Trait
- Also see our list of suggested trait builds as well as our trait chart.
- Are you looking for more information about bridge officer traits?
Traits are what define the basic attributes and, oftentimes, a special action that your character can use. Traits have a direct influence on the overall strengths of your character and are the key to adapting your character to your play style. Traits are permanent and cannot be revised once set initially.
Each character is allowed a total of four traits. Some races some pre-selected with 1, 2, or 3 traits, while the player can select the remaining ones. Only the fully custom races have completely blank trait settings. Predefined races, however, also have a limited selection is which traits may be chosen during customization.
Players should consider which role they wish to play in the game before selecting a combination of race and traits. Some races are better at certain roles than others. For example, Klingons would be horrible healers, because they automatically start with an increase Threat generation trait.
While nearly the same space and ground traits are available to both Federation and Klingon characters with a few race restrictions, some individual race traits are unique. For example, the Lethean Rapture trait deals psionic damage that has 100% shield penetration with a chance to deal an irresistible stun, a trait not available for any of the Federation races.
Note: Bridge officers also have traits. The bridge officers have four of them, each of which follows the same race requirements as player character traits. Almost all are ground based traits. They may have traits not available to player characters. Rare and very rare bridge officers have traits that include a "Superior" modifier.
List of traits
| Trait |
Racial Specific |
Choice |
Region |
Type |
Player |
BOff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | ||
| |
Andorian, Saurian | Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Passive | Player | BOff | |
| |
Android | No | |
Passive | BOff | |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | ||
| |
Yes | |
Activatable | Player | BOff | |
| |
Aenar | No | |
Innate | BOff | |
| |
Liberated Borg | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Liberated Borg [1] | Yes | |
Activatable | Player | BOff |
| |
Saurian | No | |
Innate | Player | |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff | |
| |
Gorn | Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Bolian | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff | |
| |
Bajoran | Yes | |
Enhancement | Player | BOff |
| Cryonic Visor Beam | Breen [2] | No | |
Activatable | BOff | |
| |
Pakled | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
No | |
Innate | BOff | ||
| |
Liberated Borg | Yes | |
Innate | Player | |
| |
Betazoid | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | ||
| |
Caitian | No | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Passive | Player | BOff | |
| |
Klingon | No | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Joined Trill, Trill | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Joined Trill | No | |
Innate | Player | |
| |
Human | No | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff | |
| |
Ferengi | No | |
Innate | Player | |
| |
Vulcan | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff | |
| |
Reman | No | |
Activatable | BOff | |
| |
Yes | |
Passive | Player | BOff | |
| |
Yes | |
Activatable | Player | BOff | |
| |
Benzite | No | |
Innate | Player | |
| |
Benzite, Ferengi | Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Vulcan | Yes | |
Activatable | Player | BOff |
| |
No | |
Activatable | BOff | ||
| |
No | |
Passive | BOff | ||
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff | |
| |
Photonic [3] | No | |
Passive | BOff | |
| |
Nausicaan, Orion (male), Vulcan | Yes | |
Enhancement | Player | BOff |
| |
Tellarite | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Nausicaan | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Activatable | Player | BOff | |
| |
Aenar | No | |
BOff | ||
| |
Lethean | No | |
Activatable | Player | |
| Reboot | Android | Yes | |
Passive | BOff | |
| |
Gorn | No | |
Enhancement | Player | BOff |
| |
Gorn | Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Orion | Yes | |
Activatable | Player | BOff |
| |
Orion (female) | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Enhancement | Player | BOff | |
| Space Warfare Specialist | Human Veteran [4], Klingon Veteran [5] | No | |
Unique | BOff | |
| |
Rigelian | No | |
Activatable | Player | BOff |
| |
Bajoran | No | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Passive | Player | BOff | |
| |
Tellarite | Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff | |
| |
Human | Yes | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | ||
| |
Yes | |
Activatable | Player | ||
| |
No | |
Innate | BOff | ||
| |
Betazoid, Lethean | Yes | |
Innate | Player | BOff |
| Veteran | Human Veteran [4], Klingon Veteran [5] | No | |
Passive | BOff | |
| |
Yes | |
Innate | Player | ||
| |
Klingon | No | |
Passive | Player | BOff |
The following traits are only available to Federation captains or bridge officers attainable by the Federation: Blindsense, Circulatory Redundancies, Corrosive Blood, Dumb Luck, Empathic, Feline Instincts, Fury, Leadership, Logical, Mind Meld, Natural Armor, Nerve Pinch, Pacification, Pacifist, Pig-Headed, Pounce, Project Image, Spirit Walk, Spiritual, Teamwork.
The following traits are only available to Klingon Defense Force captains or bridge officers attainable by the KDF: Rapture.
Federation required Traits
Human
Andorian
Bajoran
Benzite
Betazoid
Bolian
Caitian
Ferengi
Joined Trill
Klingon
Liberated Borg Human
Pakled
Rigelian
Saurian
Tellarite
Trill
Vulcan
Alien
- None
Aenar
Android
Breen
Human Veteran
Reman
Starfleet Borg
Klingon Empire required Traits
Klingon
Gorn
Joined Trill
Lethean
Liberated Borg Klingon
Nausicaan
Orion
- Physical Strength (male only)
- Seductive (female only)
Alien
- None
Android
Breen
KDF Borg
Klingon Veteran
Reman
Customizable Traits
Customizable traits are extra traits which the player is required to choose to make a total of four traits. The following is a list of customizable traits that are available to players, although all these traits might not be available for their chosen race. Click on the articles to find out more information.
Space
Ground
- Acute Senses
- Aggressive
- Bite
- Borg Neural Blast
- Cold-Blooded
- Covert
- Creative
- Fury
- Limited Telepathy
- Lucky
- Mental Discipline
- Mind Meld
- Natural Immunities
- Nerve Pinch
- Peak Health
- Physical Strength
- Resilient
- Seduce
- Soldier
- Stubborn
- Sturdy
- Sure Footed
- Teamwork
- Telekinetic
- Telepathic