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Automate USS Voyager and V'Ger Species 8472 Bioship Hunt

This article explains how to use the ‘hostile hunt ‘Voyager Bioship’ mode in the FastTrek Bot for Star Trek® Fleet Command.

Background - USS Voyager

The USS Voyager was introduced during the Voyager arc mid-2023 and has two special ship abilities: Advanced Sensors and Astrometrics Scan. Within STFC the Advanced Sensors ability is used to expose special “Species 8472 Bioship” hostiles in the various Delta Quadrant systems. You can also use it for Assimilated FKR hostiles in the Borg Delta Quadrant systems. These drop tons of Faction messages, making them a great alternative to hunting Faction Scouts.

The “Advanced Sensors” ability has a cooldown of 60 seconds. Even though Species 8472 Bioship hostiles follow and attack, like hostile faction hunters, this makes it quite a pain to do this task, especially if you’ve left it for a while and have several if not tens of thousands of Deuterium Canisters available. You don’t need to actively target and chase them, but it’s still a lengthy task (25 hostiles in about 20-25 minutes).

With the FastTrek bot for STFC you can easily automate this USS Voyager Species 8472 Bioship Hunt with a few clicks and save time.

Background - USS Excelsior

The Excelsior was introduced during the V’Ger arc in early 2026 and is used to complete the Epic V’Ger Challenge Track tasks. The grind using its “Decloaking Deflector” ability is a near-copy of the Voyager’s, but instead of Species 8472 Bioships, it exposes V’Ger fighters in the V’Ger systems starting around “Lyntaro Gap”. The cooldown may also differ sightly, but the overall mechanics are identical.

With FastTrek you can now automate the Excelsior’s V’Ger Fighter hunt in the same way as the Voyager’s Species 8472 Bioship hunt.

How to start Species 8472 Bioship or V’Ger hunt in FastTrek

  1. First, crew the USS Voyager or Excelsior. On the Voyager, remember to take Neelix to reduce the Advanced Sensors ship ability activation cost, if you have him unlocked!

  2. Select the corresponding ship’s tab in FastTrek.

  3. Select the “Voyager / Excelsior” option, select a system, and click Start.

As soon as the Voyager/Excelsior reaches the target system, FastTrek will begin to activate its Advanced Sensors or ability. It will continue to activate the ability according the configured cooldown, so you don’t have to. It will do this until one of the recall conditions is met, or when the ship is destroyed.

Configuration Options

Location

See Target Locations

Recall Conditions and Repeating

See Recall & Repeat

Cooldown Configuration

The ability cooldown is configured separately for the Voyager and Excelsior.
To do this, open Settings > Ship Behaviour > Ship Abilities, etc. and configure these cooldowns according to your ships’ levels.

FastTrek will automatically detect which ship is being used and use the corresponding cooldown.