On KDF side there's a lot you can't do until you complete all the tutorials. Unfortunately there's no option to skip many of them as there is FED side. As you complete the tutorials other mission options begin to open up. I'm betting that, when the whole Watch Officer Daily thing was set up it fell, by default, in to a mission category that doesn't become available until after certain tutorial(s) are completed. Probably not intended to be that way but a Dev oversight (that's just a guess on my part)