Ok, These are just some suggestions that i think would be pretty cool to add.

First, For players who are and are below the rank of Lt. Commander,
I think missions where you serve aboard another ship would be a nice addition. These missions would have the player serving as an officer of a higher level ship, The player would control the ship just like normal, but be able to fight higher level enemies, and different enemies (i.e. Borg or Undine) And they could serve as different officers on board the ship, engineers might need to repair parts of the ship. Tactical officers might need to defend from a boarding party. Science officers could need to heal injuries of other crew members. And other things.

Second, (which plays into the first) Making the inside of the ship have more purpose. Yeah its cool for having other players on your ship, but it could be fun to need to defend or repair the inside of your ship, not just the outside.

Third, More diplomatic missions. Yeah its fun getting ambushed, and having to fight off a bunch of other soldiers from other ships, but it got old to me fast. You beam down to a planet and you rarely are not going to get in a fight. When in the tv shows they didn't need to fight on every away mission. Maybe one mission you would need to solve a debate between a new species of alien joining the Federation. Or if it would be possible to just make different fighting missions. For example, You beam down to a star base, where you tracked a galactic criminal you need to ask around for information, then once you find him you need to fight him. Just not, beam down, beat 5 groups of enemies, scan some stuff and leave. Some of the missions have done exactly this, but in my opinion, not enough. And Don't get me wrong I don't want every mission or even every other mission to be a diplomatic mission. Just to have a few.

Well I will see how these ideas go over before adding anymore. Please post comments, Good or bad.

I think this is a good idea. I like the idea of you having to do a service before you get a ship. The only thing that would need to be added is a section where, somehow, the ships captain/senior crew get locked out of the bridge and you are forced to take control, which will allow you to do some space combat, otherwise players will be locked into 5 levels of pressing the F button.

I always thought that end game content should need 5 people. Tactical, Helm, Engineering, Sickbay and Communications. Those 5 people take their stations, the group leader taking the rank Captain. Then you have to work together using individual powers (i.e. Tactical can use Fire at Will, Helm gets Evasive Manuovers, Communications can deal with shields and incomming warnings etc) to beat a common goal in Space.