Disciplines

There are 6 Disciplines in Star Trek. They represent your ability, training and experience in one of the six branches within Star Fleet. They will have a range between 1 and 5 (0-5 for NPCs and supporting cast).

Command: Covers interpersonal interactions through leadership, negotiation, coordinating and motivating others. It includes discipline and resistance to coercion for yourself and helping others through it.

Conn: Covers piloting crafts of all sizes, both on the ground and in space. It also covers a wide-range of space and star ship related rolls such as space-walks (moving efficiently in a suit), determining a ship's intention by it's flight patterns and active systems, maintaining protocol/etiquette in formal events... I have no idea why this isn't under command.

Engineering: Covers inventing, understanding, designing, repairing, and maintaining technology. It also includes using technology not covered by others fields such as teleporters.

Security: Covers danger and battle. This is used to punch and shoot, but also to asses a threat and even simply remaining vigilant. Security training also helps with conducting interrogations, intimidating others, being stealthy. Finally, security covers knowledge of weapons.

Science: Covers your grasp of numerous fields of scientific studies, theoretically and practically. This is a very broad skills that includes things like physics, astro-physics, chemistry, biology but also things like anthropology and history.

Medicine: The understanding of the physical and mental makeup of life-forms and how to deal with their ailments, diseases, stresses and injuries.

All main characters start with at least 1 in these disciplines as Star Fleet requires their cadets to have at least a basic understanding of all six branches. Should anything happen, any Star Fleet officer is capable of replacing another and be at least functional. Depending on your choices during character creations, these can go up to a maximum of 5.