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Ported to OBJ from the custom model by I_MUDD created for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original Daedalus design by Matthew Jefferies and as further tweaked by Greg Jein for the physical model that he built, first seen in Mike and Denise Okuda's Star Trek Chronology and later seen as a desktop model in various DS9 episode (thus canonizing Daedalus). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

I think this was intended to represent selected members of the later refitted and updated versions of the Daedalus family of starships as they appeared near the end of their service lives. That would have been 2196 per TNG "Power Play," although use of the Daedalus Mark II name gives us a means to hand-wave around that limiter. That might have meant Starfleet commissioned use, for example, with Daedalus in all forms after that date shunted off to other kinds of Federation service such as with the Federation Bureau of Sciences and other such non-Starfleet official agencies and organizations who could use older but still serviceable starships and remaining in use with them well into the TOS/TAS era before being sent to the proverbial barn. Whatever works for you, folks.

I'm including this because for once I_MUDD didn't go whole hog on his unique pre-TOS era customizations for his various CG starship models. His take on Daedalus Mark II plays fairly close to the Greg Jein physical model of the original, with only those changes and refinements you might expect Daedalus would have received during its long years of service and all of those thankfully kept to a decent minimum. The use of TOS era warp engines is problematic given the official end-of-service date but it might have received that particular upgrade after it left Starfleet service and was serving the Federation in other capacities. Again, whatever works for you.

This makes for a very nice alternative to STL's Daedalus refit model, for those of you who might prefer a improved Daedalus that still plays close to the original design.

This is fanon, although its very good fanon IMHO. What you do with it in your threads of the Trek multiverse is up to you.

Live long and prosper.

TRIVIA - USS Essex (NCC-173A) was the Daedalus class member featured (but never seen) in TNG "Power Play."

Description

Ported to OBJ from the custom model by I_MUDD created for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original Daedalus design by Matthew Jefferies and as further tweaked by Greg Jein for the physical model that he built, first seen in Mike and Denise Okuda's Star Trek Chronology and later seen as a desktop model in various DS9 episode (thus canonizing Daedalus). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

I think this was intended to represent selected members of the later refitted and updated versions of the Daedalus family of starships as they appeared near the end of their service lives. That would have been 2196 per TNG "Power Play," although use of the Daedalus Mark II name gives us a means to hand-wave around that limiter. That might have meant Starfleet commissioned use, for example, with Daedalus in all forms after that date shunted off to other kinds of Federation service such as with the Federation Bureau of Sciences and other such non-Starfleet official agencies and organizations who could use older but still serviceable starships and remaining in use with them well into the TOS/TAS era before being sent to the proverbial barn. Whatever works for you, folks.

I'm including this because for once I_MUDD didn't go whole hog on his unique pre-TOS era customizations for his various CG starship models. His take on Daedalus Mark II plays fairly close to the Greg Jein physical model of the original, with only those changes and refinements you might expect Daedalus would have received during its long years of service and all of those thankfully kept to a decent minimum. The use of TOS era warp engines is problematic given the official end-of-service date but it might have received that particular upgrade after it left Starfleet service and was serving the Federation in other capacities. Again, whatever works for you.

This makes for a very nice alternative to STL's Daedalus refit model, for those of you who might prefer a improved Daedalus that still plays close to the original design.

This is fanon, although its very good fanon IMHO. What you do with it in your threads of the Trek multiverse is up to you.

Live long and prosper.

TRIVIA - USS Essex (NCC-173A) was the Daedalus class member featured (but never seen) in TNG "Power Play."