Who Laliari is in Star Trek Fleet Command
Laliari is a Rare Engineering officer added to Star Trek Fleet Command in the Galaxy Quest crossover. She is one of four officers from the 1999 film who arrived alongside the NSEA Protector, and her entire kit is built around making that ship work harder.
If you fly the NSEA Protector and you want its signature Omega-13 device to fire more often, Laliari is the bridge officer who shortens its cooldown. Her Below Deck Ability also props up Apex Barrier in wave defense, which has obvious uses in the Galaxy Quest Invasion and other wave-style content.
She is Rare, which makes her more reachable than the two Epic Galaxy Quest officers (Jason Nesmith and Gwen DeMarco) in the same group. For most players, Laliari is the easiest crossover officer to actually slot into a working crew.
Star Trek and Galaxy Quest background
Laliari is a Thermian from the 1999 film Galaxy Quest. In the film, the Thermians are a peaceful mollusk-like species who use appearance generators to take humanoid form. They build their entire civilization around the broadcasts of an old Earth television show called Galaxy Quest, which they mistake for historical records of real events. Their leader, Mathesar, brings the show’s actors to Thermia to fight off the warlord Roth’h’ar Sarris.
Laliari is one of the last surviving Thermians. During the mission aboard the NSEA Protector she works closely with Fred Kwan, the actor who plays Tech Sergeant Chen, and the two form a relationship. After Sarris is defeated, Laliari is the only Thermian to stay on Earth. She eventually adapts to the human concept of fiction and takes up acting under the name Jane Doe, playing a character also called Laliari in the in-universe revival series.
In STFC, the canon framing is preserved through her flavor text: she grew up watching the historical documents of the NSEA Protector and modeled herself on the ship’s chief engineer. By the time the Protector launches against Sarris, she knows the ship inside and out. That is why the game treats her as an engineer, and why her abilities all attach to the Protector specifically.
Role in STFC
Laliari is an Engineering officer in the Galaxy Quest group. She has no Captain’s Maneuver, so she is not someone you build a crew around as a captain. Her job is to sit on the bridge of the NSEA Protector and cut down the cooldown of the Omega-13 device.
The Omega-13 is the Protector’s defining ship ability: when the Protector would otherwise be destroyed in combat, the device rewinds the clock and returns the ship to a previous moment with a fraction of its hull health. It is the only way to survive certain fights, and it has a long natural cooldown. Laliari’s Officer Ability shortens that cooldown by a meaningful percentage, which matters a lot if you are using the Protector for repeated runs in the Mirror Universe expansion or to support an alliance during a Galaxy Quest Invasion.
If you do not fly the Protector, Laliari does very little for you above deck. She is a tool for one ship.
Captain ability
None. The in-game text reads, “This Officer does not have a Captain’s Maneuver. Equipping this Officer as the captain of a ship provides no benefit.” Do not put Laliari in the captain seat.
Officer Ability: Omega Efficiency
Slotted on the bridge of the NSEA Protector, Laliari decreases the cooldown of the Protector’s Omega-13 ability. Promotion ranks her ability up, so the higher you take her, the bigger the cooldown reduction. The published per-rank values are current as of the latest data.
| Rank | Omega-13 cooldown reduction |
|---|---|
| 1 | 66% |
| 2 | 100% |
| 3 | 150% |
| 4 | 235% |
| 5 | 400% |
The headline percentages look very large because they are reductions to a long base cooldown rather than absolute time values. In practice the rank-by-rank improvement is meaningful: each promotion lets the Protector fire its Omega-13 noticeably sooner. If you fly the Protector regularly, rank-up is worth the shards.
Below Deck Ability: Yalalalala!
Laliari’s Below Deck Ability is called Yalalalala! and increases Apex Barrier in wave defense. Apex Barrier is the damage-mitigation buff that helps you survive longer in long-form, multi-round fights, and “wave defense” covers the kind of content that runs in stages, such as the Galaxy Quest Invasion’s Chimera fights and similar wave-style events.
The bonus scales with promotion, so a higher-ranked Laliari contributes more from below deck than a freshly recruited one. Slot her below deck when you are running a wave-defense fight where every round counts, and especially when you are not flying the Protector and her Officer Ability is sitting idle.
Where Laliari shines
Three situations make her useful:
- Flying the NSEA Protector through Mirror Universe systems that only the Protector can survive. Faster Omega-13 cooldown means more attempts before the ship is forced to retreat.
- Participating in a Galaxy Quest Invasion or any wave-style hostile event. Below deck, Yalalalala! adds Apex Barrier across rounds; on the Protector’s bridge, Omega Efficiency lets you reset a doomed run.
- Newer crews that built the Protector early and cannot yet reach the Epic Galaxy Quest officers. Rare officers are easier to rank up, and Laliari’s bridge slot is a real upgrade over a generic engineer.
If you do not own the Protector, hold off on chasing her shards until you do.
How to get Laliari
Laliari originally launched as part of the Galaxy Quest crossover event with limited-time promo codes that have long since expired. Today she rotates through the usual channels for Galaxy Quest officers: faction store appearances, recruit tokens, and event store offers tied to recurring Galaxy Quest content. Check the current store and event rotations in-game for her shards. The recruit pool and event cadence change often enough that any specific store listing here would go stale; the in-game store is the source of truth.
From recruit through full promotion, the total shard requirement is on the higher side for a Rare officer because she scales up to max rank like other Rare-tier crew. Plan to pick her up over time rather than in a single rush, unless an event puts a heavy stack of her shards in one store.
Synergies and crews
Laliari sits in the Galaxy Quest officer group with Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, and Sir Alexander Dane. Stacking Galaxy Quest officers together is the natural way to play her, particularly on the NSEA Protector itself.
Because Laliari has no Captain’s Maneuver, your captain seat needs to come from somewhere else. A common pattern is to put a captain whose maneuver supports the fight you are taking (a hostile-damage captain in invasions, for example), with Laliari occupying one of the two bridge seats so her Omega Efficiency keeps applying. Below deck, prioritize officers whose abilities boost survival on the same ship.
One specific interaction to remember: Vemet’s Captain Maneuver and the Protector’s Omega-13 ship ability do not stack. Vemet takes priority, so the Omega-13 will not fire on a ship with Vemet as captain. If you are building a Protector crew that relies on Laliari, do not put Vemet in the captain seat.
Character traits
Laliari’s in-game flavor text leans into her engineer background: brave but quiet, technically gifted, instrumental in the Protector’s deployment against Sarris. The Galaxy Quest officers as a group skew toward unconventional traits compared to standard Star Trek crew, which fits the crossover’s tone. The exact named traits and XP costs surface inside the officer screen in-game; treat them as the source of truth there, since trait data shifts as Scopely tunes the kit.
Frequently asked questions
Is Laliari worth the shards?
Yes, if you own and fly the NSEA Protector. Her Officer Ability is the cleanest way to bring down the Omega-13’s cooldown, and that ability is the Protector’s whole reason for existing. If you do not own the Protector, she sits idle.
Should I put Laliari in the captain seat?
No. She has no Captain’s Maneuver, so the captain slot returns nothing from her. Put her on the bridge or below deck.
Where do you get Laliari shards now that the launch event is over?
Check the current store and event rotations in-game. Galaxy Quest officers cycle through faction stores, recruit tokens, and event-store offers tied to Galaxy Quest content. Avoid third-party “drop rate” claims; only the in-game store is current.
Does her Officer Ability work on any ship?
It only does anything useful on the NSEA Protector, because the ability cuts the cooldown of the Protector’s Omega-13 device. Slotting her on another ship’s bridge does not give that ship an Omega-13 to discount.
What rank should I take her to?
If you fly the Protector seriously, push for max rank. The cooldown reduction scales with promotion, and the gap between rank 4 and rank 5 is large. For casual Protector use, rank 3 or 4 is a fair stopping point before you spend shards elsewhere.
The short version
Laliari is a single-purpose officer: she makes the NSEA Protector’s Omega-13 device come back faster, and she boosts Apex Barrier in wave defense from below deck. If you own and fly the Protector, she earns her slot quickly. If you do not, skip her until you do.