Warship

The Warship Voyager

In starship classification, a warship is a generic term for any heavily-armed vessel designed for war, combat or defense. These vessels include battleships, battle cruisers, various sized cruisers, escorts, and destroyers.

The term warship was universally used to identify almost all Dominion, Klingon or Cardassian starships.

Captain Jonathan Archer once said that he didn't want to be in command of a warship in response to Captain Jefferies' desire to install powerful weapons on Enterprise (NX-01). (ENT: "Home")

The Federation Starfleet typically avoids using the warship classification and applies euphanisms like escort and tactical cruiser, such as for the Defiant-class and Prometheus'-class, respectively.

The Klingon Negh'Var type and Jem'Hadar battlecruiser was referred to as warship by Starfleet. A small 23rd century Klingon vessel in 2267 was given the sole classification of warship by Starfleet. (VOY: "Drone"), (TOS: "Friday's Child")

The Douwd who assumed the form of Kevin Uxbridge created a warship in order to drive the USS Enterprise-D away from Delta Rana IV. (TNG: "The Survivors")

The Warship Voyager was part of The Voyager Encounter holographic simulation in the Kyrian Museum of Heritage. (VOY: "Living Witness")

Warships by race

• Andorian warship
• Annari warship
• Bajoran warship
• Banean warship
• Breen warship
• Cardassian warship
  • Galor-class
• Delta Rana warship
• Devore warship
• Etanian warship
• Federation warships
  • Constellation-class (Ferengi designation)
  • Defiant-class
• Ferengi warship
• Gorn warship
• Husnock warship
• Ilari warship
• Jem'Hadar warships
  • Jem'Hadar attack ship
  • Jem'Hadar battle cruiser
• Kaelon warship
• Kazon warship
  • Kazon raider
  • Predator-class
• Klingon warships
  • D5 class
  • D7 class
  • K't'inga class
  • Klingon Bird-of-Prey
  • Negh'Var warship
  • Vorok's battle cruiser
• Kraylor warship
• Krenim warship
• Lokirrim warship
• Lysian warship
• Mazarite warship
• Nihydron warship
• Romulan warships
  • D'deridex class
  • D7 class
• Talarian warship
• Tamarian starship
• Tellarite warship
• Tzenkethi warship
• Vidiian warship
• Xindi-Reptilian warship
• Zalkonian warship

Behind the scenes

Ronald D. Moore commented: "This also is a legacy of Gene's. He felt very strongly that the Federation would not build warships per se, but rather a fleet of scientific exploration vessels with weapons designed for defense rather than offense. It was quite a fight just to get the Defiant designated as a pure warship around here, much less trying to go for an entire fleet of ships like it." [1]