If this is *ANYTHING* Like the Neverwinter crafting "Professions" I'm all-in. THAT is a great crafting system. The old STO crafting system (all the way back to launch) just plain... well, sucks. The Neverwinter Professions system is awesome. Based on this blog post it appears the be a similar system (albeit different names…
Hih... check the tailor. My Reman DOES have the fancy shmancy shoulder pads WITH capes. (Vice Admiral rank). Though it's the split cape (two scarves, like the Veteran Klingon has) rather than a full cape. But either way, it's wickedly cool.
DITTO THIS PRECISELY. I think perhaps a left-over bug from the Enterprise C mission that would unequip all your BOFFs after the mission. Apparently that bug slapped the T5 Excelsior pretty hard and it stuck. Epic Fail. Decommissioning then reclaiming fro C-Store DID FIX the problem.