The Next Generation Arc

The Next Generation arc is the Star Trek Fleet Command storyline that begins at the crash site of a USS Enterprise-D from a parallel universe, with Data the only one left aboard and the rest of the crew scattered across the galaxy. It has 67 missions, made up of nine chains and two Meridian installation missions, recommended from level 10 to 42, with warp to complete running from 1 to 80. Along the way you collect shards for Worf, Beverly Crusher, Wesley Crusher, William T. Riker and Jean-Luc Picard.

Data cannot recall how the ship arrived, but the damage points to a deliberate attack. Your job is to find the missing crew and work out what happened.

How the Next Generation arc works

The arc runs in three level bands. The early chains are cheap: Rewriting the Past sits at level 10 and warp 5, and Worlds Apart at level 12 never needs more than warp 8. Worlds Apart starts on its own and ends with Geordi La Forge and Dr. Crusher back aboard the Enterprise-D.

The middle band at levels 31 and 32 holds four chains that finish between warp 1 and 25. Several of them branch. A Battle for the Ages splits at Part 6 when Deanna Troi asks you to join her. Focal Point opens with a choice between protecting the Zorivians with Crusher and chasing an astrometric chart with Geordi. In Survival of the Fittest, the lead you pick in Part 1 decides which version of each later part you get, which is why its parts carry two numbers in the table below.

A Great Escape follows at level 34, where you break Worf out of a Cardassian prison and chase the crew through inter-dimensional rifts at warp 25 or less. After that the warp requirement climbs sharply. A Blessing and a Bane picks up after A Great Escape Part 10 and needs warp 65 to 80, then hands off to Warriors Lost at level 42 and warp 56 to 70.

The two Meridian missions stand apart from the story: they ask you to raise Operations to level 34 and 39, with no travel or combat.

Next Generation arc rewards worth chasing

Worf is the officer this arc pays most often. A Great Escape gives two Worf shards in Part 5 and three in Part 10, and every part of Warriors Lost adds one more, ten in all. Warriors Lost also pays about 5.2M Dilithium across its five parts.

A Blessing and a Bane opens with 8 Beverly Crusher shards and closes with 5 Jean-Luc Picard shards in Part 5, with 18.3M Parsteel in between. A Battle for the Ages pays 8 Wesley Crusher shards in Part 1, 5 William T. Riker shards in Part 5, and 800 Ultra Recruit Tokens in Part 10 whichever choice you make.

Recruit tokens turn up across the arc. Blind Data Part 5 and Survival of the Fittest both pay 600 Premium Recruit Tokens, and Worlds Apart Part 3 gives 400 at level 12. The Meridian missions pay a Meridian Iso Warp Interlock and a Meridian Iso Warp Regulator.

Next Generation arc mission chains

• Rewriting the Past: 5 parts, level 10, warp 5
• Worlds Apart: 10 parts, level 12, warp 1 to 8
• Blind Data: 5 parts, level 31, warp 22 to 24
• Focal Point: 5 parts, level 31, warp 8 to 22
• A Battle for the Ages: 10 parts, levels 31 to 32, warp 1 to 25
• Survival of the Fittest: 10 parts, level 32, warp 7 to 25
• A Great Escape: 10 parts, level 34, warp 5 to 25
• A Blessing and a Bane: 5 parts, level 42, warp 65 to 80
• Warriors Lost: 5 parts, level 42, warp 56 to 70

All 67 Next Generation arc missions

The table lists every mission in the arc sorted by recommended level (a 1 means no level is recommended), with each link going to that part’s section on its chain page.

Video: the Next Generation arc

For missions from every storyline sorted by level, use the mission guide. The Original Series arc and the Deep Space Nine arc cover the other crews.