United Star Ship
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United Star Ship is used on the show Star Trek to prefix names of spaceships. It is typically abbreviated to USS. The most well-known Star Trek ship is called USS Enterprise, or simply Enterprise.
United Star Ship refers to the organization these ships belong to: the United Federation of Planets.
The full name was used mostly when captains were introducing themselves formally to a new species. Only Kirk used the term "United Star Ship" in full, as in "My name is Kirk, from the United Star Ship Enterprise."
Other captains usually referred to their ship as "Federation Star Ship", as in "My name is Kathryn Janeway, captain of the Federation Star Ship Voyager."