Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The 25th Century Fleet You Need To Know

The 25th Century: the future, but not the far Discovery time warping far, far future.

A time when peace and harmony reigned across the galaxy, only to be abruptly broken by Changelings, Borg, and the reunion of Jean-Luc Picard's classic Enterprise crew. That last one on its own is surely enough to break the universe.

While the 25th Century brought about all of that, it also allowed fans first glimpses of new starship designs that mean Starfleet can finally stop using Oberth and Miranda Class ships for all its missions if there isn't a Galaxy Class ship to destroy.

What Picard's 25th Century did was different from how the franchise tackled its designs in the '90s and '00s. Now there were numerous fan designs across the wonderous landscape of the internet and perhaps most significantly a whole load of realised and functional ships being used in the universe of Star Trek Online. With the advances in technology and Star Trek's use of digital models over physical beauties, it seems like the perfect partnership. 

Here we'll not just look at the influx of ships from the digital world but also clever reuses of other ships from other timeframes, the return of some true classics and designs new to the screen but familiar in so many ways. The 25th Century fleet is bigger than ever and even with a limited amount of screen appearances, there's lots to say that Starfleet of the 2400s is prepared for all occasions - maybe except for a networking attack by the Borg.

There are a couple of Star Trek Online ships buried in the 25th-century fleet. One is an update on the Discovery design in the shape of the Edison Class, which was originally under the guise of the Hoover Class during the incident at the Binary Stars. 

The Online reasoning for the existence of this class in the 25th Century is that they were rediscovered at what had been a previously unreachable starbase. Starfleet then took these older ships and used their templates to make upgraded editions to strengthen the fleet. In Picard, there was no indication that this was the case, so perhaps it's best described as "head-canon". 

Another Online entry and one created for the game is the Alita Class. Named after the Japanese manga series Alita: Battle Angel, it's similar to the Akira Class and within the STO universe, it is a skin that can be selected for that class. It's not the only one to effectively be a sub-class either as the Ross class ships are a reskinning of the Galaxy Class in the game. 

Fourteen Alita vessels appeared as part of the fleet in their first and to date only appearance on the small screen.