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Star trek: what happened to all 4 starships named defiant.

The USS Defiant was made famous by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine but there were actually 4 starships named Defiant that all don't share a legacy.

Star Trek has had four starships named USS Defiant, especially the vessel in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ,  but they don't share the same legacy. While the most famous Star Trek ship is the USS Enterprise , shows like Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Discovery had their own eponymous starships which each boasts historic voyages. However, the starships named USS Defiant all had very eclectic histories that altered the fate of the Prime and Mirror Universes.

Star Trek: The Original Series was the first to introduce the USS Defiant, which was nearly identical to the Constitution -class Enterprise commanded by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). The 23rd century Defiant is infamous for being lost in space, but it actually both time-traveled to the 22nd century and crossed over to the Mirror Universe. Meanwhile, most Trekkers are more familiar with the 24th century USS Defiant in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which was commanded by Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). There are actually three versions of  DS9 's  Defiant , however, including a doppelganger built in the Mirror Universe to fight the Klingon/Cardassian Alliance.

Related: Star Trek: The Defiant's Original Name (& Why DS9 Changed It)

The DS9 season 6 episode "Valiant" also introduced the USS Valiant, an identical Defiant -class ship crewed by Starfleet's Red Squad cadets that was destroyed in a battle with the Dominion. Valiant was the original name intended for DS9' s starship before it was changed to Defiant thanks to an edict by the studio, but this was a fortuitous switch. The name Defiant far better conveys the scrappy nature of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , which was a black sheep Star Trek show in its time that has come to be regarded as an influential forebearer of Peak TV and is now seen as one of the best Star Trek series of all.

It took 3 seasons for the space station-set DS9 to get its own starship, but the Defiant has since become one of Star Trek 's most famous and beloved ships, even though it, confusingly, has no shared history with the 23rd-century starship of the same name seen in TOS and in Star Trek: Enterprise .

USS Defiant - 23rd Century

The Constitution -class USS Defiant (NCC-1764) made its first appearance in TOS season 3's "The Tholian Web" and it was trapped in a phenomenon called a spatial interphase. The insanity caused by the phenomenon caused the crew to kill each other and the Captain's neck was found broken when the crew of the Enterprise beamed aboard. The Defiant then vanished and it wasn't until Star Trek: Enterprise  that the fate of the Defiant was revealed almost 40 years later.

As seen in Star Trek: Enterprise season 4's "In A Mirror Darkly" two-parter, the Defiant not only jumped into the Mirror Universe but it time-traveled to the 22nd century as well. The Tholians took possession of the Defiant but the 23rd-century starship was liberated by Commander Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), who planned to use its advanced technology to conquer the Terran Empire and declare himself Emperor. But Archer was betrayed by Hoshi Sato (Linda Park), who took command of the Defiant and declared herself Empress. It's not known what eventually happened to the Defiant, whether it was used as part of the Terran Starfleet or if it was stripped down for its parts and technology.

Related: Star Trek: Discovery Revealed The Mirror Universe's 32nd Century

Nevertheless, the presence of the Defiant  changed the direction of the Mirror Universe as it gave the succeeding line of Terran Emperors, including Star Trek: Discovery 's Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) knowledge of the parallel reality, including the existence of the Federation, although this information was kept secret from most Terrans to keep them from being "contaminated" by the Federation's values. The Defiant 's power and technology also gave the Terrans a leg up on the rest of the Alpha Quadrant and contributed to the Terrans' dominance until their empire eventually collapsed.

USS Defiant - 24th Century

In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's 24th-century era, the name "Defiant" was resurrected for the Defiant -class starships, which was designed with the express purpose of defeating the Borg in battle. In fact, Benjamin Sisko, a survivor of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's Battle of Wolf 359 against the Borg, was one of the designers of the Defiant , but the prototype warship was overpowered, over-gunned, and its design flaws threatened the ship to fly apart. In his third year of commanding DS9, Sisko requested the Defiant  (NX-74205) be assigned to him to meet the threat of the Dominion. Captain Sisko commanded the Defiant until it was destroyed in the Dominion War's Battle of Chin'toka during DS9 season 7.

DS9 's Defiant was a unique and beloved starship in Star Trek canon. The small and spartan vessel wasn't designed for families and it boasted features like pulsed phaser cannons, quantum torpedoes, ablative armor, and a Romulan cloaking device, making the Defiant a rare Starfleet ship authorized to use a practical invisibility screen. The "tough little ship" also appeared in the feature film Star Trek: First Contact , where it survived a battle with a Borg Cube and was left "adrift but salvageable" . While Paramount and Star Trek producer Rick Berman initially resisted DS9 getting its own starship, the Defiant  proved to be a necessary addition to the series that vastly opened up DS9 's storytelling possibilities. It's now hard to imagine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine without the Defiant , which has taken its place among Star Trek's greatest starships.

ISS Defiant - Mirror Universe

The Mirror Universe 's ISS Defiant (NX-74205) was built from the design specs of the Prime Universe's USS Defiant which were stolen from Deep Space Nine by "Smiley" O'Brien (Colm Meaney). In the DS9 season 4 episode "Shattered Mirror", the Terran Resistance built their Defiant to defend Terok Nor from the Klingon/Cardassian invasion fleet looking to retake the station. However, the Terrans ran into the same problems in regards to the Defiant 's design flaws, the Prime Universe's Captain Sisko was tricked into traveling into the Mirror Universe to fix the starship before the Battle of Terok Nor.

Related: Star Trek: The Mirror Universe's History Explained

Captain Sisko had the ISS  Defiant 's inertial dampeners overhauled to enhance the ship's structural integrity and the repairs were completed in time for the battle. With Sisko in command, the Defiant managed to do enough damage to the Alliance's flagship that the Regent, Worf (Michael Dorn), was forced to retreat. The ISS Defiant later reappeared in DS9 season 7's "The Emperor's New Cloak", where it defeated Worf's ship again thanks to sabotage, and the Terrans were able to take the Regent prisoner.

USS Sao Paulo Renamed Defiant

In the final episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Captain Sisko received a brand new Defiant -class starship, the USS Sao Paulo (NCC-75633). However, Admiral Ross (Barry Jenner) had a surprise for Sisko: special dispensation to rename the Sao Paulo the USS Defiant. The new Defiant boasted upgrades like redesigned shield generators, a more powerful warp drive, and a slightly different bridge interior. Captain Sisko commanded the second Defiant into the Federation's victory in the Dominion War.

In the documentary What We Left Behind , the apocryphal first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 8 revealed that the Defiant was under the command of Captain Nog (Aron Eisenberg) 20 years later, before it was destroyed in what would ignite a new, season-long mystery.

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• 1 Specifications [1]
• 3 Command Systems
• 4 Drive Systems
• 5 Scientific and Sensing Systems
• 6 Tactical Systems
• 7 Autodestruct Systems
• 8 Transporter Systems
• 9 Crew Support Systems
• 10 Auxiliary Spacecraft Systems
• 11.1 Defiant class vessels
• 12 Notes and References

Specifications [1]

The Defiant class was developed at the Antares Fleet Yards in response to the Borg threat, following the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2366. The Defiant project, overseen by Admiral Batelle Toh of the Starfleet Advanced Starship Design Bureau (ASDB), began with the selection of an existing spacecraft design, which had just entered the initial systems-level review stage. The study vehicle, designated NXP-2365WP/T, had not yet been constructed, and the hull shape was undergoing warp field interaction simulations. The Borg threat drove a redesign of the pathfinder vessel, [1] though the basic design would be revised and used for the Nova class heavy scout. [4]

Specifically intended as a fast attack ship, the Defiant class incorporated a tough, no-nonsense design geared heavily toward high-warp penetration of defenses. Outside of combat, the class could perform escort, patrol, and reconnaissance duties, typically near a base of central operations. Following the end of the Dominion War , Defiant class heavy escorts continued to fulfill patrol and border duties, as well as close support assignments to a variety of fleets within Starfleet. [4]

ASDB engineers, including Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko , who joined the development team at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards following the Battle of Wolf 359, [3] decided to compact the planform by bringing the warp nacelles and other structures closer to the engineering hull, minimizing vulnerable appendages. The entire vessel was reduced to four decks; the warp nacelles were brought inboard to a minimum safe distance for field EM, and all EPS weapon power conduits were truncated to provide a nearly-zero lag time between activation signal and beam launch. [1]

The hull was surrounded with multilayer ablative armor , and the notched forward hull was equipped with a detachable pod consisting of the vessel's main sensor and navigational deflector, airlock module, and a last-resort matter- antimatter warhead. An integral set of ventral docking clamps and landing pads were also designed into the Defiant for possible planetary landings. [1]

Command Systems

The ship's bridge contained the typical complement of control stations, with the addition of a redundant tactical station designed to handle increased weapons system crew workloads. Twin isolinear computer processing cores were situated just aft of the bridge, on Decks 2 and 3. The Defiant class could operate on a single core, and could even retain some critical data from a damaged area through compression and scattered storage methods. [1]

Drive Systems

The warp core was located in the aft of the engineering section, and spanned all four decks vertically. The matter-antimatter reaction assembly was embedded in Deck 3, with the surrounding systems balcony above on Deck 2. Antimatter was stored in a series of standard Starfleet antimatter pods on Deck 3, forward of the warp core. [1]

Scientific and Sensing Systems

The Defiant class was equipped to perform highly detailed scientific missions, especially those with defensive concerns. While not outfitted for extended scanning and analysis tasks, the suite of onboard systems was well suited for much of the standard astrophysical, biological, and planetological sweeps and their accompanying data reduction. Most sensor systems aboard the class were optimized for reconnaissance and spacecraft combat maneuvers. The class carried a loadout of ten mixed Class 1 , 3 , and 5 probes, which could be supplemented with Class 8 and 9 torpedo-derived probes during starbase layovers. [1]

Tactical Systems

By far the greatest technological improvements incorporated into the Defiant class were its armaments, which included its ablative armor, [3] Type XII Pulse Phaser [4] cannons and Quantum torpedoes . [3] The class mounted four Pulse Phasers, located above and below the nacelle root attachments to the main body. The class also mounted five torpedo launchers; two faced aft from either side of the vessel on Deck 4, two faced forward, mounted within the upper nacelle section, while the fifth was mounted forward, in the detachable "warhead" section. The torpedo launchers were standard Starfleet designs, capable of handling a mixed loadout of Photon and Quantum torpedoes, as well as sensor probes. [1]

Additionally, the U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 was the only Starfleet vessel equipped with a cloaking device , due to a special amendment to the Treaty of Algeron , intended to allow the Defiant to covertly gather data on the Dominion , which would then be shared with the Romulan Star Empire . [3]

Autodestruct Systems

The warhead section contained a separate miniature impulse engine and a magazine of six Photon torpedo warheads, which were also tied into the self-destruct system. The remainder of the autodestruct system consisted of sixteen additional Photon torpedo warheads, plus release commands for all safety interlocks on their matter and antimatter tankage. [1]

Transporter Systems

The Defiant class normally carries one primary and one backup Transporter on Deck 1. The modular unit includes a 45-percent scaled version of the standard pattern buffer tank and molecular imaging scanners found on larger starships. A somewhat larger cargo transporter was also located immediately aft of the warhead section, on Deck 3. [1]

Crew Support Systems

The Defiant class was equipped with the standard suite of life support devices and supplies. While a Class M environment was maintained shipwide, three of the crew living quarters could be adapted for lifeforms from Class H , K , or L worlds. There were 22 main cabins and 10 contingency cabins, which were equipped with a minimum of two or as many as six bunks, for a potential crew total of 192; the normal operational crew was 40. Sickbay facilities were small, with space for four beds, though this was expandable to six, plus a limited surgical suite. Replicators were tied into the raw matter and recycling supplies, and were installed throughout the ship, including a pair in the wardroom. [1]

Auxiliary Spacecraft Systems

The Defiant class could carry up to four [1] small Type 18 Shuttlepods , [5] as well as a single Type 10 Shuttlecraft in its shuttlebay on Decks 3 and 4, which was capable of holding a single shuttle. The shuttlebay included an aft maintenance bay and ventral launch doors, and it could be isolated or protected with forcefields . The large central tractor beam emitter, mounted directly above the launch doors, was installed for both normal and emergency berthing functions; it was augmented by a series of 16 smaller docking beam emitters, which were designed for low-velocity vehicle translations. The class also mounted a number of lifeboats, scattered throughout the ship for emergency escape operations; these lifeboats were specially modified for low-observability and minimal EM signatures. [1]

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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

Capital Gain  | Defiant  | Jadzia  | Terra Victor

Notes and References

• ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Zimmerman, Herman   et al (Authors). Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual . Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Book. Pocket Books . 1998 .
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 " Core Game Book ." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roleplaying Game . Game. 1999. Last Unicorn Games, Inc.
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 " The Search, Part I ." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Episode 447. Television. 26 September 1994.
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Heinig, Jess Ross A. Isaacs (Line Developers). Starships . Star Trek Roleplaying Game . Book 4. Written by Bill Bridges , Andrew Greenberg , Kenneth Hite , Ross A. Isaacs , and Doug Sun . Illustrations by David Pipgras . Decipher, Inc. . 2003 .
• ↑ Okuda, Michael and Denise Okuda (Authors). The Star Trek Encyclopedia . Star Trek . Book, Second Edition. Illustrations by Doug Drexler . Photo Editing by Margaret Clark . Research Consulting by Robert H. Justman , Greg Jein , and Bjo Trimble . Additional Research by Curt Danhauser and S.J. Casey Bernay . First Edition with Debbie Mirek . Pocket Books . December 1997 .
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How Deep Space Nine's Dominion War Nearly Wrecked Star Trek's Utopia

How deep space nine 's dominion war nearly wrecked star trek 's utopia, over five years of hot and cold conflict, deep space nine charted the deadliest war in star trek 's history—one that pushed the federation to its limit..

Star Trek likes to imagine itself as a franchise that is largely above conflict , but it is defined by it : and how its most idealized heroes in Starfleet and the Federation react to, and become shaped by it. While Trek ’s history is littered with devastating battles , few conflicts hold a mirror to Star Trek quite like the bloodiest of them all— Deep Space Nine ’s Dominion War .

As one of the most legendary moments in the conflict celebrated its anniversary earlier this week—marking the airing of “In the Pale Moonlight” , where Captain Sisko sells his soul to bring the Romulan Star Empire into the war on the Federation’s side—we’re taking a look back at the longest game a Star Trek show ever played in setting up what would become one of its most memorable arcs, and a story that would forever shape its legacy .

Although Federation-aligned and independent powers of the Alpha Quadrant had begun colonizing Gamma Quadrant holdings and engaging in trade with the region’s myriad beings almost as soon as the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole in 2369—the first stable wormhole discovered in the Milky Way Galaxy—it was not Starfleet, the Klingon Empire, the Cardassian Union, or the Romulan Star Empire, nor any of the major military powers of the Alpha Quadrant, that first received intelligence about the Dominion’s existence, but the Ferengi Alliance.

Operating in intelligence secured by the Grand Nagus Zek, the Ferengi successfully entered a trade agreement with a major mercantile faction of the Dominion in the Karemma, in an attempt to secure the Ferengi as a major economic power on the other side of the wormhole. But while their alliance with the Karemma was established, solid intel or interaction with the wider Dominion remained out of reach for the Alpha Quadrant powers beyond intelligence reports from trading Gamma Quadrant species: the Dominion was solidifying its own borders, securing new worlds, and conquering species while lying in wait.

First Contact

Starfleet’s first formal contact with the Dominion set the stage for the scope of the war to come—but open conflict with the Dominion was still several years away. In 2370, after encountering the military arm of the Dominion in the Jem’Hadar, Commander Sisko, Deep Space Nine’s chief Starfleet administrator, and Quark were held hostage as Jem’Hadar forces destroyed multiple Alpha Quadrant colonies as a warning that the Gamma Quadrant was their territory. In an attempt to make a show of force of its own, Starfleet dispatched the Galaxy-Class starship Odyssey as well as several runabout shuttles on an expedition to recover Sisko.

Although Sisko was rescued, the show of force didn’t work. Immediately engaging with Starfleet, the Jem’Hadar’s technology proved more than a match for the Federation’s, with the Odyssey unable to damage the Dominion attack ships. They were no match for the Jem’Hadar’s ruthless tactics either, when the Odyssey was destroyed in a suicide run during the engagement. Sisko and the survivors were left to return to the Alpha Quadrant with a warning: the Federation had no idea what hell it had just unleashed.

A Cold War Begins

The destruction of the Odyssey did not mark the beginning of open conflict, but sparked realizations on both sides of the wormhole— a Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant was not a hypothetical, but an inevitability. The Dominion began establishing simulations for how the various Alpha Quadrant powers would react to a potential Dominion encroachment beyond the Gamma Quadrant. Meanwhile, Starfleet entered production on the first explicitly designed warship in its fleets, the Defiant -class escort, stationing the first of its kind at Deep Space Nine, right at the wormhole’s entrance.

Deep Space Nine itself became the center of Starfleet’s plans for an early military footing. The Federation’s presence on the station was increasingly militarized even beyond the Defiant ’s stationing there, fortifying the station with increased defenses, and the establishment of a series of relays and listening posts on the other side of the wormhole as an advanced warning system. However, beyond the military might of its Jem’Hadar forces, the Dominion had another trick up its sleeve: a quasi-intelligence branch of changeling agents, preparing to infiltrate branches of each Alpha Quadrant power.

The Fall of the Obsidian Order

The Alpha Quadrant’s own intelligence agencies attempted to combat changeling subterfuge with increased security sweeps and detection, but the Dominion pivoted its earliest infiltrations at two intelligence targets in particular: the Romulan Tal Shiar, and the Cardassian Obsidian Order. Spurred by the discovery of a plan by Cardassian intelligence to assault the changeling homeworld, Dominion operatives lured the Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar into a joint operation in the Omarion Nebula in 2371—where a massive force of Jem’Hadar ships decimated the Cardassian-Romulan task force.

With the Tal Shiar badly damaged, Romulan planning to the war pivoted to neutrality, staying away from engaging with the other Alpha Quadrant powers. But the destruction of the Obsidian Order crippled Cardassia’s power structure: without the threat of the Order policing dissidence, Cardassia itself was facing a power vacuum prime for the Dominion to capitalize on.

Emboldened by the success at the Battle of the Omarion Nebula, the Dominion moved further into destabilizing the Alpha Quadrant. Infiltrating the upper echelons of Klingon Command under the guise of General Martok, a changeling operative influenced Chancellor Gowron into making public moves to seize Cardassian territories while the Union was distracted by internal conflicts. Drawing condemnation from the Federation, Gowron reacted by shattering a tentative peace between the Empire and the Federation that had lasted for nearly a century by formally pulling out of the Khitomer Accords that had established the Klingon-Federation Alliance.

Given free reign to effectively continue a war of attrition against the Cardassian Union, Gowron’s warmongering provided two advantages to the Dominion: the Klingons badly, badly damaged the Cardassian Union, itself already weakened by the civilian government’s overthrowing of the Cardassian military command’s rule over the world. But the Federation’s distraction by the Klingon powers also gave Dominion agents an opportunity to repeat their successes within Starfleet Command. After a changeling agent bombed a conference in Antwerp, dissident voices in Starfleet Command attempted to stage a coup d’etat—however, it failed after being exposed.

The Dominion’s influence in the Klingon Empire, however, allowed it to attack the Federation even without infiltration from within. The Martok agent convinced Gowron, emboldened by successes against the Cardassians, to begin staking claim on existent Federation territories in late 2372, formally beginning a new Klingon-Federation war.

Invasion and Union

Although a cease-fire in the conflict between the Federation and Klingons was secured relatively quickly after the exposure of the Martok agent, the ensuing chaos—as well as an attempted Borg assault that vastly damaged Starfleet’s military strength in Sector 001—had primed the Alpha Quadrant for the Dominion. Half a year later in 2373, the Dominion reaped the seeds it had sown in years of infiltration and subterfuge. With Cardassia drastically weakened through internal and external strife, a beleaguered Gul Dukat entered negotiations with the Dominion to formally develop an alliance, allowing the Cardassians to stage key territory retrievals on the Klingon front with Dominion backing. Plans by Starfleet to seal the Bajoran wormhole and cut off any threat of a Dominion invasion were thwarted by an agent posing as Dr. Julian Bashir, DS9's Starfleet medical chief, who successfully managed to stablize the wormhole’s integrity even further—allowing the Dominion to regularly transport a steady stream of supplies and military power to Cardassian space.

Growing tensions and small border conflicts on the fringes of what was now Dominion-Cardassian territory saw the Federation and Klingons bury the hatchet formally, with the Empire re-entering the Khitomer Accords. But even with one wound patched up, war was now inevitable, and Starfleet launched a plan to mine the space around Deep Space Nine and the Bajoran wormhole, effectively delaying further transport of Dominion materiel into the Alpha Quadrant. A field of self-replicating mines pushed the Dominion into action, sending a message to Captain Sisko and Starfleet at the station: disable the mines, or the Dominion and Cardassians would take Deep Space Nine and do it themselves.

Starfleet made its first humbling gambit: just days later, an overwhelming Cardassian-Dominion force assaulted Deep Space Nine, but not before the mine field was armed—and not before Starfleet withdrew from the station entirely, leaving the Bajoran security forces staged there to welcome Dominion control. In exchange, the distraction caused by the Dominion pressing so much of its Alpha Quadrant forces into action a Deep Space Nine allowed a joint Starfleet-Klingon allied force to invade Cardassian space, destroying a key Dominion shipyard and hampering initial production efforts of Alpha Quadrant-made weaponry.

On stardate 50975.2, the Dominion War turned hot.

A Sacrifice of Angels

Although the sacrifice of Deep Space Nine in exchange for mining the Bajoran wormhole was a key early victory for the Federation-Klingon alliance, it was pretty much the only one in the opening months of the war. Klingon and Starfleet forces were regularly pushed into retreat on all fronts, overwhelmed by the Dominion’s sheer numbers and their superior technology. Morale began to plummet—especially after a devastating battle in the Tyra system all but destroyed Starfleet’s Seventh Fleet, losing nearly a hundred ships and thousands of officers in a single engagement.

But while large scale conflict was going badly for the alliance, small-scale operations and individual skirmishes played to its military strengths. Small task forces managed to infiltrate Dominion space and successfully destroy significant amounts of the Dominion’s supply of Ketracel-White, the drug that sustained the Jem’Hadar as an effective fighting force, creating a supply crisis, while others sabotaged major sensor arrays to stem the flow of Dominion intelligence.

The War Digs In

The Dominion kept pushing, encroaching closer and closer to core Federation worlds like Vulcan and Bolarus. And as efforts back in the Bajoran system to disable the minefield around Deep Space Nine began to bear fruit, Sisko realized the Federation needed a win to steady morale and to avoid what was increasingly looking like a devastatingly swift loss to the Dominion: take back the station where the war had first begun in the first place.

Despite initial resistance from both the Empire and Starfleet Command, Operation Return was put into action in late 2374, securing an overwhelming victory for alliance forces. Although the mine field was ultimately destroyed, Deep Space Nine was retaken, and nearly 3,000 Dominion warships traversing the wormhole were mysteriously vanished away by the entities—believed by the Bajoran people to be their spiritual pantheon, the Prophets—that called it home. Having withdrawn ships from various fronts to defend DS9, Dominion advances on Federation and Klingon space were stalled throughout the Quadrant, and Gul Dukat, broken by the death of his daughter during the attack on DS9, was captured by the alliance, leading to new leadership in the Cardassian wing of the Dominion under Damar.

A Pale Moonlight

The third major battle for Deep Space Nine lead to a slowdown in the overall arc of the Dominion War, as both sides consolidated forces and territories. Formal peace talks even began between the two sides, but eventually stalled out. With direct access to the Gamma Quadrant now barred by the wormhole’s inhabitants, the Dominion ramped up direct production in its Alpha Quadrant holdings, stemming the Ketracel White shortage crisis through a trade agreement for a version of the drug developed by the Son’a. Its strength restored, the Dominion launched a surprise assault that put the Federation on the precipice: distracting alliance forces, an invasion fleet from the Kalandra sector managed to occupy Betazed, the homeworld of a major Federation member, in just 10 hours, successfully repulsing multiple Starfleet attempts to retake the world.

Through Betazed, the Dominion was on the doorstep of the heart of the Federation—attacks on Vulcan, Bolarus, Andor, Tellar, Alpha Centauri, and even Earth were now on the table. Once again on the back foot and with the war ramping up again, the alliance needed a win. As presented in one of the finest hours of all seven seasons of Deep Space Nine , “In the Pale Moonlight,” Captain Sisko, working with the Cardassian tailor Elim Garak, successfully managed to stage a deception for the Romulan Star Empire, assassinating a Senator carrying forged evidence of a Dominion plan to invade Romulan space. The Romulans took the bait, formally entering the war on the side of the Alliance—and all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer.

Turning Tides

The opening of the Romulan front gave the Federation opportunity and space to reach out and secure diplomatic ties with smaller besieged powers in the Alpha Quadrant, to gain access to further staging grounds and material support. Bolstered by the significant military power Romulus brought to the table, a clear pathway to the end of the Dominion War was laid out by alliance command: a direct invasion of Cardassia, the heart of the Dominion’s stronghold in the quadrant.

As 2374 came to a close, the Alliance began striking its first major offensives into Cardassian space, taking the highly contested Chin’toka system as well as Kalandra—which would eventually lead to the liberation of Betazed months later. Consolidating the new flashpoints on their fronts, the Klingons successfully managed to launch several deep-strike raids into Cardassian territory, destabilizing military infrastructure even further. Section 31, the secret intelligence wing of Starfleet, also successfully developed and laced the changeling homeworld’s great link with a morphogenic virus, greatly destabilizing their security and ability to conduct sabotage and intelligence gathering operations.

The Dominion, however didn’t go down without a fight. As the Alliance encroached further, Dominion command entered an alliance with the Breen Confederacy—something it had kept secret from its Cardassian allies, promising the Breen several Cardassian systems in exchange for their loyalty. As the Dominion ignored the Cardassian’s requests for support against the Federation and Klingons, fractures began to grow between the two entities. But the Breen’s surprise entry into the war in 2375—by launching an unprecedented shock bombardment on Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco, the first hostile assault on Earth in centuries—as well as the use of powerful new weaponry that allowed them and the Dominion to almost completely eradicate Alliance forces holding Chin’toka to put the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans on the defensive.

A Revolutionary End

Another lull in the war’s grander momentum after the second battle of Chin’toka allowed the Alliance to recover its lost military power and develop a counter to Breen weaponry—but it also gave the increasingly disenfranchised Cardassians a chance to undermine the Dominion from within. Left ignored after the Dominion’s pact with the Breen, Damar staged a rebellion against their former allies—one that, while swiftly put down, managed to put the Dominion and Breen on the back foot, withdrawing from much of their holdings to consolidate power directly around Cardassia.

Although Cardassian dissidence had been largely quelled, however, it wasn’t eradicated—with the Alliance sending operatives to help Damar respark a popular revolution on the world, distracting the Dominion long enough for the Alliance to gather its forces into one final effort, the plan that had been its dream the year prior: the invasion of Cardassia Prime.

The Final Battle

With the local uprising successfully putting Cardassian under a power blackout, Alliance forces entered Cardassian space in late 2375, engaging Dominion, Cardassian, and Breen forces. A Jem’Hadar attempt to quell rebellion on Cardassia, killing millions of civilians in targeted bombings, saw the Cardassian fleet break away from the Dominion and Breen, fracturing their tentative defensive lines and giving the Alliance direct access to the planet.

Forced to accept terms of surrender—in exchange for a cure for the morphogenic virus now ravaging the changelings and their homeworld—the Dominion stepped down, and several days later, its leadership signed the Treaty of Bajor on Deep Space Nine, formally bringing an end to the Dominion War. The remaining Dominion forces retreated back into the Gamma Quadrant, and Deep Space Nine’s Bajoran security forces officer, the changeling Odo, returned with them to deliver the morphogenic cure directly to his people’s homeworld.

The Legacy of the Dominion War

Meanwhile, while most perfunctory borders of space occupied by the Alpha Quadrant powers prior to the Dominion’s invasion in 2373 were restored by the Treaty of Bajor, the quadrant had undergone a significant rebalancing of power that would impact interstellar events for decades to come. The near-total destruction of the Cardassian Union created a power vacuum in its former territories, while the Breen, albeit humbled by the Dominion’s retreat, had established its expansionary goals as well as its significant military threat. The aftermath of both its initial war with Cardassia and then as part of the Alliance diminished the Klingon Empire’s own status as a major power in the quadrant for the next decade, as it looked internally to reconsolidate and rebuild—leaving the Romulan Star Empire and the Federation as the defining players in the Alpha Quadrant.

Although the Dominion War had brought with it a sense of uneasy diplomacy that was unprecedented in either faction’s history for centuries, tensions between Romulus and the Federation would renew shortly after—amplified first after the Reman commander Shinzon staged a military coup in 2379, attempting to attack Earth in the process, and then six years later, when a secret sect of the Tal Shiar dedicated to the destruction of synthetic life staged a terrorist attack on the Utopia Planitia shipyards at Mars, largely destroying a Federation taskforce intended to aid with evacuation efforts intended to save the populations of Romulus and Remus before their system’s star went supernova. After the attack the Federation decided to formally halt attempts to help the Romulans and Remans, leading to the near extinction of both sibling species when the Romulan star went supernova in 2387.

Although major conflict on the scale of the Dominion War would not return to the Alpha Quadrant for many years to come, its scars lingered for decades, especially as the Federation and Klingon Empires became the de facto remaining powers by the turn of the 25th century. For now, it remains what we know to be the bloodiest conflict in Star Trek ’s history—one that challenged the very ideals of its entire utopian dream to their very core.

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Star Trek's Most Breathtaking and Consequential Battles

Today, we're diving into some of the battles that changed Trek history.

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Star Trek has brought breathtaking space battles to our screens throughout its history, but these clashes have always represented much more than just powerful starships and fantastic visual effects. From their underlying causes to ongoing repercussions, each engagement stands as a momentous turning point in both the Federation’s legacy and the lives of the individual participants. With thoughts of Commander Riker bellowing "Shields up!" and Captain Sisko ordering "Battle stations!" echoing in our minds, let’s recount the stories behind these iconic conflicts in the real-time chronology in which they aired, culminating with the struggle against Control that propelled the U.S.S. Discovery into the 32nd century.

9. Battle of Wolf 359, Star Trek: The Next Generation & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek - The Battle of Wolf 359

As Earth faced assimilation by the technologically superior Borg Collective, Starfleet failed to hold the line against the oncoming threat at Wolf 359. In addition to the catastrophic loss of lives and vessels, the circumstances surrounding the invasion had a profound effect on four beloved characters. After assuming the U.S.S. Enterprise-D ’s center seat, William T. Riker was forced to match wits with his friend and mentor Jean-Luc Picard, who had been unwillingly enlisted to help the Borg with their mission. Picard himself would eventually endure years of psychological trauma related to these events. The battle also exacted an emotional toll on Benjamin and Jake Sisko, who suffered from Jennifer Sisko’s death. Despite emerging victorious, the Federation sought to rebuild its fleet and dedicated resources to developing a line of warships that ultimately gave birth to the Defiant -class.

8. First Battle of Deep Space 9 , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The looming Dominion threat and rumors of a compromised Cardassian government prompted the Klingon Empire to attack the Cardassian Union. The Federation rebuked this action, causing Chancellor Gowron to withdraw from the Khitomer Accords and placing Deep Space 9 in the line of fire. The ensuing battle saw a Klingon fleet unsuccessfully launch an assault against the starbase, but the engagement kicked off a brutal period of war between the Empire and the Federation. The situation was especially taxing on Worf, who found himself ostracized after selecting his allegiance to Starfleet over his warrior heritage. The continued Klingon presence in the region and the potential for further violence convinced Worf to accept a permanent position as the space station’s strategic operations officer.

7. Battle of Sector 001, Star Trek: First Contact

The Borg’s return to the Alpha Quadrant endangered 24th-century Earth, as well as the pivotal planet’s 21st-century past. The epic clash served as a dreaded reunion between the cybernetic lifeforms and Picard, whose history with the Collective proved crucial in repelling the Borg Cube’s advance into the interstellar coalition’s territory. The U.S.S. Enterprise-E ’s crew experienced a brief temporal detour in which they foiled the Borg Queen’s plot to eradicate the Federation before it even existed. The series of events provided Picard with some closure to the horrors he endured at Wolf 359. However, the Borg wreckage that remained in the 21st century became reanimated a hundred years later. Although Jonathan Archer’s Enterprise destroyed the ship the Borg had assimilated, the drones managed to send a signal to the Delta Quadrant that might have been the first communication to alert the Collective about Earth’s existence.

6. Second Battle of Deep Space 9 , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The first major engagement of the Dominion War primarily served as a diversion to cover a secretive Federation-Klingon strike on the enemy’s shipyards at Torros III, but Captain Sisko’s cadre also held out long enough to give the U.S.S. Defiant enough time to deploy a cloaked field of self-replicating mines that would prevent the Dominion from bringing in reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant. The ploy succeeded, yet the loss of Deep Space 9 to Weyoun and Gul Dukat’s occupational forces struck a blow to Starfleet’s morale. The fact that Sisko’s son Jake elected to stay behind and report from behind enemy lines did little to assuage the captain’s troubled mood. While the mission mostly went according to plan, the battle paved the way for a series of vicious defeats at the hands of the Dominion.

5. Operation Return, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Operation Return

When the time came for the Federation to retake Deep Space 9 , the Dominion was making the final preparations to deactivate the minefield that blocked the wormhole’s entrance. Outnumbered two-to-one, Starfleet only proved able to advance through the enemy fleet when the Klingons entered the fray at a key strategic moment. Unfortunately, the Defiant arrived too late to prevent the wormhole’s reopening, and Sisko ordered the lone vessel into the Celestial Temple in a last-ditch effort to block almost 3,000 Dominion starships from swarming across the Alpha Quadrant. The captain spoke to the Prophets as their Emissary and argued that they needed to act to protect Bajor. The wormhole aliens whisked the incoming fleet away, but warned Sisko that he would pay a price for their assistance. Dukat’s own punishment was more immediate, as the death of his daughter compromised the Cardassian’s mental state.

4. Battle of Cardassia, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Two tragic years of warfare led to this moment, when the combined Federation, Klingon, and Romulan armada ventured into the heart of Cardassia to put an end to the Dominion’s rule. The grueling trek through enemy territory was merely a prelude to the confrontation that awaited the Federation Alliance at Cardassia Prime, where the Dominion fleet prepared itself to fight to the last Jem’Hadar soldier. The Cardassians turned against their overseers, causing the Dominion to begin eliminating the local population. Luckily, Odo’s choice to heal the Female Changeling convinced her to surrender. The Dominion War came to a close, but its effects rippled across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants for years to come.

3. Battle of Vulcan, Star Trek (2009)

More of a massacre than a battle, the Romulan mining vessel Narada wiped out a small Federation fleet and disabled the U.S.S. Enterprise during a surprise strike over Vulcan. The flagship’s crew put up a valiant fight, but Nero nevertheless injected enough red matter into the planet’s core to create a black whole that swallowed Vulcan and most of its populace. Only 10,000 Vulcans survived the criminal act, which also claimed the life of Spock’s mother Amanda. Under James T. Kirk’s leadership, Starfleet’s flagship later defeated Nero as the Romulan sought to sentence Earth to the same grim fate. After witnessing his homeworld’s destruction, Spock Prime dedicated himself to helping the remaining Vulcan refugees locate a suitable planet to colonize.

2. Battle of the Binary Stars, Star Trek: Discovery

The U.S.S. Shenzhou ’s initial standoff with T’Kuvma’s Ship of the Dead soon spiraled out of control and launched the Federation and Klingon Empire into a prolonged and bloody war that tested Starfleet’s resolve. T’Kuvma’s death inspired his followers to rally behind Voq and L’Rell, but it also opened the door for Kol to assert his dominance over the Empire. Ironically, this series of events ultimately led to Voq’s transformation into Ash Tyler and his relationship with Michael Burnham, a pairing which played an important part in ending the war. Speaking of Burnham, the loss of Captain Georgiou ravaged the first officer’s spirit to the point that she allowed herself to be sentenced to life in prison with little resistance during her court martial.

1. Battle of Xahea, Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Discovery — The Battle of Xahea

Waged in the vicinity of Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po’s cherished home, this cataclysmic conflict represented the U.S.S. Enterprise and Discovery ’s final opportunity to stop Control from acquiring the Sphere data, achieving sentience, and wiping out all life in the galaxy. Over the course of what is perhaps the most intricate battle that Star Trek has ever delivered on screen, the two Starfleet vessels held off the starships that Control procured from Section 31, Burnham and Spock solidified their familial bond, Admiral Cornwell sacrificed herself to save the Enterprise , and Mirror Georgiou vanquished Control as it embodied Leland’s reanimated form. Though triumphant, Captain Pike and Spock had to bid farewell to their loved ones on Discovery as the ship jumped 930 years into the future in order to safeguard the Sphere data. With its deeds purged from the historical record, Discovery set out to tackle new challenges in the 32nd century.

Jay Stobie (he/him) is a freelance writer who contributes articles to the official Star Trek website and Star Trek Magazine, as well as to Star Wars Insider and the official Star Wars website. Jay also serves as a part-time assistant and consultant advising many actors and creatives who work on his favorite sci-fi shows and films. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @StobiesGalaxy.

Star Trek: Discovery streams on CBS All Access in the United States, airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada, and on Netflix in 190 countries.

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This week IDW’s ongoing Star Trek series begins the brand new 6-issue “Pleroma” storyline. The new arc delves into the issues of divinity that have arisen since Sisko’s return from the celestial temple. Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing co-write the series with art by Megan Levens ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Starsigns ). We have covers and a preview of issue 19.

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Benjamin Sisko has begun imagining an end to his journey and is looking forward to establishing a normal, human life. But unfortunately for Captain Sisko, his next test has been a member of his crew this whole time… T’Lir, the crew’s former science officer, has returned to the U.S.S. Theseus bridge with a shocking revelation and a plea. Kahless’ attempted war with the gods has altered the very fabric of spacetime, threatening the destruction of several godlike species. Already, anomalies are beginning to form across the galaxy. Their only hope: the Emissary of the Prophets, Benjamin Sisko, and his valiant crew of Starfleet’s finest.

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Star Trek #19 available Wednesday

Star Trek #19 arrives on April 17. You can order issue 19 or upcoming issues at TFAW . Or pick up individual digital editions at Amazon/comiXology .

The new “Pleroma” arc continues through the summer. You can see covers for the next two issues arriving in May and June below…

The J.J. Lendl retailer incentive covers for “Pleroma” fit together to make a stained glass-style piece of art. Each cover features different “gods” from Star Trek history. You can see how all six Lendl covers fit together below…

Six covers by J.J. Lendl for “Pleroma”

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last week IDW released a hardcover collection of last year’s “Day of Blood” crossover of their ongoing Star Trek and Defiant series. The release collects Star Trek: Day of Blood , Star Trek: Day of Blood–Shaxs’ Best Day , Star Trek 2023 Free Comic Book Day issue, Star Trek issues #11–12, and Star Trek: Defiant issues #6–7. You can order now at Amazon for $27.99 or get the Kindle eBook version for $9.45 .

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Don’t give Terry Matalas any ideas, the first season of the Picard spinoff would feature the Organians, Douwd, and Metrons, oh my!

the Titan book that followed up on the Douwd / Husnock story was great. I wish they would just adapt the already great stories that have in the books, but that would be too easy and make too much sense….

I’d personally be okay with that haha.

Is that Nicholas Cage!? Looks like Nicholas Cage.

Nicolas Cage with Leia Organia.

All certified Organic.

100% had to check that I was on a Trek site when I first saw that headline and image. I thought…that looks nothing like Jimmy Smitts

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Comic Book Preview – Star Trek: Defiant #14

April 21, 2024 by Gary Collinson

IDW Publishing releases Star Trek: Defiant #14 on Wednesday, and we have the official preview of the issue for you below; check it out…

Resistance is futile! Cornered by their own parasitically possessed crewmate, Worf and the Defiant crew scramble for a way to safely save her before it’s too late. But the hive is eager to grow its numbers, seeking total dominance over a galactic level of organic species after already claiming Starbase 99’s crew as hosts. Trapped and unable to call Starfleet for assistance, Hugh suggests taking drastic measures-assimilate B’Elanna to Borg tech!

Star Trek: Defiant #14 is out on Wednesday, April 24th.

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How Deep Space Nine's Dominion War Nearly Wrecked Star Trek's Utopia

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