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Ported to OBJ from the fan-created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original desktop model created by Greg Jein (first for the Franchise book The Star Trek Chronology by Mike and Denise Okuda) as first mentioned in TNG "Power Play" and as later seen in DS9 (the model itself, various episodes) and in other official Franchise canon and semi-canon media -- which in turn was based on one of the original concepts for the TOS Enterprise by Matthew Jeffries back in the day. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. Noted Trek fan CG artist Dave Metlesits has done his own filming quality 3D model of Deadalus, which you can download at the link below:

Daedalus was one of the first starship classses of the Federation in its early years following the end of the Romulan War. It was originally a pre-Romulan War Earth-built starship class, deliberately designed to be as simple as possible in order to ease construction, and also to allow as many of them to be built as the United Earth's combined spaceyard capacity permitted. Most of the original production run served during the Romulan War, and all of them were turned over for Federation use afterward upon its founding per the Franchise. These in turn were numbered among the great explorers in those early heady years of the Federation and wound up having a very long production run, with at least three more major blocks with successive improvements eventually built. By the end of production the later members of the Daedalus family had so many changes to make them better that they resembled the original design in general form only, and were often considered starship classes in their own right (Sofia; see also FFR). They were finally retired at the end of the 22nd century Gregorian calendar given that by then the Federation had plenty of newer and better starship classes to replace them in the explorer role. Per official franchise media at least one original Daedalus with only minor in-service modifications, the USS Discovery, was preserved as a museum ship and still existed as a walk-through exhibit at the Starfleet Museum in the TNG/DS9/VOY era (DS9 novel The Time of the Prophets). Both the original design and general component configuration served as the general basis for later Federation starship classes, most notably the 24th century's Olympic class (TNG "All Good Things") and an smaller unnamed class that closely resembled the original Daedalus in many ways (LD "An Embarrassment of Dooplers").

This is unquestionably and undeniably canon. How you gandy-dance through its rather convoluted backstory in its various canon, semi-canon, and fanon forms is entirely up to you.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - Here's a link to the online Ex Astris Scientia article on Daedalus. Those of you of a Trek tech or canon nazi bent may find it interesting ....

www.ex-astris-scientia.org/art…

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan-created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original desktop model created by Greg Jein (first for the Franchise book The Star Trek Chronology by Mike and Denise Okuda) as first mentioned in TNG "Power Play" and as later seen in DS9 (the model itself, various episodes) and in other official Franchise canon and semi-canon media -- which in turn was based on one of the original concepts for the TOS Enterprise by Matthew Jeffries back in the day. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. Noted Trek fan CG artist Dave Metlesits has done his own filming quality 3D model of Deadalus, which you can download at the link below:

Daedalus was one of the first starship classses of the Federation in its early years following the end of the Romulan War. It was originally a pre-Romulan War Earth-built starship class, deliberately designed to be as simple as possible in order to ease construction, and also to allow as many of them to be built as the United Earth's combined spaceyard capacity permitted. Most of the original production run served during the Romulan War, and all of them were turned over for Federation use afterward upon its founding per the Franchise. These in turn were numbered among the great explorers in those early heady years of the Federation and wound up having a very long production run, with at least three more major blocks with successive improvements eventually built. By the end of production the later members of the Daedalus family had so many changes to make them better that they resembled the original design in general form only, and were often considered starship classes in their own right (Sofia; see also FFR). They were finally retired at the end of the 22nd century Gregorian calendar given that by then the Federation had plenty of newer and better starship classes to replace them in the explorer role. Per official franchise media at least one original Daedalus with only minor in-service modifications, the USS Discovery, was preserved as a museum ship and still existed as a walk-through exhibit at the Starfleet Museum in the TNG/DS9/VOY era (DS9 novel The Time of the Prophets). Both the original design and general component configuration served as the general basis for later Federation starship classes, most notably the 24th century's Olympic class (TNG "All Good Things") and an smaller unnamed class that closely resembled the original Daedalus in many ways (LD "An Embarrassment of Dooplers").

This is unquestionably and undeniably canon. How you gandy-dance through its rather convoluted backstory in its various canon, semi-canon, and fanon forms is entirely up to you.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - Here's a link to the online Ex Astris Scientia article on Daedalus. Those of you of a Trek tech or canon nazi bent may find it interesting ....

www.ex-astris-scientia.org/art…