What Fleet

[Seth]

What Fleet did Picard and crew belong.. The 9th Fleet, the 8th fleet and so on. Also how many ships are there in each fleet..

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They never said which fleet Picard served in, or how many ships Starfleet assigns to each one. (Probably varies according to need, especially during wartime)

 

[serdogthehound]

Picard being the one of the formost Captain in the fleet may have even been given a Squardon deacttached from a fleet. More like the Enterpise is such a sysblom of the Federation in likly that Picard spent the war patroling the home sector to rasie moral

 

[Sisu]

I got the feeling that "Fleets" only form when there is an emergency. If there were standing Fleets, surely the Federation wouldn't have been caught so under-represented at Wolf-359. It would also explain why the Enterprise is always the "only ship in the quadrant".

Given its mission ideology, most of Star Fleet would be exploring strange, new worlds at times of peace.

 

[nx1701g]

In the series it is never expressly stated which fleet the Enterprise belongs to. In noncanon sources it is usually attributed to the 16th Fleet Mobile under the supervision of Alynna Nechayev though.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I'd love to be under Nechayev's "supervision".

Or simply under Nechayev. That would work too.

 

[Forbin]

Did they even have such a fleet structure in peacetime? I assumed the explorers like the Galaxy class ships were independant entities.

 

[timmy84]

I can't remember which one, but it was referenced in Chain of Command. The Enterprise was suppose to act as flagship for that particular fleet if war broke out with the Cardassians.

 

[Timo]

The E-D was said to be the command ship for the sector that included Minos Korva, the likely location of imminent hostilities. Quite possibly the peacetime Starfleet believes more in organizing its forces by operating theaters (using whichever ships are in that theater at the time) than in grouping the ships in fixed formations.

Also, Starfleet might believe in placing certain admirals in command of specific sectors or combat theaters, and separate admirals in command of specific wartime fleets. Nechayev, Ross and Haden might be examples of the former: the first for the Maquis area of operations, the second for Bajoran space, the third for Romulan affairs (later to be superceded by Admiral Janeway). Shanti from "Redemption" and Sitak and Coburn from "Favor the Bold" would be examples of the latter, and addressed as Fleet Admirals regardless of rank.

To be a fleet flagship, the E-D would probably need to have an admiral of one type or the other aboard. To be a mere "command vessel" would not necessarily require that. And of course the ship would always be the Federation Flagship by honorific, regardless of whether she was acting as a flagship to some fleet or not.

Timo Saloniemi