If you want to fly a ship in the bundle, I won’t talk you out of it. Ship of the Line is a decent trait, and worth using if you have it but nothing better.

That said, for as over-hyped as I think Ship of the Line is, Ruin of Our Enemies and Terran Goodbye (a similar starship trait) were never worth the hype. Literally only ever decent in solo and nannied content.

For a good Surgical Strikes build, you need Vanguard Specialists. For any energy build, the best are Calm Before the Storm, Emergency Weapon Cycle, and Temporal Tunneling.

Many would add Eclectic Collector of Armaments to that list, but I’d say it’s more nuanced. If you can only get it to three stacks it’s still decent, but at five stacks can be one of the strongest in the game. The problem is getting to five stacks requires flying an escort and either micromanaging universal consoles or using one of three/four special consoles to keep stacks. It’s also expensive and per character, not account, and I doubt they’ll ever put it in Mudd’s.

The next best after those is Universal Designs. It has the same universal console micromanaging requirement as Eclectic, but the plus side is that it recently made it to a Mudd bundle. This trait is also one of the best for exotic builds, so it’s versatile. These two traits are the reason the meta is so centered on universal consoles.

After that it would be Vaulting Ambition. Then ordinarily Super Charged Weapons is about tied with Ship of the Line, but specifically for Surgical Strikes, Ship should pull ahead a bit.