BoPs and Raptors for the higher DPS, mainly because my main Fed is a cruiser and I didn't want to repeat that. Both PvE and PvP. Solo, mainly because my friends are all waiting for F2P.

A BoP on my tactical, a Vo'Quv on my engineer. PvP mainly, public matches mainly.

None, really. Beam Fire At Will is currently overpowered, but you say there's a fix for that in the works, and I have confidence in you.

Carriers, just in PvP. The shield nerf I think was too much, and the lack of an "attack my target" command for pets really hurts the viability of carriers. I say this both as a carrier pilot and as a Fed cruiser pilot who has fought carriers and found them to be easy prey. Really, though, just an "attack my target" command would fix this. Focus fire is SO IMPORTANT in PvP and carrier pets are so predictable since they will never deviate from their very limited actions that they are super easy to deal with.

I really like the aesthetics of Klingon cruisers. I wish carriers had more of that predatory look to them. As for equipment, while the borg set is really nice, I don't like that it is clearly superior to all other available equipment for tanking builds. Having one obvious best choice makes the whole build portion of the game less fun. Multiple equally viable and DIFFERENT choices make for more fun when building. As for consoles, I wish all multi-purpose ships like carriers had one universal slot, like how the Nebula does. It'd help them out a lot.