Sisko: "We need more Defient Class." Shipyards: "Crank out some Mirandas!"

Ah, the 90s era of television, when it was more expensive to make 3 minutes of CGI footage than to reconfigure an entire set... I miss those times.

The color scheme on the bridge kind of reminded me of a Super Nintendo.

This video demonstrates my ONLY problem with the Defiant's design, illustrated perfectly at 4:20 talking about the carpet. The navigator has a great view of the view screen. The CAPTAIN on the other hand, has a great view of the navigator's head. I wonder how many times Sisko asked Dax to move her head so he could see the huge space battle in front of him. Also, Nog has blue fingernails.

Feels like Christmas with all these new episodes.. oh wait..

Gotta love the set designers on Star Trek back then. New panels here, different colored trim there, labels moved by a few inches, and BAM!!!!! Totally new ship!

Great analysis! Important question - did the new Defiant have any special defenses against rocks flying out during battles?

Dude. Your sense of humor is maybe the best part. ALF suddenly showing up. So great. I laughed out loud .

I feel like the Neo-Defiant's purple aesthetic was a recommendation by Avery Brooks. It's no secret that DS9 often highlighted African and African-American culture and that Brooks often pushed for such. Since purple is often cited as being representative of royalty in Africa, it wouldn't surprise me if that was intended as a subtle nod. Especially given that purple was never before (or since) so prominent in Starfleet interior design. I've always liked this iteration of the Defiant interior.

I love the idea of the Defiants registry as NCC-74205-A

It also DIDN’T have a cloaking device, if memory serves

Always love your videos. Great writing and editing as always.

I can't be the only one to think this but I'm sure glad to see regular content coming out on this channel again. Every video has been a great watch and I hope to see many more.

I just finished DS9 and now can finally watch this.

4:00 Maybe that was to combat the lens-flare generators that JJ came to love?

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Excellent as always Junkball

I'm from São Paulo and it saddened me a lil bit that they changed the name so fast :(((

Oh lol, btw, Ferengi did use blue nail vanish. Look at Menage a Troi episode.

i just got into watching star trek documentaries like this. i have watched like 5 of your videos already. well done; best i have seen that spans the entire star trek universe.

ITS A GREAT DAY FOR JUNKBALL MEDIA

There is one more Defiant. The Mirror Universe Defiant that the Terran Rebellion built.

#bluefingernails

I'm pretty sure the holocommunicator only came about because of budget constraints. The season or two around its use was very light on viewscreen shots in general. Much cheaper and easier just to put the other person on the set.

The light blocker made me chuckle, good eye 😁

This video satisfied me so much As always super well made

If Im first my life is complete. Love Junkball and the in depth details. Damn Breans:)

Thanks for another great video!

Once again, your content is supreme!!

Still bugs me that it wasn't the Dash-A... NOW, @Junkball, you've done five Defiant videos.......... TIME FOR MOAR.

Jon Tron AND Junkball uploaded today... I’m overwhelmed

To be fair, there was an entire plot point at the end of season seven about getting their hands on a Breen Energy Dampening weapon on a Dominion ship, and analysed to come up with defence for it. I'm pretty sure it was assumed by most viewers that those modifications would be added throughout the fleet, from already built ships to new commissions. That being said, this video was interesting as hell. I never even noticed all the tiny changes they made.

You should do videos much more frequently! I could watch them for hours.

Thank you for your awesome Channel!

Love this channel

Stunning! The Defiant is defiantly gorgeous!!!

I love these little videos :)

Yes more strangely observant stuff. I love it

The biggest mistake about the destruction and replacement of the Defiant is that they didn't get around to blowing up the first Defiant until so late that there's no time to feel the severity of the loss before they easily reset it.

Thx sir!nice Christmas gift:)

There were three ships named Defiant on the show. The two mentioned here and the ISS Defiant from the mirror universe.

São Paulo. I was born in this city (Brazil).

Yay! ALF is on the main viewer! (Oh, I'd love to see Alf included somehow on the Orville. Epic.) -- Yay, blue fingernails, Nog.

As a brazilian (born in São Paulo) and a trekker, I am honoured by the homage.

3:26 The green light is on the port side and the red light is on the starboard side? They are very tired at Utopia Planitia!

Another Great video, your attention to detail is quite admirable! :)

I needed that :)

São Paulo is a city in Brazil, and since i live in Brazil, I almost cried when i saw it. I always hated that they renamed it defiant, heck they even kept the old NX registry, I believe it would be better if they changed the registry to NCC-74205-A.

One of the few channels I watch that the video gets a like before I even watch because I know I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it. Thanks for the vids bud!

The small changes over time are amusing when thinking at the time we were watching this at 480i on 27" CRT screens and if you had to record it on vhs your quality dropped another 50%. So much work and small changes that would never be noticeable on screen.

Hey, I love your videos and have watched each several times! Will you ever cover the Deep Space Nine itself? You've done the other lead starships, it seems only fitting. Or do you prefer to only focus on Federation-designed vessels?

Still beneath 1000 views...fantastic new video!

So proud that our São Paulo is in Star Trek.

I don't like the Defiant but I enjoy your videos, so I watched it and I liked it.

I love that use Ken Lazlo music..."Tonite"

I'm not surprised, most bridges of the same ship model often have different designs and configurations. The Galaxy class had 3 saucer configurations, and 8 Bridge configurations. The Excelsior class had 4.

Another Great video as r all your videos the Defiant is 1 badass Ship

Any information about the two defiant class vessels accompanying an Akira vessel to engage three Romulan D'Dederix Warbirds in Star Trek Voyager's: "Message in a bottle"?

FYI: It's called a 'flag,' not a 'light blocker.' And it's mounted on a c-stand.

Comm.Riker:" tuff little ship". Worf:"little?!?" LOL.

Is there any precedence of a navy using the same name on the same class of vessel? It would be super hard to differentiate which of the ships is being talked about

I just think sticking to Navy tradition renaming a star ship to be bad luck! Although I don't like the name I would have kept it!

There is actually one *HUGE* change you didn't mention. The new Defiant has no cloaking device sadly =/

I know they escape the first Defiant in escape pods, but are they like warp 9 capable or something? How do the escape pods not get scooped up by the winner and everyone made POWs?

I remember three U.S.S. Defiant vessels the first being a Constitution Class Star Ship that was pulled in to the mirror universe and the other 2 from Deep Space Nine great ships I also like flying them in Star trek Online.

Oh, I thought they meant that the USS Defiant on DS9 was the second starship with that name. I was thinking of the ORIGINAL USS Defiant from the original series episode the Tholian Web

2:50 Naw man...they talked about that a few times before. We learned that one Klingon ship was immune. The study of this, and the Breen weapon captured by Sisko and his team lead to the development of new Shields.

the blue fingernails and the color change on the door, wall panels, and upper portions of the chairs are due to lighting changes. the carpet might've been changed when they installed a new captain's chair and panels but the other stuff is clearly due to a filter over the lighting and/or after effects similar to how a green screen works.

Great video! But most ferengi have crazy colored nails. Quark usually has some dark green on. Even the ferengi that tried poisoning Mendoza ( negotiator for the Barzan wormhole) had some crazy silver nail thing going on. #bignerdalert

Shadiversity: Star Trek, BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS!? Junk Ball: Dragons, BUT WHAT ABOUT BLUE FINGERNAILS!? Corvus: Go home, you're both drunk.

Think they changed the dedication plaque from San Paolo to defiant?

This inspired me to look at the battle of Sector 001 and lo and behold, the Defiant has the old bridge back, or at least the captain consoles are the 2nd type. I would love to see someone explain that one (cue the theme from X-Files). I guess we aren't the only people who might have forget that Sao Paulo existed.

I think the second Defiant was supposed to be an NCC registry instead of NX. However, since they were going to reuse shots from previous episodes in the finale that's when they made it the NX version.

Well, basically we just copied the Defiant we had. Then, we added some fins to lower wind resistance. And this racing stripe is pretty sharp.

Around 2.10 u say that the Sao Paulo came with orders to rename it the Defiant,which is technically untrue. Sisko states that they have special dispensation to rename her the Defiant....meaning they were given permission not ordered to rename her

Junkball is well watchable

This class had multiple ships constructed like many other ship classes. It was supposed to be a Borg assault ship. The San Paulo was re-designated The Definant as a favor to Capt Sisko as an homage to the Original Defiant. Much like the Theory that the U.S.S. Yorktown Enterprise Class as seen in Space Dock during ST III, which was re-designated U.S.S. Enterprise.

Interesting choice of the Friday The 13th Part 3 theme at the end!

it was a little bit more than just one line that they Reconfigured the shields other stuff had gone on in other episodes that led to it and the other ships also got this fix so they could not one shot disable starfleet ships any more, also i think the mk2 defiant had ablative armor plating but i think the mk1 was fitted with it at some point (i have to watch again) witch made it more like plot armor but the armor as it did seem like it could take more hits then a galaxy class ship (that had stronger shields)

There was Defiant Valinet Class Fedration spyship USS Incursion NX-74808 in Star Trek Awayteam.

What's the music? I need it in my earholes!

I appreciate the use of purple on the thumbnail! Cuz the carpet

Do you have one for Star Trek Voyager USS, Prometheus?

The holo-communicator isn't seen past it's initial use in For the Uniform, when the Defiant bridge is briefly seen two episodes later the small bench is conveniently still slid into the rear wall but the prop is gone having been relocated to Sisko's office for use in Doctor Bashir, I Presume. When the Defiant bridge is next seen which I think is in Children of Time the never (from memory) used table returns.

Actually back then the main shots of the focused ship image was done with film photography and they film to add the extra effects, shadow light, glow of warp nacelles/buzzard scoop. then they would be all then layered to give the impression that it's an actual life size space ship and not a metre long model.

Beef top ramen is fucking AWESOME

One thing you forgot the defiant ship that red Squad was Manning when they went up against the Dominion warship with nog and Jake Sisko

Delta flyer pretty please

One question I always had about the Sao Paulo was whether it had a cloaking device like the original Defiant, I'd assume not but given the alliance between the Romulans and Federation and Klingons... who knows?

what is the song at 3:31 onwards?

i love the carpet:)

Due to budget constraints, they did not change the registry number (NX-74205) of the second Defiant of the Defiant Class. The new registry should have been either NCC-74205 or NCC-75633, IMO.

Great video...as always. Needless nitpick: The chair hasn't necessarily been 'reupholstered'. That's expensive and time consuming. They probably just threw a quick coat of paint over the material, put it under a fan for 5 minutes, then ran it back to set. I'm dying to get an HD remaster of this show to hunt out all the technical flaws!

Also of note; in the final episode of DS9 during the montage. we see the stock footage of the USS Sitak and Majestic being destroyed inter-cut with another re-use of a crewman being killed by rocks on a Defiant-class bridge implying that this design was in use on Miranda's as well. Sadly, the better carpet went down with the ship.

Do a video about Q.

Yes!!!!!! You rule!

I do like the version 1 design of the Bridge, in that the captain's chair had the railing's encompassing the central pedestal, basically wrapping around the back of the chair. It sucks however that the final episode had so much re-used imagery for the battle scenes. It looks so wrong seeing the ship with the old registry in a number of shots. Alas, what's done is done!

The consoles next to the captain's chair: in season 3 last episode they use one to set the self destruct. In a season 4 episode - sisko banged his head on one.

"NAMED FOR THE PEOPLE OF BRAZIL" Wow, I had never looked at the USS São Paulo sign up close, I feel honored, even if it only lasted as long as leaving Utopia Planicia up to ds9 before being renamed XD

the rl reason for dropping the holo communicators stems from gene's reason to use view screens in the first place. to save on the budget. when they did the holocommunicator effect, they found they were limited on what angles and all they could use, AND it was way more expensive than using a viewscreen