Temporal Ambassador

trek21

At least half the time, once the Enterprise-C is beset by the Tholians and the Pastak comes in... it doesn't do its cutscene kill of the dreadnought, after which the latter remains on the field (as does the cutscene Pastak, which does nothing even as the interactable version fights alongside us). The real problem is that the Dreadnought can't fall below 1% health period, making it impossible to progress even if it doesn't fight back.

^Simply loading back in doesn't seem to do anything, though I think dropping the mission and trying again does, assuming the issue doesn't decide to crop up again that time. Not sure whether this is limited to Federation(-aligned) characters or not, but either way, it's definitely annoying.

trek21

Based on further testing, the issue seems to one of... alignment Normally the Enterprise-C is a certain height next to the base entrance/exit, before the Tholian ships spawn something like 2km above that placement (in addition to 10k-ish km away). Then when the cutscene happens, the Pastak - and/or the Tholian dreadnought itself - which are supposed to be straight-on to each other, consistently do some 'adjusting' motions as if trying to line up for what's programmed.

But because they're off, it doesn't happen. Getting the Enterprise-C up to their vertical level has a much higher chance of the cutscene kill actually happening, so I think it's at least part of the issue