Per the announcement: "Characters made during this time will be Klingon Recruits", reading it many more times now, I still see nothing that says anything about playing any amount of time for it. I didn't remember needing to in previous ones, but I had time to actually play in the previous ones too, so I was not affected by…
Given what the GM said I believe both of you are right, that I needed to do the tutorial, though I don't remember that being necessary to get the tag on one's name showing the recruitment status of the character in the previous events. I must disagree about it not being incorrect, though. The news article did not say…