Daedalus class

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The Daedalus-class was an early class of Starfleet vessel. The Daedalus-class was commissioned soon after the formation of the Federation in 2161 and decommissioned in 2196. (TNG: "Power Play")

This class of starship was presumably named after the character of Daedalus in Greek mythology.

[edit] Ships commissioned

Named

• USS Essex (NCC-173)

Uncertain

• USS Archon (NCC-189)
• USS Carolina (NCC-160)
• USS Horizon (NCC-176)

[edit] Appendices

[edit] Background

It has not yet been clarified whether the "Horizon type" (pictured) and the Daedalus class are actually the same.

According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Horizon-type and the Daedalus-class are one and the same; however, no on-screen evidence supports it.

[edit] Service dates

Although it has not explicitly directed at the Daedalus-class, it is known from dialog in ENT: "These Are the Voyages..." that warp-7 starships came into service in or sometime soon after 2161. Since the Daedalus-class is known to have remained in service 35 years beyond that point, it is reasonable to believe that this class was among the first warp-7 starships.

[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.

[edit] External Links

• Daedalus-class cruisers at The Starfleet Museum
• Home of the Starship called Daedalus - a detailed treatise on the Daedalus-class ships
• Daedalus - A post-Star Trek: Enterprise fan design of the Daedalus