At the launch of the game only a few areas of your ship will be accessible to you.  The most obvious spot available is the bridge, but there are rumors of other areas like Sickbay.  More areas of the ships may become available after the game has launched, but they will mostly be for social interaction only and not serve any specific game function.

The following are the known Federation ships that players can captain in Star Trek Online, divided up by which character level the ships are available:

Lieutenant:

• Miranda
• Soyuz
• Centaur

Lieutenant Commander:

• Nova
• Aurora
• Quasar
• Saber
• Rapier
• Ushaan
• Constitution
• Excaliber
• Vespers

Commander:

• Olympic
• Hope
• Horizon
• Zephyr
• Akira
• Norway
• Constellation
• Stargazer
• Dakota

Captain:

• Intrepid
• Cochrane
• Discovery
• Defiant
• Vigilant
• Gallant
• Galaxy
• Celestial
• Envoy

Admiral:

• Luna
• Sol
• Polaris
• Prometheus
• Phoenix
• Cerberus
• Sovereign
• Noble
• Majestic

And the two known ships available to the Klingon Empire are the Vo’Quv Class and Raptor Class.

Helping you in your adventures across the galaxy will be a bridge crew made up of Officers that basically serve as advanced pets.  They fill the specific slots (such as Science and Engineering) in your ship, and can be controlled in Away Team combat.  Your officers can be any race that you choose, and your ship will determine how many of each specialization you need or can have.  In addition to choosing the race of bridge officers, players can also choose gender, appearance, and names for these crew members.  These officers cannot be permanently killed.   Player ships will also be populated with “redshirt” characters, who fulfill the general tasks on the space ship and can be killed in combat.  They need to be replenished at space docks periodically.  Lastly, holographic projections can also serve as regular crew members, although with some restrictions.

Star Trek Online gives players a huge number of ships to choose from with a lot of customability, so a player can create any combination of crews and ships that they desire.  Want to role-play an all Vulcan science vessel?  Cryptic’s made almost anything you want to do possible.

The same can be expected with the movie-based MMORPG, Star Trek Online. Ships plays an important role in STO. Alot is expected to happen on board ships and players will be the captains of their own ships. Months before the official game release STO Ship guides, articles and posts are being discussed in community sites, forums and blogs.

Given that ships are expected to play a big part in the game, alot of customization, upgrades and so on and so forth is something players look forward to. The complexity of handling each ship may require the use of a STO ship guide for MMORPG newbies.

In order for players to obtain their ships, they would first need to reach the Lieutenant Commander rank. Star Trek Online ships players can choose from are as follows:

-Cruiser Ship: This ship is the fastest to repair and focues mainly on fire power and weaponry with heaps of weapon slots in contrast to other ships.

-Escort Ship: This is probably the fastest ship with extra fire power and the ability for players to equip cannons.

-Science Ship: These can be considered as support ships with enhanced buffing and debuffing with cloaking and heavy armor as core features.

Here’s a short introductory Star Trek Online Ship Guide:

One of the more obvious and likely-to-be prominent feature of the game are ships. To a certain extend, some fans are already guessing the the game will have similarities to the well-known and unique space theme MMORPG, EVE Online.

Here’s what is already officially shared by Cryptic Studio when it comes to ships:

• First, each ship or otherwise known as vessel will be suitable for different functions. For example, there would be science vessels as oppose to cruisers and so on and so forth.
• Then there will definitely be ship sizes. The size effects the capabilities of each ship and relates to the purpose. Of course, larger ships will be able to hold larger crews but may take longer to repair.
• Other then size, each ship will work around different utilities.
• Then there’s modification slots. These slots allows for ship modification to increase effectiveness. Different ships would have different spacing allocated for the slots.

Ships plays an important role in Star Trek Online. Players and team up and fly vessels into battle with NPCs. The game itself is designed for missions to be completed both on the ground and in space.