Amph Your Personal Star Trek Canon

I liked it primarily as an interesting attempt to 'backdate' Federation/Terran ship design from TOS... which was rendered rather meaningless when Enterprise came out.

Some of the early RPGs and publications - like FASA, or Starlight Chronology - had some interesting ideas on that subject.

 

I've thought the attempts to make the Deadalus "better" all look worse than the model in Sisko's office.

 

I prefer the barebones Daedalus. That's basically how I always envisioned them... they were cheap, mass produced ships. They were small, clunky, prone to breakdowns, but they could be pumped out en masse at pretty much any shipyard.

I tend to place them more as an early Federation ship, though. I have this vision of Starfleet circa 2162 being cobbled together from elements of the Earth, Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite fleets. The Daedalus being the first attempt at something that standardized that was easily built anywhere, cheaply, quickly, and they were "good enough" for the needs to early Starfleet. I always figured their main goal was to just... get a unified fleet of Federation ships out there.

 

Medusan ship by thefirstfleet on DeviantArt

New fan design that resembles the Daedalus.

 

My canon consists just of Trials and Tribble-ations (and no, this does not include The Trouble with Tribbles)

 

The Daedalus seems like a 'all the cooks' design for the new Federation. Enterprise established the saucerhead design was a Terran thing. Since we've seen Andorian and Vulcan ships, was the Daedalus-class representative of the Tellarites?

 

why would anyone want to be in star trek?

 

The Olympic-class from the All Good Things alternate timeline (and also in a couple of Lower Decks episodes in the main timeline) seems to me like it could be the 25th century counterpart to the Daedalus.

 

I'm reminded of a bit in Knights of the Dinner Table where B.A. makes the mistake going to a Halloween party dressed as Spock and Brian instantly begins criticizing every aspect of his costume, and Bob remarks "Showing up in a Star Trek costume with Brian around is like bringing a knife to a gun fight"

That's awesome, though. My viewing of Enterprise was spotty and I didn't realize they actually showed any Tellarite vessels.

Maybe they were based on Ithenite design, then...

 

Do you mean in the franchise as an actor or in the reality that Roddenberry created?

 

@The2ndQuest @blackmyron Just a note on that Tellarite cruiser, it first appeared as an Arkonian ship in "Dawn" (Season Two) before being used as a Xindi-Arboreal vessel in several episodes of Season Three, so the design was clearly popular.

Suggests that they were open to sharing technology, at least. Still doesn't explain the Daedalus-Class, but it arguably demonstrates that the concept of shopping around for starship design influences was a 22nd Century possibility.

 

One thing that disappointed me about Enterprise canon-wise was that I was hoping they would expand a bit on the early Terran expansion period - the early human colonies, the early human ships, etc. Apart from "North Star", they really didn't do much about it (I'm not really counting "Terra Nova"). Did they even show Alpha Centauri at any point? What about Vega Colony? (I know they got namechecked, but...) A nod to the SS Valiant mission from the first episode of TOS would've been nice.
No mention of the Kzinti conflicts, either... leave it to Picard of all shows to have the first non-TAS mention of the Kzinti...
Another obscure bit I wished they had referenced - in the novelization of the TOS episode where they visited 1960s Earth, there's mention that Earth was technically in "Vegan Hegemony space" at the time, something that gets mentioned in the old FASA TTRPG and also gets a namecheck in "Star Charts".

 

This is a very good question.

 

For me, everything that has aired is canon, even Star Trek V.

 

Yeah, that was the sad part, that with Season 4, I felt that the show was getting into where it needed to be. Instead, in ended up being the last Star Trek TV we'd be getting until Discovery.

 

I was about to go digging for that very same concept image! Enterprise expected to get seven seasons, same as the previous shows. It always thought it'd have time to get around to addressing what it needed to address, which is why parts of S4 feel rushed or truncated (like the episode where they're scoping sites to establish Starfleet's first starbase, which sounds fascinating but quickly descends into a yucky, lowest-common-denominator Orion romp after thirty seconds). It's also why S3 ends on such a random rug-pull of a cliffhanger. The network was furious with the showrunners for tagging that on at the last minute.