The new Collection "Ruthless Aggression" (brutal trait) has been added with all 208 Crew.
This is the first Collection for: Dejaren, Commander Barak, Mugato, Antedian Assassin, Kevin Mulkahey, Admiral Kirsten Clancy, Tactical Mayweather, Lt. Commander Mitchell, Pah-Wraith Keiko, Warship Janeway, Tieran Possessed Kes, Young Guinan, Captain Shaw, and Dark Empath Troi.
This brings the total of Crew NOT in any Collection to only 36. Sure seems like they are trying to make sure everybody is in some kind of Collection.
The next forced Client Upgrade will introduce two new things: Continuum Missions and Q-bits to build Quipment. This reminds me of when they introduced Interstellar Matter, Quantum and Polestars (all of which I only use about once every 30 days or so).
Continuum Missions seem like they are going to be the missions on the map that they haven't done a thing with in years, but for more advanced players as the Crew used must be immortalized.
Those missions will earn you Q-bits that you use to build Quipment, which seems like are going to be temporary power-ups. They also mention something called QP (Q-bit Points). These seem to be the same as Q-bits... I don't know, we'll see.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this sure looks like they are trying to modify the game for higher level Captains. This is fine with me, though I would suspect this is because most current players are long-time Captains (less new players), or they have made it too easy for new players to level-up.
When I started playing in 2017... well, it sure was different. It took me YEARS to advance far enough and have enough strong Crew to handle the various aspects of the game.
LLAP -erickelly