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{{Class|[[Defiant class (First Splinter)|''Defiant'']]}}
{{Commissioned|[[2370 (Columbia)|2370]]}}
{{Status|[[:Category:Destroyed Vessels|Destroyed]] ([[2375 (First Splinter)|2375]], [[Battle of Chin'toka (First Splinter)|Battle of Chin'toka]], [[Dominion War (First Splinter)|Dominion War]])}}
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The lead vessel of the [[Defiant class (First Splinter)|''Defiant'' class]], the [[United Federation of Planets (First Splinter)|Federation]] Starship ''Defiant'' was officially classified as an escort, but began development in [[2366 (Columbia)|2366]] as a small, highly-powered, heavily-armed starship intended to defend the Federation against the [[Borg (First Splinter)|Borg]]. The ''Defiant'' was the first of what was to be a new Federation battle fleet. [[Starfleet (First Splinter)|Starfleet]] abandoned the project when the Borg threat became less urgent and after design flaws turned up during the ''Defiant's'' shakedown cruise.<ref name="DS9447"/>

On [[Stardate (First Splinter)|Stardate]] 48213.1, the ''Defiant'' was assigned to [[Deep Space 9 (First Splinter)|Deep Space 9]]&mdash;again under the command of Commander Sisko, who also commanded the station&mdash;to help counter the threat posed by the [[Dominion (First Splinter)|Dominion]]; the ship was equipped with a [[cloaking device (First Splinter)|cloaking device]] on loan from the [[Romulan Star Empire (First Splinter)|Romulan Star Empire]]. The ship had minimal crew accommodations, a small sickbay, and no provisions for families.<ref name="DS9447"/>

Following the ''Defiant's'' return to the [[Alpha Quadrant (First Splinter)|Alpha Quadrant]], [[Starfleet Senior Chief Petty Officer|Chief]] [[Miles O'Brien (First Splinter)|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 (First Splinter)|Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards]] on [[Mars (First Splinter)|Mars]] where the repairs were carried out over several weeks.<ref name="DS9N9"/>

Soon thereafter, the ''Defiant'' was away from Deep Space 9 during the [[Cardassians (First Splinter)|Cardassian]] incursions into [[Bajorans (First Splinter)|Bajoran]] space during a crisis on [[Cardassia Prime (First Splinter)|Cardassia Prime]] when [[Goran Tokar (First Splinter)|Goran Tokar]] was to announce his heir.<ref name="DS9N10"/>

On Stardate 48467.3, [[Maquis (First Splinter)|Maquis]] member [[Thomas Riker (First Splinter)|Thomas Riker]] hijacked the ''Defiant'' from Deep Space 9 to investigate a suspected [[Cardassian Union (First Splinter)|Cardassian]] military buildup in the [[Orias system (First Splinter)|Orias system]].<ref name="DS9455"/>

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 (First Splinter)|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.<ref name="DS9457"/><ref name="DS9458"/>

In [[2371 (Columbia)|2371]], in order to find [[Calculanthra (First Splinter)|Calculanthra]], an [[Orions (First Splinter)|Orion]] who had sold defective [[replicator (First Splinter)|replicators]] that had made their way to [[Bajor (First Splinter)|Bajor]], Sisko took the ''Defiant'' to [[Mephil Trantos (First Splinter)|Mephil Trantos]]. After Quark beat Calculanthra in a game of [[dabo (First Splinter)|dabo]], the Orion pursued the ''Defiant'' in the raider ''[[Laslapadil (First Splinter)|Laslapadil]].'' The ''Defiant'' destroyed two of the raiders and disabled two more.<ref name="DS9N20"/>

The ''Defiant'' was then assigned to investigate the threat of the [[Magellanic Hive (First Splinter)|Magellanic Hive]] after it destroyed and absorbed the Bajoran colony on [[Darane IV (First Splinter)|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 (First Splinter)|Darane III]] their new home.<ref name="DS9N15"/> Soon thereafter, the ''Defiant'' engaged and attacked the [[Rugg'l (First Splinter)|Rugg'l]] when the Cardassian ship attacked Deep Space 9.<ref name="DS9N13"/>

About a month later, the ''Defiant'' traveled to the [[Gamma Quadrant (First Splinter)|Gamma Quadrant]] to observe a subspace inversion of the [[Bajoran wormhole (First Splinter)|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 (D476)|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.<ref name="DS9476"/>

The ''Defiant'' battled the [[U.S.S. Lakota NCC-42768 (First Splinter)|U.S.S. ''Lakota'' NCC-42768]] when transporting [[Starfleet Lieutenant|Lieutenant]] [[Arriaga (First Splinter)|Arriaga]], a key witness in the case against [[Starfleet Admiral|Admiral]] [[Leyton (First Splinter)|Leyton]]'s attempted coup, to Earth.<ref name="DS9484"/> While returning to Deep Space 9 several days later, Sisko diverted the ''Defiant'' to [[Trillius Prime (First Splinter)|Trill]] after the [[Trill Symbiosis Commission (First Splinter)|Trill Symbiosis Commission]] urgently requested to meet with [[Jadzia Dax (First Splinter)|Jadzia Dax]].<ref name="LivesDax"/> About a month later, Sisko, [[Worf (First Splinter)|Worf]] and Dax took the ''Defiant'' to [[Starbase 201 (First Splinter)|Starbase 201]] for a briefing on a mission to the Gamma Quadrant that Worf, [[Odo (First Splinter)|Odo]] and [[Kira Nerys (First Splinter)|Kira]] would be undertaking.<ref name="DS9N17"/>

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 (Columbia)|U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701]], which was at [[Deep Space K-7 (Columbia)|Deep Space K-7]]. The ''Defiant'' prevented a [[Klingons (First Splinter)|Klingon]] agent from the 24th century from assassinating [[Starfleet Captain|Captain]] [[James T. Kirk (Columbia)|James T. Kirk]] of the ''Enterprise,'' and the ship returned to its own time.<ref name="DS9503"/>

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 (First Splinter)|U.S.S. ''Amhurst'']]. The ''Amhurst'' exploded and the ''Defiant'' pursued a [[Gorn Hegemony (First Splinter)|Gorn]] ship believed to have been responsible into Restricted Sector One-Four-Bravo: [[Metrons (First Splinter)|Metron]] space. Sisko and [[Julian Bashir (First Splinter)|Bashir]] were taken from the bridge of the ''Defiant'' to meet with a Gorn named [[S'Slee (First Splinter)|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 (First Splinter)|Venexar]], where the ship launched an information pod that carried this knowledge to the planet's surface.<ref name="SNW1"/>

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 [[telepathy (First Splinter)|telepathic]] species in the Alpha Quadrant.<ref name="DS9MVL13"/> About a week later, the ''Defiant'' encountered a settlement on the planet [[Gaia IV (First Splinter)|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 (D520)|Odo]] reprogrammed the ''Defiant's'' computers to avoid the accident so that Kira would not die as she had in the original timeline.<ref name="DS9520"/>

When the Borg launched an invasion of the Federation on Stardate 50893.5,<ref name="ST08"/> Admiral [[Jeremiah Hayes (First Splinter)|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 (First Splinter)|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.<ref name="TNGSA1"/> The ''Defiant'' was one of the first ships to arrive in the [[Typhon Sector (First Splinter)|Typhon Sector]] to combat the [[Borg cube (First Splinter)|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.<ref name="ST08N"/> [[Starfleet Captain|Captain]] [[Morgan Korsmo (First Splinter)|Morgan Korsmo]] saw the damage the cube was inflicting on the ''Defiant'' from the bridge of the [[U.S.S. Excalibur NCC-26517 (First Splinter)|U.S.S. ''Excalibur'' NCC-26517]]. Korsmo wanted to help the ''Defiant,'' but saw that it was holding its own.<ref name="NF15"/> 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 (First Splinter)|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 (First Splinter)|Jean-Luc Picard]] took great pleasure in telling Worf the ''Defiant'' was "adrift, but salvageable." The ''Enterprise'' followed a [[Borg sphere (First Splinter)|Borg sphere]] through a [[temporal rift (First Splinter)|temporal rift]], preventing the Borg from altering history.<ref name="ST08"/> Upon their return, the ''Defiant'' was taken to [[Earth Station McKinley (First Splinter)|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.<ref name="S31N1"/>

Three months later, Dax commanded the ''Defiant'' on several missions, including an attack on a sensor array in the [[Argolis Cluster (First Splinter)|Argolis Cluster]] on Stardate 51145.3<ref name="DS9528"/> and "playing possum" to attract Dominion ships and catch them unaware.<ref name="DW4"/>

About a year later, shortly after completing a mission to [[Bolarus IX (First Splinter)|Bolarus IX]], Admiral [[William Ross (First Splinter)|Ross]] ordered the ''Defiant'' to [[Starbase 133 (First Splinter)|Starbase 133]] in preparation of the liberation of [[Betazed (First Splinter)|Betazed]]. During the battle, the ''Defiant'' and the ''Enterprise'' destroyed several Dominion ships. The ''Defiant'' later transported [[Deanna Troi (First Splinter)|Deanna Troi]], [[Elias Vaughn (First Splinter)|Elias Vaughn]], [[Beverly Crusher (First Splinter)|Beverly Crusher]], [[Data (First Splinter)|First Splinter]] and [[Hent Tevren (First Splinter)|Hent Tevren]] aboard from the [[Jarkana Mountains (First Splinter)|Jarkana Mountains]] on [[Darona (First Splinter)|Darona]].<ref name="TNGN66"/>

The ''Defiant'' was destroyed by [[Breen (First Splinter)|Breen]] forces during the [[Battle of Chin'toka (First Splinter)|Battle of Chin'toka]] in [[2375 (First Splinter)|2375]], just weeks before the end of the [[Dominion War (First Splinter)|Dominion War]].<ref name="DS9572"/>
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