|Active:||16th century - 22nd century| |Crew complement:||Could
be operated by a single individual| |Speed:||Warp-capable via
tachyon eddies| A Bajoran lightship was a type of early Bajoran
spacegoing vessel that utilized solar sail-powered space flight.
These vessels were used by the Bajorans as early as the 16th
century, at a time prior to the Fall of their First Republic.
(DS9: "Explorers") Bajorans first traveled from Bajor to
Cardassia, and established First Contact between the two worlds.
For many years the Cardassians disputed this claim, referring to
it as a "Bajoran fairy tale," because they refused to admit that
the Bajorans had achieved interstellar flight before they had.
However, Captain Benjamin Sisko and his son, Jake, inadvertently
proved that the voyage was possible when they arrived in
Cardassian space in a similar lightship. By a proclaimed
remarkable coincidence, which Captain Sisko strongly doubted,
the Cardassians announced that they found the remains of an
ancient Bajoran lightship on C