USS Horizon

The USS Horizon (NCC-176) was a Federation starship operated by Starfleet. This ship was built, launched, and commissioned in the 22nd century.
A model of this ship was on display in the school aboard Deep Space 9 in early 2369. ()
Benjamin Sisko kept a model of this vessel in his office aboard Deep Space 9. (, et al.)
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=== Background information ===
 	
Original Chronology/Encyclopedia reference model... 	...and the second display model of USS Horizon
 	
USS Horizon as the Fact Files/The Magazine CGI model	USS Horizon as the Fact Files/The Magazine CGI model
According to the reference books Star Trek Concordance, , Star Trek Maps, and The Worlds of the Federation and the StarTrek.com article, this vessel was the same starship that visited the planet Sigma Iotia II in 2168, as mentioned in . In the episode, it was stated that the Horizon came "from the same outfit as" the , but it was never specified if that "outfit" was Starfleet or the Federation, nor was the prefix USS ever stated. However, in a line taken from the captain's log found in the unrevised final draft of the script had described it specifically as the "Federation starship Horizon."
A reference model was eventually built by Greg Jein for Michael Okuda, who had it prominently featured in his works, firstly in his 1993 edition of the , and subsequently in the first, 1994 edition of the , perpetuated as color photographs in all subsequent editions of both works. 
A second display model was constructed by Jein to be later put in Sisko's office on a stand with a TNG-era communicator, where it can be seen in the background in numerous episodes, along with a model of the International Space Station, the , and the . 
It was also featured prominently in an article on the history of Federation starships, firstly in, and on the cover of, the Star Trek Fact Files (part 57, 1998) and subsequently in Fact Files derivative publications (pp. 6, 34, 2000) and (2003), in all cases featured as a CGI model.
For more information on the models, see Daedalus-class model.
In the first draft script of , it was established that Harry Kim had never read the logs of the USS Horizon, though Kathryn Janeway recommended them to him. All mention of the vessel was excised from the episode by the time the final draft of the script was issued.
=== Apocrypha ===
In the Starfleet: Year One, Captain was mentioned as taking command of the Horizon in 2167. It was also mentioned in the Strange New Worlds VII short story "Test of Character."
According to the book Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years, the captain of the USS Horizon was Vince Waldron.
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