10 Greatest Fleet Arrivals In Star Trek

The power of the reveal has been explored here before, though most often it focuses on a single ship. Star Trek has a proud history of teasing and delivering when it comes to aesthetic beauty, so those times when they dial it up to eleven are sure to blow even the sturdiest minds. When a group of ships burst onto our screens, it's tens tens tens across the board.

While the streaming era of Star Trek has been a feast of riches for us here, legacy Star Trek still brings their own offerings. Deep Space Nine saw an increase in both the number of ships and how they're used on screen, though it was part of a proud history of showing off the goods. 

Warping into the moment is something so much easier to pull off when one is working from CGI files, drastically reducing the time it takes to build to those moments. There is a double-edged sword to this too, as was evidenced in the finale of Star Trek: Picard's first season, Et In Arcadia Ego, Pt 2. To quote the Federation President:

Just because we can do a thing it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing.

The copy-and-paste fleet arriving to save the day was a worrying depiction in Star Trek, something that was thankfully rectified in the very next episode. With many options to choose from, how does one pick the best arrivals in Star Trek? 

Why, by following this list of course!

When the USS Intrepid faced off against the USS Titan-A in Imposters, that ship looked mean. After having a shuttle collide with their nacelle, the rising starship looked as though it wanted to personally slam its bulk into the heroes' ship. Were it not for a quick jump to warp, this bully may have gotten its pound of flesh.

Though the arrival of the Intrepid, along with an Excelsior and Sagan-class ship as well, in the subsequent episode, The Bounty is extremely brief, one cannot shake the feeling that these vessels are there to cause trouble. 

So many times in Star Trek's history, the arrival of multiple Starfleet vessels was an opportunity to cheer and celebrate. Here, that same assumption is turned on its head, forcing the audience to remember it is not the ship, but her crew, that decides just how triumphant an arrival it is.

With the Titan-A on the run, framed for destruction and murder, any Starfleet vessel on its tail was sure to fire first, ask questions later (thanks to some well-placed Shapeshifters). Seeing those three formidable ships arrive at the Titan's decoy buoy may have been impressive to behold, yet still served as a symbol of the perversion of Starfleet.