Neutral in Star Trek Fleet Command means content that sits outside the Federation, Klingon and Romulan rivalry. Neutral missions do not move your reputation in any direction, neutral systems belong to nobody, and neutral ships can be built without picking a side.
That makes neutral content the safe ground while you are managing faction standing. If you are grinding toward a faction lock and cannot afford to lose points anywhere, this is where you go.
Why neutral content matters
Faction reputation is a balancing act. Building standing with one of the core three usually costs you standing with another, and dropping below Tolerated gets your ships attacked in that faction’s space. Neutral activity sidesteps all of it, because nothing here is scored.
Once you pass a lock the pressure eases, since your reputation can no longer fall below that point. Until then, neutral missions and systems are how you keep progressing without undoing work. The faction reputation page explains the ladder and where the five locks sit.
Neutral ships
These are the ships you can build without faction reputation. All 46 on the wiki: Amalgam Survey, Aphelion, Borg Cube, Borg Sphere, Botany Bay Survey, D’Vor Feesha Survey, ECS Fortunate Survey, ECS Horizon Survey, Enterprise NX-01, Envoy Survey, Ferengi D’vor Survey, GS-31, Gorn Eviscerator, ISS Jellyfish Explorer, Kehra Interceptor, Kumari Battleship, Mantis Battleship, Meridian Survey, NSEA Protector, North Star Survey, Nova Survey, Orion Corvette Battleship, Phindra Interceptor, Realta Explorer, SS Revenant, Sarcophagus Battleship, Selkie, Serene Squall, Stella Battleship, Talla Battleship, The Vindicator, Turas Explorer, U.S.S. Athena, U.S.S. Dauntless, U.S.S. Excelsior, U.S.S. Relativity, U.S.S. Reliant, USS Cerritos Explorer, USS Defiant Interceptor, USS Discovery Explorer, USS Franklin Explorer, USS Titan-A Explorer, USS Voyager Explorer, Vahklas Explorer, Vi’Dar Talios Interceptor, Vi’dar Interceptor.
Neutral officers
Officers who belong to no faction, 38 of them: Ahvix, Barot, Byr Ch’Kelrer, Captain Tilly, Dajash Tolra, Eight of Eleven, Eleven of Eleven, Emperor Georgiou, Eurydice, Five of Eleven, Four of Eleven, Gabriel Lorca, Ghalenar, Ghrush, Goon, Hugh, Jaylah, Jirali, Mara Dalen, Masriad Vael, Mavery, Mudd, Naga Delvos, Nine of Eleven, One of Eleven, Phellun, Ro Mudd, Sesha, Seven of Eleven, Six of Eleven, Stonn, Ten of Eleven, The Hierarch, Three Of Eleven, Tiza, Toli, Two of Eleven, T’Pring.
Neutral missions
The wiki covers 764 neutral missions, by far the largest mission group on the site. They complete without shifting your standing with anyone. Browse them at the neutral missions archive, or use the mission guide to find them grouped by recommended level instead.
Neutral star systems
907 systems on the wiki are neutral, which is more than the Federation, Klingon and Romulan territories combined. Nobody attacks you for being there and nothing you do in them costs reputation. See the neutral star systems archive.
Neutral hostiles
100 hostile pages are tagged neutral. Killing them does not raise or lower standing with anyone, which makes them the targets to grind when your reputation is where you want it. See neutral hostiles.
Independent officers are a related but separate group of 12, listed at the independent officers archive.
Where this sits
The factions page indexes every faction in the game, which have a store and reputation you can build, and which you only ever meet as targets.
For the factions whose standing does move, see Federation, Klingon and Romulan. The Orion Syndicate operates in the neutral pockets between them.
