|Class:||Class 9 Vessel|
|Affiliation:||Coalition of Madena|
|A graphic of the Erstwhile showing the location of its bridge (red) and laser array (pink)|
The Erstwhile was a sublight cargo carrier owned and operated by Captain Thadiun Okona in the mid-24th century. The spacecraft was classified by the Federation as a class 9 cargo vessel. The Erstwhile had a type 034 structure with a tritanium hull. It had type 02 fusion propulsion and was armed with a primitive 2.3 megawatt laser array with four emitters. The mass of the craft was 23,500 metric tons.
In 2365, the Erstwhile experienced a burnout in its guidance system while traversing between the twin planets of the Omega Sagitta system. The ship would be intercepted by the Federation starship, USS Enterprise-D, which offered Okona assistance with his repairs. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")