Star Trek Fleet Command Ship Guide

This Star Trek Fleet Command ship guide lists every ship in the game in one searchable table, with each ship’s ability, grade, class, faction and rarity, plus a second table of warp range by tier. STFC currently has 116 playable ships: 33 explorers, 28 battleships, 28 interceptors and 27 survey ships, spread across grades 1★ to 7★.

Ships are the second half of every fight. The right ship with the right crew can beat a stronger opponent or hold your station against a bigger attacker, and the wrong one wastes weeks of blueprints and materials. Use the tables to compare ships, then click a ship’s name to open its full page with tier costs, stats and crew advice.

List of all Star Trek Fleet Command ships

The table is searchable and sortable. Type a ship name, a faction or a class into the search box, or sort by grade to see what opens up as your shipyard levels. Click the plus icon on a row to expand the ship’s ability text, and click the name to go to that ship’s page.

STFC ships by grade and class

How the 116 ships split by grade and hull type. Grade is the star rating (1★ to 7★) and sets which shipyard level can build the ship and which parts it needs to tier up.

Grade	Interceptor	Explorer	Battleship	Survey	All
1★	0	1	1	1	3
2★	1	2	1	1	5
3★	8	8	8	10	34
4★	9	12	7	4	32
5★	3	3	5	4	15
6★	4	4	3	6	17
7★	3	3	3	1	10
Total	28	33	28	27	116

By faction, 48 ships are Neutral, 22 are Federation, 22 are Klingon and 21 are Romulan, with two Augment ships and one Section 31 ship. The Federation, Klingon and Romulan faction pages list their ships and how their stores sell blueprints.

Ship classes and the combat triangle

Every combat ship is an interceptor, an explorer or a battleship, and each one has an edge over one of the others. Survey ships sit outside the triangle. They are the mining and cargo haulers, and they are the ships you send to fill up on ore, gas and crystal rather than into a fight.

Ship combat triangle

Target ship: Battleship > Use > Interceptor
Target ship: Interceptor > Use > Explorer
Target ship: Explorer > Use > Battleship

In other words, interceptors beat battleships, battleships beat explorers, and explorers beat interceptors. When a hostile spawns in all three types, as most faction hostiles and Freebooters do, pick the hull that counters the one you fly.

Star Trek Fleet Command ship warp range

Warp range decides which systems a ship can reach, and it grows as you tier the ship up. The table lists the warp range at each tier, so you can see how many tiers you need before a ship reaches the systems you want to farm. Compare a system’s warp requirement on the systems list with the tier column here.

Warp range also rises through research, most of it in the Starships tree, so treat the table as the base figure. If a ship falls a little short of a system, check the Starships research in the research guide before you spend materials on a new tier.

Choosing which ships to build and max

Free-to-play commanders cannot build everything, so the ships worth skipping are usually the ones that do the same job as a ship you already own, at the same grade, without a better ability. A few habits help:

• Build one strong ship of each combat class per grade before you build a second of any class.
• Read the ship ability column. An ability that matches how you play (armadas, mining, PvP or hostile grinding) matters more than raw stats.
• Check what a ship’s next tiers cost before you commit. The later tiers of a high-grade ship cost far more than the early ones.
• Faction ships need faction store blueprints, so a ship from a faction you are not building reputation with is a slow project. The faction reputation page covers how each store unlocks.

Maxing a ship makes most sense for a ship you will keep using for a long time, such as your main hostile grinder or your best miner. The videos below go through blueprint grinding, the ships free players often skip, and whether a ship is worth maxing.

Crew your ship

A ship is only as good as the officers on its bridge. The officers guide lists every officer with crew setups by ship class, and the officer tier list ranks them by use.

Ship guide videos

Video: how to grind blueprints for ships

How to grind blueprints for various ships in Star Trek Fleet Command.

https://youtu.be/HKryvvB1AVs

Video: what ships to skip if you are free to play

What ships to skip in Star Trek Fleet Command if you are free to play.

Video: should you max a ship?

Should you max a ship in Star Trek Fleet Command, and if so, which one?

https://youtu.be/HQ4D350N5cs