Star Trek online does not handle like any previous star trek games. At best it's a bastardized Bridge Commander mashed together with Guild Wars.
But hey, huge star trek nerd here. I've been playing a while, and I've bought quite a few cosmetic only options. On average this takes me two months as A) Not spending real money on this game. 2) WAAAAAAANT.
So I've got the TOS bundle, the original series enterprise (500 in game bux), wrath of khan uniform, TNG season one uniform (giveaway, did not cost any in game money) TNG uniform (Cost 500 in game bux) DS9 uniform (got out of a box) Movie uniforms (included in DS9 pack)
For the most part, I don't go for the gimmicks, but I do save up dilithium to trade for in game bux. This is slow going, you can make about 30 in game bux a day, if you don't game the system.
I use a certain type of mission, called an STF to make most of my in game bux. (dilithium)
for ten STF tokens, you get a set amount of dilithium, and if you do five of them on elite difficulty, you can cash in 10 tokens for about 2000 dilithium. Confused? They probably are too.
Anyway, my go to STF mission is broken. They've had a lot of bug reports and claim they are looking into it, but there were apparently no previous videos. Well, I've got a trial version of fraps, and it records 30 seconds of gameplay at a time.
Here goes:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=5806151#post5806151