They did warn us about this, fellow Captains all, and we should not be so critical of Cryptic, as this is an entirely NEW experience for them, being Star Trek Online's first expansion pack. Everybody CHIILLLLLLLLLLLLLL.
Friends and neighbors, I don't know why we have to go through all this BS when the servers go down. Sure, some of us have taken advantage of the F2P capability, and many of us haven't. That being said, it's no use complaining, so just sit it out and wait for the servers to come back up. Sheesh.