[McCaffrey]

Outside of making a Romulan or Klingon, what methods exist of leveling up without going through the general missions? I think the story episodes are fine, but at the lower levels, any suggestions?

[Three of Seven]

You can do the patrols and red alerts, any queues that are up for that rank, I think patrols might be the fastest way.

Another way to add variety is to use only the free ships you get, none of the C-Store ones and go with a canon design to them, so Feds, you can only use phasers.

[Dark]

DOffing, once unlocked, grants a lot of experience. I had a bunch of characters that were level 53 or so purely from DOffing, though I ended up deleting them for Delta Recruits.

[McCaffrey]

Great ideas. Thanks you both for the comments. Is there a good overview or tutorial about DOs? I have to admit, I ignore them because I really cant seem to get a handle on how they work.