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Defiant Class USS Defiant NX-74205 (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip to c/startrek@startrek.website
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/687105

Designed to be Starfleets first purpose built warship to defend against the Borg.

The Defiant played a crucial role in the Dominion War until its destruction in the Chin’Toka system by the new Dominion/Breen alliance.

The Defiant Class USS São Paulo NCC-75633 was assigned to Deep Space Nine following the loss of the Defiant. The São Paulo was renamed by special dispensation from Starfleet Operations to USS Defiant in honour of its predecessor. Unlike most succeeding starships the new Defiant’s registry remained NX-74205 and was not given the A designation.

The new USS Defiant remained in service for many years and is currently on display at the Fleet Museum.

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[–] bloopernova@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tough little ship

[–] Niksolo80@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

“Little?” - Worf

[–] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was always one of my favorite renditions of it. I had it as my desktop background for years.

[–] 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I printed it and now it’s on my wall.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always wondered how Starfleet envisioned the Defiant being used against the Borg.

Even the most basic Cube was demonstrably able to shrug off most attacks by the ship. Did they expect to build like a swarm of these ships, and send 20 - 30 of these bad boys in at once?

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a strange quirk of engineering; they tried to make a ship with too many weapons and a power system that was much bigger than needed, and a cloaking device. I don’t think they really considered tactical options and just told engineers to go nuts.

[–] poundsignbuttstuff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The cloaking device wasn't originally part of the design - they borrowed it from the Romulans for use in the Gamma Quadrant exclusively.

The idea of a supremely over-powered and over-weaponed "little ship" does make sense as it can fly circles around the cube and let loose on it but it really only makes sense to me if they planned on making multiples and just bombarding the Borg ships. They were even designed for a skeleton crew so this tracks if they're considering loss of life. The small crew that runs a Defiant class versus the full crew compliment of a Galaxy, for instance, is a massive difference.

I believe it's even mentioned that they scrapped building more Defiants as the prototype was bursting apart at the seems which is why they let Sisko take it. Only O'Brien was able to figure out how to stabilize it and thus more were built after.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It was basically to use the Defiant as a very large fighter to dump tons of firepower while having enough shields and armor to survive more than one hit.

The designers gave the crew the best chance to live, but you weren't going to have a good chance.

[–] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They outright said in DS9 that it was supposed to be a fleet or swarm. The idea was that a large number of Defiant Class ships would attack. With how fast and maneuverable they are they wouldn't be large sitting ducks like Nebula, Galaxay or Excelsior classes.