Star Trek has a long history and has become the most culturally influential show on television to this very day. Starfleet in all it's glory would be nothing without a few ships. Of the few ships in their fleet several of them had to be a little more than just powerful. Some needed speed! In this little top 10 we will give you Starfleets fastest ships.
1. USS Monitor, Nebula Class.
The Nebula-class shared a similar design lineage with its larger Galaxy Class counterpart, notably its primary and secondary hulls and nacelles.
The Nebula Class Starship is really fast here are some specifications.
Crew: 750 (standard); 130 (visiting); 9,800 (evac. ...
Maximum speed: warp 9.6 for 12 hours; warp 9.9 for 12 hours (refit)Cruising speed: warp 6.
Armaments: 8 type-X phaser arrays; 2 torpedo launchers.Defences: deflector shields.
Auxiliary craft: 12 Federation shuttlecraft; 4 work bees; 6 shuttlepods.
2. USS Ajax, Apollo Class
USS Ajax was one of the first ships that recieved 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 reclassified and she was officially listed in the internal Starfleet records as an Apollo-class vessel.
3. USS Discovery, Crossfield Class.
The Crossfield class was a type of Federation Starship in service during the mid-23rd Century. Its design consisted of a saucer section, a wide secondary hull, and two elongated nacelles.
Two ships of the class were equipped with an experimental spore drive propulsion system, the USS Discovery and its more advanced sister ship, the USS Glenn. 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.
4. 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.
5. USS Enterprise, Sovereign Class.
Also known as the Enterprise-E, this model was designed in part by Montgomery 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 nacelles upwards and forward.
6. USS Voyager, Intrepid Class.
This ship is notable not only for exploring the poorly understood Delta Quadrant of the galaxy in "Star Trek," but also for using some creative techniques to shorten a 75-year voyage home. (That happened due to a displacement wave that carried the USS Voyager there; this wave was created by a being called the Caretaker, which had a pretty selfish agenda that we won't get into here.) While the Voyager used help from several species to get back home, perhaps the most notable step was inserting Borg technology into their engine. The crew stole a transwarp coil from a Borg sphere that shortened their journey by several years, until the sphere gave out. The Star Trek: Starship Spotter reference book states that the Intrepid-class starship Voyager has a maximum sustainable cruising speed of warp 9.975, while the Prometheus-class can reach a maximum of warp 9.99, with maximum cruising speed of warp 9.9.
7. USS Excelsior, Excelsior Class.
The USS Excelsior NX-2000 was employed by Starfleet to test what was referred to as a transwarp drive in the 2280s. By the following decade, however, the ship was equipped with a standard warp drive. 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.
8. USS Vengeance, Dreadnought Class.
The Dreadnought-class was roughly twice the size of a Constitution Class starship. This class was designed to be operated by a minimal crew, one person if necessary. It had advanced weapon and propulsion capabilities allowing it to engage other vessels while traveling at warp velocities. 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.
9. USS Prometheus,Prometheus Class.
The USS Prometheus (NX-59650 / NX-74913) was a 24th century Federation Prometheus-class starship operated by Starfleet. Prometheus was an experimental prototype designed for deep space tactical assignments and equipped with regenerative shields, ablative hull armor, and multi-vector assault mode. The day she was launched she was the fastest ship in the entire fleet and was designed to reach speeds of Warp 9.99.
10. 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.
Well There you have it. The Fastest Ships in Starfleet. I hope you enjoyed this little top 10. Live Long And Prosper.
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