"When Ron and Rene came on we all sat down and talked about it as a group," remembered Robert Wolfe. The Federation's devastating defeat in the Battle of Wolf 359, resulting in the loss of nearly 40 ships and 11,000 personnel to a single Borg vessel, proved that the Federation's defenses were horribly inadequate, and plans were spearheaded for the production of a more combat capable starship. In the second season finale "The Jem'Hadar", the Dominion had shown themselves capable of destroying a Galaxy-class starship (the USS Odyssey) and it was felt that viewers would not accept the idea that the Federation's first line of defense against such a powerful enemy was three runabouts. Let's ram it down their throats.' $32.09. 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. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 471)) "The intention was that the Defiant would go and join [a] [...] fleet [...] then turn around," explained René Echevarria. $25.49. (DS9: "Valiant"), Upon completion of a convoy escort mission, the Defiant responded to a distress call from Captain Lisa Cusak, who was commanding the USS Olympia. "It worked very well," Ira Behr declared. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Commander Worf took the Defiant to Earth to assist Captain Sisko in foiling a plot by Admiral Leyton which would have overthrown the Federation government and established martial law. As Ordover joined in the process of working out the story, the conditions in which the vessel would find itself continued to develop. 4/5, p. 76), In "Penumbra", the DS9 writing staff made the Defiant, even under Captain Sisko's command, unable to effect a rescue that a runabout, piloted by Ezri Dax, managed, carried by the Badlands' currents. The vessel was overpowered and over-gunned for a ship of its size – so much so that the Defiant nearly shook itself apart when the engines were tested at full power. The Luna-class was a type of Federation starship, a reconnaissance science vessel in service to Starfleet since the late 24th century.The Luna-class ships were the top of the line in Starfleet's scientific and exploratory pursuits on behalf of the United Federation of Planets.Each had an average crew of 350 individuals and was approximately 450 meters long. "For the piece to work, it couldn't be [on] the Defiant, because I didn't want the rest of our characters along for the ride," Moore explained. The Defiant's crew stopped Arne Darvin from killing Captain James T. Kirk with a bomb implanted in a dead tribble. 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. The U.S.S. (DS9: "A Time to Stand", "Behind the Lines"), Sisko returned to the captain's chair of the Defiant to lead Operation Return in mid-2374, with the Defiant being the only Federation ship to make it through the Dominion blockade and reach DS9. sale and auction on eBay. The ship was briefly caught in a temporal anomaly when chroniton particles trapped in the cloak caused some of the crew to travel back in time, unwittingly changing key events in history that erased the existence of the Federation, but the same particles kept the Defiant in existence long enough for the missing crew to be recovered and history restored. They also wanted to deliver on what they had planned for the starship, portraying it as having some weaknesses. The video game Star Trek Online brings in the Defiant in the Agents of Yesterday mission "Painful Omens." And I didn't know what Voyager was going to be at the time. (DS9: "Defiant"), Later the same year, the Defiant visited Earth, where the vessel's senior staff was to attend the Annual Starfleet Symposium on the current situation in the Gamma Quadrant. 27, No. Under Dax's command, the Defiant destroyed a Dominion sensor array hidden in the Argolis Cluster. In 2268, the Defiant responded to a distress call in the unexplored Tholian sector, which was claimed by the Tholian Assembly. (DS9: "Improbable Cause", "The Die is Cast"), In late 2371, a Changeling posing as Federation ambassador Krajensky sent the Defiant on a patrol mission of the Federation-Tzenkethi border. 4/5, p. 96) Additionally, Zimmerman said, "We knew at the end of second season that the story lines were going in a direction that required a larger ship, with armament and much more warp-speed capability, and the ability to hold a larger crew." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 109), A three-second shot of the Defiant in battle, from "The Way of the Warrior", was reused and re-composited by Glenn Neufeld for part of a combat sequence in "Paradise Lost". 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. "[It] was a fair enough justification," opined René Echevarria. 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. Taking both this and Kirk's 2267 "there are only twelve like it in the fleet" remark in TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (see: Constitution-class: Footnote #3) 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-clas 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). Class: Many fans suspected the craft was invented by Ron Moore or René Echevarria, and that the writers wanted a ship on which to set more stories like those of TNG, despite the vessel actually predating the addition of Moore and Echevarria to the DS9 writing staff. We've joined the fleet and now we're gonna come back and kick fanny.'" The Defiant operated from Klingon-occupied Earth and fought the Dominion under the command of Captain Keiko O'Brien and first officer Lieutenant Miles O'Brien. At the end of DS9 Season 3, Ron Moore reflected, "The Defiant has developed nicely over the course of the year [...] and now we have a fully functioning starship." 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. 29, Nos. There are two ranges - the History of Flight and the Oxford Aviation range which we show here. After initial and hostile first contact with the Borg, Starfleet did what it hadn't done in decades, place greater emphasis on Starfleet's essential role in the defense of the Federation. [1]. Ira Behr wanted the Defiant to be a "fun" environment, remarking, "We're hoping that we get that with the Defiant." Although Dukat initially wanted to destroy the Defiant, he agreed to release the vessel and the Maquis crew to Starfleet custody in exchange for the Defiant's scans of the Orias system and Riker himself. It is later revealed in the mission "Ragnarok" that the Temporal Liberation Front left a message in the Defiant's computers to contact Admiral Leeta and make her join their cause against the Galactic Union. 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. (Cinefex, No. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. Star Trek: Enterprise teleplay writer Mike 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. (DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil"), The USS Sao Paulo was assigned to DS9 to replace the Defiant after its destruction. The writers imagined the craft sinking to a depth hundreds of kilometers underwater. Although the producers chose to include no spotlights on the outer hull of the Defiant-class, the Defiant was lit with spotlights for the ship's debut, in "The Search, Part I". Despite coming under fire by Dominion forces, the Defiant was able to deploy the minefield and evacuate DS9's Starfleet personnel before the Dominion took control of the station. Registry: (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (pp. "And finally, it allowed Sisko to truly live up to those immortal words spoken by two other, famous captains before him – 'To boldly go where no-one has gone before.'" Development on the Defiant began around 2366 in response to the Borg threat to the Federation. (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine issue 14, p. 10). (Cinefantastique, Vol. The Defiant crew provided a small reinforcement of the planetoid and helped disable many houdinis that had been plaguing Federation troops stationed there. 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. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 361)), There was an ulterior motive for including the Defiant in Star Trek: First Contact. "It wasn't the Enterprise, it wasn't Voyager, and it wasn't the basis of the show. Officially classified as an escort vessel, the Defiant was nothing less than Starfleet's first design of a warship intended to combat the Borg. Later, as a result of a phaser exchange between the Enterprise and the Tholians, a hole was created through the spatial interphase. 4/5, p. 96) Berman did indeed have some worries, though Ira Behr addressed them by saying, "It's a different show, it's a different ship, and we need something cool, something DS9-specific." (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. It was one of three known Federation starships to bear the name Defiant. The USS John S. McCain sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, its first such operation since Joe Biden took office. The invention of the USS Defiant was preceded by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe discussing, for some time, the possibility of giving the main characters of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a method to leave space station Deep Space 9 en masse. Shortly after entering the region, the Defiant's crew began experiencing sensory distortion, and insanity quickly spread throughout the ship. "The Defiant appeared in FC as a way of bringing Worf into the film," clarified Ron Moore. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 158)) As Ira Behr noted, "That got us through the first couple of [third season] episodes." This precision-molded kit is based on the CG model used in the STAR TREK: DISCOVERY television show! (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I", "Past Tense, Part II"), Several weeks later, the Defiant was used to carry out a joint project between the governments of the Federation, Cardassia, and Bajor, to establish communications between the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants. 27, No. game. After a prolonged battle in which both ships took significant damage (it was strongly suggested by Major Kira that the Lakota was "in even worse shape" than the Defiant), the Lakota eventually stood down when Benteen conferred with Worf and Kira about her orders to stop the Defiant. Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Defiant_(2370)?oldid=2692043. 4/5, p. 102) The craft turned out to be popular with fans. In the DC Comics Special #2 (published late 1994), the story "Raise the Defiant" tells of the 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. (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. As well as liking the name Defiant, Ron Moore believed it required some backstory, wondering, "Why would you name a ship the Defiant?" The story was rewritten, with the vessel referred to as having instead crash landed in the past, on a planet named Gaia. 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. However, he was ultimately willing to concede to the request of the former, motivated by a criticism of the series – due to its station-bound setting – that the producers often heard. An unused door signage for the Defiant was sold off on the It's A Wrap! (DS9: "Meridian"), Later in 2371, Maquis operative Thomas Riker hijacked the Defiant and used it to attack several Cardassian targets. (Cinefantastique, Vol. The Defiant sets including the bridge, quarters, engineering, the mess hall, and the sickbay were built on Paramount Stage 18. Related Behr, "We [....] said, 'We need something with teeth to it so it doesn't seem ridiculous that this space station is the only thing between the Dominion and the Alpha Quadrant.'" "When we came up with the idea of the Defiant getting taken over, and the little ship having to board it to rescue the rest of the crew, then we suddenly had a workable premise," Weddle explained. Destroyed (2375). 4/5, p. 102) Consequently, the revised Deep Space Nine bible (dated 1 August 1994) referred to the Defiant as having been "originally built as a warship designed to fight the Borg." (DS9: "The Adversary"), In early 2372, the Defiant fought its way through Cardassian space against Klingon forces – as the Klingon Empire had withdrawn from the Khitomer Accords due to the Federation's failure to support their invasion of Cardassia – to bring the Detapa Council to Deep Space 9. Emperor Philippa Georgiou was the only person in the Empire who had access to all of the data. (DS9: "Rejoined"), Several weeks later, the Defiant traveled to the Gamma Quadrant to meet with a Karemma ship. Ron Moore recalled, "It wasn't until a few episodes later that we decided to say it was still there." Constitution-class We really feel we have the best of all possible worlds with the Defiant. In the Star Trek: SCE novellas Interphase, Book One and Interphase, Book Two, the crew of the USS da Vinci 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. 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. The Enterprise's instruments recorded that space itself was literally breaking up, the result of a previously unknown phenomenon known as a spatial interphase. When Phlox disabled main power, the Defiant was left defenseless, and Avenger, commandeered by Soval and other non-Terrans, began firing at her. It's still considered a fighting ship." The crew and the ship are rescued by a task force led by the USS Enterprise-D. 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". The vessel resumed its assignment at Deep Space 9 after the station was retaken. Dairy Queen also produced a Defiant food toy premium and a Defiant game token was included in Screenlife's Star Trek Scene It? Polar Lights Star Trek USS Defiant 1:1000 Scale Snap Model Kit 4.4 out of 5 stars 130. Built at Tranquility Base, Luna, the Defiant was named in honor of the British warship HMS Defiant. You don't know exactly how it will react in a given situation." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 163)), Upon starting to write the story for the episode "Defiant", one of the first ideas Ron Moore had was the starship Defiant being stolen by Thomas Riker. Corgi produced a prototype model of the Defiant in 2007 but this release was canceled before it reached production. When that vessel was later disabled by the Maquis, Captain Sisko used the damaged Defiant to continue pursuing Eddington. 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". "We came up with the high concept of the Defiant getting into a conflict in orbit over a planet, being damaged, and plunging down into an alien sea where it sinks like a rock," remembered Mack. Additionally, reference to starboard banks is made in "Balance of Terror", as well as the port weapons mentioned in "Mirror, Mirror". 9/10, p. 40), The Defiant eventually turned out to be the primary setting of "The Sound of Her Voice" too, that episode having originally been set (at least mainly) aboard Deep Space 9. 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. René Echevarria agreed, "We can do a shipboard episode if we want and cut back to the station for a B story. They intended to set up the risk that "the ship runs out of power and the structural integrity field collapses, and the ship is crushed like an egg." 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. However, it was discovered that the plan would fail and that Yedrin Dax was deliberately setting up the Defiant to crash. (Cinefantastique, Vol. (DS9: "The Search, Part II"), DS9's chief of operations, Miles O'Brien, spent two weeks overhauling the Defiant's structural integrity field to overcome the ship's design flaws. "He asked for some changes in terms of paint schemes and lighting, and now it was pretty together," remembered David Livingston. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 158)) In hindsight, Behr explained, "It couldn't be like Voyager. 9/10, p. 39), To prepare for the filming of "One Little Ship" scenes in which the runabout Rubicon was miniaturized inside the Defiant and shrunken officers from the Rubicon walked around the starship's innards, John Eaves produced at least three concept sketches of various parts of the Defiant. 32, Nos. (TOS: "The Tholian Web"), 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. "It would have given Bashir too many safe places to go. Polar Lights Star Trek: USS Grissom and Klingnon BoP 1:1000 Scale Snap Model Kit 4.5 out of 5 stars 96. We felt it was a fake criticism and said, 'Let's just get rid of it.'" (DS9: "Shattered Mirror"), Several weeks later, the Defiant transported Lieutenant Jadzia Dax to the Trill homeworld to receive medical treatment. Built at Tranquility Base, Luna, the Defiant was named in honor of the British warship HMS Defiant. To create about a second of the vessel cruising through the wormhole in the same episode, the Defiant was depicted with the usual studio model, the only motion control element in the entire installment. 27, No. This was because the ship makes an almost-180-degree turn. After facing overwhelming opposition from Obsidian Order forces deployed from the Orias system, Riker ultimately surrendered and the Defiant was returned to DS9. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 158)) Making the Defiant a warship seemed to fit the grittiness of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The crews of the Defiant and the fighter then worked together to destroy an Iconian gateway that was under the control of the rebels. During the mission, the Changeling sabotaged the Defiant, causing it to fly out of control towards a Tzenkethi colony that was intended to be attacked; the Dominion hoped it would provoke a second war between the two powers. To ensure the Cardassians did not identify the ship, the vessel's shield harmonics were reconfigured to make the Defiant appear to be a Kobheerian freighter. 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. (Cinefantastique, Vol. This was 'Uh oh, they're bigger than we are and they're coming to get us. 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. 7) Wolfe specified, "Bringing in the Defiant was based on our own internal perceptions of something that would make the show better. Next > Back to top. Captain Sisko was granted special dispensation by the Chief of Starfleet Operations to rename the Sao Paulo to "Defiant" in honor of this "tough little ship." Bastelbogen - Paper model Space cruiser.. Caricature Paper Models by Pedro Seidel - Very nice caricature models of Batman, Superman, Robocop, Bender from Futurama, there are lots more, but these are the only downloads. They were able to escape by restoring the partially-deconstructed Defiant's shields and weapons, and destroyed the drydock. The USS Defiant could be seen in the Discovery Science program Ultra Science (an episode about time travel). Starfleet "First, it meant the crew could have a different set of adventures off the station. 96 & 97) Zimmerman stated, "The Defiant was a big boost for the show's bag of tricks." I just left a ship!'" That's a little less aesthetic," Buckner concluded, laughing. Shortly after entering the Gamma Quadrant, the Defiant was attacked by several Jem'Hadar fighters. The Defiant appears in all Deep Space Nine episode title sequences starting with Season 4 and beyond. 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. "We could have shot the existing Defiant stage model," commented John Knoll, "which we had on hand for the crew to use as reference. "We're going to be doing shows that take place on the Defiant," he promised. 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). "That was one of the problems and something we had to discuss," reflected Ira Behr. Moore originally wanted to call the Defiant the USS Valiant (based on either the SS Valiant or the USS Valiant from Star Trek: The Original Series). StarfleetStarfleet (mirror universe) (Cinefantastique, Vol. 4/5, pp. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 412)), Maneuvers performed by the Defiant while damaged in "For the Uniform" were also done by Gary Hutzel, using motion control photography. (DS9: "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels"), The Defiant was part of a search effort to look for survivors of the USS Honshu, after the latter vessel was destroyed by Cardassian forces. (DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"), The USS Defiant was originally named the "USS Scimitar" in an early draft of the script for "The Tholian Web." Flag images indicative of country of origin and not necessarily the primary operator. Despite these orders, Commander Sisko took the vessel into the Gamma Quadrant in order to rescue Odo and Elim Garak, who were being held on one of the Romulan vessels in the fleet. 4/5, p. 102) Piller felt it didn't matter much whether DS9's regular characters had a starship at their disposal, or merely their contingent of Runabouts. 529-531)) Sets they visited included the bridge and engineering. 4/5, p. 102) Although there was initial opposition to the subsequent request for the ship to have a cloaking device, Behr and Robert Wolfe managed to convince Berman that the Defiant was a unique ship in a unique situation and, with the added stipulation that the cloak could only be used in the Gamma Quadrant, Berman agreed, so the vessel was approved. (DS9: "For the Uniform"), The Defiant bridge receives heavy damage from a Borg cube, Under the command of Worf, the Defiant was finally used for what the vessel had originally been designed for: fighting the Borg. (audio commentary, Star Trek: First Contact (2009 DVD/Blu-ray)), No reference to the damage the Defiant received during the Battle of Sector 001 was ever made on Deep Space Nine (although a brief reference was made to the battle itself in "In Purgatory's Shadow", when Sisko mentions "the recent Borg attack"). 30, No. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 109), The idea the Defiant had been "hastily put together in the face of the Borg threat," as phrased by Science Consultant André Bormanis, helped to account for the fact that tight budget constraints limited the amount of sets which could be built for the ship. A stylized version of this shape makes up the 2150s Earth Starfleet insignia. 9/10, p. 34) The visual effects artists, due to the Defiant's rotation, were unsure where to put the mount for holding the model to a stand, or where to lay all the dolly track they would have needed for the camera to move along, especially as no motion control soundstage was big enough to house as much dolly track as was required. Worf's first mission of the computer game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen involves Worf being left in command of the Defiant, trying to fight off a boarding party of Grigari troopers. After Sisko poisoned a Maquis planet, Eddington surrendered to Sisko and was incarcerated. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 29, Nos. On stardate 5693.2, the Enterprise located the Defiant, only to find it trapped between universes in a space warp. The vessel was officially launched in 2370, on stardate 47538.5, from the Antares Ship Yards. The ship encounters Romulan Tal Shiar forces preparing to ambush a Vulcan scientist named T'Uerell (β) within Federation space and, despite trying to evade them, is captured. (DS9: "To the Death"), In late 2372, the Defiant took Odo to the Founders' new homeworld, where he was to be judged for killing the Krajensky changeling the previous year. Despite its reportedly limited facilities for scientific analysis, the ship was able to work with the inhabitants of Meridian to analyze the nature of the unusual effect that caused the planet to shift between dimensions and devise a means of stabilizing the effect, with the result that Meridian's next manifestation on the corporeal plane would last for thirty years where it had currently only manifested for twelve days. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 471-472)), For footage of Operation Return in season six outing "Sacrifice of Angels", the Defiant was again portrayed with CGI and was the only example of its class to be included. Ron Moore added that the writers also "wanted to kill Defiant as a statement on how tough the Breen were. However, turning the Defiant into "a runaway train" proved neither as simple nor cheap as it sounded, as it required the expense of creating an engine room for the vessel. 27, No. (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. [1], In the opening titles sequence for DS9 Seasons 4 to 7, the Defiant was depicted using CGI, which allowed the visual effects artists to concentrate on filming the model without having to worry about accidentally showing the model mount, as they would have to have done if they had been using a practical studio model for the sequence. 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