{"id":6096,"date":"2022-07-12T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T03:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:51:48","slug":"cadet-nyota-uhura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/kadett-nyota-uhura\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadett Nyota Uhura"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Who is Cadet Nyota Uhura<\/span><\/h2>\n

Cadet Nyota Uhura is a common Engineering-class officer in Star Trek Fleet Command, part of the Another Time cadet group. She sits in the Federation roster alongside other Academy-era versions of the original Besatzung der Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her job on a ship is simple. She lowers the weapon damage of an enemy ship when seated as captain, and she pads your shields when seated on the bridge. That makes her an easy filler for early defensive crews while a new player is still hunting for stronger Offiziere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This guide covers what each ability actually does, where she fits in your roster, how to get her shards, and the questions players most often run into when deciding whether to chase her up the ranks.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Star Trek background<\/span><\/h2>\n

In Star Trek canon, Nyota Uhura<\/a> is a human Starfleet officer and a specialist in xenolinguistics, the study of alien languages and real-time translation. She trained at Sternenflotten-Akademie<\/a> before her formal posting to the USS Enterprise, where she handled subspace radio and bridge communications across the original five-year mission and the films that followed.<\/p>\n

The Cadet version in STFC pulls from the Kelvin-timeline films, where she appears as an Academy cadet before her assignment to the Enterprise during the events of the 2009 reboot. The Another Time card set lines her up with cadet versions of Kirk<\/a>, Sulu, McCoy, and Scotty, so she usually appears in a crew next to other Academy-era cadets.<\/p>\n

Her in-game flavor text mirrors that period of her career. She is shown working late in the long-range sensor lab tracking transmissions, which fits her established role as a linguist with sharp instincts for signals work.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Role in STFC<\/span><\/h2>\n

Cadet Uhura is a Common officer, so she sits at the bottom of the rarity ladder. Common officers are easy to recruit and easy to rank up, which makes them training-wheels picks for fresh accounts. Once you have access to Uncommon, Rare, and Episch<\/a> officers, she drops out of meta crews and into utility roles.<\/p>\n

Her abilities point her toward defense work. The captain ability shaves a chunk off enemy weapon damage. The officer ability adds shield health. Together those line up with PvP defense at the station and early hostile farming, where shrugging off the first hit matters more than maximizing your own burst damage.<\/p>\n

She does not fight, mine, or scavenge. If you are looking for an officer who buffs your own weapons or speeds up resource gathering, she is not that officer. Read her as a survivability piece.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Captain ability and officer ability<\/span><\/h2>\n

Captain ability: Scan the enemy<\/h3>\n

When Cadet Uhura is seated as captain, the opposing ship deals 10% less Weapon Damage, as of the latest Daten<\/a>. The exact value at higher ranks is not reliable in the public data, so treat the rank 1 number as the safe figure and consider the bonus a static debuff rather than a scaling one.<\/p>\n

This kind of debuff is most useful when you are tanking. Pair her with officers that pad shields, hull, or armor, and every incoming hit lands softer. It also helps in long fights, since a 10% damage cut compounds across rounds.<\/p>\n

Officer ability: Negotiations<\/h3>\n

As an officer on the bridge (not as captain), Cadet Uhura raises the Shield Health of the ship she is assigned to. The bonus grows with each promotion, current as of the latest game data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rang<\/th>\nShield Health bonus<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The bonus is multiplicative with hull and armor research, so the absolute number it adds scales as you level up your ship and your defensive research tree. It will not match the size of a Rare or Epic shield buff at the same rank, but it stacks for free on an early-game crew.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Where Cadet Uhura shines<\/span><\/h2>\n

She is a fit in a few specific spots:<\/p>\n