Annorax at a glance
Annorax is a four-star Epic Command officer in Star Trek Fleet Command. He sits in the Voyager 30th Anniversary group and is independent rather than tied to a major faction. The headline reason to chase him is a captain ability that boosts what you get from Hostile Chests, paired with an officer ability that pumps Apex Barrier when your ship takes a hit.
That combination puts him in two different conversations. As a captain on a hostile-grinding ship, he expands the value of every chest reward you pull. As an officer in a bridge slot, he layers extra Apex Barrier on a tank build, giving the ship more raw damage mitigation across the first two rounds of a fight.
Neither role is for everyone. If you grind hostiles for parts, refined materials, and event currencies, Annorax is worth a serious look. If you mostly do PvP, mining, or station defense, his abilities point somewhere you do not spend much time.
Star Trek background
Annorax is the Krenim temporal scientist at the center of the Voyager two-parter “Year of Hell.” Played by Kurtwood Smith, he is the commanding officer of a weapon ship built around a device that pushes targets out of the space-time continuum, erasing them from history as if they never existed.
His story is a tragedy. The Krenim Imperium had been losing a long war with the Rilnar, and Annorax built the weapon to restore his people. The first incursion worked: it wiped out the Rilnar and gave the Krenim back their dominance. The cost was a plague that crippled them and a second incursion meant to fix it, which accidentally erased the colony of Kyana Prime. His wife was on that colony. The rest of the story follows him spending the next two centuries trying to bring her back by editing time.
The famous line, “When time offers you an opportunity, you don’t ignore it,” sits at the core of the character. He is brilliant, devoted to his people, and unable to stop once the math turns personal. Voyager eventually crashes the weapon ship into itself, undoing the entire timeline and reuniting Annorax with his wife on Kyana Prime.
Role in STFC
In game terms, Annorax is a Command-class officer with a double identity. The captain ability is built for hostile farming. The officer ability is built for taking hits.
That makes him a flexible Epic to slot into rosters that lean on hostile content for resources. The captain seat is where the reward boost lives, so the most direct use is on a ship parked in front of repeatable hostiles and chest-eligible targets. In a bridge slot, the Apex Barrier buff stacks on tank crews where you care about surviving long enough to win the trade.
He is not a mining officer, a station defender, or a PvP burst piece. His value sits in two narrow lanes, and those lanes happen to overlap with what mid-game and late-game players are already doing day to day.
Captain ability and officer ability
Captain ability: Past, Present, and Future
As of the latest game data, equipping Annorax as captain increases select Hostile Chest rewards by 30% of base at Rank 1. The chest categories called out in the in-game text cover G3 through G6 ship parts and refined materials, FKR Messages and Credits, Hirogen Relics, Mycellium, Exotic Biotoxins, Xindi Scraps and Bounties, Trellium, and Fatu-Kray Scraps. That is a wide enough list that most players running structured hostile loops will see the bonus on something they actually use.
One note on the math: this ability is one of the captain effects in the game whose data structure does not give a clean per-rank table you can trust. The Rank 1 value is the safe number to quote. Higher ranks scale, but the publicly visible rank progression is not reliable to publish, so treat the 30% as the floor and assume promotions improve it without pinning down exact tiers.
Captain abilities only fire when the officer is in the captain’s seat. If you put Annorax in a bridge slot, this effect does nothing.
Officer ability: Time is Patient
When Annorax sits in a bridge slot and your ship gets hit by a hostile, his ability adds Apex Barrier for two rounds. Apex Barrier is a true damage mitigation layer that applies after every other bonus, including standard mitigation. Each 100 points of Apex Barrier reduces the damage you take by one percent. The trigger fires once per enemy weapon and the effect is cumulative.
One quirk to know up front: this ability does not trigger when Tal is assigned to the bridge of the same ship. If you are building a Voyager 30th Anniversary crew around Tal, plan your bridge slots so Annorax is not the third piece.
The per-rank Apex Barrier values are, as of the latest game data:
| Rank | Apex Barrier added per trigger (2 rounds) |
|---|---|
| I | 2,000 |
| II | 2,300 |
| III | 2,600 |
| IV | 2,900 |
| V | 3,200 |
Because the trigger is hostile fire, this ability scales with how often the enemy actually shoots you. Long fights against multi-weapon hostiles get more out of it than short PvP brawls.
Where Annorax shines
Three situations make him worth the bridge slot or the captain seat:
- Hostile grinding loops where the chest table includes G3-G6 parts, refined materials, or any of the named event currencies. Captain him on the ship doing the grind and the reward bump compounds over a long session.
- Tanking against single-target or low-burst hostiles. The Apex Barrier per trigger adds a meaningful cushion when fights last more than a round or two.
- Voyager 30th Anniversary crew building where you already run two officers from the group and need a third. He fits the synergy frame without needing a specific captain to enable him.
He is not your pick for PvP burst, armada damage, mining, or station defense. Those jobs go to officers built for them.
How to get Annorax
Total recruitment to max rank costs 1,800 shards. The per-rank promotion costs run 120 for Rank I, 120 for Rank II, 240 for Rank III, 360 for Rank IV, and 960 for Rank V. The Rank V wall holds more than half the cost, so plan your shard income before committing to a max-rank chase.
Annorax sits in the Voyager 30th Anniversary content cycle, so his shards typically appear through event store rotations, recruitment events tied to the anniversary content, and any related faction or feature store offers. Specific drop locations and stock windows shift each cycle, so check the live event calendar and the current store rotations to see whether he is in the active pool.
Synergies
Synergy officers
The named synergy officers for Annorax are Seska at 10% and Suder at 10%. Both come from the Voyager 30th Anniversary group. If you already run Seska or Suder for other reasons, slotting Annorax onto the same bridge picks up the pairing bonus without changing the rest of your crew.
Beyond the named pair, the rest of the Voyager 30th Anniversary roster fits Annorax thematically. The crew works cleanest when you commit to the group’s identity instead of stitching him into a generic damage build.
Class synergy
Class synergy percentages for the Voyager 30th Anniversary group are not exposed in his publicly visible source data, so there is no Command, Engineering, or Science split to chase here. Treat synergy as the named officer pair plus the group identity, and let the in-game crew screen show you any class-pairing bonuses live.
Character traits
Annorax carries three traits that you unlock in the standard order, with XP costs that climb as you progress each one. The trait ladder follows the usual three-step, four-step, and nine-step structure shared by most Epic officers, and the trait names that show up in your trait screen tell you what each one buffs. Specific XP costs and trait labels can shift with game updates, so check the in-game trait screen for the current numbers before you commit XP.
Frequently asked questions
Is Annorax worth ranking up?
For a player who runs hostiles regularly, yes. Even Rank 1 gives you the 30% Hostile Chest reward bump as captain, and the Apex Barrier scaling on his officer ability gets meaningfully better at higher ranks. For a player who avoids hostiles, the captain ability is wasted and the officer ability only helps inside specific tank builds.
Where do you get Annorax shards?
Shard sources rotate with the event calendar. He is tied to the Voyager 30th Anniversary content, so check the active event store, recruitment events, and any related faction or feature store rotations for the current cycle. There is no permanent farm to lean on.
What ship is Annorax best on?
For the captain use, put him on the ship you actually run hostiles with. The reward boost does not care about ship class, so use whatever fits the hostile level you are grinding. For the officer use, he wants a bridge on a tank build that expects to absorb several rounds of hostile fire.
Does Annorax work in PvP or armadas?
His officer ability only triggers on hits from hostiles, so it does not fire in PvP or against armada targets. The captain ability is also keyed to Hostile Chests, so PvP and armadas sit outside his kit. He is a hostile-content officer.
Worth chasing?
Annorax is a specialist who happens to fit one of the most common jobs in the game. If hostile grinding is a meaningful chunk of how you play and you have the shard pipeline to push him toward Rank 5, he pays for himself across long sessions. If hostiles are not your daily routine, slot him only when your hostile loops have grown large enough to justify the seat.