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The Federation Defiant -class starship is a set of starship classes which include the U.S.S. Defiant as its most famous craft.

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Legendary T6-X2 - DEFIANT CLASS [TOP] History Of The Ship Class: The Defiant-class starship was a heavily-armed, limited-role Starfleet vessel, a warship, the first Starfleet ever truly designed. It was developed in response to the Borg threat as originally encountered in 2365. The prototype Defiant performed poorly on its trial runs, the vessel was overpowered and over-gunned for a ship of its size. The Defiant nearly shook itself apart when the engines were tested at full power, these design flaws, combined with the decreased urgency of the Borg threat, led Starfleet to abandon the project and place the prototype in storage. The Dominion threat discovered in 2370 led Benjamin Sisko, now the Commander of the station Deep Space 9, to pull the prototype vessel out of storage. The ship was assigned to his station and it was officially christened that same year on stardate 47538.5. Thanks to the efforts of DS9's chief of operations, Miles O'Brien many of the original ship's design flaws, such as its structural integrity field, were fixed. Starfleet eventually decided to put the Defiant-class into full production. By the end of 2373, there were a significant number of Defiant-class ships in operation, and over the next two years they played a vital role in the Dominion War. Ship Specifications: The ship is named after Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher Unlock Bonus Description I Precise Weapon Systems +5 Accuracy Rating II Enhanced Weapon Banks +15% Critical Severity III Devastating Weaponry +2.5% Critical Chance IV Enhanced Weapon Systems +10% Kinetic Damage +10% All Energy Damage V Starship Trait Withering Barrage (Z-Store Ship) VI Account Starship Trait Over-Powered and Over-Gunned The Build: SHIP EQUIPMENT: TAC - BUILD FORE WEAPONS: Terran Task Force Phaser Dual Heavy Cannons [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg]x3 [Proc] Agony Phaser Quad Cannons [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg]x4 Agony Phaser Dual Heavy Cannons [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg]x4 Agony Phaser Dual Heavy Cannons [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg]x4 Maelstrom Quantum Torpedo Launcher [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg] AFT WEAPONS: Trilithium-Enhanced Phaser Turret [Ac/Dm] [CrtH]x3 [Dmg]] Phaser Turret [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg]x4 Advanced Inhibiting Phaser Heavy Turret [CrtD/Dm] [Dmg]x4] DEFLECTOR: Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter Deflector Array [ColCrit] [EPS] [HullCap] [Sh/HullCap] [ShCap] IMPULSE ENGINE: Prevailing Innervated Impulse Engines [SecSpd-2] [Spd] WARP CORE: Elite Fleet Plasma-Integrated Warp Core [AMP] [ECap] [Eff] [SSS] [W->A] [W->S] SHIELDS: Tilly's Review-Pending Modified Shield [Cap]x4 [Cp/Rg] DEVICES: Temporal Negotiator Kobayashi Maru Transponder Advanced Energy Amplifier Deuterium Surplus Subspace Field Modulator UNIVERSAL CONSOLES: 2x Isomagnetic Plasma Distribution Manifold [Phaser] ENGINEERING CONSOLES: 4x Isomagnetic Plasma Distribution Manifold [Phaser] SCIENCE CONSOLES: Immolating Phaser Lance Agony Redistributor TACTICAL CONSOLES: Dominion Targeting Synchronizer D.O.M.I.N.O. Temporal Trajectory Shifter Lorca's Custom Fire Controls Adaptive Emergency Systems Boff Abilities: Com. Tac\Pilot Watcher Beam Fire at Will I Fly Her Apart Torpedo: Spread III Cannon Rapid Fire III Lt.Com. Eng Watcher Emergency Power to Engines I Emit Unstable Warp Bubble I Emergency Power to Weapons III Lt. Tac Watcher Kemocite-Laced Weaponry I Attack Pattern Beta I Lt. Sci Watcher Jam Targeting Sensors I Scramble Sensors I Lt. Uni\Pilot Watcher Tractor Beam I Clean Getaway I Skill Tree: ENGINEERING: SCIENCE: TACTICAL: Battery Expertise Sector Space Travel Speed Hangar Weaponry Maximum Shield Capacity Projectile Critical Chance Energy Critical Chance Accuracy Rating Frenzied Assault Team Frenzy Frenzied Reactions Specialization: PRIMARY: SECONDARY: Intelligence Strategist Traits: Personal Traits: Tactical A Good Day to Die Adaptive Offense Anchored Fleet Coordinator Intelligence Agent Attaché Self-Modulating Fire Superior Cannon Training Terran Targeting Systems The Boimler Effect Unconventional Systems Starship Traits: Go for the Kill Preferential Targeting Emergency Weapon Cycle Calm Before the Storm Superior Area Denial Cultural Conquest Universal Designs Space Reputation: Precision II Advanced Targeting Systems II Enhanced Shield Penetration II Magnified Firepower II Tyler's Duality II Active Reputation: Quantum Singularity Manipulation II Refracting Tetryon Cascade II Bio-Molecular Shield Generator II Deploy Sensor Interference Platform II Anti-Time Entanglement Singularity II Doffs Space: Doff Specialization: Effect: Security Officer 24 of 47 (Tac) 15% chance: Set Power Levels to maximum for 5 seconds (MW) 30% chance: to improve Critical Chance by 2.5% for 30 seconds Security Officer 27 of 47 (Tac) 15% chance: Improve Critical Severity by 20% for 30 seconds (Int) 30% chance: to improve Critical Chance by 2.5% for 30 seconds Energy Weapons Officer 4% chance: +10% Critical Severity buff to self for 15 sec (Stacks up to 3 times) Energy Weapons Officer 4% chance: +10% Critical Severity buff to self for 15 sec (Stacks up to 3 times) Energy Weapons Officer 4% chance: +10% Critical Severity buff to self for 15 sec (Stacks up to 3 times) Conn Officer Recharges Evasive Maneuvers when Emergency Power to Engines is activated Doffs Ground: Doff Specialization: Effect: Warfare Master (Elder Malik'itan) Having this officer on active duty will increase all of your damage output when in combat versus any enemy on both Space and Ground Maps Ground Warefare Specialist (Neal Falconer) Having this officer on active duty will increase all of your damage output when in combat versus Borg on both Space and Ground maps. Nurse (Space) Increase Hull Regeneration Nurse (Space) Increase Hull Regeneration Nurse (Space) Increase Hull Regeneration Latest ISE Parse: Final conclusion: The Defiant was the first ship I started testing and using my favored Single Target Builds with big success. This build is a lot of fun and is very easy to fly considering the only thing you have to do is to point the nose of the ship to the target you want to hit. The new Legendary Defiant has been what many players have been asked for. She is now inline with what you would expect from a ship being capable to be competitive in the current Meta. The loss of the Experimental Weapon (unbuffable) for an additional 5th front weapon that can be buffed and the Lt.Com Engineer allowing to run Emergency Power to Weapons III and being able to run Engineering Team I are significant buffs for this new version of the ship. build updates: Replaced Point Defense Bombardment Warhead with Temporal Trajectory Shifter Added a new Record Updated for 2022 Updated to compensate the Console Nerf and SRO changes Updated for 2023 Meta changes

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An excellent built, and an absolute upgrade over the c-store/Fleet variant.

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Looks like a great build! Definitely something to copy and try out. Thanks for posting, Bridger.

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That is dps worthy of the ship! Great build, wish I could replicate it but I don't see me getting access to Go for the Kill in the foreseeable future

Originally Posted by Sunfire I don't see me getting access to Go for the Kill in the foreseeable future Very good point... me neither. What would be reasonable replacement? Or is it more viable then to go the CSV route with Withering Barrage?

There are several options: 1.) Promice of Ferocity replacing Go for the Kill 2.) Over-Powered and Over-Gunned replacing Go for the Kill 3.) Withering Barage and Promice of Ferocity replacing Go for the Kill and Preferential Targeting 4.) Withering Barage and Over-Powered and Over-Gunned replacing Go for the Kill and Preferential Targeting

Originally Posted by Bridger There are several options: 4.) Withering Barage and Over-Powered and Over-Gunned replacing Go for the Kill and Preferential Targeting That's the way I do it, aye.

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Great build! Thank you very much! The Legendary Defiant is one of the funniest pilot escorts I´ve ever flown.

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Originally Posted by Bridger build updates: Replaced Point Defense Bombardment Warhead with Temporal Trajectory Shifter Added a new Record Is the clicky really that strong? Worth more than breaking up the Alliance Weaponry set? Okay, stupid question because you obviously parsed better with it. I rephrase: is this swap worth it outside of the short parse of an ISE where burst damage counts more than sustained damage?

Originally Posted by Sunfire Is the clicky really that strong? Worth more than breaking up the Alliance Weaponry set? Okay, stupid question because you obviously parsed better with it. I rephrase: is this swap worth it outside of the short parse of an ISE where burst damage counts more than sustained damage? The console gives you 50% Weapons Firing Haste, so yes it is a beast. The console is best for targets with a high hull pool that is where you are going to see the best results, so for ISE or Elites it has become very effective but in ISA or Advanced in general targets will die way to quickly for it to be effective.

Originally Posted by Bridger The console gives you 50% Weapons Firing Haste, so yes it is a beast. The console is best for targets with a high hull pool that is where you are going to see the best results, so for ISE or Elites it has become very effective but in ISA or Advanced in general targets will die way to quickly for it to be effective. Yeah, that's what I suspected, hence the question. Thanks! Btw, how does weapon firing haste stack? Us space poor people without Go For the Kill will probably use Over-powered and Over-gunned (if we have it) and thus stack quite a bit if haste. Does it have any sort of diminishing returns or something like that?

Originally Posted by Sunfire Yeah, that's what I suspected, hence the question. Thanks! Btw, how does weapon firing haste stack? Us space poor people without Go For the Kill will probably use Over-powered and Over-gunned (if we have it) and thus stack quite a bit if haste. Does it have any sort of diminishing returns or something like that? I think there are no diminishing returns.

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As a SCI character I usually steer away from pew-pew types of ships..but I've had a lot of fun blasting through the experience for the Tier VI trait.

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While I originally started out in cruisers, I did switch over to escorts back in the early days for a few years, but ended up back with the cruisers. The Legendary Defiant is a huge amount of fun and is what the ship should have been from the very beginning - a tough little powerhouse that can really dish it out and then some.

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Designing the Defiant

The script for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ‘s third season episode “ The Search ” called for a new class of warship which it described as “a little clunky.” The vessel “was built primarily for battle,” it said, “not exploration or science.”

The reason for introducing the ship was that executive producer Ira Steven Behr and the show’s writers felt that mere runabouts couldn’t be expected to defend the space station from the Dominion who had shown themselves capable of destroying a Galaxy class starship in the season two finale, “ The Jem’Hadar .”

“We had all these plans for this Dominion,” said Behr in an interview that was included in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's season three DVD, “and what were we going to go after them with? Shuttlecrafts?” He added, “You know, it just seemed ridiculous. So we needed a ship.”

Yet it was the runabout which concept artist Jim Martin initially “beefed up” a little in his first designs for the ship. “I started with the cockpit windows,” he recalled in an interview with Star Trek: The Magazine 1, 4 (August 1999), "and worked my way out, adding things on top of the runabout, making it look like they were adding systems and weapons to an existing ship.”

The producers didn’t like it, though. “After the idea for the runabout was shot down, it was replaced with the writers’ idea that it was going to be a full-fledged fighting starship called the USS Valiant.” But Herman Zimmerman, Star Trek 's veteran production designer, cautioned Martin it should still look like something that hadn’t been seen on the show before.

"The writers requested a small starship which was designed by the Federation to battle the Borg. I drew some familiar looking Starfleet designs but also included a drawing of a small, compact ship that I had done for an entirely different episode of DS9 . This is the direction that they chose, I think it was because it was so unique."

The design was inspired by a Maquis fighter that Martin had previously designed for Deep Space Nine and bears resemblance to a small Cardassian vessel, later known as the Hideki class, that Sternbach designed for the season-two episode, “ Profit and Loss .”

Zimmerman’s request for something unique was certainly met: the Defiant was the first Starfleet vessel without external warp nacelles.

Martin didn’t quite recognize the impact it would have at first. “When you’re in the art department and you’re doing the job from episode to episode, you don’t really think, ‘Boy, this is really going to revolutionize Federation design.’ You’re getting a design out of the way. It’s only after the fact that you think, ‘Wow, that was a different idea.’ I’m glad we took the chance to take a little bit of a departure.”

The name Valiant was dropped in favor of Defiant out of fear that it would conflict with Star Trek: Voyager and its titular starship.

In the season seven episode “ The Changing Face of Evil ,” the Defiant was destroyed -- but a replacement showed up just five episodes later.The ship was nearly destroyed in First Contact. Indeed, early drafts of the script suggested that it was to be destroyed. In a DVD commentary for the film, producer Ronald D. Moore explained that Behr had seen the script and objected to the needless destruction of it in a story that didn’t even involve Deep Space Nine characters besides Worf. The Defiant was therefore allowed to survive the battle — “adrift but salvageable” — and hardly a mention of its participation in the battle with the Borg Cube was made in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

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The USS Defiant (NCC-1764) was a 23rd century Federation Constitution -class starship operated by Starfleet . It was the first of three known Federation starships to bear the name Defiant .

• 1 Service history
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Service history [ ]

Built at Tranquility Base , Luna , the Defiant was named in honor of the British warship HMS Defiant . ( ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly " set decoration )

In 2256 , the Defiant was assigned to patrol Sector 006 during the Federation-Klingon War . ( DIS : " Despite Yourself ")

In 2268 , the Defiant responded to a distress call in the unexplored Tholian sector , which was claimed by the Tholian Assembly . Shortly after entering the region, the Defiant 's crew began experiencing sensory distortion, and insanity quickly spread throughout the ship. The ship's chief medical officer was unable to determine what was happening, and eventually the insanity induced by the phenomenon led the crew to kill each other.

The Defiant 's dedication plaque

Main bridge of the Defiant (2268)

Three weeks later, Starfleet ordered the USS Enterprise to mount a search and rescue mission to locate the Defiant . On stardate 5693.2 , the Enterprise located the Defiant , only to find it trapped between universes in a space warp. The Enterprise 's instruments recorded that space itself was literally breaking up, the result of a previously unknown phenomenon known as a spatial interphase . An Enterprise boarding party beamed aboard the Defiant and discovered signs of mutiny and insanity – the captain 's neck was broken and his crew was dead.

At that time the Defiant was visible in the "prime universe" while in the interphase. Later, as a result of a phaser exchange between the Enterprise and the Tholians , a hole was created through the spatial interphase. The Defiant was pushed through the hole to parts unknown and in the process trapping Captain James T. Kirk between universes. Captain Kirk was eventually saved when the Enterprise , encased in a Tholian web , entered the interphase and, upon utilizing full power, was thrown clear of the region while Kirk was locked in the transporter beam. ( TOS : " The Tholian Web ")

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The Defiant being held by the Tholians

During the 22nd century , the Tholians of the mirror universe created an interphasic rift by detonating a tri-cobalt warhead within the gravity well of a dead star , and sent the distress call which lured the Defiant from its native universe to the "mirror" Tholians' own universe—the ship traveling not just from one universe to another but backwards in time as well. Soon after, the Tholians took the Defiant to a drydock built into an asteroid - moon in orbit around a gas giant in the Vintaak system and began a salvage operation. This operation was reported to Commander Jonathan Archer of the ISS Enterprise NX-01 through his contacts shortly thereafter. Archer and the ISS Enterprise were eventually ordered by Admiral Black to investigate. ( ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly ")

Arriving in the system, Enterprise was destroyed by a Tholian web shortly after beaming an away team over consisting of Archer, Commander T'Pol , Commander Tucker , Lieutenant Reed , and Sergeant Travis Mayweather . They were able to escape by restoring the partially-deconstructed Defiant 's shields and weapons, and destroyed the drydock.

At first, the Defiant could only reach impulse speeds because a Tholian slavemaster , a Gorn named Slar , had stolen a plasma regulator , one of the key components of the warp engines. After Archer trapped and killed the Gorn, Tucker was able to restore warp drive.

The Defiant at warp

The USS Defiant then rendezvoused with the remnants of a Terran assault fleet still engaged with rebel forces . Two Andorian battle cruisers , one Vulcan D'kyr -type cruiser , and one Tellarite cruiser disabled the Terran ship ISS Avenger NX-09 . Boasting 23rd-century technology from its native universe that outclassed the 22nd-century capabilities of the opposing force, Defiant easily destroyed all the rebel ships except one Andorian cruiser, which Archer intentionally allowed to escape.

After seeing how Archer had treated the rebel Vulcans, and learning of the existence of the United Federation of Planets in the other universe, T'Pol and Crewman Soval tried to sabotage the Defiant with Doctor Phlox 's help. When Phlox disabled main power, the Defiant was left defenseless, and Avenger , commandeered by Soval and other non-Terrans, began firing at her. The Defiant received heavy damage until Tucker was able to stop Phlox and restore main power. Archer then ordered the destruction of Avenger . The Defiant 's phasers and photon torpedoes caused heavy damage to Avenger , with the second barrage of photon torpedoes breaching Avenger 's warp reactor, destroying the ship with all hands.

The Defiant in Earth orbit

The Defiant arrived at Earth , now under the command of the self-proclaimed Empress Hoshi Sato . She ordered Admiral Gardner to surrender and stand by for instructions, or she would open fire on Earth. ( ENT : " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ")

Recovered Defiant data with slight variations

Due to its potentially incendiary nature, the exact circumstances of the Defiant 's arrival in the mirror universe (and the universe it came from) remained highly classified . ( DIS : " Vaulting Ambition ")

However, information about the Defiant and its origin in another universe was stolen by rebels fighting the Terran Empire in the early 23rd century . The data was then stored in a computer core aboard a Klingon vessel which was later destroyed in battle and recovered by the crew of the USS Discovery after they crossed over. ( DIS : " Despite Yourself ", " The Wolf Inside ")

Because the Defiant was known to be patrolling sector 006 of Federation space in 2256, the crew of the Discovery correctly theorized that a temporal anomaly may have resulted in the Defiant 's presence in the mirror universe. Captain Gabriel Lorca learned that information pertaining to the Defiant was classified to starship captains and above in the Imperial Starfleet and planned to infiltrate the ISS Shenzhou with Michael Burnham posing as her counterpart , who was captain of the Shenzhou . There they hoped to discover how the Defiant crossed over to the mirror universe and then to utilize that method to return to the prime universe without the use of the Discovery 's spore drive . ( DIS : " Despite Yourself ")

Burnham was able to retrieve some information on the Defiant 's crossover from the Shenzhou , however the information she had access to was heavily redacted. She was able to get the information back to Discovery , where Saru was able to determine from the available data that the Defiant had crossed over due to some sort of interphase. Emperor Philippa Georgiou was the only person in the Empire who had access to all of the data. After Burnham explained what she was looking for and why, Georgiou insisted that the information on the Defiant couldn't help them and revealed to Burnham that the Defiant's crossing through interphasic space not only resulted in a temporal anomaly, but it drove the crew insane, making them tear each other apart. Georgiou expressed surprise that the same fate didn't befall the Discovery crew, but Burnham told her that they had come through a different method. ( DIS : " Vaulting Ambition ")

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• See : USS Defiant (NCC-1764) personnel

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Appearances [ ].

• TOS : " The Tholian Web "
• " In a Mirror, Darkly "
• " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II "
• DIS : " Despite Yourself " (display graphic)

Background information [ ]

Origins [ ].

The USS Defiant was originally named the "USS Scimitar " in an early draft of the script for "The Tholian Web." ( Star Trek Compendium , et al.) This had been confirmed previously by Greg Jein , who owned all the script drafts written for Star Trek: The Original Series . [1]

The registry number NCC-1764 was originally conceived by Jein in his influential " The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship " article, published in the April 1973 issue 27 of the T-Negative fanzine . It was subsequently adopted by Bjo Trimble in her Star Trek Concordance , FASA 's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game , and ultimately propagated by Michael Okuda 's in his subsequent reference book writings, most notably his Star Trek encyclopedias ( Star Trek Encyclopedia  (1st ed., p. 72), and beyond ). Jein's until-then conjectural ship's registry was elevated to canon for the "In a Mirror, Darkly" episodes in 2005, reaffirmed one year later when the remastered version of the Original Series started its release and where Okuda, then visual effects producer for the project, made use of the opportunity to retcon the registry again onto the ship in the remastered version of "The Tholian Web", after its earlier retcon in "In a Mirror, Darkly" in concordance with the books previously written by Okuda.

In his article incidentally, Greg Jein had already concluded that Defiant must have been a recent class addition in canon as of 2268. Since Jein used the Starbase 11 mission chart seen in TOS : " Court Martial " and the production ship naming memos used by the producers at the start of the Original Series second season as basis for his name/registry pairings, he had to come up with a higher registry for Defiant as that name had not been foreseen yet by the producers at that point in time. Taking both this and Kirk's 2267 "there are only twelve like it in the fleet" remark in TOS : " Tomorrow is Yesterday " into account, this strongly suggested two things according to Jein; firstly, Starfleet changed its nomenclature from Starship-class to Constitution -class during the run of the TOS era (nicely tying in with Scotty keeping abreast by reading Constitution -class technical updates for the ship he is working on in TOS : " The Trouble with Tribbles ", and actually confirmed in canon with the introduction of the Defiant plaque in "In a Mirror, Darkly", which was obscured in its original appearance due to deliberate camera angles as it was, obviously, USS Enterprise 's, then still Starship-class), and secondly, the Defiant belonged to a later batch of Constitutions (supported by the fact she has the highest registry number of all the visually established original configuration Constitutions ). Commissioned somewhere during the TOS era, her career was therefore unfortunately short, at least in Star Trek 's prime universe , or as Jein had succinctly put it, " Tough break ". [2] Defiant being mentioned operational as early in the prime universe Pike-era therefore constitutes a continuity error, if one is to follow Jein's reasoning.

Producer Ted Sullivan has stated on his Twitter account that the Defiant was modified by the Terran Empire and that these changes were reflected in the wireframe model as featured in "Despite Yourself". [3]

Studio model [ ]

Original Defiant footage

The footage of the Defiant in the original airing of "The Tholian Web" episode was stock footage of the original Enterprise studio model , adapted in post-production. [4] The CGI model of the Defiant used in Star Trek: Enterprise was wholly built by Koji Kuramura . Nacelles, lighting and certain textures were "tweaked" by Rob Bonchune . The work was done at Eden FX , with reference help from Doug Drexler . [5] In the final draft script for "In a Mirror, Darkly," a note read, " We'll suggest the Defiant is a slightly newer vessel than Kirk’s ship; the exterior shows slightly more detail... intricate hull plating patterns can be visible in reflected light, etc. ", which was reflected as such in Eden's model, and in the process actually subscribing to Jein's theories regarding the later class addition status of the ship.

According to Bonchune, the location of the aft torpedo launcher on the CGI model of the Defiant was " the little round port right between the impulses engines. We tried to make it logical with what existed so we didn't have to make a new hole on the ship. Everyone agreed, except that apparently if you frame by frame it, they actually come from the hangar bay phaser mounts. Someone in the chain either decided against it or didn't know. Even one of the writers was surprised it hadn't been done as discussed. " [6]

Star Trek: Enterprise teleplay writer Michael Sussman noted in his "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II" audio commentary that the aft phasers and torpedoes that the Defiant possessed indicated a variation from its Constitution -class sister ship, the USS Enterprise , as that ship apparently lacks or at least does not make on-screen usage of those weapons. It should be noted, however, that in the original series episodes " Arena ", " Friday's Child ", and " The Doomsday Machine ", verbal reference to the Enterprise 's aft phasers can be heard in a stock voice loop. Additionally, reference to starboard banks is made in " Balance of Terror ", as well as the port weapons mentioned in " Mirror, Mirror ".

Ironically, it was not Eden's model for the Defiant that was used for the 2007 remastered version of the Original Series source episode "The Tholian Web," but rather Petri Blomqvist 's CBS Digital version .

The Defiant 's mission patch was an insignia similar to the pennant on the sides of TOS starships, and seen as a set decoration on starbases of that era. A stylized version of this shape makes up the 2150s Earth Starfleet insignia. Three Defiant insignia badges; one command, one science and one engineering were sold in the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction for US$550 (US$660 with premium). [7]

A busy box shown on the Defiant in " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II " was sold in week 1 of the It's A Wrap! sale and auction for US$394.99. [8]

Apocrypha [ ]

A pre-textured version of the alternate reality USS Defiant

During the events of the Glass Empires anthology, the Defiant acted as the flagship for the Terran Empire. It would also serve as the prototype for many other Constitution -class vessels, as well as newer, more advanced designs.

In the Star Trek: SCE novellas Interphase, Book One and Interphase, Book Two, the crew of the USS da Vinci ( β ) rescue the damaged starship Defiant from interphase and the Tholians in the year 2376 ; the novellas were written before "In A Mirror, Darkly" was produced.

In the DC Comics Special #2 (published late 1994 ), the story "Raise the Defiant" tells of the USS Enterprise -A working to recover the Defiant from the Tholian rift during the 2280s to recover a classified phase-inverter capable of detecting cloaked vessels.

On the Star Trek DVD, the special features reveal that the USS Defiant of the alternate reality caused by Nero 's arrival in the 23rd century, while maintaining the same registry, is a Mayflower -type starship.

The 2013 virtual collectible card battle game Star Trek: Rivals has the Defiant on card #91: "NCC-1764 USS Defiant. "

The video game Star Trek Online brings in the Defiant in the Agents of Yesterday mission "Painful Omens." In it, the Defiant is caught up in a two-way battle between the Tholians and the Na'kuhl before the player character enters the fray. When the Tholian Queen, mad with grief and rage, opts to ram her ship into the Na'kuhl dreadnought, the Defiant is caught up in the two ships' destruction, trapping them in the spatial interphase. It is later revealed in the mission "Ragnarok" that the Temporal Liberation Front ( β ) left a message in the Defiant 's computers to contact Admiral Leeta and make her join their cause against the Galactic Union ( β ).

External links [ ]

• USS Defiant (NCC-1764) at StarTrek.com
• USS Defiant (NCC-1764) at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• USS Defiant at the Star Trek Online Wiki
• 2 ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

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Star Trek Online: Defiant Remodel

By LaughingTrendy | Mon 02 Nov 2015 09:00:00 AM PST

We are pleased to announce that concurrent with the launch of the Valiant Class Tactical Escort (T6), we will be releasing an update to Star Trek Online’s Defiant-class model as well. This new model has been completely rebuilt to faithfully replicate the heroic filming miniature used on the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

To faithfully create the unique color scheme seen on the hull of the Defiant, we have added a new paint pattern for tactical escorts named “Defiant”. It is the default option for the Defiant preset but can also be combined with other patterns by using the Advanced menu in the Starship Customization screen.

This update will be automatic and free for all versions of the Tactical Escort, including, of course the new Valiant class. Players already using the Defiant-class model on an existing ship may need to visit the tailor and select the “Defiant” preset in order for some of the new details to appear.

The Defiant is a “tough little ship” that helped win the Dominion War in the 2370s and Tactical Escorts have proved just as vital to the Iconian War of 2410. Now we hope you enjoy another remastered Star Trek favorite as you and your crew embark into the New Dawn!

Thomas “TheCrypticCat” Marrone Ship Artist Star Trek Online

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