Who Joaquin is in Star Trek Fleet Command
Joaquin is an Uncommon Command officer from Khan’s crew, part of the Augment faction. His job in the game is mining. His officer ability speeds up how fast a ship gathers two specific data resources, and his captain maneuver keeps more of that haul safe when the ship comes under attack.
He is a specialist rather than a general-purpose officer. If you spend time mining Corrupted Data or Decoded Data, Joaquin earns a seat on the bridge. If you don’t, he sits on the bench. Because he is Uncommon, he is cheap to recruit and rank compared with rare and epic officers, so trying him out costs very little.
Joaquin’s Star Trek background
Joaquin first appeared in the Original Series episode “Space Seed,” played by Mark Tobin. He was one of the genetically engineered Augments who followed Khan Noonien Singh, a product of Earth’s Eugenics Wars in the late 20th century.
When the crew of the Enterprise found the sleeper ship Botany Bay in 2267, Joaquin was among the 72 Augments still alive in cryogenic sleep, out of Khan’s original group of 84. On screen he was one of Khan’s strongmen, loyal and physically formidable.
There is a long-running tangle between Joaquin and Joachim, the Augment who appears in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Some reference works treat the film’s Joachim as the same person under a changed name. Star Trek Fleet Command sidesteps the debate by including both as separate officers, so you may see the two names side by side in your roster.
Joaquin’s role in STFC
Joaquin is a mining officer. The game has a handful of officers built around resource gathering, and he belongs to the group focused on data resources rather than ore, gas, or crystal.
His value comes from a pairing. The officer ability raises mining speed for Corrupted Data and Decoded Data. The captain maneuver raises Protected Cargo, the slice of a ship’s hold that stays with you if the ship is destroyed or raided. Put together, the two abilities help a mining ship gather faster and lose less. That makes Joaquin a defensive miner, useful when you gather in contested space where other players hunt for easy targets.
What he does not do is fight. He brings nothing to a combat crew, hostile grinding, armadas, or station defense. Treat him as a tool built for one job, and judge him on how often you need that job done. For a player who never touches data nodes, he is simply a name in the roster.
Joaquin’s abilities
Captain maneuver: Firewall Protection
When Joaquin captains a ship, Firewall Protection increases that ship’s Protected Cargo. As of the latest data, the base bonus is +50%. Protected Cargo is the amount of mined resources that cannot be stolen when your ship is taken down, so a higher figure means a raid or a destroyed ship costs you less of your run.
This captain maneuver does not scale up cleanly rank by rank the way some abilities do, so the number worth keeping in mind is the base +50%. The effect can climb higher when the rest of your bridge feeds class synergy into the captain seat, which the synergy section below explains. For a miner working through a long session, that extra protection adds up across every trip back to dock.
Officer ability: Data Miner
Data Miner increases a ship’s mining rate for Corrupted Data and Decoded Data. The bonus grows each time you promote Joaquin, and the progression is steady and consistent across game data, so it is reliable enough to lay out. Treat these as current values that can shift with game updates:
| Rank | Data Miner bonus |
|---|---|
| 1 | 40% |
| 2 | 60% |
| 3 | 80% |
| 4 | 100% |
| 5 | 125% |
The ability applies only to those two data resources. On a node of any other resource, Joaquin’s officer ability does nothing, which is the clearest sign that he is a specialist. The bonus roughly triples from rank 1 to rank 5, so promoting him pays off if you mine data often.
Where Joaquin shines
Joaquin is at his best on a dedicated data-mining ship. If your daily routine includes parking on Corrupted Data or Decoded Data nodes, his officer ability shortens each run and his captain maneuver protects the result. The two abilities point at the same goal, which is uncommon enough among officers to be worth using together.
He also suits newer players for a simple reason. He is Uncommon, so the shard cost to recruit and rank him is low. A player who has just started gathering data resources can field a working data miner without spending the shards that a rare or epic officer would demand.
Mining in busy systems is the third case where he earns his seat. Protected Cargo matters most where other players actively hunt miners. If you gather data in contested space, Firewall Protection softens the loss on the runs where someone destroys your ship before you can dock and unload.
How to get Joaquin
Joaquin belongs to Khan’s crew, the group of Augment officers tied to the Botany Bay. Officers in that group generally come from Augment faction sources and from events that feature Khan’s crew. Shard availability rotates over time, so check the current faction store and event listings in your game rather than relying on a fixed source.
Ranking him from recruitment to maximum rank takes 378 shards in total, split across five ranks at 14, 28, 56, 98, and 182. Each promotion lifts his maximum level and the Data Miner bonus, and the higher ranks also call for officer experience points, faction credits, and, at ranks 4 and 5, Command Badges. Those totals are modest for an Uncommon officer, so Joaquin is one of the cheaper officers to bring to full rank once you have a steady shard source.
Joaquin’s synergy and crew building
Every officer in STFC carries a class synergy bonus that pays out when the right classes share the bridge. Joaquin’s synergy values are Command 15%, Engineering 25%, and Science 25%. The Engineering and Science figures are the larger two, so his captain seat gains the most when Engineering and Science officers fill the other two chairs.
That feeds back into Firewall Protection. With Joaquin as captain and a synergy-friendly bridge, the Protected Cargo bonus rises above its base value, and that is the main way to get more out of his captain maneuver.
Beyond the class synergy, keep his crew simple. Pair him with officers that raise mining speed or cargo capacity for the data resource you are after. There is no fixed must-have partner for him, so build around the ship and the resource instead of chasing a named combo.
Frequently asked questions
Is Joaquin any good?
For data mining, yes. For anything else, no. He is a strong fit on a ship gathering Corrupted Data or Decoded Data and a weak fit everywhere else. Judge him by how much data mining you actually do in a normal week of play.
Where do you get Joaquin shards?
He is part of Khan’s crew, so his shards tend to appear through Augment faction channels and Khan-themed events. Availability changes over time, so check your in-game faction store and current events for the active source.
Is Joaquin worth ranking up?
If you mine data resources regularly, ranking him up is cheap and the officer ability bonus roughly triples from rank 1 to rank 5. If data mining is not part of your routine, those shards are better spent on another officer.
What ship is Joaquin best on?
Put him on whichever mining ship you use for Corrupted Data and Decoded Data. His abilities care about the resource and the cargo rather than the hull, so the right ship is simply your best data miner.
Is Joaquin the same officer as Joachim?
No. In STFC they are two separate officers with different abilities, even though the Star Trek source material blurs the line between the two characters. Check the ability text before you assign one, since the names are easy to mix up.
Should you chase Joaquin?
Joaquin is worth recruiting if data mining is a real part of how you play, and worth skipping if it is not. He is cheap to rank and good at exactly one job. Decide based on how often you sit on Corrupted Data and Decoded Data nodes, and rank him to match that.
