to simply use Honorable Citations to make a 5/5* Reunion Spock and Kirk because it would be easier.

Gauntlet Rewards

LOCUTUS OF BORG : Strong in Diplomacy, Security / 7 traits

BARTENDER GUINAN : Strong in Diplomacy, Medical / 7 traits

THE CARETAKER : Strong in Engineering, Science / 7 traits

ARMUS : Strong in Science, Command / 5 traits. No longer on the Gauntlet HOT List. Replaced by Power Ransom.

THE RED ANGEL : Strong in Engineering, Science / 8 traits

BALOK : Strong in Command, Diplomacy / 7 traits

TRIBBLED KOLOTH AND KORAX : Strong in Security, Command / 7 traits

FIRST FLIGHT ARCHER : Strong in Command/Engineering / 9 traits

MIRROR MARINER : Strong in Diplomacy/Command / 8 traits. Mirror Mariner doesn’t even show up on the Gauntlet HOT List (but Admiral Black does). Seems like they have things backwards.

POWER RANSOM : Strong in Command/Science / 8 traits.

OMET’IKLAN : Strong in Security/Engineering / 10 traits. This is the first new Gauntlet Crew since July 2023, which I think is more reasonable. Mirror Mariner and Power Ransom were 3 months apart, and Mirror Mariner and First Flight Archer were only 2 months apart. That being said, it took me a year to get First Flight Archer and I have not seen Mirror Mariner or Power Ransom yet. I play every day as a considerably strong Captain, so what’s up with that. I guess we’ll see if I magically get Mirror Mariner in March of 2024. *** Close… April 12th, 2024.

BRIDGE WORF  : Strong in Engineering/Security / 9 traits. It’s 24.07.09 and we haven’t had a new Gauntlet Crew in 5 months which is fine with me because it takes at least a year for them to “randomly” show up.

I am not entirely sure if you can acquire these crew anywhere else, but I’ll tell you this: I have multiples of each, all from The Gauntlet… EXCEPT… I have no Locutus of Borg and he was discontinued from The Gauntlet before I started playing, so… *April 8, 2020 : I got an email from a Captain named James. He says that he has pulled a Locutus of Borg as a Gauntlet Reward, so there’s hope!

* * April 24, 2020 : GhuruDude  sent me an email that Locutus is the reward for completing 20K Gauntlet rounds. I have done the Gauntlet pretty much every day for over 2 1/2 years at this point, and I am no where near 20K. That might because I personally find the Gauntlet almost as annoying as the Arena, but at least it’s not required to complete your daily tasks.

***December 20, 2021 : it took over 4 years, but I finally got a Locutus in the Gauntlet – which is awesome, because it would take me like 7 years to get 20,000 rounds.

***December 13, 2023 : I am currently at 19,600. It will indeed take almost 7 years to get there.

STARGAZER PICARD : Common Honor Hall Crew

EMERGENCY MEDICAL HOLOPROGRAM MK.1 : Uncommon Honor Hall Crew

KAHLESS THE UNFORGETTABLE : Strong in Command / 7 traits

Original Honor Hall Legendary Crew. 100,000 honor.

CAPTAIN BEVERLY PICARD : Strong in Medical, Command / 5 traits

Once upon a time, you could purchase Captain Beverly Picard in the Honor Hall, much like Kahless the Unforgettable – but not for long. She is absolutely the most powerful in the combined Command/Medical skill for The Gauntlet. I don’t know if you can still acquire her at all, but I haven’t seen her since. She is available for 100,000 honor.

*Jan 10, 2020 – I got an email from a Captain named Mike and he says that Captain Beverly is still in his Honor Hall. I hope that’s true for everyone that doesn’t have her yet. – ek

*Feb 20, 2020 – an email from Captain James confirms that Captain Beverly is still in the Honor Hall. Why DB removed her once I bought her (and not Kahless), I have no idea.

NANOPROBE PHLOX : Strong in Engineering, Medical / 6 traits

Added August 4th, 2020 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

CAPTAIN TRIBBLE : Strong in Command (the strongest at time of release) / 6 traits

Added March 23, 2021 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

BORG QUEEN SEVEN : Strong in Command, Engineering (but not as strong as Assimilated La Forge or EV Suit Picard in the Gauntlet) / 7 traits

Added September 14, 2021 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

KAL’HYAH WORF  : Strong in Command, Security (but not even on the Hot List AT ALL) / 4 traits

Added February 23, 2022 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

VALEO BETA V HEMMER : Strong in Security, Engineering (not on the HOT List either) I swear they do that on purpose just to see if we’ll bother saving up all that honor. I am guilty / 7 traits

Added September 6, 2022 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

TECHNICIAN UHURA : Strong in Diplomacy, Engineering | #1, #1, and #3 in Diplomacy Base Max, Average Roll, and Maximum Roll – Respectively | She’ll be on the HOT List for a while / 6 traits

Added December 6, 2022 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

HEROIC SHAXS : Strong in Security, Command | NOT on the HOT List / 8 traits

Added May 16, 2023 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor.

VOX : Strong in Security, Engineering | NOT on the HOT List / 6 traits

Added August 23, 2023 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor. Usually they do these in predictable six month intervals…this one only took three.

TIMELESS CHAKOTAY : Strong in Command, Science | #6, #4, and #6 in Command Base Max, Average Roll, and Maximum Roll – Respectively  / 8 traits

Added November 16, 2023 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor. It looks like the 3-month interval is normal now.

DATA AS MASAKA : Strong in Engineering, Diplomacy | #2, and #2 in Engineering Average Roll, and Maximum Roll – Respectively  / 8 traits

Added March 5, 2024 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor. It was more like 4 months this time.

OUT OF TIME BURNHAM : Strong in Security, Engineering | NOT on any HOT List  / 8 traits

Added April 9, 2024 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor. Jeezaloo, they waited a whole month this time. THIS is why I keep 100,000 honor in reserve.

BLUFFING NOG : Strong in Diplomacy, Engineering | NOT on any HOT List  / 8 traits

Added August 13, 2024 in the Honor Hall for 100,000 honor. 4 month gap this time.

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Missions , also known as episodes and conflicts , are a key part of Star Trek Timelines , allowing players to progress in the storyline. Conflicts begin with players selecting their crew . Different crew are better suited for different tasks. Each character is proficient in at least one skill : Diplomacy , Science , Security , Command , Engineering and Medicine . Skills can be improved by levelling up, and fusing characters with extra copies of themselves. Crew also have inherent abilities called traits . For example, Commander Worf has the Warrior trait. distre Once they have been selected, the away team is sent to resolve the conflict. In each conflict, the player is faced with choices, taking them down a different path and leading to different challenges, similar to a choose your own adventure book [1] . Players may continue with the conflict even if they fail some challenges. However, they will fail the conflict if they fail to complete the last challenge. To determine if they win a challenge or not, characters compete against that challenge's difficulty. This is where their skills and traits are used. For example, a stage may require 22 Security. There can be different mission outcomes, for example if an away team utilising mostly combat oriented crew is used there may be a combat based resolution, which will be different to a diplomatic resolution, and this will affect the narrative [2] .

By completing conflicts, players can gain crew experience, credits , equipment, knowledge and many other items. Completing conflicts is a key way to improve crew in Star Trek Timelines.

• 1.1.1 The Beginning
• 1.1.2 Logic Under Fire
• 1.2 Episode 1 - The Art of War
• 1.3 Episode 2 - Never Forgive, Never Forget
• 1.4 Episode 3 - From On High
• 1.5 Episode 4 - Hostile Takeover
• 1.6 Episode 5 - Ethical Alternatives
• 1.7 Episode 6 - Something Rotten
• 1.8 Distress Calls
• 2 Undiscovered Missions
• 4.1 Honor Through Victory
• 5 Related Dev Diaries
• 6 References

Current Missions [ ]

The tables below shows chronitons cost and requirement level.

They also lists credits, character and captain XP gain per mission, presuming you did not fail any part if it.

Prologue [ ]

The beginning [ ], logic under fire [ ], episode 1 - the art of war [ ].

Completing Factions: Klingon Empire vs. Augments

Episode 2 - Never Forgive, Never Forget [ ]

Competing Factions: Cardassian vs Maquis vs Bajoran

• Bug note: Certain nodes require the successful completion of the previous node to unlock. If you fail this node, the next node will incorrectly say "Requires Cardassian reputation" inferring you could unlock it by increasing your faction reputation. This is incorrect, it only unlocks by successful completion of the preceding node.
• Bug note 2: Mission 19 (Bajoran and Cardassian options) has a broken node as it requires a Maqui with diplomacy. While there are a couple maqui, none have diplomacy, thus no such crew currently exists. Therefore elite/epic can not be unlocked on this mission until it is fixed.

Episode 3 - From On High [ ]

Episode 4 - hostile takeover [ ].

• 1 : Certain nodes require the successful completion of the previous node to unlock. If you fail this node, the next node will incorrectly say "Requires Cardassian reputation" inferring you could unlock it by increasing your faction reputation. This is incorrect, it only unlocks by successful completion of the preceding node.
• 2 : The cost for "Trial by Fire" (Epic) seems to be bugged as the preceding 5 missions all cost 20, as do the following 2 missions and in every other case, cost slowly increases incrementally, never decreases.
• 3 : The node map does not match the nodes. For example, according to the map, the second step requires either MED, CMD, or DIP, but the actual nodes are MED, MED, and CMD.

Episode 5 - Ethical Alternatives [ ]

Episode 6 - something rotten [ ].

Competing Factions:

• Note the remarks about required traits are whats required to get 3 stars and thus unlock the next difficulty. None are actually required to simply complete the mission to move on.

Distress Calls [ ]

Delphic Expanse

Undiscovered Missions [ ]

These missions are sometimes found in the listing of places to get equipment.

• Pirate Problems
• Inspecting Morn
• Boardroom Politics
• Death Throes
• Mine or Yours
• Serious Business

Gallery [ ]

History [ ]

Honor through victory [ ].

A screenshot from the challenge Honour Through Victory, as seen in the Pax East 2015 demo.

A mirror universe villain and a catastrophic weapon of the past are threatening the Federation. Can you stop them?

The mission Honor Through Victory was shown in the PAX East 2015 Demo .

Related Dev Diaries [ ]

• Conflicts in Star Trek Timelines

References [ ]

• ↑ http://www.sub-cultured.com/pax-east-2015-star-trek-timelines-jotun/
• ↑ http://lorehound.com/news/pax-east-2015-our-first-hands-on-with-star-trek-timelines/

Calculate “best” crew for a voyage, as well as monitor the current voyage.

Notable Features

• Send crew on a voyage from the tool (game client must be restarted to see changes)
• Automatically exclude event bonus crew
• Manually exclude or select crew
• Estimated time remaining for current voyage
• Recalled voyage run time not including recall time
• Time of next dilemma and duration until next dilemma
• Estimated time of return if recalled now or recalled when antimatter runs low
• Listing of voyage rewards, including whether crew is not owned, frozen, or adds a fusion level
• Perform voyage dilemmas or recall the voyage
• Calculate and export best crew for all voyage pairs
• Export voyage log and statistics

Critical Hit

In starship combat , "critical hits" allow you to do more damage to the enemy ship. The values are displayed in yellow for critical hits versus the blue font for regular hits.

• 1.1 Crit Rating
• 1.2 Crit Bonus

Critical hits are influenced by two starship statistics: Crit Rating and Crit Bonus . Crit Rating determines how likely it is that your ship scores a critical hit, while Crit Bonus determines how much extra damage your critical hits do. In general, Crit Bonus and Crit Rating do not increase with ship level. They are inherent to the ship class. Crew equipment, however, and crew abilities can grant ship bonuses that sometimes substantially increase these stats.

Crit Rating

Crit Rating determines how likely it is that your ship scores a critical hit. Your rating determines how likely it is that every shot your ship makes is a critical hit, which does extra damage based on the current Crit Bonus. The equation is set as a linear extrapolation between points emulating a curve and has a maximum probability of 50% at 10000. Because the lowest Crit Rating for a ship is the HMS Bounty at 400, the minimum possible probability for critical hits is 4%. A ship with a Crit Rating of 1000 (for instance the Sikarian Vessel ) has a 13.67% chance of scoring a critical hit. The highest base odds for a ship at the time of writing is the D'Kora Krayton , which has a Crit Rating of 1400 and a probability of 18.67%. As the Crit Rating increases, so does the probability, but the slope generally lowers with increasing value. This creates a lower return on investment for additional points invested in Crit Rating when staffing Arena and Fleet Boss Battle setups. Points added to Crit Rating have the highest return on investment in the 1800-2400 range.

Crit Bonus determines how much extra damage your critical hits do. A Crit Bonus of 10,000 will result in double damage on a critical hit. Increasing your Crit Bonus will increase the amount of extra damage your attacks do when they land a critical hit. To calculate your extra damage, take your Crit Bonus and divide by 100. The resulting number is the percentage of extra damage your shots will do when they critically hit. For example, a level 1 Prakesh has an attack power of 7525 and a Crit Bonus of 8000 (i.e. 80%), so any critical hit will inflict 6020 additional points (80% of 7525), bringing the total damage to 13545 (minus some rounding error).

Critical hits can increase the damage your ship deals by double or more, and are thus very powerful. However, it must be taken into consideration that damage is scaled with the attack skill of the crew active and then added to the ship's attack power. Current max Crit Bonus at the time of writing would be four crew with 20,000 Crit Bonus (e.g. Hollow Data). However, to get the maximum benefit, a crew with high attack boost must be active at the same time. If one were to staff The Artifact with, in order, Hollow Data, Demo Man Scotty, President T'Rina, and another Hollow Data, the maximum active Crit Bonus achievable would be: 7500 (ship) +16000 (Scotty's bonus) +575 (Scotty's equipment bonus) +20000 x2 (Hollow Data's max bonus) +200 x2 (Hollow Data x2 equipment bonus) +20000 (President T'Rina) +75 (T'Rina equipment bonus) = 84,550. Critical damage with all crew active would then be 921,106. The Crit Rating for that setup would be 1140 (ship) + 185 (T'Rina) + 245x2 (Hollow Data x2) +240 (Scotty) = 2055 (26.55%). Selecting crew and ships to maximize your damage potential in Arena, Skirmish, or Fleet Boss Battles involves careful planning and consideration of multiple factors. Increasing Crit Rating increases the odds to deal critical damage, which can be a deciding factor in arena battles. The critical bonus doubles the damage for every 10000. Therefore, balancing both factors in concert with the attack skill boosts can make a noticeable difference in the performance of a ship and the outcome of a battle.

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I love how star trek beyond makes it clear uss enterprise’s mission is hard.

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Star Trek Beyond Ending & Why No Sequel 8 Years Later Explained

1 hilarious star trek: voyager tuvok scene actually made no sense, seven of nine is the fastest captain of the uss enterprise since kirk in j.j. abrams’ star trek.

• The five-year mission of the USS Enterprise is not as glamorous as it seems in Star Trek Beyond.
• Deep space exploration takes a toll on Captain Kirk and the crew, as shown in the movie.
• A potential Star Trek 4 could explore the impact of multiple five-year missions on the Enterprise crew.

I love how Star Trek Beyond makes it clear that the USS Enterprise's five-year mission is hard. The five-year mission is the backbone of the Starship Enterprise's existence. Every episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , and now Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , begins with opening titles where the Captain of the Enterprise narrates, "Space, the final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise... Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds...." But Star Trek 's five-year missions aren't as glamorous as they seem.

Star Trek: The Original Series made no bones about the dangers of the Starship Enterprise's five-year mission. In Star Trek' s Prime timeline , Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the Enterprise encounter space gods, enemy alien races, monsters, and all manner of calamities. But those were exterior threats to the Enterprise and its crew. Otherwise, the Enterprise was a safe haven, and surely, other Star Trek fans like myself fantasize about living aboard the starship and being part of its five-year missions. However, 1,825 days in deep space, millions of lightyears from home, takes a toll, and Star Trek Beyond makes that price that is paid clear.

Star Trek Beyond set up a sequel for Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and the Kelvin Timeline crew, but it's 8 years later and we've yet to see Star Trek 4.

Star Trek Beyond Reminds Audiences USS Enterprise’s Five-Year Mission Is Hard

Exploring deep space takes a toll.

Star Trek Beyond begins with a mission gone away on the planet Teenax. Safe aboard the Starship Enterprise once more, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) resumes his five-year mission. Kirk delivers a Captain's log that elaborates on the details of the Enterprise's five-year mission, and it's insightful. In perhaps the most revealing instance of Star Trek delving into the minutia of the day-to-day life of a five-year mission , Kirk explains what he and the Enterprise crew really endure being all alone in outer space for years at a time:

Captain's Log, Stardate 2263.2. Today is our 966th day in deep space, a little under three years into our five-year mission. The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins. It can be a challenge to feel grounded when even the gravity is artificial. But, well, we do what we can to make it feel like home. The crew, as always, continues to act admirably despite the rigors of our extended stay here in outer space. And the personal sacrifices they have made. We continue to search for new lifeforms in order to establish firm diplomatic ties. Our extended time in uncharted territory has stretched the ship's mechanical capacities. But fortunately our engineering department, led by Mr. Scott, is more than up to the job. The ship aside, prolonged cohabitation has definitely had effects on interpersonal dynamics. Some experiences for the better, and some for the worse. As for me, things have started to feel a little... episodic. The farther out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we're trying to accomplish. But if the universe is truly endless, then are we not striving for something forever out of reach?

Ironically, in Star Trek Into Darkness , Captain Kirk wanted the USS Enterprise to be assigned to a five-year mission in deep space. Kirk got his wish after Khan Noonien Singh (Benedict Cumberbatch) was defeated, and the Enterprise was rebuilt and relaunched. Of course, a five-year mission of making First Contact with alien races and being the first to see unexplored regions of the galaxy sounds thrilling and glamorous. And some of it is. But I love how Kirk learned in Star Trek Beyond that a five-year mission is also enervating, and sometimes tedious . Kirk's lessons nicely dovetail into his renewed trust and faith in his crew when they best Krall (Idris Elba) .

Captain Kirk applied to be Vice Admiral of Starbase Yorktown because of his displeasure at the USS Enterprise's five-year mission, but Jim changed his mind.

Star Trek 4 Can Show What Decades Of Enterprise Missions Is Like

How many five-year missions did chris pine's enterprise have.

It's too bad that it took three J.J. Abrams-produced Star Trek movies to depict the Starship Enterprise's five-year mission, and it's even more disappointing there hasn't been a new Star Trek theatrical movie since 2016. If Star Trek 4 finally happens , Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and the rest of the Star Trek movie cast will be a decade older. Yet, this could also be a benefit. Presumably, Kirk and the Enterprise never stopped exploring space in the interim years since Star Trek Beyond. This gives Star Trek 4 a unique opportunity to show what living through more than one five-year mission is like for the Enterprise crew.

Star Trek Beyond ended with the USS Enterprise-A launching on a new five-year mission.

It's actually an exciting proposition to have Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and their Star Trek cast return after a decade. Star Trek (2009) introduced its Enterprise crew in the flower of their youth, but they would return in Star Trek 4 as middle-aged and highly experienced Starfleet officers - possibly even legends. How a couple of five-year missions would have changed Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise's crew, and bonded them even closer as a found family, is fertile ground fo r Star Trek 4 to explore. After all, it's hard to believe the Starship Enterprise's five-year missions got any easier after Star Trek Beyond.

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