How many starships does Starfleet have?

[Hotaru]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I've always thought that starfleet had a few hundred starships, maybe 700 or so. Starfleet didn't have much warning about the borg in Best of Both Worlds, so only the closest ships could probably respond. More ships could be a long ways away, and not be able to make it back to earth in time. It's all very confusing.

As for star systems, I have no idea. We've seen alot. We know that there is planets within Federation space that aren't Federation members, would they have been counted as well? This would be alot simpler if they could simply decide on things and stick with them.

For more I would check some of the articles at www.DITL.org[/colorost_uid0]