I like how the Federation makes one tiny dedicated warship and it can go toe-to-toe with even the more hulking of capital ships in the quadrant. This is what min-maxing is all about, people.

"These are the voyages of the Starship Defiant. Her ongoing mission: To intimidate strange new worlds; to beat down new life and new civilizations. To Boldly Kick Ass Where No Man Has Kicked Ass Before!"

"Strap some engines to those weapons and let's call it a day." "Sir, maybe we should consider some life support systems for the, ah, crew?" *sighing* "FINE."

I always called this ship the Fist of The Emissary.

Don't forget the dismay of Starfleet personnel finding out that they didn't just have to share rooms, but rooms packed full of bunk beds.

Can you imagine 3 or 4 Defiants decloaking to attack, and then cloaking after they quickly destroy a ship. They would be the terror of the Alpha Quadrant.

I guess aiming is not your biggest problem when you are up versus a borg cube.

The Defiant is like the A-10 Warthog. She may not be the prettiest, but packs massive firepower. Personally like the Defieant's gunship like roll in Star Fleet.

You forgot to mention how Defiant-class ships generated so much firepower. Recall that the ship design had the plasma conduits running through the primary phase couplings to double their phaser power! It even made their warp drive more efficient! (Ref: STDS9, S3 E09 "Defiant")

"A terrifying foe that could never be bargained or negotiated with" Janeway: Hold my coffee....

The Defiant "totally not a warship" "escort" class

I heard it was said the Defiant's warp core was equal in power to the warp core of the Galaxy Class as was mentioned by Miles O'Brien.

AKA “Ben Sisko’s Pimp Hand”.

Did not mention Ablative Armor... Always liked that idea. Shields Smealds!

That is a Badass Class DS9 Ship with major character plot armour

Wolf 359 taught Starfleet a lesson it should have learned from human history: some enemies cannot be negotiated with.

That is one tough little ship.

Gotta love that flying pancake!

"It's a set of guns strapped to an engine."

I loved that ship best design along with the sovereign class in Star Trek.

The Defiant class is one of my favorite ships in Star Trek. So happy you did this one, Daniel

By far my favourite ship of all time. Thank you

And you could build em like hot cakes in ST: Armada.

One of the best ships in Star Trek.

I honestly was really hoping the US Navy would name their new FFG(X) class of Guided Missile Frigates (which have now become the Constellation-class Frigates) would be named the Defiant-class Frigates and the first ship the USS Defiant. Best ship and ship name ever in Star Trek.

Sisko's Pimp Hand!!!

1:44 FLY HER APART, THEN!

I love the Defiant-class. I'd love to see it in updated CGI on PIC season 2.

There's another part of the defiant you didn't mention. In it's original role as an anti-borg swarm ship, that goofy nose section contained a gigantic antimatter warhead so that, in the event of catastrophic damage that prevented retreat, the ship could be rammed into a borg cube and cause far more damage than its relatively small size would normally allow.

I love this ship design. Small, but packs a serious punch.

DS9 is still my favorite Star Trek Series. TNG be damned.

THE USS BEN SISKO'S MOTHA****IN PIMP HAND, AT LAST!

Pulsed Phaser Cannons haven't been seen the days of Captain Johnathan Archer and the NX-01 Enterprise and her sister ships.

When humans say they want to put their dark, warlike past behind them, don't force them to show you why.

My fav ship of starfleet just would have put phaser strip down the cowling of the warp engine and strip on rear to make it a more rounded ship

When you back peace loving nerds into a corner. They'll build something utterly ridiculous that can spank you, your friends, and everything else that gets in the way. Don't piss off the Federation.

On a completely different subject, have you ever done a clip on "Space battleship Yamato?"

Five years later, still an awesome description of the toughest ship in the fleet. Q'Plah!

Do the Intrepid class or the Sovereign class next please. Then you could do a video on Earth Spacedock .

Man oh man, I love your break downs and to hear my favorite ship get one really amped up my week. Thank you!

I like to think that Geordie LaForge helped in the design process of the Pulse Phaser Cannon due in part to his Visor tech which they used in an episode of TNG to modify the Enterprises Tractor Beams into a pulse to greatly improve the power they could channel without overheating when they had to divert the course of some stellar debris from hitting a planet.

“Escort” vessel

I love this "little" ship

Or as I call her, Starfleet's Pitbull

Damn, how many issues did the original prototype suffer through that endangered the crew?

The Delta Flyer suffering from 'roid rage,and with the right amount of Klingon Bird-of-Prey, for good measure.

My biggest complaint with Star Trek are the ship designs. The Defiance is the one ship I very much love the design of. Best Star Trek ship.

DS9 needs a revival. Most of the surviving cast would definitely jump on it and I'm sure they could even figure out a way to get Jadzia back. I'm surprised we haven't seen more Defiant-like ships as it's pretty much Star Fleet's Bird of Prey.

My all time favorite star trek vessel. this little beast has it all.

The defiant class is definitely my favorite starship!

Weapons officer.. .do you see that dominion ship? Yes Sir. Well, I don't want to. Understood Sir.

Borg: Negotiation is irrelevant Feds: 'turns neck with cracking sound' YOU WILL LEARN OF OUR PEACFUL WAYS BY FORCE!!!

For some reason this ship always reminds me of the HMP droid gunship from starwars but bigger, and is manned by a crew.

It's a shame that Michael Eddington didn't try to build some of these when he defected to the Maquis. With his access to the schematics and the industrial replicators he stole he could have at least built one to use for the Maquis. Small, powerful and requiring a small crew complement, this ship would be a huge boost for the Maquis cause. Throw in a Klingon cloaking device for good measure.

I love the idea of the Defiant, its like the Feds had to rediscover the "Destoryer" class of ship.

Why isn’t there a ❤️button

As of this writing, 1.4K likes vs. 3 dislikes. Speaks volumes about the amazing content quality you put together - keep up the great work!

I wonder how exactly many ships of the Defiant class did Starfleet build as I know we've seen 4 of them the prototype U.S.S. Defiant,the U.S.S. Valiant and 2 unnamed ships that were part of the fleet that went after the stolen prototype U.S.S. Prometheus so I've always wondered how many more ships of this class did Starfleet intend to build.

I noticed your stats say 5 decks. Which makes you more accurate than every other written stats for the ship I’ve seen (even with officially licensed stuff) states it has 4. Even though Sisko steps into the Turbo-lift one episode and says “Deck 5” So well done on that.

Star Trek Online just released the Victory is Life expansion so the posting of this video is quite appropriate. I played all of new missions in my T6 Fleet Defiant.

Another great video. Can you please do the Hammer Head from Space Above and Beyond. You should at least watch the show for good space combat.

back in the day as the defiant first appeared in trek, i hated it, it was ugly, wacky weapons (where are the standard phasers!? were my thoughts then) had a a cloak device (for the USS Defiant) and it was kinda small, it had everything what i didnt liked. but i was a young teenager and had no idea of specifications and lorewise reasons for this ship. now skip several years, me playing the crap out of star trek online...then i first read everything about the defiant escort and designreasons. since then i love this ugly af ship. (my ship (USS Bellona) looks like a defiant / akira mashup and is a heavy escort, my favorite roll in a fleet)

Huh, a video on a DS9 debuting craft, and STO launched the Victory is Life...expansion...thingy... today...

Something I've always wondered about the Defiant: it was designed specifically to go toe-to-toe with the Borg and destroy their ships, and it had the shields, engines, and weapons of a Federation ship several times its size. But Starfleet ships several times its size, with those same shields, engines, and weapons mounted in a hull that could actually take the strain of using them, were useless deathtraps when facing the Borg. The techno-zombies would quickly adapt their weapons to evaporate whatever shields were being used, and adapt their own shields to effortlessly counter any phasers and photon torpedoes used against them. It wasn't until things like quantum and tricobalt torpedoes entered the scene that the Borg could be threatened for more than a few moments - and that was Voyager, not the Defiant. ...So, what was it about the Defiant that made it useful against the Borg?

"Tough little ship."-Commander William Riker

The Defiant is definitely my favorite starship in all of science fiction

My most favorite ship in the Star Trek Universe.

Its more of a hybrid between a WW II era destroyer, the speed & AA powers of the American Fletchers, Somers & Summer class, with the bigger guns like the Zerstörer 1936A (Mob) or could it could be seen as a light cruiser such as the Cleveland, Brooklyn & Atlanta classes, That being said it's nice that the Federation finally decides to understand that certain species are not here to make friends, they are here to either assimilate you, Borg & Vong, eat you like the Tyranids, or a combination of those 2 and enslave you in the case of the Dark Eldar & Rakkata,

Starfleet Admiralty and Fed politicians: "Gunship sounds bad, m'kay." Defiant Project: "Well, it will be ESCORTING other ships while gunning down enemy warships with these fracking huge cannons we added to the front." Admiralty & Politicians: "Yay! Go with that!"

So much better than trekyards!! Your voice is pleasant and I can listen for hours but trekyards is painful 🤷🏽‍♂️🙄

The Pimp Hand of the Emissary.

Before there were established nomenclature for the weaponry on the Defiant, a friend called the short burst phaser array the "Ripper Cannons"...it fits.

According to the ship design, the impulse engines are built more centrally, with a large muffler to minimise ion wake displacement, making the Defiant harder to track. The hatches on the port and starboard sides of this were ment to be for deploying probes, mines and countermeasures, but in Star Trek online, these hatches are mistakenly lit as impulse engines.

I love this Star trek ship. It is small but has excellent combat armor and weapons

Featuring another ship of the class at 2:29: The Tnaifed SSU, registry number 50247-XN. (From the mirror universe. 😁)

I love the design of her. But I think lore reloaded is right in saying the both threat was put out of the federation consciousness and the war time vessels were the result of the dominion, not the Borg

I always liked the Defiant, it seemed like a much more “realistic” design than all of the other ST ships. My only problem was that for as tough as it was suppose to be, it seemed like it always got beat pretty easily. In the end, it always survived, but in almost every battle it would get disabled during the battle. Of course for a good story, you must have adversities to over come, but it always made the Defiant seem no more powerful than other ships.

Do I hear the STO theme?

I've always thought that Defiant was a secret collaborative design with the Romulans during the Borg scare and was actually designed with the cloak, then the whole deal was buried afterward. The whole "cloak for dominion intel" trade never made sense to me except as a cover story. I can certainly see the Romulans granting a treaty exemption in exchange for information sharing, but not giving away an actual cloaking device. Yes, they're alarmed by the Dominion, but Starfleet is hardly the only source of information on them. They'd be far more likely to say "we grant you permission to install a Klingon cloak". Particularly since a Klingon cloak would work just as well for the Gamma quadrant -- if anything better as the Klingons have off the shelf cloaks made for Defiant-sized ships (birds of prey) while Romulans don't really have anything sized between a runabout and a Galaxy class. The Borg on the other hand... in 2365-66 Starfleet is the only game in town for info on them because they're literally physically unreachable. We know the Romulans were so desperate for that info they ended their half century of isolation in 64 and agreed to some baseline collaboration with Starfleet. We know cloaking technology is consistently portrayed as an arms race, so Romulan cloaks would have diverged a lot from Klingon ones over the decades. We know the Borg downloaded a lot of data from Enterprise in 65, so it's reasonable to think they knew about a lot about Klingon cloaking devices, but not about Romulan ones. And we know Defiant's phasers function a lot more like disruptors than they do like ordinary Starfleet ship phasers. So it stands to reason that the Starfleet-Romulan collaboration could have extended to working together on the Defiant in secret. Starfleet gets cloaking technology the Borg haven't seen before along with some Romulan disruptor tech, Romulans get to see the insides of Starfleet torpedoes/shields/engines and get info on the Borg. A much fairer trade. And then when Sisko dragged the ship out in 71, both sides still wanted to keep their old collaboration secret, so pretended it was a new agreement and an off the shelf cloak.

I liked the Defiant. Powerful, but not to the point of having no weaknesses. Specialized for its role.

If you ever decide to redo this video: The defiant was also a Constitution class ship. Its the one that was lost in interphase. There is also the fact that the São Paulo was renamed to defiant after the original was destroyed, after it was given to Sisko. It also had ablative armor, but not like that of the Voyager. Ablative armor was not something every ship had at the time.

I might not be fond of Trek, but damn if the Defiant had a lot of what I'd ask for in a high-maneuverability warship. A lot of the 'weak point' designs are entirely removed, everything is compact and rugged. I love that one note about 'a power plant built for a ship 4 times its size'. To me that says 'there is power to spare for EVERY system'. (something I've teased my ST fan friend about for a full year now). Defiant class ships are perfect even when they're imperfect.

I love the Defiant so damn much.

How about the Defiant's (ahem) plot doppleganger, the White Star?

Starfleet needed more warship capable classes like Defiant, Akira, Norway, Steamrunner, Sabre, Sovereign, Intrepid class ships.

If i could like these videos a billion times i would.

Yes! Been waiting for this one,,this ship could kick some ass big time....how about rikers ship next? The titan mybe? Or luna class as there known....

Been waiting for this. Dont torget that Junkball Media video about the Defiants Bow Doors, which is supposedly by the deflector dish, lol.

I enjoyed your commentary. Thank you

Though she be but little, she is mighty!

I'm just sad that we never saw a large wolf pack of the Defiant class vessels used on screen. Just imagine 8 or 12 of these swarming around an enemy station.

I thought The Defiant Class was designated as a Destroyer. She is as such in the Xbox game, Star Trek: Legacy.

Starfleet should make a bigger version with the same design philosophy. Could you imagine an Intrepid sized Defiant with a massive array of pulse phasers. Nothing too big though, Federation tactics relied on maneuverability. Then again, just mass produce the little bastards. A swarm of those acting like Jem Hidar fighters would be overwhelming.

How about the Starfighter from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?

It wasn't *centuries* of time between the Defiant and Starfleet's last combat vessel. The Federation-class dreadnoughts (canon as a picture of one appears in ST II: Wrath of Khan and described in the original Star Fleet Technical Manual, published in 1975 and re-printed in '86, '96, & '06) were built just a few years after the original Constitution-class heavy cruiser/explorer (somewhere between 2250-2270). The Federation-class was controversial, being the last purpose-built Federation war vessel. For this reason they had a very short operational span before being decommissioned or converted for less-aggressive uses, but they were a thing. The Defiant's construction was finished in 2370, so no more than 120 years after the Federation-class.

It would have been cool to see some of the previous ship models retrofitted with the pulsed phasers, only in turrets...

for several episode sthe writers continued with this premise that a romulan had to be present in order to operate the cloaking device, but by later seasons they had given up on this, and it seems to me to be a pretty significant change to cannon. By the time of Star Trek - First Contact they had completely given up on this.

Tough little ship

I still have my Playmates Defiant. Took the batteries out. Sturdy enough to fly around by hand but good looking enough to display as a near model. Has Art Asylum made a Defiant? Time to look on Amazon.