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Originally the U.S.S. ''Sao Paulo'' NCC-75633, the {{link|First Splinter|Defiant class||''Defiant'' class}} escort was rechristened ''Defiant'' in {{link|First Splinter|2375}} after coming under the command of former ''Defiant'' commanding officer {{link|First Splinter|Starfleet Captain||Captain}} {{link|First Splinter|Benjamin Sisko}}, in honor of its sister ship,<ref name="DS9574"/> which had been destroyed weeks earlier during the {{link|First Splinter|Battle of Chin'toka}}.<ref name="DS9572"/> The new ''Defiant'' played a pivotal role in the final battle of the {{link|First Splinter|Dominion War}}, the {{link|First Splinter|Battle of Cardassia}}.<ref name="DS9575"/> Following the conclusion of the war, the {{link|First Splinter|Romulan Senate}} moved to allow the ''Defiant'' to retain the {{link|First Splinter|Romulan Star Empire||Romulan}} {{link|First Splinter|cloaking device}} that it utilized, recognizing the importance of the vessel, and {{link|First Splinter|Deep Space 9}}, as the first line of defense against further {{link|First Splinter|Dominion}} attacks.<ref name="Avatar1"/>

In late 2375, the ''Defiant'' was undergoing repairs and upgrades when Deep Space 9 was attacked by a trio of rogue {{link|First Splinter|Jem'Hadar}} fighters. The ''Defiant'' was rushed into operation and managed to destroy one of the ships before a heavy bombardment killed the vessel's commanding officer, {{link|First Splinter|Starfleet Commander|Commander}} {{link|First Splinter|Tiris Jast}}. {{link|First Splinter|Starfleet Lieutenant||Lieutenant}} {{link|First Splinter|Ezri Dax}} assumed command and destroyed the second vessel. Dax, with the help of a Jem'Hadar vessel commanded by {{link|First Splinter|Taran'atar}}, then destroyed the final vessel using the ''Defiant's'' warhead module.<ref name="Avatar1"/> In {{link|First Splinter|2380}}, after Ezri Dax had been promoted to captain and commanding officer of the {{link|First Splinter|U.S.S. Aventine NCC-82602||U.S.S. ''Aventine'' NCC-82602}}, she reflected upon the incident during the {{link|First Splinter|Borg}} {{link|First Splinter|Borg Incursions|2380|Invasion}} of 2380, and questioned her command abilities. Her first officer, {{link|First Splinter|Sam Bowers}}, insisted that it was her decisiveness in these situations that made her a qualified commander.<ref name="Destiny2"/>

After launching a new communications module at the {{link|First Splinter|Gamma Quadrant}} terminus of the {{link|First Splinter|Bajoran wormhole}}, the ''Defiant'' participated in the evacuation of the colony on {{link|First Splinter|Europa Nova}} during the {{link|First Splinter|Gateways Crisis}}, and discovered that the {{link|First Splinter|Iconian gateway}} in orbit of Europa Nova opened into the {{link|First Splinter|Delta Quadrant}}.<ref name="Gateways3"/><ref name="Gateways4"/>

Soon afterward, the ''Defiant'' was damaged while escorting vessels carrying {{link|First Splinter|Europani}} refugees from the homeworld of the highly xenophobic {{link|First Splinter|Jarada}}, who attacked the convoy. The ''Defiant'' was repaired and refits for an exploration mission to the Gamma Quadrant were subsequently completed.<ref name="MG1"/>

Before departing on the Gamma Quadrant mission, however, the ''Defiant,'' now under the command of Commander {{link|First Splinter|Elias Vaughn}}, was part of a fleet of ships that dealt with the {{link|First Splinter|Malkus Artifacts}} at {{link|First Splinter|Narendra III}}.<ref name="BB2"/>

During a three-month exploratory mission into the Gamma Quadrant, the ''Defiant'' made first contact with eleven different species, the first of which was the {{link|First Splinter|Vahni Vahltupali}} civilization. When energy pulses threatened the planet's destruction, the ''Defiant'' destroyed moon fragments before they hit the Vahni planet, then found the source of the energy pulses. The ''Defiant'' was later damaged at the planet {{link|First Splinter|Prentar}} while shutting down energy pulses in order to allow the {{link|First Splinter|Imnamuri}} to enter this realm of existence.<ref name="MG1"/>

About a month later, on {{link|First Splinter|Stardate}} {{link|First Splinter|2376|53671|53671.3}}, the ''Defiant'' was en route through an unknown sector when the ship was caught in a {{link|First Splinter|Cheka}} web weapon. The {{link|First Splinter|Yrythyny}} vessel ''{{link|First Splinter|Avaril}},'' came to the ''Defiant's'' aid, stowing the ''Defiant'' in their cargo hold until repairs could be made at {{link|First Splinter|Luthnia}}. The ''Defiant'' and the ''Avaril'' then went to a commerce shipping lane to get more supplies. After the ''Defiant'' was repaired, the crew was able to stop a Yrythyny traitor from kidnapping {{link|First Splinter|Starfleet Lieutenant||Lieutenant}} {{link|First Splinter|Nog}}.<ref name="MG2"/>

The ''Defiant'' later made first contact with the {{link|First Splinter|D'Naali}} and the {{link|First Splinter|Nyazen}} on Stardate {{link|First Splinter|2376|SD53704|53704.7}}, stumbling upon a battle between the two forces for control of an extra-dimensional object known as the {{link|First Splinter|Cathedral object}}. The Cathedral object's unusual properties temporarily caused three crew members to lose modifications that had been made to their bodies over the years, but the crew was later able to reverse the changes to the affected personnel after discovering its nature.<ref name="MG3"/>

Nearly a month later, the ''Defiant'' discovered the wreckage of a Jem'Hadar vessel and the {{link|First Splinter|U.S.S. Valkyrie NCC-2590||U.S.S. ''Valkyrie'' NCC-2590}}, a ship that had been assimilated by the {{link|First Splinter|Borg Collective}}, on an unnamed planet in the Gamma Quadrant. On the planet, the crew located two survivors&mdash;a young {{link|First Splinter|Changelings||Changeling}} and the assimilated {{link|First Splinter|Ruriko Tenmei}}. The ''Defiant'' crew attempted to remove the Borg implants from Tenmei's body, but the assimilation imperative proved to be too strong, and she was killed before she could assimilate her daughter, {{link|First Splinter|Starfleet Ensign||Ensign}} {{link|First Splinter|Prynn Tenmei}}.<ref name="MG4"/> The Changeling was returned to the Dominion in an amicable exchange with a Jem'Hadar ship, which had recovered the long-missing {{link|First Splinter|Jake Sisko}} and {{link|First Splinter|Opaka Sulan}}.<ref name="RisingSon"/>

Upon returning to the {{link|First Splinter|Alpha Quadrant}}, the ''Defiant'' was escorted to Deep Space 9 by the {{link|PrFirst Splinterime|Cardassian Union||Cardassian}} warship {{link|First Splinter|C.D.S. Trager||C.D.S. ''Trager''}}, commanded by {{link|First Splinter|Cardassian Gul||Gul}} {{link|First Splinter|Akellen Macet}}, who had been assisting Starfleet during the {{link|First Splinter|blue gill parasites||blue gill parasite}} crisis. {{link|First Splinter|Bajoran Colonel||Colonel}} {{link|First Splinter|Kira Nerys}} later defied orders and took the ''Defiant'' to {{link|First Splinter|Bajor}}, where she confronted the Parasite Spawnmother at the monastery at Ashalla.<ref name="Unity"/>

When the {{link|First Splinter|Bajorans||Bajoran}} village of Sidau was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, newly-commissioned Captain Kira Nerys took the ''Defiant'' on a long-distance chase after a Besnian freighter that had left Bajor and was suspected of being responsible for the destruction of the village. The ''Defiant'' and the freighter battled, and ''Defiant'' crewmembers boarded the freighter, only to find the crew dead, leaving the attack on the Sidau village a mystery.<ref name="Worlds2"/>

In {{link|First Splinter|2376}}, the ''Defiant'' chased Taran'atar to an old {{link|First Splinter|Obsidian Order}} prison on {{link|First Splinter|Harkoum}} after he attacked Captain Kira and Lieutenant {{link|First Splinter|Ro Laren}}, and then kidnapped Ensign Tenmei.<ref name="Warpath"/>
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