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The lead vessel of the [[Defiant class|''Defiant'' class]], the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] Starship ''Defiant'' was officially classified as an escort, but began development in [[Chronology: 2366|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.<ref name="DS9447"/>
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The lead vessel of the [[Defiant class|''Defiant'' class]], the [[United Federation of Planets|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.<ref name="DS9447"/>
  
After its construction, the ''Defiant'' went on a trial run to the [[Romulan Neutral Zone]], where it was tested under the command of [[Starfleet Ranks#Commander|Commander]] [[Sisko, Benjamin|Benjamin Sisko]]. During this test run, the ''Defiant'' discovered a derelict [[D'Deridex class|''D'Deridex'' class]] warbird in Federation space. Upon further investigation, the ''Defiant'' encountered a group of warbirds under the command of [[Valerius]] of the [[Tal Shiar]], who had laid a trap for a rogue [[Vulcans|Vulcan]] criminal named [[T'Uerell]]. When Commander Sisko challenged the [[Romulans|Romulan]] officer, Valerius's attack forced the ''Defiant'' to flee into a nebula, where it left an emergency distress beacon. When the [[U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D|U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701-D]] came to assist the ''Defiant,'' they discovered that the smaller vessel had fallen into Romulan hands, and the Romulans were beginning to study it at a secret base. A Starfleet task force managed to destroy the base and allow the ''Defiant'' to escape.<ref name="Legacy"/>
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On [[Stardate]] 48213.1, the ''Defiant'' was assigned to [[Deep Space 9]]&mdash;under the command of [[Starfleet Commander|Commander]] [[Benjamin Sisko]], who also commanded the station&mdash;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.<ref name="DS9447"/>
 
 
On [[Stardate]] 48213.1, the ''Defiant'' was assigned to [[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]]; 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.<ref name="DS9447"/>
 
 
 
Following the ''Defiant's'' return to the [[Alpha Quadrant]], [[Starfleet Ranks#Senior Chief Petty Officer|Chief]] [[O'Brien, Miles|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.<ref name="DS9N9"/>
 
 
 
Soon thereafter, the ''Defiant'' was away from Deep Space 9 during the [[Cardassians|Cardassian]] incursions into [[Bajorans|Bajoran]] space during a crisis on [[Cardassia Prime]] when [[Goran Tokar]] was to announce his heir.<ref name="DS9N10"/>
 
  
 
On [[Stardate]] 48467.3, [[Maquis]] member [[Riker, Thomas|Thomas Riker]] hijacked the ''Defiant'' from Deep Space 9 to investigate a suspected [[Cardassian Union|Cardassian]] military buildup in the [[Orias system]].<ref name="DS9455"/>
 
On [[Stardate]] 48467.3, [[Maquis]] member [[Riker, Thomas|Thomas Riker]] hijacked the ''Defiant'' from Deep Space 9 to investigate a suspected [[Cardassian Union|Cardassian]] military buildup in the [[Orias system]].<ref name="DS9455"/>
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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.<ref name="DS9457"/><ref name="DS9458"/>
 
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.<ref name="DS9457"/><ref name="DS9458"/>
  
In [[Chronology: 2371|2371]], in order to find [[Calculanthra]], an [[Orions|Orion]] who had sold defective [[replicator|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.<ref name="DS9N20"/>
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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 (D476)|Jake Sisko]] managed to prevent the accident. In the corrected timeline, the accident was averted, leaving Sisko, who still remembered the original timeline, disoriented but unharmed.<ref name="DS9476"/>
 
 
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.<ref name="DS9N15"/> Soon thereafter, the ''Defiant'' engaged and attacked the [[Rugg'l]] when the Cardassian ship attacked Deep Space 9.<ref name="DS9N13"/>
 
 
 
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 [[Sisko, Jake (Alternate)#D476 Timeline|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|U.S.S. ''Lakota'' NCC-42768]] when transporting [[Starfleet Ranks#Lieutenant|Lieutenant]] [[Arriaga]], a key witness in the case against [[Starfleet Ranks#Admiral|Admiral]] [[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|Trill]] after the [[Trill Symbiosis Commission]] urgently requested to meet with [[Dax, Jadzia|Jadzia Dax]].<ref name="LivesDax"/> 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 Nerys|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|U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701]], which was at [[Deep Space K-7]]. The ''Defiant'' prevented a [[Klingons|Klingon]] agent from the 24th century from assassinating [[Starfleet Ranks#Captain|Captain]] [[Kirk, James|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|U.S.S. ''Amhurst'']]. The ''Amhurst'' exploded and the ''Defiant'' pursued a [[Gorn Hegemony|Gorn]] ship believed to have been responsible into Restricted Sector One-Four-Bravo: [[Metrons|Metron]] space. Sisko and [[Bashir, Julian|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.<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|telepathic]] species in the Alpha Quadrant.<ref name="DS9MVL13"/> 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 (Alternate)#D520_Timeline|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"/>
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The ''Defiant'' battled the [[U.S.S. Lakota NCC-42768|U.S.S. ''Lakota'' NCC-42768]] when transporting [[Starfleet Lieutenant|Lieutenant]] [[Arriaga]], a key witness in the case against [[Starfleet Admiral|Admiral]] [[Leyton]]'s attempted coup, to [[Earth]].<ref name="DS9484"/>  
  
When the Borg launched an invasion of the Federation on Stardate 50893.5,<ref name="ST08"/> Admiral [[Hayes, Jeremiah|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.<ref name="TNGSA1"/> 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.<ref name="ST08N"/> [[Starfleet Ranks#Captain|Captain]] [[Korsmo, Morgan|Morgan Korsmo]] saw the damage the cube was inflicting on the ''Defiant'' from the bridge of the [[U.S.S. Excalibur NCC-26517|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|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 [[Picard, Jean-Luc|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.<ref name="ST08"/> 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.<ref name="S31N1"/>
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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|U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701]], which was at [[Deep Space K-7]]. The ''Defiant'' prevented a [[Klingons|Klingon]] agent from the 24th century from assassinating [[Starfleet Captain|Captain]] [[James T. Kirk|James T. Kirk]] of the ''Enterprise,'' and the ship returned to its own time.<ref name="DS9503"/>
  
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<ref name="DS9528"/> and "playing possum" to attract Dominion ships and catch them unaware.<ref name="DW4"/>
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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 (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"/>
  
About a year later, shortly after completing a mission to [[Bolarus IX]], Admiral [[Ross, William|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 [[Troi, Deanna|Deanna Troi]], [[Vaughn, Elias|Elias Vaughn]], [[Crusher, Beverly|Beverly Crusher]], [[Data]] and [[Tevren, Hent|Hent Tevren]] aboard from the [[Jarkana Mountains]] on [[Darona]].<ref name="TNGN66"/>
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When the Borg launched an invasion of the Federation on Stardate 50893.5, 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 [[Starfleet Lieutenant Commander|Lieutenant Commander]] [[Worf]]'s command, the ''Defiant'' fought a running battle with the Borg, scoring a number of hits on the cube's surface. 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|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.<ref name="ST08"/>  
  
The ''Defiant'' was destroyed by [[Breen]] forces during the [[Battle of Chin'toka]] in [[Chronology: 2375|2375]], just weeks before the end of the Dominion War.<ref name="DS9572"/>
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Three months later, Lieutenant Commander [[Jadzia Dax]] commanded a repaired ''Defiant'' on several missions, including an attack on a sensor array in the [[Argolis Cluster]] on Stardate 51145.3.<ref name="DS9528"/>
  
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The ''Defiant'' was destroyed by [[Breen]] forces during the [[Battle of Chin'toka]] in [[2375]], just weeks before the end of the Dominion War.<ref name="DS9572"/>
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<ref name="DS9447">"[[The Search, Part I (Episode)|The Search, Part I]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 447. Television. 26 September 1994.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9447">"[[The Search, Part I (Episode)|The Search, Part I]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 447. Television. 26 September 1994.</ref>
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<ref name="DS9457">"[[Past Tense, Part I (Episode)|Past Tense, Part I]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 457. Television. 2 January 1995.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9457">"[[Past Tense, Part I (Episode)|Past Tense, Part I]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 457. Television. 2 January 1995.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9458">"[[Past Tense, Part II (Episode)|Past Tense, Part II]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 458. Television. 9 January 1995.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9458">"[[Past Tense, Part II (Episode)|Past Tense, Part II]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 458. Television. 9 January 1995.</ref>
<ref name="DS9N9">"[[Proud Helios (Novel)|Proud Helios]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Book 9. Novel. February 1995. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9N10">"[[Valhalla (Novel)|Valhalla]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Book 10. Novel. April 1995. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
 
<ref name="DS9476">"[[The Visitor (Episode)|The Visitor]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 476. Television. 9 October 1995.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9476">"[[The Visitor (Episode)|The Visitor]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 476. Television. 9 October 1995.</ref>
<ref name="DS9N13">"[[Station Rage (Novel)|Station Rage]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Book 13. Novel. November 1995. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
 
<ref name="DS9484">"[[Paradise Lost (Episode)|Paradise Lost]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 484. Television. 8 January 1996.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9484">"[[Paradise Lost (Episode)|Paradise Lost]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 484. Television. 8 January 1996.</ref>
<ref name="DS9N15">"[[Objective: Bajor (Novel)|Objective: Bajor]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Book 15. Novel. June 1996. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9N17">"[[The Heart of the Warrior (Novel)|The Heart of the Warrior]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Book 17. Novel. October 1996. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
 
<ref name="DS9503">"[[Trials and Tribble-ations (Episode)|Trials and Tribble-ations]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 503. Television. 4 November 1996.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9503">"[[Trials and Tribble-ations (Episode)|Trials and Tribble-ations]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 503. Television. 4 November 1996.</ref>
 
<ref name="ST08">{{RefST08}}</ref>
 
<ref name="ST08">{{RefST08}}</ref>
<ref name="ST08N">[[Star Trek: First Contact (Novel)|Star Trek: First Contact]].'' Novel. December 1996. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
 
<ref name="DS9520">"[[Children of Time (Episode)|Children of Time]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 520. Television. 5 May 1997.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9520">"[[Children of Time (Episode)|Children of Time]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 520. Television. 5 May 1997.</ref>
<ref name="DS9N20">"[[Wrath of the Prophets (Novel)|Wrath of the Prophets]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Book 20. Novel. May 1997. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
 
<ref name="DS9528">"[[Behind the Lines (Episode)|Behind the Lines]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 528. Television. 20 October 1997.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9528">"[[Behind the Lines (Episode)|Behind the Lines]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 528. Television. 20 October 1997.</ref>
<ref name="DS9MVL13">"[[Telepathy War, Part 3: Day of Honor (Comic)|Telepathy War, Part 3: Day of Honor]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Issue 13. Comic Book. January 1998. Marvel Comics.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9537">"[[One Little Ship (Episode)|One Little Ship]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 537. Television. 16 February 1998.</ref>
 
<ref name="SNW1">''[[Strange New Worlds (Novel)|Strange New Worlds]]:'' "[[Strange New Worlds (Novel)#Where_I_Fell_Before_My_Enemy|Where I Fell Before My Enemy]]." Novel. July 1998. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="DW4">"[[...Sacrifice of Angels (Novel)|...Sacrifice of Angels]]." ''Star Trek: The Dominion War,'' Book 4. Novel. Pocket Books. December 1998. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
 
<ref name="DS9572">"[[Tacking into the Wind (Episode)|Tacking into the Wind]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 572. Television. 10 May 1999.</ref>
 
<ref name="DS9572">"[[Tacking into the Wind (Episode)|Tacking into the Wind]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]],'' Episode 572. Television. 10 May 1999.</ref>
<ref name="LivesDax">''[[The Lives of Dax (Novel)|The Lives of Dax]]:'' "[[The Lives of Dax (Novel)#Reflections|Reflections]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]].'' Novel. December 1999. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="S31N1">"[[Section 31: Rogue (Novel)|Section 31: Rogue]]." ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]].'' Novel. June 2001. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="TNGN66">"[[The Battle of Betazed (Novel)|The Battle of Betazed]]." ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]].'' Novel. April 2002. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="NF15">''[[No Limits (Novel)|No Limits]]:'' "[[No Limits (Novel)#Making_a_Difference|Making a Difference]]." ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]],'' Book 15. Novel. October 2003. Pocket Books.</ref>
 
<ref name="TNGSA1">"[[Slings and Arrows: Of Great Pitch and Moment (Novel)|Slings and Arrows: Of Great Pitch and Moment]]." ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]].'' Novel. Pocket Books. DATE.</ref>
 
<ref name="Legacy">''[[Star Trek: Legacy (Game)|Star Trek: Legacy]].'' Game. 2006. Bethesda Softworks.</ref>
 
 
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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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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—under the command of Commander Benjamin 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]

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.[2]

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.[3][4]

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 corrected timeline, the accident was averted, leaving Sisko, who still remembered the original timeline, disoriented but unharmed.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

When the Borg launched an invasion of the Federation on Stardate 50893.5, 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 Lieutenant Commander Worf's command, the Defiant fought a running battle with the Borg, scoring a number of hits on the cube's surface. 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.[9]

Three months later, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax commanded a repaired Defiant on several missions, including an attack on a sensor array in the Argolis Cluster on Stardate 51145.3.[10]

The Defiant was destroyed by Breen forces during the Battle of Chin'toka in 2375, just weeks before the end of the Dominion War.[11]

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 "The Search, Part I." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 447. Television. 26 September 1994.
  2. "Defiant." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 455. Television. 21 November 1994.
  3. "Past Tense, Part I." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 457. Television. 2 January 1995.
  4. "Past Tense, Part II." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 458. Television. 9 January 1995.
  5. "The Visitor." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 476. Television. 9 October 1995.
  6. "Paradise Lost." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 484. Television. 8 January 1996.
  7. "Trials and Tribble-ations." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 503. Television. 4 November 1996.
  8. "Children of Time." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 520. Television. 5 May 1997.
  9. 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.
  10. "Behind the Lines." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 528. Television. 20 October 1997.
  11. "Tacking into the Wind." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode 572. Television. 10 May 1999.