In the Star Trek fictional universe, Starfleet is the defense, research, diplomacy, and exploration force of the United Federation of Planets. Starfleet Headquarters is located in San Francisco, California, Earth, Sol System, Sector 001, in the Alpha Quadrant.

Starfleet predates a innovation of a Federation by many decades, & was responsible launching the number one Mortal Warp 5-capable starship, a Enterprise NX-01. These are assumed that the pre-Federation Starfleet late expanded to become a UFP version by owning a technical collaboration on the a portion of its members.

Several of the Headquarters' buildings come concentrated upright east of the Golden Gate Bridge in what is now a Presidio of San Francisco, a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula.

Starfleet consists of numbers of branches which produce higher a organization, viz.: Starfleet Academy Starfleet Engineering Corps Starfleet Command Starfleet Intelligence Section 31 Temporal Investigations Starfleet Medical Starfleet Security Starfleet Tactical Starfleet Marines Starfleet Judge Advocate General

Though Starfleet is comprised of many races, Humans and Vulcan, two of a little joe founders of the Federation, own the virtually all large roles within early episodes. When a stories progress into late series, more races like Bolians, Betazoids, Trills, and others run to become given central roles.

Starfleet has been shown to manage diplomatic, scientific, & mission, although their independent mandate seems to exist as one of peaceful exploration. A flagship of Starfleet (& too of the "1st fleet", view Dominion War) is often a spaceship USS Enterprise.

Virtually all members of Starfleet world health organization address daily-to-day operations come enlisted souls. There exists an officer corps that help in ships & installations. Officers usually help when department heads & when command officers. Virtually all officers come trained at Starfleet Academy San Francisco, California, Earth around the quartet-month course which trains the babies in skills like warp travel and military maneuver. Starfleet ranks and insignia are similar to that within apply by owning a United States Navy.

Other uses
Around more science fiction universes, starfleet is used instead title for starfaring space navies. A Imperial Navy in Star Wars, for example, is properly known as a "Imperial Starfleet". This doesn't use to 100% plot line; a military machine around Wing Commander, for example, is known only when a Terran Confederation Navy, when a independent military group around Macross is known as a UN Spacy. A term starfleet was as well utilized around many episodes of Doctor Who prior to the creation of Star Trek.