[captainj2410]

Okay, so it may seem nonsensical to have the United Federation of Planets (specifically Starfleet) to have airplanes, not to mention fighters. Well, perhaps an alien culture developed some sort of dampening field that will disable a vehicles flight systems (antigrav generators and aerodynamic buffer shields, for example). If that's the case, when aerial combat ensues, it would be necessary to have something that could actually FLY haha! Well, Here's a concept for a 25th century Starfleet fighter plane. It draws heavily on the F-22 and F-35, as well as the Northrop Grumman JSF concept model. It may seem to fit today's description of "advanced," but it'd probably look absurd in 2400. My logic: between the end of World War III and the time this was developed, there was no need to advance aerodynamics for planes, so therefore they had to go back 350 years to find a viable design. Crappy logic, but there you have it.