The Vesta-class was type of Federation Starfleet starship in service during the late 24th century. The Vesta class served as a test-bed for numerous Starfleet technologies, including quantum slipstream drive, mark XII phaser cannons, a multidimensional wave-function analysis module, a sympathetic fermion transceiver, and a chroniton integrator, the latter of which could be used to take sensor readings several seconds into the future when the ship was using its slipstream drive.The class is equipped with transphanic torpedoes which took out a enemy ship.