The United Federation of Planets is a federal republic with a universal reach in the Star Trek universe. Starfleet is the wing of the Federation that covers exploration, scientific research, peacekeeping, and defense. Naturally, they would have to have an impressive fleet to maintain their interstellar reach. The following ships are the fastest that Starfleet has to offer. Some of these ships were designed and intended for speed or travel while others were modified later for specific missions.
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10 USS Monitor, Nebula Class
Often used as a scouting ship or for important deliveries because if it's maneuverability and speed, this ship is the proverbial Hermes of Starfleet. If there's a word about a ship that's been lost or destroyed or the Romulans are about to attack, send in the USS Monitor. The ship appears in several episodes of TNG television seriesand the Star Trek Generations video game doing exactly this. She does appear in combat but her real strength is in movement. The whole Nebula-class was designed with science and exploration in mind as opposed to offensive trips. Each is equipped with warp nacells on both the primary and secondary hull.
9 USS Ajax, Apollo Class
The crew of Star Trek, The Next Generation (TNG) were not only exploring the universe but also the limits of technology. Kosinski was a propulsion expert who was a recurring character on TNG, and the USS Ajax was one of the first ships that got his experimental transwarp drive upgrades. Starfleet command views it as a faster, more maneuverable ship since she's seen equal amounts of battle, exploration and travel time. In the original TNG episodes, she's described as part of the Excelsior class but this detail was retconned and she was officially listed in the internal Starfleet records as an Apollo-class vessel.
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8 USS Discovery, Crossfield Class
The main setting for Star Trek: Discovery, the whole motive for this ship's existence is to research and measure speed. The entire Crossfield class was designed to test an experimental spore drive and other potential sources of propulsion that exceed the speed of light.
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As much of this story takes place in the early days of Starfleet, some of the missions and experiments of the USS Discovery are very secretive or surrounded by tight security. After the ship was presumably destroyed after being consumed by a wormhole, her secrets would list in deep space for a thousand years. Any survivors that knew about the secret experiments, including the spore drive, were compelled to remain silent or be charged with treason
7 USS Fearless, Excelsior Class
A descendant of the original Excelsior, this is another ship from TNG era. In addition to the original design of the class that emphasized speed, the USS Fearless was also an early recipient of Kosinski's experimental upgrades. She combines both the power of the transwarp drive that the Excelsior class is known for along with the brilliant inventions of Kosinski. In the TNG episode in which she appears, the Enterprise-D gets the same upgrades. Mapping and exploration was her specialty, and in the TNG episodes where the Fearless is mentioned, she's always making maps or exploring another new galaxy.
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6 USS Enterprise, Sovereign Class
Also known as the Enterprise-E, this model was designed in part by Montogomery Scott himself, so you know it has all the best of the models from the original right up until the Enterprise-D. Officially it can reach a speed of Warp 9.9 thanks to cutting-edge design and minor but effective fixes, like moving the warp nacells upwards and forward.
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This is the ship that you see in the Star Trek movies that feature The Next Generation cast. It also makes an appearance in the Star Trek: Bridge Commander video game.
5 USS Voyager, Intrepid Class
It goes far and fast, thanks to its original design and several modifications during her years of wandering the unknown reaches of space. This ship was the first to cover the whole Delta Quadrant, a notable feat even if it was during an improvised seven-year mission. These Intrepid class ships were built for tough, long exploration assignments. Among several other modern features, they were the first Starfleet ships to have Warp 9 class drives, specifically tweaked for use in deep space. During their journey, the ship improved even more, not only for better speed and defense but just to get home.
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4 USS Excelsior, Excelsior Class
You can argue that a ship is only as good as her captain. That would explain the Excelsior's rather embarrassing debut in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the heroic exploits that set her apart in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In the earlier movie, the Excelsior was sent to intercept the stolen Enterprise. Thanks to some neat sabotage on the part of Scotti, she didn't get very far. Under the capable hand of Captain Hikari Sulu a few movies later, however, the gutsy former helmsmen threatened to 'fly her apart' instead of slow her down when rushing to the aid of the wayward Enterprise. One of the first ships fitted with transwarp drive, she was the prototype of what would become a whole class of fast ships.
3 USS Vengeance, Dreadnought Class
As if the less than optimistic name doesn't give it away, this ship is unique to any other in the Star Trek universe in many other ways. She lacks any serial number or distinguishing markings and operates in secret, carrying out clandestine and often extremely unethical missions with a military focus. This ship only exists in what is called the Kelvin Timeline, the alternate universe that was created with the Star Trek reboot in 2009.
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The only ship of her class, the USS Vengeance was not only capable of great speeds but she can actually catch up to and attack a ship mid-warp. The crew is saved in this case by Scotti, who is sabotaging the fearsome warship from within. Does that sound familiar?
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2 USS Prometheus, Prometheus Class
This ship includes Starfleet's most cutting edge technology when it comes to defense, offense, and speed. It's still mostly an experimental ship and continues to be under development, but word travels fast and the Romulans have already tried to steal her secrets. The day she was launched she was the fastest ship in the entire fleet and was designed to reach speeds of Warp 9.99. It might have been the improved technology that allowed the USS Voyager to contact Starfleet from the remote Delta Quadrant, ending seven years of isolation for another ship known for its speed.
1 USS Enterprise, Constitution Class
There are several ships in Starfleet that carry the famous Enterprise moniker, so just to clarify this is NCC-1701, the original ship that was destroyed at the end of Star Trek III, The Search for Spock. In Star Trek TOS, the maximum speed of the ship was officially Warp 8, but in the TOS Episode 3x14, That Which Survives, the ship reached a speed of Warp 14. Granted, this was due to damage that made impossible to slow the ship down, but the ship was still able to maintain that velocity. Although she wasn't designed specifically to be fast, both a warp drive and an impulse drive made her capable of long-term exploration and quick maneuvering. There was also the dedicated genius of Montgomery Scott that kept the Enterprise running in top form.
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In the fictional Star Trek universe, the United Federation of Planets (UFP) is the interstellar government that sent Captain Kirk, Mr Spock, and the crew of the starshipEnterprise on its mission of peaceful exploration. Commonly referred to as 'the Federation', it was introduced in the television show Star Trek (1966-1969). The survival, success, and growth of the Federation and its principles of freedom have become some of the Star Trekfranchise's central themes.
The Federation is an organization of numerous planetary sovereignties, and although viewers are never told about the internal workings of the government, many episodes refer to the rules and laws that the Federation imposes on the characters and their adventures.
Development[edit]
Early in the first season of Star Trek, Captain Kirk had said the Enterprise's authority came from the United Earth Space Probe Agency.[1] Bases visited in the series were labeled 'Earth Outposts'.[2] In August of 1966, Gene L. Coon was hired by Gene Roddenberry as a writer for Star Trek. Actor William Shatner credits Coon with injecting the concepts of Starfleet, Starfleet Command and the United Federation of Planets into the show.[3] One of the first teleplays Coon was credited with was 'A Taste of Armageddon', where an ambassador on the Enterprise is referred to as a Federation official.
Eventually, with the series as allegory for the current events of the 1960s,[4] the creators were able to portray Cold War tensions with the Federation resembling NATO and the Klingons the Soviet Union.[5]
Reception[edit]
The optimistic view of the future present in the Federation has been highlighted as unique among most science fiction, showing how 'civilized' the future could conceivably be.[6] Much debate has centered around how realistic is the 'post-scarcity' economy of the Federation that has evolved beyond government-controlled monetary systems.[7] It has been described, along with the series as a whole, as a vehicle to explore what it means to be human, as well as exploring mankind's efforts to build a better society.[8] Other writers have noted that Star Trek's Federation has the same logistical and philosophical difficulties of other utopian economic and political schemes that make it seem unrealistic.[9]
In-universe portrayal[edit]
Like many things in Star Trek, episodes and films may reference entities or laws within the Federation, but viewers are never given complete knowledge of its inner-workings. Many contemporary terms are assigned to the Federation, but parallels to current government bodies and their roles and responsibilities are pure speculation on the part of fans and critics.[10]
In-universe references to the Federation include:
The organization of the Federation[edit]
Sovereignties wishing to join the Federation[edit]
Statistics of the Federation[edit]
Economics[edit]
Non-canon references[edit]
In non-canon sources like the original 1975 Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, Johnson's Worlds of the Federation, and roleplaying games, the Federation's five founding members were Earth (or Terra), Vulcan, Tellar, Andor, and Alpha Centauri. Some non-canon works assert that founding member Alpha Centauri is home to a human race (transplanted by the Preservers from classical third-century BC Greece) known as, variously, the Centaurans, the Centaurians, or the Centauri.
The 1980-to-2188 historical guide Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology posits the Federation as being incorporated at 'the first Babel Interplanetary Conference' in 2087.
In books such as the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and the novel Articles of the Federation, the Federation's founding document is the Articles of Federation.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Federation_of_Planets&oldid=903879832'
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the United Federation of Planets (UFP) is the interstellar government that sent Captain Kirk, Mr Spock, and the crew of the starshipEnterprise on its mission of peaceful exploration. Commonly referred to as 'the Federation', it was introduced in the television show Star Trek (1966-1969). The survival, success, and growth of the Federation and its principles of freedom have become some of the Star Trekfranchise's central themes.
The Federation is an organization of numerous planetary sovereignties, and although viewers are never told about the internal workings of the government, many episodes refer to the rules and laws that the Federation imposes on the characters and their adventures.
Development[edit]
Early in the first season of Star Trek, Captain Kirk had said the Enterprise's authority came from the United Earth Space Probe Agency.[1] Bases visited in the series were labeled 'Earth Outposts'.[2] In August of 1966, Gene L. Coon was hired by Gene Roddenberry as a writer for Star Trek. Actor William Shatner credits Coon with injecting the concepts of Starfleet, Starfleet Command and the United Federation of Planets into the show.[3] One of the first teleplays Coon was credited with was 'A Taste of Armageddon', where an ambassador on the Enterprise is referred to as a Federation official.
Eventually, with the series as allegory for the current events of the 1960s,[4] the creators were able to portray Cold War tensions with the Federation resembling NATO and the Klingons the Soviet Union.[5]
Reception[edit]
The optimistic view of the future present in the Federation has been highlighted as unique among most science fiction, showing how 'civilized' the future could conceivably be.[6] Much debate has centered around how realistic is the 'post-scarcity' economy of the Federation that has evolved beyond government-controlled monetary systems.[7] It has been described, along with the series as a whole, as a vehicle to explore what it means to be human, as well as exploring mankind's efforts to build a better society.[8] Other writers have noted that Star Trek's Federation has the same logistical and philosophical difficulties of other utopian economic and political schemes that make it seem unrealistic.[9]
In-universe portrayal[edit]
Like many things in Star Trek, episodes and films may reference entities or laws within the Federation, but viewers are never given complete knowledge of its inner-workings. Many contemporary terms are assigned to the Federation, but parallels to current government bodies and their roles and responsibilities are pure speculation on the part of fans and critics.[10]
In-universe references to the Federation include:
The organization of the Federation[edit]
Sovereignties wishing to join the Federation[edit]
Statistics of the Federation[edit]
Economics[edit]
Non-canon references[edit]
In non-canon sources like the original 1975 Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, Johnson's Worlds of the Federation, and roleplaying games, the Federation's five founding members were Earth (or Terra), Vulcan, Tellar, Andor, and Alpha Centauri. Some non-canon works assert that founding member Alpha Centauri is home to a human race (transplanted by the Preservers from classical third-century BC Greece) known as, variously, the Centaurans, the Centaurians, or the Centauri.
The 1980-to-2188 historical guide Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology posits the Federation as being incorporated at 'the first Babel Interplanetary Conference' in 2087.
In books such as the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and the novel Articles of the Federation, the Federation's founding document is the Articles of Federation.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Federation_of_Planets&oldid=903879832'
'The Corbomite Maneuver' is the tenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series, Star Trek. Written by Jerry Sohl and directed by Joseph Sargent, it first aired on November 10, 1966.
The storyline describes how the USS Enterprise encounters a massive and powerful alien starship and its unusual pilot.
The episode features a young Clint Howard, brother of actor-turned-director Ron Howard, who plays the alien at the end (with an overdubbed, ethereal voice provided by Walker Edmiston[1]). This was the first regular episode produced after the two pilots and the first episode filmed in which DeForest Kelley played Dr. Leonard McCoy, Nichelle Nichols played Lt. Uhura and Grace Lee Whitney played Yeoman Rand (although viewers saw them for the first time in 'The Man Trap').
Shari NimsPlot[edit]
On stardate 1512.2, the Federation starship USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, finishes a third day of star mapping when novice navigator Lt. Dave Bailey (Anthony Call) spots a large spinning multi-colored cube floating in space. First Officer Spock orders Helmsman Sulu to sound an alert. Chief Engineer Scott cannot explain how the cube works. Bailey advocates attacking it with phasers. Kirk instead orders the ship to back away from the object. The cube comes even closer, emitting harmful radiation, and Kirk reluctantly destroys it.
As Kirk is having lunch in his quarters, Spock announces that a much larger object has been detected.A gigantic glowing sphere quickly approaches the Enterprise, filling the bridge viewscreen even at low magnification. Commander Balok identifies his ship as the Fesarius, the flagship of the 'First Federation', explaining that the destroyed cube was a border marker.Balok ignores Kirk's greetings and announces that he will destroy the Enterprise for trespassing into First Federation territory and destroying the marker buoy. He gives the crew only ten minutes to pray to their deities. Spock obtains a visual of Balok, a grotesque, blue-skinned humanoid with a frightening face. Bailey succumbs to hysteria, and Kirk orders him off the bridge.
Asked for his opinion, Spock compares the situation to a game of chess: 'When one player is outmatched, the game is over.' Kirk, inspired by an argument with McCoy, replies that the answer is not chess, but poker. He then tells Balok that the Enterprise contains 'corbomite', a protective substance that automatically destroys any attacker. Balok apparently falls for the ruse and does not destroy the ship. Instead, a small tug ship detaches from the Fesarius and tows the Enterprise deep into First Federation space where Balok states he will intern the crew and destroy the Enterprise. Kirk orders the Enterprise to gradually resist the tug ship's tractor beam. Just as its engines are about to explode from overload, the Enterprise breaks free. This apparently disables the alien vessel, which is unable to call for help from its mother ship.
Rather than flee, Kirk, McCoy, and Bailey form a boarding party to render assistance. Scott warns them that the alien ship is cramped and beams them over. They soon discover that the 'Balok' on their monitor was a dummy. The real Balok, looking like a hyperintelligent human child, enthusiastically welcomes them aboard. He offers them his favorite drink, 'tranya', to toast their meeting; they all drink to their new friendship.
Balok explains that he was merely testing the Enterprise and its crew to discover their true intentions. As Kirk and company begin to relax, Balok expresses a desire to learn more about humans and their culture, and Kirk suggests Lt. Bailey volunteer to remain on Balok's ship as an emissary of the Federation. Bailey happily accepts, and Balok gives them a tour of his ship.
Production[edit]
The episode was the first episode of the regular series to be produced, after the two pilots, 'The Cage' and 'Where No Man Has Gone Before', which had been made in 1964 and 1965. It was shot at a different stage, in Hollywood. Sets were transferred from Desilu's Culver City location, where later in the series a new engine room set would be constructed for a following episode ('The Enemy Within' production 005). Shooting started on May 24, 1966. The episode was held back until November due to the amount of special effects scenes that were not completed, becoming the 10th episode to be broadcast. NBC preferred planet-based stories which were ready to air before 'The Corbomite Maneuver' because the miniature footage was not completed or ready when the series premiered.[2]
Reception[edit]
In 2009, Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club gave the episode an 'A' rating, describing it as 'TOS [The Original Series] at its bestâgripping, well-paced, and thematically coherent,' and noted the ending's note of optimism.[3] In 2016, Hollywood Reporter ranked this episode as the 16th greatest episode of the original series.[4] Io9 rated it the 14th best of all Star Trek episodes in 2014.[5]
Actor Clint Howard, who played Balok in this episode, was very impressed with the acting opportunities in the Star Trek franchise: having acted multiple times including in three other Star Trek series.[6] On being interviewed by StarTrek.com about his roles in Star Trek (TOSs 'The Corbomite Maneuver' (1966), DS9s 'Past Tense: Part II' (1995), and DSC's 'Will You Take My Hand?' (2018)), stated 'Oh, sure. I'm an actor and I love gainful employment. Virtually every job offer gets a legitimate consideration from me, but the fact that it's Star Trek is a yes at the drop of a hat. How many people have been on shows 50 years ago and are still being asked to be in incarnations of the same franchise?'[7]
In 2016, Hollywood Reporter rated 'The Corbomite Maneuver' the 45th best television episode of all Star Trek franchise television prior to Star Trek: Discovery, including live-action and the animated series but not counting the movies.[8] In 2016, Business Insider ranked 'The Corbomite Maneuver' the 8th best episode of the original series.[9]
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Posted byChief Petty Officer1 month ago
This is a small theory, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
In the TOS episode 'The Corbomite Maneuver', the Enterprise encounters Balok, a supposed representative of the First Federation. After a confrontation turns out to be a test of the morality of the crew of the Enterprise, it is revealed that Balok is the sole occupant of his ship, The Fesarius. After this episode, we never hear of the First Federation again, save for one appearance on a star chart. I contend that the First Federation is simply an entity of fiction created by Balok to protect himself from outsiders. I believe that Balok is merely a highly resourceful rogue, much like Harry Mudd, and that he stole the Fesarius from another civilization. He uses scare tactics to gain credibility, namely, the puppetry he uses for communication.
I have two pieces of evidence to support this:
First Federation Fesarius
Admittedly, I have no explanation for the appearance on the Star Chart, but perhaps rumors of the First Federation's existence circulated for so long that somewhere along the line they were put on the star chart
Star Trek Fesarius
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