Did they quietly change the way Endeavor XP is handled? I thought the XP spanned the account, but it appears to be character-specific.

I thought I remembered it being shared across the whole account, so you could easily hop characters to finish the tasks as needed.

I watched this the other day and loved it. (Also, I have all of the Klingon books mentioned in this video.)

It’s also possible that “Nova Squadron” is just one of many (as Value Subtracted mentions herein) and that there are many other Nova Squadrons without any issues in the intermittent years between the incidents. It’s possible that, like most things in the Star Trek universe, we only see the times when something interesting/dramatic occurs, not the boring day-to-day.

Said another way, just because you periodically have a rowdy graduating class from primary/secondary education, doesn’t mean you stop having graduating students.