like the title says I've just made a new toon who is a science officer and a cardassian I've made with the alien gen and I'm just not sure if I should bother grinding the gear from the old rep systems like the Borg, Tholian, Romulan, Dyson and Undine. My older toons have done them and I think I'll might just grind the gear from the newer rep systems just not really sure
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At least now you have a choice, you don't need to grind through potentially 6 sets to know which ones might benefit your build...
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Omega (Borg) has the Kinetic Cutting Beam and the Assimilated module, which combined are highly useful in keeping Weapon power up, not skipped unless you have power saturation via other means or are running a Kinetic or Aux weapons build.
Nukara (Tholian) has the Auxiliary Power Configuration: Offense/Defense Rep Traits that you'll want as a high-aux Sci ship user.
Romulan has a Rep Trait that boosts Critical Hit chance.
Dyson is a bit weaker, but the torp is nice on a high Particle Generator build, and the set bonuses to crits are nice if your alien is Fed or KDF (Romulans can get lots of crit boosts just by grabbing Superior Romulan Operatives while leveling.)
8472 Counter-Command (Undine) has a very nice two-set bonus for it's secondary set that boosts Phaser and Disruptor damage (Universal Console, Torpedo, Heavy Turret (Phaser or Disruptor), and the torp is handy on Torpedo Sci ship builds, particularly when running high particle generators.
You can get the daily bonus (all reps now have them) easily for Omega by hitting a quick Borg Red Alert, and you can get both Romulan and Nukara if you get into a Tholian Red Alert and hit the mission hail for the daily. I usually just grabbed the mission in the Dyson Sphere (via Jouret Gateway) to get the daily, then warped out and back in to grab the Undine Battle Zone to take at least one point. Warp out again and hit Delta (Via Jenolan Dyson Sphere) to get the daily for that.
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Also, if you have tier 5 on your main toon, I highly recommend having your main character "sponsor" your alts with one of those rep sponsorship tokens that you can transfer to your alts via your account bank. That way it'll be a lot quicker to grind up that same rep on your new toon.