Thanks to all the interesting help. To reply to Varnoukh, I am actually a lvl 50 Vice Admiral now. I ended up using eject warp plasma with of course the D'deridex Warbird at the time. And the Boarding Party. I cant tell you the number of times my engineering shield and hull healing has saved an annoying death. That and my…
That would be the bridge officer tactical ability called Torpedo Spread (1 or 2 or 3). Personally I have one tactical bridge officer with fire at will and torpedo in the first 2 available skill slots.
Here is a working solution until they solve this issue/bug. Choose a different already owned ship and the BOFF assignments should work. I know it is irritating after upleveling and achieving a new ship, but this is a workaround to the issue.