U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 (First Splinter)

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U.S.S. Defiant
Registry NX-74205
Class Defiant
Commissioned 2370
Status Destroyed (2375, Battle of Chin'toka, Dominion War)
First Appearance DSN447 (26 Sep 1994)
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First Splinter Timeline
(Split from the Columbia Timeline during the events of First Contact)


The lead vessel of the Defiant class, the Federation Starship Defiant was officially classified as an escort, but began development in 2366 as a small, highly-powered, heavily-armed starship intended to defend the Federation against the Borg. The Defiant was the first of what was to be a new Federation battle fleet. Starfleet abandoned the project when the Borg threat became less urgent and after design flaws turned up during the Defiant's shakedown cruise.[1]

On Stardate 48213.1, the Defiant was assigned to Deep Space 9—again under the command of Commander Sisko, who also commanded the station—to help counter the threat posed by the Dominion; the ship was equipped with a cloaking device on loan from the Romulan Star Empire. The ship had minimal crew accommodations, a small sickbay, and no provisions for families.[1]

Following the Defiant's return to the Alpha Quadrant, Chief Miles O'Brien and Commander Sisko worked on the design flaws in the ship's systems, which led to the ship being sent to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars where the repairs were carried out over several weeks.[2]

Soon thereafter, the Defiant was away from Deep Space 9 during the Cardassian incursions into Bajoran space during a crisis on Cardassia Prime when Goran Tokar was to announce his heir.[3]

On Stardate 48467.3, Maquis member Thomas Riker hijacked the Defiant from Deep Space 9 to investigate a suspected Cardassian military buildup in the Orias system.[4]

On Stardate 48481.2, the Defiant was caught in a temporal eddy and spared from catastrophic changes to the timeline during an accidental transport of several personnel to early 21st-century Earth, and the Defiant was able to make use of the temporal instability to rescue the missing crewmembers after they had repaired the damage to the timeline.[5][6]

In 2371, in order to find Calculanthra, an Orion who had sold defective replicators that had made their way to Bajor, Sisko took the Defiant to Mephil Trantos. After Quark beat Calculanthra in a game of dabo, the Orion pursued the Defiant in the raider Laslapadil. The Defiant destroyed two of the raiders and disabled two more.[7]

The Defiant was then assigned to investigate the threat of the Magellanic Hive after it destroyed and absorbed the Bajoran colony on Darane IV as part of a Grand Design, which involved dividing the hive into two units: one bound for Bajor, the other for Cardassia Prime. Although the Cardassian Third Fleet was able to destroy the hive headed to Cardassia at the cost of their own lives, Bajor was defended by the Defiant and several small fighters. Realizing they had no chance of defeating the hive, Commander Sisko attempted to negotiate with the leaders of the hive. Fortunately for the Bajorans, a civil war broke out aboard the hive regarding the original interpretation of their Grand Design, and the hive instead made Darane III their new home.[8] Soon thereafter, the Defiant engaged and attacked the Rugg'l when the Cardassian ship attacked Deep Space 9.[9]

About a month later, the Defiant traveled to the Gamma Quadrant to observe a subspace inversion of the Bajoran wormhole. During the mission, an accident in the engine room pulled Commander Sisko into subspace, spawning the D476 Timeline, but several decades later, an elderly Jake Sisko managed to prevent the accident. In the new timeline, the accident was averted, leaving Sisko, who still remembered the original timeline, disoriented but unharmed.[10]

The Defiant battled the U.S.S. Lakota NCC-42768 when transporting Lieutenant Arriaga, a key witness in the case against Admiral Leyton's attempted coup, to Earth.[11] While returning to Deep Space 9 several days later, Sisko diverted the Defiant to Trill after the Trill Symbiosis Commission urgently requested to meet with Jadzia Dax.[12] About a month later, Sisko, Worf and Dax took the Defiant to Starbase 201 for a briefing on a mission to the Gamma Quadrant that Worf, Odo and Kira would be undertaking.[13]

About a week prior to Stardate 50308.7, the Defiant was inadvertently transported back in time to Stardate 4523.3. Thanks to its cloaking device, it remained undetected by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, which was at Deep Space K-7. The Defiant prevented a Klingon agent from the 24th century from assassinating Captain James T. Kirk of the Enterprise, and the ship returned to its own time.[14]

Two months later, the Defiant was on a routine mission to test a new navigation grid when it received a distress call from the U.S.S. Amhurst. The Amhurst exploded and the Defiant pursued a Gorn ship believed to have been responsible into Restricted Sector One-Four-Bravo: Metron space. Sisko and Bashir were taken from the bridge of the Defiant to meet with a Gorn named S'Slee and the Metrons on the same planet James T. Kirk had been brought to more than a century before. Agreeing to preserve the Metrons' knowledge before they died out, Sisko took the Defiant to Venexar, where the ship launched an information pod that carried this knowledge to the planet's surface.[15]

On Stardate 50976.2, the Defiant was aided by both Klingon and Romulan forces in fending off a Dominion force sent as part of a plot to kill off all the telepathic species in the Alpha Quadrant.[16] About a week later, the Defiant encountered a settlement on the planet Gaia IV. While attempting to leave the planet, a future version of the ship was sent two centuries into the past, and the stranded crew was forced to live out their lives on the planet. The Defiant's crew elected to recreate the accident that led to their future counterparts being stranded on the planet rather than allow their eight thousand descendants be erased from history, but the alternate Odo reprogrammed the Defiant's computers to avoid the accident so that Kira would not die as she had in the original timeline.[17]

When the Borg launched an invasion of the Federation on Stardate 50893.5,[18] Admiral Jeremiah Hayes ordered the Defiant to join the fleet and specifically ordered Captain Sisko to remain on Deep Space 9, passing command to Worf. Starfleet Command feared that Sisko's previous experience with the Borg could have compromised the captain's ability to effectively command in combat against the Borg.[19] The Defiant was one of the first ships to arrive in the Typhon Sector to combat the Borg cube, which was on course for Earth. Under Worf's command, the Defiant fought a running battle with the Borg, scoring a number of impressive hits on the cube's surface.[20] Captain Morgan Korsmo saw the damage the cube was inflicting on the Defiant from the bridge of the U.S.S. Excalibur NCC-26517. Korsmo wanted to help the Defiant, but saw that it was holding its own.[21] The Defiant, which had continued fighting all the way to Earth, was seriously damaged by the Borg. Its shields had failed by this time and its weapons had been depleted. Worf was in the process of ordering the Defiant to ram the cube when the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E arrived, which blocked an energy beam fired at the Defiant by the cube. The Defiant's life support system began to fail, and its crew was beamed aboard the Enterprise. The Defiant survived the destruction of the cube and Captain Jean-Luc Picard took great pleasure in telling Worf the Defiant was "adrift, but salvageable." The Enterprise followed a Borg sphere through a temporal rift, preventing the Borg from altering history.[18] Upon their return, the Defiant was taken to Earth Station McKinley, where several small repair operations were begun. Later, Worf resumed command of the Defiant and returned to Deep Space 9, where Chief O'Brien completed the repairs.[22]

Three months later, Dax commanded the Defiant on several missions, including an attack on a sensor array in the Argolis Cluster on Stardate 51145.3[23] and "playing possum" to attract Dominion ships and catch them unaware.[24]

About a year later, shortly after completing a mission to Bolarus IX, Admiral Ross ordered the Defiant to Starbase 133 in preparation of the liberation of Betazed. During the battle, the Defiant and the Enterprise destroyed several Dominion ships. The Defiant later transported Deanna Troi, Elias Vaughn, Beverly Crusher, First Splinter and Hent Tevren aboard from the Jarkana Mountains on Darona.[25]

The Defiant was destroyed by Breen forces during the Battle of Chin'toka in 2375, just weeks before the end of the Dominion War.[26]

Ships Named Defiant

Prime Timeline

U.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764 (Constitution class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 (Defiant class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant NCC-75633 (Defiant class)

Columbia Timeline

U.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764 (Constitution class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 (Defiant class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant NCC-75633 (Defiant class)

FASA Timeline

U.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764 (Constitution class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant II NCC-1764 (Enterprise class)

Kelvin Timeline

U.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764 (Unknown class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 (Defiant class)

STO Timeline

U.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764 (Constitution class) U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 (Defiant class)  •  U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 (II) (Defiant class)

Mirror Universe

I.S.S. Defiant NCC-1764 (Constitution class)  •  Defiant (Defiant class)

Myriad Universes

Defiant (NX class)  • I.K.V. Defiant (E-4 class)  •  U.S.S. Defiance NCC-1717 (Constitution class)

Defiant class vessels

U.S.S. Ajax | U.S.S. Alaska | U.S.S. Albatross | U.S.S. Aldebaran | U.S.S. Ark Royal | U.S.S. Armstrong | U.S.S. Avenger | U.S.S. Baracus | U.S.S. Barracuda | U.S.S. Baton Rouge | U.S.S. Bennington | U.S.S. Boxer | U.S.S. Champion | U.S.S. Cheyenne | U.S.S. Cobra | U.S.S. Concord | U.S.S. Condor | U.S.S. Cormir | U.S.S. Corvus | U.S.S. Crockett | U.S.S. Dauntless | U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 | U.S.S. Defiant NCC-75633 (formerly Sao Paulo) | U.S.S. Eagle | U.S.S. Eclipse | U.S.S. Falkirk | U.S.S. Fargo | U.S.S. Formidable | U.S.S. Franklin | U.S.S. Gallant NCC-74206 | U.S.S. Galahad | U.S.S. Gauntlet | U.S.S. Gawain | U.S.S. Grant | U.S.S. Halberd | U.S.S. Havoc | U.S.S. Helena | U.S.S. Horizon NCC-75668 | U.S.S. Hornet | U.S.S. Hurricane | U.S.S. Illustrious | U.S.S. Incessant NCC-75636 | U.S.S. Iwo Jima | U.S.S. Javelin | U.S.S. Kant | U.S.S. Kingfisher | U.S.S. Law | U.S.S. Lee | U.S.S. Alexey Leonov | U.S.S. Leyte | U.S.S. Logan | U.S.S. Loki | U.S.S. Man-o-War | U.S.S. Matador | U.S.S. Maya | U.S.S. Medvedev | U.S.S. Merrimack | U.S.S. Michigan | U.S.S. Mongoose | U.S.S. Monitor | U.S.S. Monsoon | U.S.S. Morgana | U.S.S. Moscow | U.S.S. Myrmidon | U.S.S. Narcissus | U.S.S. Neptune | U.S.S. Nomad | U.S.S. Pendragon | U.S.S. Pleiades | U.S.S. Potemkin | U.S.S. Python | U.S.S. Quillon | U.S.S. Ramses | U.S.S. Ranger | U.S.S. Raven | U.S.S. Redoubtable NCC-75634 | U.S.S. Relentless | U.S.S. Renegade | U.S.S. Resolute | U.S.S. Revere | U.S.S. Rockford | U.S.S. Rome | U.S.S. Saladin NCC-74350 | U.S.S. Sao Paolo-A | U.S.S. Savannah | U.S.S. Scorpion | U.S.S. Sioux | U.S.S. Sirocco | U.S.S. Snake Eyes | U.S.S. Spitfire | U.S.S. Stalwart NCC-75635 | U.S.S. Stromming | U.S.S. Tenacious | U.S.S. Thor | U.S.S. Ticonderoga | U.S.S. Titan | U.S.S. Treplev | U.S.S. Triumph | U.S.S. Triton | U.S.S. Tsunami | U.S.S. Turin | U.S.S. Valiant NCC-74210 | U.S.S. Valiant NCC-75418 | U.S.S. Valorous | U.S.S. Vanya | U.S.S. Victoria | U.S.S. Victorious | U.S.S. Vigilant | U.S.S. Voltaire | U.S.S. Warspite | U.S.S. Wasp | U.S.S. Wolverine | U.S.S. Zeppelin

STO Timeline

U.S.S. Belfast | U.S.S. Defiant NCC-75633 | U.S.S. Defiant NCC-75633-C | U.S.S. Sao Paolo-A | U.S.S. Poseidon NCC-8472-U

Kelvin Timeline

U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205

Mirror Universe

Capital Gain | Defiant | Jadzia | Terra Victor


Notes and References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Berman, Rick et al (Executive Producers). "The Search, Part I". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3, episode 1 (Production number 447). Directed by Kim Friedman. Story by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore. Paramount Pictures. 26 September 1994.
  2. ↑ "Proud Helios." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Book 9. Novel. Pocket Books. February 1995.
  3. ↑ "Valhalla." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Book 10. Novel. Pocket Books. April 1995.
  4. ↑ Berman, Rick et al (Executive Producers). "Defiant". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3, episode 9 (Production number 455). Directed by Cliff Bole. Written by Ronald D. Moore. Paramount Pictures. 21 November 1994.
  5. ↑ Berman, Rick et al (Executive Producers). "Past Tense, Part I". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3, episode 11 (Production number 457). Directed by Rea Badiyi. Story by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Paramount Pictures. 2 January 1995.
  6. ↑ Berman, Rick et al (Executive Producers). "Past Tense, Part II". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3, episode 12 (Production number 458). Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Story by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Teleplay by Ira Steven Behr & René Echevarria. Paramount Pictures. 9 January 1995.
  7. ↑ "Wrath of the Prophets." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Book 20. Novel. Pocket Books. May 1997.
  8. ↑ "Objective: Bajor." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Book 15. Novel. Pocket Books. June 1996.
  9. ↑ "Station Rage." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Book 13. Novel. Pocket Books. November 1995.
  10. ↑ Berman, Rick & Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producers). "The Visitor". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 3 (Production number 476). Directed by David Livingston. Written by Michael Taylor. Paramount Pictures. 9 October 1995.
  11. ↑ Berman, Rick & Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producers). "Paradise Lost". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 12 (Production number 484). Directed by Reza Badiyi. Written by Ira Steven Behr & Ronald D. Moore & Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Paramount Pictures. 8 January 1996.
  12. ↑ The Lives of Dax: "Reflections." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Novel. Pocket Books. December 1999.
  13. ↑ "The Heart of the Warrior." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Book 17. Novel. Pocket Books. October 1996.
  14. ↑ Berman, Rick & Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producers). "Trials and Tribble-ations". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 5, episode 6 (Production number 503). Directed by Jonathan West. Story by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler & Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore & René Echevarria. Based on the original Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" written by David Gerrold. Paramount Pictures. 4 November 1996.
  15. ↑ Strange New Worlds: "Where I Fell Before My Enemy." Novel. Pocket Books. July 1998.
  16. ↑ "Telepathy War, Part 3: Day of Honor." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Issue 13. Comic Book. Marvel Comics. January 1998.
  17. ↑ Berman, Rick & Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producers). "Children of Time". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 5, episode 22 (Production number 520). Directed by Allan Kroeker. Story by Gary Holland and Ethan H. Calk. Teleplay by René Echevarria. Paramount Pictures. 5 May 1997.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Berman, Rick (Producer). Star Trek: First Contact. Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore. Screenplay by Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore. Paramount Pictures. 22 November 1996.
  19. ↑ "Slings and Arrows: Of Great Pitch and Moment." Star Trek: The Next Generation. Novel. Pocket Books. DATE.
  20. ↑ Star Trek: First Contact. Novel. Pocket Books. December 1996.
  21. ↑ No Limits: "Making a Difference." Star Trek: New Frontier, Book 15. Novel. Pocket Books. October 2003.
  22. ↑ Martin, Michael A. Andy Mangels (Authors). Section 31: Rogue. Star Trek: Section 31. Novel. Pocket Books. June 2001.
  23. ↑ Berman, Rick & Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producers). "Behind the Lines". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 6, episode 4 (Production number 528). Directed by LeVar Burton. Written by René Echevarria. Paramount Pictures. 20 October 1997.
  24. ↑ "...Sacrifice of Angels." Star Trek: The Dominion War, Book 4. Novel. Pocket Books. December 1998.
  25. ↑ "The Battle of Betazed." Star Trek: The Next Generation. Novel. Pocket Books. April 2002.
  26. ↑ Berman, Rick & Ira Steven Behr (Executive Producers). "Tacking Into the Wind". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 7, episode 22 (Production number 572). Directed by Mike Vejar. Written by Ronald D. Moore. Paramount Pictures. 10 May 1999.
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