Daedalus class starship - Definition and Overview

The USS Horizon, a Daedalus class starship

In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Daedalus class starship was one of the first classes of starship to be deployed by the United Federation of Planets. What little is known about this class is based on conjecture. No Daedalus class starships have ever been featured on screen; however, Commander Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space 9 had what is believed to be a model of a ship of this class in his office: it depicted a vessel with a spherical primary hull attached to a cylindrical engineering hull by a short, horizontal connection, with two warp nacelles supported by two uncurving pylons running upward and to the sides from the dorsal side of the secondary hull. It is generally accepted that the USS Horizon and the USS Archon were both members of this class; a USS Daedalus could be supposed as well.

In terms of the television show production, this is one of several proposed designs for the ship that later became the Starship Enterprise featured in the original show from the 1960s.

See also: Non-canon article on Daedalus class (http://www.starfleet-museum.org/daedalus.htm)