USS Defiant
Fictional starship from ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ship. For the U.S. Navy tug, see Defiant (YT-804). For the Star Trek ship USS Defiant that appears in episodes of the original series and Enterprise spin-off, see "The Tholian Web" and "In a Mirror, Darkly".
Not to be confused with USS Defiance.
The USS Defiant is the name of two starships in the Star Trek media franchise, most notably featured in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) and the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Introduced in Deep Space Nine's third season, it is a warship attached to the show's eponymous space station. The original Defiant is destroyed during the Dominion War in the seventh season and replaced with a largely identical ship.
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USS Defiant | |
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First appearance | First: "The Search" (1994) (Deep Space Nine) Second: "The Dogs of War" (1999) (Deep Space Nine) |
Last appearance | First: "The Changing Face of Evil" (1999) (Deep Space Nine) Second: "The Bounty" (2023) (Picard) |
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Affiliation | United Federation of Planets Starfleet |
Launched | First: 2370 Second: 2375 |
General characteristics | |
Class | Defiant |
Registry | NX-74205 (as the first Defiant) NCC-75633 (as the second Defiant, originally the USS São Paulo) |
Armaments | Pulsed and beam phasers Photon torpedoes Quantum torpedoes |
Defenses | Deflector shields Cloaking device Ablative armor |
Maximum speed | Warp factor 9.5 (Upgraded 2371) |
Propulsion | Impulse drive Warp drive RCS Thrusters |
Length | 170 metres (560 ft) |
Width | 134 metres (440 ft) |
Height | 30 metres (98 ft) |
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The Defiant was designed by Jim Martin, Gary Hutzel and Tony Meinger.