{"id":6167,"date":"2022-07-14T18:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T22:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:53:40","slug":"keenser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/star-trek-fleet-command.1337wiki.com\/de\/keenser\/","title":{"rendered":"Wachtmeister Keenser"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Keenser, a station defense officer in STFC<\/span><\/h2>\n

Keenser is a rare Federation officer in Star Trek Fleet Command, and his whole kit points in one direction: keeping a ship alive while it sits in your station. Both his captain ability and his officer ability work only while a ship is docked, which makes him a dedicated station defense pick rather than a fleet you fly out on Missionen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If another commander attacks your base, a parked ship with Keenser aboard absorbs the hit with more hull and shield health than it would have on its own. That narrow focus is the point of the officer, and it is why newer players often meet him early while working out how to make their station harder to crack.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Who Keenser is in Star Trek<\/span><\/h2>\n

Keenser comes from the Kelvin timeline films, the rebooted Star Trek movies that begin with the 2009 Star Trek and continue through Into Darkness and Beyond. He is the quiet engineer who works alongside Montgomery Scott<\/a>, first at the remote Federation outpost on Delta Vega and later aboard the Enterprise.<\/p>\n

On screen he barely speaks. He has a single spoken line across three films, and the running joke is that Scott grumbles about him constantly while plainly depending on him. The two repair the USS Franklin<\/a> together in Beyond, and Keenser’s unusual biology even pays off when his acidic sneeze burns through a cell door.<\/p>\n

The game leans on a detail from the licensed Star Trek comics rather than the films. There, Keenser is the first Roylan to join Starfleet. He is unusually tall by the standards of his species, which made him a target for ridicule at home, and he answered that with the stoic, laconic manner he carries through every appearance. That is the version of the character his in-game profile uses.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Keenser’s role in STFC<\/span><\/h2>\n

Keenser is a station defense officer. In Star Trek Fleet Command you can leave ships docked at your station, and when a rival attacks your base, a docked ship defends it. The Offiziere<\/a> on that ship still apply their abilities during that fight, so the right crew turns a parked ship into a real deterrent.<\/p>\n

A station that falls in a raid hands resources and a morale win to the attacker, so the ship you leave on guard duty matters more than it looks. Keenser exists to make that ship the kind a raider thinks twice about.<\/p>\n

His class is Engineering and his officer group is Auxiliary Controls. Engineering officers<\/a> tend to deal in survivability rather than raw damage, and Keenser fits that pattern. He does nothing for grinding hostiles, mining, or running armadas. His value appears only when a ship is sitting at home, so treat him as a situational officer rather than a general purpose one.<\/p>\n

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

Keenser’s captain ability is Emergency Repairs. With him in the captain seat, a docked ship gains 20 percent hull health as long as the ship is in the station (current as of the latest game Daten<\/a>). Hull health is the deeper of a ship’s two health pools, the part an attacker has to grind through once shields are gone, so a flat boost to it gives a defending ship a longer fight.<\/p>\n

This bonus does not climb as you promote Keenser, so the rank 1 value is the figure that matters. Promotion still helps, because it raises his base stats and improves his officer ability, but the captain ability percentage itself stays put.<\/p>\n

Fine Tuning, his officer ability<\/h3>\n

Fine Tuning is Keenser’s officer ability, used when he sits in a standard bridge slot rather than the captain seat. It adds shield health while the ship is in the station, and this bonus does scale with promotion. Two separate data sources agree on the same progression, so the per-rank values are solid enough to lay out. Values 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>\n20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n40%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

An officer uses the captain ability only from the captain seat and the officer ability only from a regular bridge slot, so you pick one role for Keenser per crew. As captain he is your hull boost. In a bridge slot he is your shield boost. Which one you want depends on the rest of the crew you build around him.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Where Keenser shines<\/span><\/h2>\n

Three situations make good use of him:<\/p>\n