Captain

Captain is one of the four bridge crew roles available to players.

The captain's job is to coordinate the crew, communicate objectives and assign tasks to accomplish the mission.

In order to accomplish this, the captain is given the screens and tools to see what is happening, and to communicate to the crew what he wants accomplished.

Screens
The captain has several screens that give him information and summaries to accomplish the missions.

Objectives
The objectives screen gives the captain the tasks that need to be accomplished to complete the mission.

Ship Status
The status screen gives a summary of what the engineer can see.

Local Map
The local map shows what helm and tactical can see in local space in relation to the ship. It allows the captain to see results of scanning targets from tactical and to direct instructions to tactical and helm. The targets selected are mirrored on the tactical and helm screens.

Impulse Map
The impulse map displays the travel points in the local system. Your selected target is mirrored on the helm's impulse map.

Warp Map
The warp map shows the systems within the sector that the ship is able to travel to. Your selected target is mirrored on the helm's warp map.

Display Mode
Display mode selector screen allows you to choose what is displayed on the main view screen. There are options for exterior, target and magnified target views. There is also a switch to display navigation information on the main view screen.

Red Alert
This button informs the crew to prepare for combat.

Answer Hail
This button allows the captain to respond to communications that show on the main screen.