Q: Is this stuff canon?
A: No. One of the drawbacks of Star Trek
is a the scaricy of information. The episodes and films only give you as
much information as is need for the story. Star Trek's "story"
spans several decades with more than a few gaps. To make this site seem "real"
I've had to fill in the gaps using my own imagination. The ships
are about 50% canon. The uniforms and insignia about 75 % canon.
With the insignia the biggest gap was enlisted ranks. The original series
pretty much dimissed the idea of enlisted personnel but later
series introduce the idea. I based most of the enlisted ranks of Chief O'Briens
insignia from TNG and DS9. Ranks from the movies are based on the
few glimpses of those insignia.
Uniforms are for the most part from what has been shown on screen. The
major exception are the "Captian April Uniforms" which are from my
series proposal. I did add some non canon dress uniforms to the
"Enterprise" and "Pike" section to balance out the images with the
other sections.
The non canon ships are based on the idea that Starfleet engages
in modular ship design with several different classes sharing certain components.
The Miranda/Constitution classes are an example of this. For
each well know ship I created a"Miranda" class counterpart. (Or
in the case of the Constellation I created Constitution class counterpart.
) The only case where both designs are canon are the Galaxy/Nebula
classes and of course the Constitution/Miranda. You might notice
the there is a relationship between the names of each class. I thought
this was pretty clever until I thought back on the names Constitution
and Miranda and panic when they didn't seemed related. Then I recalled
that we have both Constitutional rights granted by law and Miranda rights
as well.
Q: C Class? J J Adams ?
A: Both the ship, the character and the
"UESPA" uniforms are derived from the classic SF film "Forbidden Planet".
Many consider "Forbidden Planet" one of Gene Roddenberry's infuences
when creating Star Trek. I like to call in "Star Trek -0: Forbidden
Planet".
Q: That isn't what the Daedalus class looks like!
A: Actually we have no idea what
the Daedalus class looks like. We've never seen one. The ship
ever called a Daedalus class was the USS Essex, in the TNG episode "Power
Play". Other ships, active at the same time as the Essex, have been
conjectured to be of the Daedalus class. but there is no on screen evidence
to support this.
Q: What about that ship model in
Sisko's office?
A: It is a model of a ship that has
never been given a class designation. The design is based on a
early, but ultimately rejected design, for the USS Enterprise from the original
series.
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