Daedalus class

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Daedalus class
Model of the Daedalus class Model of the Daedalus class
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Active:	Through 2196
Crew complement:	229

The Daedalus-class was an early class of Starfleet vessel that, unlike most Federation starship designs was designed with a spherical primary hull, outwardly similar to the later Olympic-class. This class, which operated with a crew of approximately 229, was decommissioned by the year 2196. (TNG: "Power Play")

A Daedalus-class model was at one time kept in Deep Space 9's classroom, and later in Benjamin Sisko's ready room. (DS9: "The Nagus", "Progress", etc.)

Contents 1 Ships commissioned 2 Appendices 2.1 Appearances 2.2 Background 2.3 Studio model 2.4 Apocrypha 2.5 External link

[edit] Ships commissioned

Named

• USS Essex (NCC-173)
• USS Horizon (NCC-176)

Uncertain

• USS Archon (NCC-189)
• USS Carolina (NCC-160)

[edit] Appendices

[edit] Appearances

• DS9:
  • "The Nagus" (model in DS9's classroom)
  • "Progress" (model from here on in Sisko's office)
  • "If Wishes Were Horses"
  • "Dramatis Personae"
  • "Duet"
  • "The Homecoming"
  • "The Maquis, Part I"
  • "The Maquis, Part II"
  • "Rejoined"
  • "The Way of the Warrior"
  • "You Are Cordially Invited"
  • "Afterimage"

[edit] Background

Note that ship design and the name "Daedalus" have never been connected in any canon production. While in "Power Play", an unseen ship type has been called "Daedalus class", the ship model as seen on DS9, and the USS Horizon it represents, have never been stated as belonging to the "Daedalus class". In fact, the use of this design in the Star Trek Encyclopedia is the only connection.

[edit] Studio model

According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, this conjectural design was "based on an early USS Enterprise design by Matt Jefferies and built by Greg Jein" (especially built for the Encyclopedia). The model originally bore the name USS Essex with registry number NCC-176. [1]. Interestingly, at the time the nacelles were equipped with spikes akin to those seen on the original USS Enterprise model in "The Cage". A cast was made of this model being refurbished as the USS Horizon, minus the spikes and with an unchanged registry, and used as a desktop display in Benjamin Sisko's office in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Michael Okuda elaborates, "There were at least two models of the Horizon/Essex. The first was the one that Greg built for the Chronology. I later asked Greg to make a casting of that model, so we could use it as set dressing in Sisko's office. I believe he made another casting for display at Star Trek: The Experience. I may still have the original model somewhere, although I seem to recall it was damaged in an earthquake some years ago... The 'painted over stripes' were present on the cast resin copies. The original stripes were fairly thick graphic tape, so they showed up as ridges on the cast copies. Doug [Drexler] and I did the taping after Greg delivered the finished model. We also applied tape over the ridges on the copy in Sisko's office, at least partially, but I don't think we ever got a chance to tape the copy made for The Experience." [2]

[edit] Apocrypha

• A Daedalus-class starship named the USS Lovell is prominently featured in (and on the cover of) the non-canon Star Trek: SCE novel Foundations. The USS Lovell is also active in the Star Trek: Vanguard novels. The ship is shown outside Starbase 47 (Vanguard) on the cover of the second book of the series Summon the Thunder.
• In Michael Jan Friedman's novel Starfleet: Year One, competition among the early Starfleet's captains for command of the first Daedalus was one of the main plot threads - though the events of this novel have been ignored by later novels, as it was contradicted by Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Star Trek: Legacy was the first Star Trek video game to feature a Daedalus-class starship.
• Ships of the Line has a CGI rendering by Doug Drexler of the USS Daedalus with registry NCC-129 (presumably the class-vessel) [3][4] on the book's jacket.
• In the Pocket ENT novels The Good That Men Do, Kobayashi Maru, and The Romulan War - Beneath the Raptor's Wing the Daedalus class is featured heavily as an older ship class, and the main replacement, of the NX-class fleet.

[edit] External link

• Daedalus class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works