So I have been told about the oddy crew malfunction during saucer separation for a while. I did not believe it until I played around with it in Sol system space. With full crew of 2500 I separated my oddy. This is suppose to set my crew level to 1000 which it did. With no combat because I was in Sol system I reconnected my ship and my crew level instantly drop below half. My crew level connected was set 1000 of 2500. Then of course I started regening crew.

Is this the way it is suppose to be?

Why can't the crew return be based on health of the returning saucer section?

It's the same for all ships that have a seperation, I believe it's a limitation of the game engine so nothing can be done.

I can see how the crew would need time to get their act together, re-man certain stations, etc.

What I dislike most about it is that due to the fact that all crew abilities are percentage based, having a high crew number seems helpful when in reality, it's not.