Hi everyone,
I'm currently a Commander 1 and find Memory Alpha as being completely useless. Sure, I collect all the samples & stuff...but I'm stuck dealing with Commander Romaine who can only offer me uncommon Mk II weapons, which I've clearly passed. What do I have to do to get to use some of the other characters at Memory Alpha? They all keep directing me back to Romaine and I really have no use for her.

I hope someone can help!
Thanks!
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You need to craft about 7k worth of stuff to move on to the next tier. The easy way to do it is to buy about 6 or 7 mk II phaser arrays at sol station (cause the ones in the exchange are probably way overprised), take those to Romain, and upgrade those into the green versions. You wont get notified when you qualify for the next tier of crafting, so be sure to check in with your next tier trainer after every couple phaser array upgrades.
For the next tier of stuff to upgrade, you will be doing plasma stuff (not sure if the next tier up differes from career paths). So keep all your plama phaser array's and your quantam torpedo launchers and plasma mine's. You will need those to upgrade from white to blue.
Anywho... here's a link to a forum topic specificly about crafting.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=97457