A starship class is the basic design of a starship. In most science fiction universes, a ship's class will generally be named after its first ship, known as the class leader or pathfinder.

Classes of starships, like their terrestrial counterpart, are used to save effort and money - it's considerably easier and cheaper to build multiple units to the same set of plans than to develop a new unique plan for every individual starship.

Babylon 5

Centauri Republic starship classes

• Primus class battlecruiser
• Vorchan class warcruiser

Earth Alliance starship classes

• Explorer class starship
• Hyperion class heavy cruiser
• Nova class dreadnought
• Olympus class corvette
• Omega class destroyer
• Warlock class destroyer

Interstellar Alliance starship classes

• Victory class destroyer
• Whitestar class starship

Minbari Federation starship classes

• Sharlin class warcruiser

Narn Regime starship classes

• G'Quan class starcruiser
• T'Loth class heavy cruiser

Other races' and organizations' starship classes

• Brakiri cruiser
• Drakh mothership
• Drakh cruiser
• Drakh raider
• Drazi sunhawk
• Ipsha battleglobe
• Ithnaan warglobe
• Lumati transport
• Markab transport
• Moradi cruiser
• Raider jumpship
• Sab'a homeship
• Soulhunter transport
• Streib cruiser
• Technomage transport
• Thirdspace capital ship
• Vree Xill class cruiser
• Vree Xorr class cruiser

Shadow starship classes

• Battlecrab
• Planetkiller
• Scout

Vorlon Empire starship classes

• Cruiser
• Mothership
• Planetkiller
• Transport

Gundam

Universal Century

• Musai-class mobile suit carrier (Various Gundam series)
• Pegasus-class mobile suit carrier (includes Pegasus, White Base, Thoroughbred, and improved variants include the Albion and Argama.) (Various Gundam series)
• Salamis class cruiser (Various Gundam series)
• Magellan class battleship (Various Gundam series)
• Irish class battleship (Various Gundam series)

Cosmic Era

• Archangel class mobile assault ship (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed)
• Laurasia-class mobile frigate (FFM) (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed)
• Nazca-class high speed mobile destroyer (DDMH) (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed)

Honor Harrington

People's Republic of Haven starship classes

• Bastogne-class destroyer
• City-class destroyer
• Frigate-class light cruiser
• Conqueror-class light cruiser
• Mars-class heavy cruiser
• Scimitar-class heavy cruiser
• Warlord-class battlecruiser
• Sultan-class battlecruiser
• Triumphant-class battleship
• New Boston-class dreadnought
• Rousseau-class dreadnought
• DuQuesne-class superdreadnought

Star Kingdom of Manticore starship classes

• Osprey-class frigate
• Hawkwing-class destroyer
• Minstrel-class destroyer
• Courageous-class light cruiser
• Apollo-class light cruiser
• Star Knight-class heavy cruiser
• Homer-class battlecruiser
• Reliant-class battlecruiser
• Bellerophon-class dreadnought
• Gryphon-class superdreadnought

Macross

UN Spacy starship classes

First Space War era

• Macross-class Super Dimensional Fortress
• Megaroad-class Colonization Ship
• ARMD class carrier*
• Oberth class destroyer*

Colonization era

• New Macross-class Colonization Ship
• Northhampton-class Frigate
• Uraga-class Carrier (CV)
• Neo Nupetiet-Vergnitzs class fleet command battleship
• Yamagumo class stealth frigate

• Although not completed as starships (due to Space War I experience demonstrating their basic inadequacy as warships), they were originally earmarked for space fold installation as soon as drives became available.

Zentraedi starship classes

• 42101 (IV II X I) Fulbtzs-Berrentzs class mothership
• 5631 (V VI III I) Nupetiet-Vergnitzs class medium-scale fleet command battleship
• 10107 (X X VII) Queadol-Magdomilla class command battleship
• Picket ship
• Quiltra-Quelamitz class medium scale gunboat
• Quiltra-Queleual class amphibious assault ship
• Thuverl-Salan class standard battleship

Star Trek

Borg starship classes

• Cube
• Probe
• Queen's ship
• Scout
• Sphere
• Tactical cube

Cardassian starship classes

• Galor
• Hideki
• Keldon

Ferengi starship classes

• D'Kora

Jem'Hadar starship classes

• Attack ship
• Battlecruiser

Klingon starship classes

• B'rel
• D5
• D7
• K't'inga
• K'Vort
• Negh'Var
• Raptor
• Vor'cha

Romulan starship classes

• Bird-of-Prey
• D7
• D'deridex
• Valdore

Starfleet starship classes

• Akira
• Ambassador
• Andromeda
• Antares
• Apollo†
• Bradbury
• Challenger
• Cheyenne†
• Chimera
• Constellation
• Constitution
• Daedalus
• Danube
• Defiant
• Deneva†
• Erewon
• Excelsior
• Freedom†
• Galaxy
• Hokule'a†
• Istanbul†
• Intrepid
• Korolev†
• Mediterranean
• Merced†
• Miranda
• Nebula
• New Orleans†
• Niagara†
• Norway
• Nova
• NX
• Oberth
• Olympic
• Prometheus
• Renaissance†
• Rigel†
• Saber
• Sequoia
• Sovereign
• Soyuz
• Springfield
• Steamrunner
• Surak
• Sydney
• Wambundu†
• Wells
• Whorfin†
• Yellowstone
• Yorkshire†
• Zodiac

† indicates a conjectural or non-canon class.

Star Wars

Galactic Empire starship classes

• Mandator-class Star Dreadnought
• Procurator-class Star Battlecruiser
• Acclamator-class Star Assault Ship
• Venator-class Star Destroyer
• Victory-class Star Destroyer
• Imperial-class Star Destroyer
• Nebulon-class Star Frigate
• CEC-90 class Star Corvette
• Executor-class Star Dreadnought
• Sovereign-class Star Dreadnought
• Eclipse-class Star Dreadnought

Naboo starship classes

• Naboo royal yacht (multiple designs)

Rebel Alliance starship classes

• Blockade runner
• Mon Calamari Cruiser

See Also

• Interstellar travel
• List of fictional spaceships
• List of vehicles in Star Wars
• Spacecraft
• Starship
• Unidentified flying object

External links

• The Nefarious List (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/misc/harrington/nefarious-list.html) - A list of every class of starship seen in the Honor Harrington novels
• Hyperspace (http://hyperspace.isnnews.net) - A list of starships seen in Babylon 5
• Starship Dimensions (http://www.merzo.net) - A graphic comparison of fictional spaceship sizes.
• Ex Astris Scientia (http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org) - A list of starships seen in Star Trek