Systems Officer: Useless?

In a word... yes.

It has potential but there's simply too many restrictions to make it useful.

Range 1. Other ships only. Needs a green move... 2 points for that? No thanks.

Now if they had tweaked it ever so slightly - made it range 1-3 or let the ship affect itself, maybe drop it a point... who knows?

Imperial logic

-Give us that cool K4 security, but make it cheaper and let it affect any friendly shiop at R1-3 not just the carrier.

Yeah, you'd much rather see Palpatine to lessen the impact of random dice wouldn't you?

Oh, wait..