Player race

In Star Trek Online, there are many playable races. Each of them has a different bonus determined by its race-specific innate trait as well as the race-specific pool of selectable Personal traits.

A races' appearances are customizable to varying degrees at character creation and via the in-game tailor.

Faction differences

Below are the current playable races in the game listed by faction.

Federation

• Alien
• Andorian
• Bajoran
• Benzite
• Betazoid
• Bolian
• Caitian
• Ferengi
• Human
• Klingon
• Liberated Borg Human
• Pakled
• Rigelian
• Saurian
• Talaxian
• Tellarite
• Trill
• Joined Trill
• Vulcan

Klingon Empire

• Alien
• Ferasan
• Gorn
• Klingon
• Lethean
• Liberated Borg Klingon
• Nausicaan
• Orion
• Talaxian
• Joined Trill

Romulan Republic

• Alien
• Liberated Borg Romulan
• Reman
• Romulan

Notes

• On April 1st, 2016, the Horta were announced as an unlockable Player race as part of that year's April Fools' prank, but were and are not actually available to players.