THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS AND ITS STARFLEET possess the most high-tech and powerful ships among all of the three major "superpowers" in the old FASA Star Trek game universe.  Strangely, I don't think the Federation recognition manual is as well written as the Klingon manual, and I also don't think the ship designs are quite as good.  Mostly because the scaling is all cattywompus.  Very often it seems the illustrators for the Federation manual just photocopied the saucer section and warp nacelles from a motion picture era Constitution class (Enterprise class in the old FASA books) and then slapped a bunch of other hardware around that saucer and those nacelles, and called it a ship; regardless of size or mission.
        For example: take the destroyer designs Lenthal and Baker which—if the identical saucer and nacelles are supposed to be to scale—ought to mass more than the Enterprise cruisers.  But too often the saucer and nacelles are not to scale, and I think it was dumb on the part of the FASA ship designers to slap an Enterprise saucer and nacelles on a scout or an escort or a destroyer, when these ships are clearly much smaller than the heavy cruiser that is the USS Enterprise.
        Another beef of mine is that the written text describes a Federation space navy which is horribly small compared to, say, that fielded by the Klingons.  Yes, the UFP does have better technology, and yes Starfleet's primary mission is still one of exploration, but the Klingon forces of the motion picture era number into the tens of thousands of ships, while if you added up the entire Federation manual you'd get a Starfleet that amasses only a few thousand ships, at the most.  This (to me) is not very believable, especially since we eventually see Starfleet ship registry numbers that run into the tens of thousands.  Where are all the rest of the ships?
        Like all the old FASA manuals, this one was made thoroughly outdated by the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine television series, as well as movies like Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.  here was a late effort to bring the UFP fleet up to date with the introduction of the FASA-produced Next Generation Officer's Manual, but as with the older UFP recognition manual, just about every design in the TNG Officer's Manual is apocryphal, having little or no basis in the actual television program.
        More than any other government, I've re-drawn the Federation designs most often: fixing scale problems or otherwise matching proper parts with proper classes (and proper eras) so that there are fewer and fewer obvious discrepancies as time goes on.  I also tend to add both ventral and aft views, too, so that the blueprints are not only more accurate—to my way of thinking—but also of far higher resolution.  A great many fans have told me they enjoy the ship schematics even more than the game itself, and I am a lover of ship schematics as well.  So I consider the re-draws to be a worthwhile hobby project.
        Unless otherwise noted, all of the ships listed here can be found in the FASA Federation Ship Recognition Manual 2nd Edition.  Those ships which originate from other sources—such as the FASA TNG Officer's Manual, or Stardate Magazine's Jaynz files—have been designated accordingly.  See the legend.

        — BRT

NOTE: where possible, I tried to scan each ship at as high a resolution as I reasonably could.  But the original format of the drawings in the FASA manuals typically makes this very difficult.  The designers at FASA used an old black and white layout trick where the "gray" color that shades the ships is not gray at all, but is instead composed of thousands of tiny black dots on a field of white.  (click here for an example)  The net effect viewed from afar by the human eye is that of 'grayness' but the scanner picks up every last dot; and it takes a lot of softening/blurring and reduction to get the ships to look halfway decent.  Even then, the images sometimes don't come out nearly as crisp as I'd like.  So, if things seem a teeny bit fuzzy around the edges, or if the graphics don't look exactly as they did on paper, please understand that I did what I could with what I've got.  In some cases I re-drew the ships myself, or have been able to find large-scale graphics from other sources for well-known canon ships (like the Constitution Refit/Enterprise & Reliant/Miranda).

ASSAULT SHIPS / TROOP TRANSPORTS

Continent

Kolm-An ∆

Makin

BATTLESHIPS / BATTLE-CRUISERS

Akira ⁿ

Excelsior

Excelsior (refit) ⁿ

Federation ¤

Federation (refit) ª

Indomitable ∆

Royal Sovereign *

Ambassador ⁿ

Andor

Anton

Archer ª

Brenton

Constitution

Constitution (refit)

Constellation *

Durrett

Envoy (FASA "Ambassador") *

Galaxy *

Intrepid ⁿ

Miranda (FASA "Reliant")

Ticonderoga ∆

Baker

Charger ∆

Decker *

Defiant ⁿ

Larson

Lenthal

Saladin ¤

Tangent ∆

ESCORTS

Remora

Genser

Griffon

Babcock

Chandley

Cygnus ª

Kiev

Steamrunner ⁿ

Danube ⁿ

Epsilon

Scorpio

Solar

Bader

Gagarin (Oberth/Sagan)

Karekh

Keith

K'kmarak ∆

Moscow *

Nelson

Nova ⁿ

Scylla ∆

SPACE STATIONS

Alamo

R-1

Spacedock

Starfleet HQ ¤

Greyhound
Warp Shuttle

Pulsar
Warp Shuttle

S-Series
Travel / Work Pod

SC-22 Sphinx
Work / Cargo Shuttle

S-20
Administrative Shuttle

SW-21
Warp Shuttle

Aakenn
Freighter

Cle Dan
Tender

Cochrane
Colonial Transport

Cosmos Royale
Luxury Liner

Derf
Warp Tender

Fenlon
Monitor

Kethkin
Transport

Super Laweya
Freighter

Pearl
Mobile Repair Facility

Samson
Warp Tender