Starfleet

The official military, scientific and exploration arm of the Federation (although other smaller organisations also operate starships inside and outside the Federation independently) Starfleet was formed in 2161 after the formation of the United Federation of Planets from the constituent members of the Confederation of Planets, a joint-command formed in 2158 during the Earth-Romulan War.

Starfleet was formed from the military and scientific operators of starships from United Earth, the Confederation of Vulcan, the Andorian Star Empire, the Tellarite Confederation, the Orion State and the Independent Republic of Alpha Centauri. The official prefix of all Starfleet vessels is "United Star Ship", shortened to USS.

Even after this formation, many independent scientific organisations still launched their own expeditions using their own craft. Planetary Defence Forces were also nominally independent, although these were normally ground forces with no space flight capability. Some sectors did have Planetary Defence Forces with short-ranged point defence craft, but even these were incapable of independent interstellar flight.

Due to disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire and the undeclared border war that followed, in 2221 Starfleet created the Federation Reserve Fleet. Comprising of older, less capable vessels that would ordinarily be scrapped, the Reserve Fleet had a solely defensive mandate, acting as the second line of defence in the case of full scale invasion. Front-line Federation forces became the Federation Prime Fleet.  As time went on and new classes were introduced, ships were retired from use in the Prime Fleet and placed into the Reserve Fleet. This arrangement lasted until the signing of the Khitomer Accords in 2293, when the Reserve Fleet was disbanded and the starships comprising it were scrapped.

## Current Prime Fleet Vessel Classes (2292, descending class order)

### Capital Ships

Yamato Class Battleship, Experimental

Ark Royal Class Fleet Carrier

Missouri Class Battleship

Belknap Class Dreadnought, Plasma

Ulysses Class Dreadnought

Star Empire Class Dreadnought

Excelsior Class Refit Heavy Battlecruiser

Excelsior Class Battlecruiser

### Heavy Screen Ships

Richmond Class Heavy Cruiser, New

Lexington Class Command Cruiser

Salazar Class Torpedo Cruiser

Ranger Class Galactic Survey Cruiser

Constitution Class Refit Heavy Cruiser

### Light Screen Ships

Soyuz Class Gun Cruiser

Miranda Class Light Cruiser

Warsaw Class Destroyer Leader

Akula Class Refit Destroyer

Okinawa Class Frigate

Oberth Class Escort

### Support Ships

Washington Class Troop Transport

Unity Class Fleet Repair Tender

Clydesdale Class Cargo Freighter

Freelancer Class Mining Freighter

Independence Class Colony Ship

Liberty Class Construction Tender

### Shuttlecraft and Fightercraft

Hornet-B Strike Fighter

Hornet Strike Fighter

Wasp Attack Shuttle

Type 2 Shuttlecraft

Type A Work Bee

## Notable Starfleet Vessels (2292)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)

USS Excelsior (NCC-2000)

USS Cerberus (NCC-1877)

## Notable Starfleet Vessels (Former)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) - Scuttled 2283

USS Reliant (NCC-1860) - Captured, Scuttled by enemy forces 2283

USS Grissom (NCC-438) - Destroyed 2283

USS Bozeman (NCC-1941) - Missing, presumed destroyed 2278

USS Star Empire (NCC-2115) - Missing, presumed destroyed 2292

## Constituent Organisations (On formation in 2161)

United Earth Star Navy (UESN)

United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA)

Vulcan Federal Fleet

Vulcan Science Directorate

Andorian Star Navy

Tellarite Defence Force

Tellarite Research Institute

Orion Navy

Alpha Centauri Planetary Defence Force

## See also

Klingon Defence Force

Romulan Star Navy

Interstellar Pacification Force