How can Starfleet Academy explore the final frontier like other Star Trek shows when the titular school is based on Earth?

Most starships in Star Trek are able to travel across the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds through the use of warp drives ...

When IDW announced its latest Star Trek comic, The Last Starship, much of the focus was on the fact that the series would, somehow, resurrect Captain James T. Kirk for a story set in the 31st-century ...

The Burn is a historic galactic catastrophe mentioned often in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. But what exactly was this galaxy ...