Starfleet Historical Database
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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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