Event Crew: Best and Worst?

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I've got a ton of event crew filling up my slots, from "Fast as Light" up through "The Galactic Series."

Who are the keepers? Who should be shown the airlock? I love most of my Mirror Universe crew, and Tourist Quark has become a surprise favorite. Who are you holding on to?

CookingWithNeelix

Buster Kim, fully immortalized.

I got him in my first (and only) time I got all rewards in an event

Data1001

I've bowed out early on most of the recent events, but regarding the crew in your screenshot, on my alt accounts, Bajoran Dukat has proven to be quite useful, even in Gauntlet. And Cornwell of course is a keeper.

But going all the way back to Fast As Light, as you mentioned, here are the crew I employ the most from then to now (across all of my accounts): Leonardo da Vinci, Mirror Picard, Mirror Dax, Mirror Bev, Mariachi Q, Gladiator McCoy, Duelist Yar, Mother Horta (killin' it in Arena on alt account #1). To a lesser extent, but still fairly useful: Tsunkatse Seven, Suus Mahna Sarek, Proto Barclay, Mirror Mayweather, Mirror Reed, Tourist Quark.

As far as who to airlock, I will usually dump any recent event super-rares that I don't have FF, since it will be a long time before they will show up in regular premium pulls. I make exceptions if I really love the character, or if they're super-useful despite not being immortalized. Certainly if you only have 1 star on any of the 4* event crew from this period, I'd look at them first for getting rid of. (This does not apply to Legendaries, who are usually useful even with just one star.)

Travis S McClain

Just looking at the event crew in 2018, there are several who have taken over some of the top spots in my crew:

• Ambassador Shras - #5 base DIP. Goes out in just about every wave of shuttles I send.
• Commander Thelin - #5 base SCI. Semi-regular use in non-event shuttles.
• Graduation Michael Burnham - #1 base SCI and #7 base ENG. Shuttles, shuttles, shuttles!
• Niners Rom - #1 base ENG. I already had him immortalized going into this event. He's one of my strongest ENG for running missions (his proficiency is meh, but he has some fantastic bonus traits).
• Prisoner Katrina Cornwell - #1 base DIP and #1 base MED, and a Voyage crew staple. One of the most valuable members of my crew!
• Prisoner Michael Burnham - Use her MWF and Thursday. (Was using her Tuesday, too, until her alien status was revoked. Rightly so, but I still miss it!)
• Prospect Michael Burnham - #5 base SCI & #9 base ENG. Fantastic for SCI AND ENG shuttle slots.
• Suus Manha Sarek - Part of my Admiral division crew.
• Victorian Pulaski - #2 base DIP. She's obviously pretty new to my crew, but has become a default shuttle member since.

Of the rest, there are some I've kept and used (Torchbearer Voq was one of my top 5 DIP for all of about a month), some I've kept and frozen (Dr. Gillian Taylor contributed nothing to my crew that I needed), and others I didn't keep or even get (Lieutenant Tarah).

If you're asking in hopes of finding recommendations for whom you should keep, though, I wrote a guide to crew management thread back on the old forum. I might revive it here on the new forum, but in case I get lazy and don't, here's the handy dandy flowchart that @Data1001 made based on my crude hand drawn version: