Probe

Over the years, starships and other spacecraft affiliated with the United Federation of Planets have utilized a wide variety of probes. Each one was designed for different types of phenomena.

A list of Federation probes is as follows:

By class

• class-1 probe
• class-2 probe
• class-3 probe
• class-4 probe
• class-5 probe
• class-8 probe

By function

• atmospheric probe (DS9: "Starship Down")
• the Egg
• multispatial probe (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
• radio beacon