Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The USS Defiant You Need To Know

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

Riker: "Tough little ship!" Worf: _"Little?!?"_

[@gregthomas2939]

😂😂 Yeeeessssss.

[@Kundalini12]

"Step up to red alert" "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb"

[@TheDeeplyCynical]

"Forget red alert, just go straight to brown alert!"

[@DudeMcAwesome]

Boys from a the Dwarf...

[@morlokvestai-kurak9680]

Love Red Dwarf quotes. Especially from Kryten. 🤭🙂

[@JonnyMac420]

SMEG IT!!!!!

[@g00gleminus96]

Ok, can we go to Pink Alert?

[@morrisgautreau6704]

The defiant instantly became my favorite ship. It weirdly reminded me of the Millennium Falcon, in the best way! I can completely understand why Worf wanted to live there. It's a Badass Warrior's Ship!!!

[@lynchkid003]

Fun fact: In the fight with the Borg Cube in "First Contact", The Millennium Falcon can be seen in the background as a sort of Easter Egg from Industrial Light and Magic, who did the special effects for both series.

[@morrisgautreau6704]

@@lynchkid003 I know, it's so cool! I am a huge fan of both! Live Long And Prosper and May The Force Be With You! Thanks for commenting, It's always fun to hear from another fan!

[@Knight121198]

i also get that "millenium Falcon" sensation for the BC 304 from Stargate fame, especially with its conning tower thats on the left side of the main section, like the Dish of the Falcon is on the left, similar astectic.

[@morrisgautreau6704]

@@Knight121198 I kind of see it. It's too squarish, but the BC 304 does look like it could have been in STAR TREK or STAR WARS!!!

[@hardwirecars]

more like the ebon hawk to me and its the nose.

[@artemisiatheta7549]

"Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." That part had me laughing so hard I couldn't breath. Especially since I've been rewatching Red Dwarf right now.

[@theunknownstuntman4010]

Space Corp directive 34124 No officer with false teeth should attempt oral sex in zero gravity

[@kennethmelnychuk9737]

Schmeg!

[@jolan_tru]

I do love me some Defiant. Changed the tone of DS9 from being a show where the heroes were reactive to threats to being proactive. Also, it just looks cool.

[@billb0313]

OP ship for an overrated show. See my post above about how crappy DS9 is. It shouldn't even count as Star TREK (that's why the producers were forced to bring in the Defiant. They knew they screwed up big time having a casino in space that did nothing and went nowhere. Prior to the Defiant, DS9 is nothing more than Canto Bight in Space (and we all know how much that premise sucked!)

[@NucularRobit]

Objection! The Defiant class is a reaction to the Borg. I'm being pedantic. Love ya.

[@AndrewD8Red]

@@billb0313 That sir, is your opinion and I do have some respect for all opinions. Except yours. Your opinion is dumb.

[@mem1701movies]

Before it showed up the show sucked! The Bajoran stuff was the worst...

[@titusmccarthy]

Show wasn't all that bad. Certainly better than Shitterprise and Voyager.

[@ronaldratcliffe3193]

Worf being in command for the Battle of Sector 001 can be explained in universe. The stardates for First Contact and DS9 episode Blaze of Glory match up. So Sisko was off on his own mission, leaving Worf as the most senior Starfleet command officer in charge. Also, side note, the Defiant was in the battle with the Borg for between 4 & 6 hours, (depending on how long it took the Enterprise to get to Earth), and it was part of Mobile Position One, along with the USS Bozeman. Meaning it kept moving between the battle lines as the battle went along.

[@CKN215]

Ronald Ratcliffe - Yes, for a single Defiant class ship to fight for 4-6 hrs. is impressive. The class was designed to fight the Borg, but that doesn’t mean it was designed for a single vessel to defeat the Borg.

[@duozero00]

"Tough little ship" lol also it does raise the issue of the distance then Enterprise covers in those 4 to 6 hours I know the Enterprise is one of the fastest if not the fastest ships in the fleet at that point but pretty sure the neutral zone is further than the Enterprise could travel at maximum warp for 6 hours

[@LucyLynette]

​Little?

[@jamesspring4610]

Actually, Sisko does make a vague reference to Star Trek: First Contact in a season 5 episode when he mentions "The recent Borg attack."

[@SecretAgentE]

Episode 14

[@taleyajoinson4703]

The big issue I had with First Contact was how the Defiant was viewed as a throwaway. And I'm like...dude. This thing was specifically designed to fight the borg. One of its nicknames was "The Borg Killer". Insane amounts of detail went into its armaments and armour - ffs the naked hull can take sustained phaser blasts longer than some starship shields, and lets not get started on the sheer firepower - and you want to treat it like a cheap throwaway tissue while ships that WEREN'T specifically designed to go up against the borg and win just happily pissed on by? bugger off.

[@Cyberleader672]

To be fair the ship had been fighting the Cube for possibly hours so it did well all things considered

[@jerrybeard8995]

One of my proudest possessions is my model of the defiant that, so far I've managed to get signed by the actors that portray "Q", "Worf", "Dax", "Odo" and "Quark" if I can ever get "Sisco" and my favorite char. "Garak" I will be elated. Of course as many others that have been on DS9 as I can. wish me luck ;)

[@dominusetdeus060644]

Wow...amazing...

[@davidjones3165]

Impressive consider Rene is now deceased

[@ChristmasLore]

That's one pricey model!

[@lutheremme2541]

You suck ...

[@johndoe-ek1qs]

@@lutheremme2541 Nice projection!

[@majestyc0359]

Sisko (who worked on the Defiant as a anti-Borg weapon) was telling O'Brien the Defiant's warp core was as powerful as a Galaxy's core. They had to significantly increase the structural integrity.

[@sarahouigue6029]

OMG I love Rick Sternbach, he and my brother became internet chat buddies back in the 90's and my brother told him I was a HUGE Trekkie. He was kind enough to send me signed blueprints (stolen many years ago) of the Enterprise but arranged for us to tour a real retired space shuttle that was in Sydney. What an awesome guy!

[@johnnybikesalot]

I NEED to see Sisko's cut scene from First Contact. Please tell me it is somewhere?!

[@RobertThompson1985]

I am currently re-watching all of DS9, and we just went past the part where the defiant was supposed to be in the battle in Star Trek first Contact. Where they didn't make it a specific reference they did make a passing reference of the fleet being in shambles after the recent Borg invasion. That is when the defiant was damaged. Just a few months before the start of the Dominion War.

[@kevinedie4119]

"Cloak the ship Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb" Yup one of my favourite jokes in Red Dwarf too

[@Gangerworld]

When Sisko designed the Defiant he basically created a giant battering ram and slapped some impulse/warp engines on it. Oh, and the most powerful torpedos it could carry and phasers that would literally blow the ship up if used. The Defiant is a beast of a machine. A Beast Machine if you will. Of course Sisko designed it.

[@benwillis5840]

Probably why professional engineers usually design spaceships. Reminds me of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer designs a car for his brother's company.

[@esgrove]

​@@benwillis5840 Captain Sisko studied Engineering at Starfleet academy, and switched part-way through his career to command. He spent years helping to design the Defiant at Utopia Planitia before he transferred to Deep Space Nine.

[@benwillis5840]

@@esgrove ​ I read similar on Memory Alpha before I posted and knew someone would "um actually" me hence the addition of the word "professional", perhaps "career" would have been better. I still hold to the belief that engineers should design stuff rather than managers (even those who were engineers 10+ years ago) because if you let managers so it you end up with something that's "overgunned and overpowered for a ship its size. During battle drills, it nearly tore itself apart when the engines were tested at full capacity".

[@esgrove]

@@benwillis5840 So even if you have a master's degree in engineering and worked as an engineer for years, if you do any other job for a few years, you're not an engineer?

[@Purrrple]

Yes well there's a reason fans call her "Captain Benjamin Sisko's Mutha-fuckin' Pimp Hand".

[@gregthomas2939]

HIGHLY agree that the 2 episode arc on Voyager featuring the Equinox was one of the very best stories in series history.

[@wahoo236]

NitPick Alert: You said they wanted the Defiant’s bridge to be more like a submarine’s bridge. A submarine’s “Control Room” would be more accurate. Submarines only use their “bridge” when the surface, and then it’s only really for surface navigation as it is outside the boat on the top of the sail.

[@brettmagnus6332]

I love the Defiant!. But I will admit my favorite class is the Akira class. It was like the Defiant's bigger, older brother with the ablative armor, lots of torpedo launchers, intermittent ladder canons, phase arrays, and even a hammer bay with fighters. It can reign death many different ways.

[@TheG21145]

I adore the geekyness of this. The defiant deserves this kind of love.

[@rjonboy7608]

It is not just a machine. Love went into its creation. It is a person. Treat it with care and comfort and you will find that returned. The universe is not empty. It reflects what we bring to it somehow. Robert Heinlein knew this. He called it universe as myth. Others call it Gaia. I think of it as 11 dimensional echoing.

[@iainfreeman5112]

There’s a tiny reference to First Contact in By Infernos Light. About the Borg & Klingons Starfleet is spread thin. Something like that.

[@BBRuminant]

You're right! Sisko says something like, in reference to The Dominion picking the perfect time to invade, "between the Klingon wars, and the recent Borg attack, Starfleet's spread pretty thin". So even though they didn't mention The Defiant being in the battle per se, they did make a reference to First Contact happening.

[@RyanSellman1]

You should've called it "The A-10 Warthog of Space". Sounds way better lol

[@iphone777]

It definitely is! The phase cannons are the Defiants “BRRRRRRR”

[@gecryan2996]

Looks more like a puma

[@erneststrickland1956]

Wow. That is right. Bravo. That's what she is.. a flying tank buster. Small and over powered. But just nasty. Now I'd would love a small back story and sisko found cannons and said. Just make a ship around these.

[@iphone777]

GEC Ryan STOP MAKING UP ANIMALS PRIVATE!!

[@mantrekki]

GEC Ryan, the A-10 warthog, is a real warplane...

[@correlis]

Does anyone else think the front end of that "militarised" runabout looks a lot like a Y-wing from Star Wars?

[@brentgranger7856]

My thoughts, too.

[@Logovanni]

Was all I could think

[@big_mike_plays]

Yep, also the Skipray Blastboat

[@genemitthun1725]

Actually I thought it looked suspiciously like a miniature White Star (B5). Maybe they should have used a cleptoed StarFire model.

[@irohaboat]

More like a "K"-wing

[@adamlytle2615]

The lack of a docking port in the nose of the Defiant is such a mind-boggling oversight. Your show is ABOUT A SPACE STATION. Docking ships to the station is kind of a major part of your model filming ... And no one put their hand up in a meeting and said "we should stick a docking port somewhere"?!

[@startrekfan1017]

There was a docking port in the nose section. It was concealed behind retractable panels, hence why we never see it.

[@adamlytle2615]

@@startrekfan1017 well by that logic you could justify almost anything. I'm just saying that a visible docking port could have been integrated into the design so the viewer doesn't have to use their imagination and assume that something is there, just hidden for some reason.

[@Evil.Totoro]

Wasn’t there a quip on DD9 from Sisko telling Warf (edited spelling) to take better care of the Defiant than “last time” I am pretty sure that’s a First Contact reference.

[@BlownMacTruck]

No, it's a reference to the first NX prototype version of the ship getting completely destroyed.

[@Evil.Totoro]

@@BlownMacTruck can’t be, Sisko was in Command of the first Defiant when it was destroyed by the Breen energy dampening weapon.

[@BlownMacTruck]

@@Evil.Totoro That's probably right, but I know for sure FC was actively avoided being referenced completely by the DS9 staff, so it has to be something else.

[@ranwolf7650]

Worf

[@LoneWolf0568]

My favorite ship of all time is the Saber class because it just really looks cool to me. I love the way they were able to keep the classic nacelle but still make it look completely different.

[@ChrisEllorris]

I was less bothered by them not mentioning the Defiant in First Contact and more by the fact they never talk about getting new uniforms after that movie aired. Show took a month-long break around the release of the film and when it came back everyone was in new uniforms.

[@connorgonzalez4023]

Uniform changes happen all the time in real-world militaries and organizations without much of an explanation. I think part of the idea was that Starfleet was making a shift to reflect their attitude about the war.

[@anothercleverusername992]

The Defiant was in 68 episodes... AND(luckily) also in *"First Contact",* giving it 69 appearances. _Nice._

[@theargonaught44]

Nice.

[@danm936]

Nice

[@writerrhino166]

Such fun. The Defiant was my favorite ship, still learned several new things, thank you!

[@atariduckman]

Running out of ships for this list? How about a real challenge: 10 Secrets of the Enterprise J The ship from Star Trek: Enterprise "Azati Prime" from the 26th century. Good luck hunting for secrets 😁

[@jolan_tru]

The only thing that bothered me about the Defiant is how much its size fluctuated: It has 8/5/4 decks and it's 217m/172m/138m long. The conflicting length information was given twice in the DS9 technical manual for crying out loud!

[@jhmcd2]

I believe (I think the interview is now on Memory Alpha) an interview somewhere where the DS9 creators actually mention this. Much of it was because they never settled on a size up front, even though eventually she does have an "actual" size. But to make things worse the VFX teams would often scale the ship incorrectly around ships in the show so they would look better. Since they never really had fixed dimensions, the writers who often didn't know these things wrote whatever they cared to in order to make the show work better for their episode.

[@Burner-B]

@@jhmcd2 I remember reading that the scaling was a conscious choice. Sometimes. It would be the size of a mosquito, next to some ships, so to make her more of a presence they sometimes Just scaled her to what looked good

[@mem1701movies]

B. Well one episode it literally was the size of a mosquito!

[@mattevans4377]

@@mem1701movies Wasn't that actually a runabout?

[@VileMike]

How is the fact that it has Landing Gear and can land on a planet, not on the list?

[@ReelSpider]

Because, (like everything else on this list, to be honest) everybody knows about the landing gear already. The show did go off the air 20 years ago...

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

@@ReelSpider feels like just yesterday it was on BBC channel. I love syndication 😀

[@bobbysmith9827]

I had no idea it has landing gear!!!! OMG!!!! This makes her way much cooler!!! Shame on you for leaving this info out. Grumpy face emoji.

[@VileMike]

@@bobbysmith9827 Check the MSD (Master Systems Display) it has the same Landing Gear placement as the Intrepid (Voyager). Fun Fact, the Prometheus also has the same gear, thus can land on a planet too.

[@UnChannelDuVulpineX]

@@ReelSpider I must be not part of 'everybody' then. I knew it.

[@MrThomasCWest]

I remember in the novel adaptation of the first six episodes of season 6 an entire deck of crew cabins was replaced with torpedo racks, allowing the ship to rapid fire the entire compliment of photon torpedoes in one go, giving the Defiant a tactical edge on the Argolios (SP?) Cluster satellite mission.

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Great reference to Red Dwarf and changing the bulbs....that scene had me laffing on the floor, Robert Llewellyn was sooooo good as Kryton, deadpan faced.... "Sir are you sure about going to red alert, it'll mean changing the bulbs" 🤣😂 Great series !

[@reesemontoya5318]

Ten Things only fans will know.. So we'll call them secrets for everyone else

[@1D991]

I always come to these types of video just to see how many I don't know. Usually I'm not missing any lol, but once in a while creators surprise me

[@reesemontoya5318]

@@1D991 Yeah the whole landing thing threw me

[@ChrisEllorris]

I'm a fan and didn't know most of these!

[@xMagnason]

As a kid i had a micro machines uss defiant, it went everywhere with me.

[@fatmandave9461]

You would of thought of the Sao Paulo being mentioned that they would of stated that the real life reason the "special dispensation" line Admiral Ross gives is because it was too costly to change the registry to either NCC-75633 Sao Paulo's original registry or NCC-74205-A for the new Defiant in the re-used CGI footage.

[@RJsfuntime]

My favorite ship too. I even run a defiant class ship on Star Trek online

[@RyanSellman1]

In a way, you could fly it like a fighter jet and shred enemy targets to pieces lol

[@BNuts]

@@RyanSellman1 Hug the Donkey.

[@summonersumnerus4364]

@@RyanSellman1 That's actually what i did with my Defiant class ship in STO. I flew it like a fighter. It's fast and maneuverable enough to stay behind the enemy and pew pew pew away :)

[@DiabloDBS]

@@summonersumnerus4364 With Pilot spec and the right gear it can be quite the agile thing but i still find it hard to effectively engage with cannons when hunting similarly fast vehicles and the last time i played dual beams where the META anyways which is a bid sad as it doesn't have that "pew pew pew" effect anymore. :-/ And that it doesn't have a combat cloak is also quite annoying against other fast ships with one. I still remember fitting it with normal single cannons and beams for the old Crystalline Entity .. that was fun..

[@RyanSellman1]

@@summonersumnerus4364 That's how I want to get my Defiant set up. That would be fun to fly and shoot with.

[@jameslynch2399]

The thing about the bulbs was that the set designers were specifically told by the producers not to put in lights on a dimmer, as they'd only ever need to change the lighting when cloaking which they figured they wouldn't be doing very often. Then they ended up doing it in nearly every episode the ship appeared in and the set guys held a bit of a grudge against the producers for the time/effort it took every single time the ship cloaked.

[@plokiju88]

I would have loved to see the Defiant borgarized with the same technologies that future Janeway used to bring the Voyager’s crew back to the Alpha quadrant, still hope to see it on Picard or some of the other shows. Also there was a black one in a book that reunited members of TOS & TNG piloted by Data but I forgot the name of the book.

[@Euripides_Panz]

Anti-Borg was the technology Janeway brought from the future. It would be a bit ironic if a ship whose purpose was to fight Borg began to look Borg. USS Monitor-Defiant Class, appeared "black" because of the carbon they used to hide the ship from scanners absorbed light.

[@plokiju88]

@@Euripides_Panz you are absolutely correct, I meant to say that it would be cool to see the ship upgraded with the anti borg tech that was on the show. I realize that my sentence structure makes no sense, sorry about that.

[@Euripides_Panz]

@@plokiju88 I believe the stealth technology would eventually be compatible. As for the armor, the Borg probably didn't all gain the adaptation, possibly just the single Sphere that was destroyed. Transphasic torpedoes were probably secured. Hopefully, S-31 didn't get their hands on it. Another story with them making trouble would be tiresome.

[@GabePuratekuta]

@@Euripides_Panz Is that a challenge? I've made a ship similar to the Galaxy-class look Borg and I can do the same with a Defiant-class.

[@fabiorabelo3506]

I did not watched all the video, yet, but it is too big to wait !!!! Go back to "Enterprise" and watch again THE BEST EPISODE OF THAT SERIES, called "In A Mirror, Darkly" , The original Defiant ARE THERE TOO !!!!! in fact, it is the whole reason of that double episode ....

[@DiabloDBS]

What do you mean with "you can't play it in STO as well" ? Or did i miss hear that and you said "and you can play it in STO as well" ? I am pretty sure you can play the Defiant-, Gallant-, Vigilant and Valiant -Class as well as the Sao Paulo "Refit" ... The first 3 should be standard tactical ships for captain rank while the Valiant-class and Sao Paulo Refit class are Zen admiral rank ships ...

[@LexieOfTheBorealValley]

11:30 I vaguely remember them having a line talking about a Borg incursion though, I thought it was referencing first contact with a single throwaway line

[@hazerdoescrap]

Google Search: USS Defiant Google: "Did you mean Sisko's Pimp Hand?"

[@lynchkid003]

Gonna be honest, this comment made me crack up.

[@duozero00]

The man so badass even Q didn't fuck with him more than once. How hard did he punch him?

[@Collectibles49]

@@duozero00 Sisko had God Ki

[@CanisAnubis]

Thank you for bringing up that docking station thing!!! Every time they filmed it docking, I always asked ... What, is there like a door in there?

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

15:07 What about the Captain's ship, (Underneath the saucer section)I don't think it ever got used in STNG

[@GrimmShadowsII]

Paramount Logic: We can't name it Valiant because people will be confused with another ship that begins with the same letter but no one will get confused with another ship with THE EXACT SAME NAME but no connection between the two. Though to be fair I'm pretty sure there have been other ships that have shared names but very few other then the Enterprise had a letter at the end of the number, I guess because it was the flagship of the federation.

[@fightingcock8096]

The defiant is like a pitbull , it’s small but everyone knows what its capable of 😏 1 of my favourite ships ever 🤘🏼

[@rvaldrich]

"And again I ask you 'the hell'? I had to pause the video, I laughed so hard at that facial expression.

[@londonrhodes2429]

I had a smile on my face this whole video...then he mentioned Lower Decks lol. Great video!

[@DAYNURSERY]

A Defiant class ship is seen at the end of Lower Decks episode Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus.

[@trafficsignal101]

The Defiant was one badass ship.

[@jpwphoenix1701]

Another brilliant video. I actually didn't know that part about them having to change the lightbulbs everytime they cloaked the ship. Love the RD reference though. It sure shows how much lighting tech has come along when you look at how easily and frequently they go through all the different alerts and lighting on Discovery! A few extra comments, if I may? I know in the mid-season-five two-parter of DS9, Sisko makes a reference to the events in First Contact. He says, "Between the war with the Klingons and the recent Borg attack, Starfleet's forces are spread pretty thin." This makes sense as it was just a few episodes earlier that they start wearing the First Contact uniforms too. Finally, with regards the original design concept of the Defiant, I know there was talk of the Defiant having the same variable-geometry moving warp nacelles that the Voyager had. This made sense as this was meant to help prevent the subspace damage created when ships go to warp. However, rather than pivoting up, like Voyager, I think the Defiant's nacelles were only meant to move back and forth. Thankfully, this whole idea was abandoned, although the Playmates toy of the Defiant (which I have!) does have a nose/warhead section which pivots up and down (although goodness knows why?!).

[@sacredsock8031]

Where did you get that poster in the background?

[@Kian2002]

I have always wondered when the Defiant had it`s ablative upgrade - it`s mentioned in Paradise Lost when the Lakota is attempting to forestall it`s approach to Earth but other than that I can`t seem to recall a specific mention of this being installed before then?

[@stevea8875]

I did and still do love DS9, reguarly bin watch all of the series on Netflix, and yes The 'Defiant' was certainly one of my fave ships.... Interestingly, that in the final episode of Season 7, with the final engagements and fleet battles, a lot of the shots were re-uses of the earlier Season 5 Episode, 'Sacrifice of Angels', which was a bit of a let down, but I'm assuming this was done due to saving budget on new CGI renders and big space battles... One revealing mistake with this however, is the first Defiant ship, being officially 'non commissioned' and experimental, due to its 'double life classification', had the registry 'NX', being that of an experimental non-commissioned ship, and the later re-named 'Sao Paolo', the 'Defiant' name obviously replaced that, with the existing registry, except now as the vessel class was commissioned, it carried the 'NCC' affix, so the ship in the different scenes can be seen with both the old and new registries, so a fairly clear continuity error there, and a rather large anorak for me to have noticed and mentioned it. I very much doubt, I was the only person to know and spot that, however! :-)

[@joermnyc]

They replaced the ship, but the CGI model was the same one... no time to re-render a new name or registry number for every angle and shot (or reused shot, they reuse footage a lot, go see how many times a Klingon bird of prey blows up EXACTLY like General Chang’s prototype in Undiscovered Country.)

[@stevea8875]

@@joermnyc haha, oh yes that's so true, along with the same interior shots of it blowing up, used in 'Generations', and many of those DS9 battles!

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@joermnyc no money.

[@rjonboy7608]

That's one thing I've wondered: why didn't they mass produce the Defiant class without cloak. Crew of 50. Powerful punch, shields, maneuverable, stealthy, tough. Every frontier system should have two. Jem who?

[@Yeager123123]

My guess is that they did, but were sent to different fleets. Also, they may have focused on cheaper ships in larger numbers that weren’t as awesome but could still put phaser on target. Maybe that’s why there were so many Mirandas. Focused on bringing them out of retirement and upgrading them rather than mass production? Who knows

[@chrispainter7297]

They did, watch Message in a bottle for Voyager.

[@davidjones3165]

In the non-canon books dealing with.the genesis device they talk about a fleet of defiant class ships

[@jimjaz01]

Because you asked, yes they docked via the deflector dish and there was an airlock there. It's in the physical model that I built as a kid. You can see the ring on the lower side of the defector. I believe it is shown it in the DS9 technical manual as well.

[@KirkHarnack]

Just discovered your channel. Brilliant! You’re awesome!!

[@rjonboy7608]

This is probably off topic, but I've always wanted to see a detail of the Millennium Falcon, particularly the Danny Glover model before the Kessel Run. That would be interesting to see the rebels copy. Common hull, powerful engine, two quad blaster cannon, concussion missiles, redesign computer and shield, add armor, add a big gun, concert cargo space to quarters, etc. A wolf-pack of them at Endor would have made a difference.

[@coyotegaxiola4281]

My favorite ship from my favorite Trek! I literally gasped and squealed with delight when I saw this. (I have 2 3D printed Defiants of different sizes on my tv stand.)

[@TheRyFiNetWork]

Great Video about a GREAT series. As to your comment about how they docked and would get in/out of the ship, I always took it as behind that big array at the front were more sections and corridors and just past that section were the access points to disembark from the ship. In my head it always worked much like an airplane and instead of the cockpit it was the deflector array up front. I swear it was shown someplace but I may just be making a mental picture of my own of how I think it works. Also, it was slightly mentioned in DS9 tho it was more Sisko talking about the Federation being stretched thin with the recent Borg attack. I always thought the scene of the Defiant in First Contact was telling enough, DS9 was its own show and should not dedicate time to explain what the movie already did through visuals, maybe a mention about repairs going on or even a Sisko dig at Picard could've been humorous. Great Video, wish you would do dedicated videos for every series. I am not into new era Star Trek unfortunately as I just can't get into them (Everyone else enjoy tho :) ) so I would love to hear more on the series I cherish. A breakdown of info on ENTERPRISE or TNG, more DS9 and good old Voyager. Sorry for the ramble, everyone take care and be safe. :)

[@eschnabel.4665]

Mr. Cleary. Greetings from Colorado. You did a good job on the video.

[@jonathonwhitington402]

The Defiant doesn't get enough love and attention. It's my favorite as well, Adam.

[@brentsvideojournal6161]

Great video. Answered all my questions

[@sherman128]

The pemise of the Danube with stuff stuck to it is really good actually. They're entering a war and they're outgunned. They don't have the time or resources to build a completely new fleet of advanced warships capable of competing with the Dominion so adding tech to existing ships totally makes sense and adds to that sense that Starfleet was scrambling for an effective response to the Dominion threat. I'd have liked to have seen a lot more of this design philosophy tbh. Seeing stuff like an Intrepid class with cannons attached or a Galaxy with extra armour bolted on would be really cool. You could even still introduce the Defiant. As the one ship Starfleet decided to use its limited time and resources on developing you could frame it as much more powerful and advanced than current ships. Would make it an even bigger deal and you'd still have all these interesting variants of existing ships retrofitted for war.

[@COMMANDERHAWK22]

have you guys done the sov, scemitar or oddy yet ?

[@simonfox1391]

Anti-Borg ship that gets almost annihilated the first time it actually faces the Borg. Good job Starfleet!

[@DavidKnowles0]

It apparently fought that borg ship for 8 hours, in multiple engagements.

[@simonfox1391]

@@DavidKnowles0 That's fair enough, but it's just the first time we see it actually fighting Borg on screen, and we come in when it's about to get destroyed. Was just a bit funny.

[@corm7538]

(2:27) Does anyone else think that the prototype drawing has a front half that looks like a Y-Wing fighter/bomber from Star Wars or am I the only one that sees that?

[@Thrawn215]

Thank you for saying that the Defiant is your favourite ship... That ship is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@alexxbaudwhyn7572]

Dagnabbit, you done gone spilled the beans, now those dastardly Romulans knows everything bout our favorite ship

[@brentgranger7856]

Well, USS Defiant was designed "... to fight and defeat the Borg," so it would've been a shame if it had never had the chance to fight the Federation's most feared enemy it was designed to fight. Also, the writers had to find a way to get Worf into a TNG film after his departure from the TNG crew.

[@wkwynn]

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the Defiant's nacelles would articulate for warp like Voyager's do, as some allusion to the way warp fields damage subspace and this being the solution. Also on the MSD you can see landing gear, shame we never saw her use it but at least they got to use the idea on Voyager

[@dds584]

You need to add that Defiant had a sister ship known as Reliant. It's a shout out to ST:Original Series.

[@L8ugh1ngm8n1]

The one destroyed by the over confident uber cadets?

[@genemitthun1725]

You mean Star Trek TWOK

[@genemitthun1725]

That was the Valiant I believe.

[@dds584]

You might be right. It's been a while since I've seen the episode. I just remember Jake and Nog being on the starship with the cadets. I think I'm remembering The Wrath of Kahn. Not afraid to say I made a mistake. Still it was a good character study episode. Tragic too.

[@davidbennettracing538]

I love you Cleary, miss you on WhatCulture..!

[@Tricky117]

Dude I love your videos lol, you crack me up. Love the 30% chat lol

[@robertadam1029]

I just wanna say that i love star trek

[@RyanSellman1]

Me too

[@billb0313]

Same here but DS9 is NOT Star Trek. It's "Canto Bight in Space." That's why the producers had to introduce the Defiant. Prior to this DS9 is nothing more than Scooby Doo episodes set in space (Quark is Scooby and Odo is Shaggy.) The rest of the crew are those "meddling kids." Sisko is Fred, Dax is Daphne, Kira is Velma. Don't believe me. Go back and watch the series before the Defiant. Add the Scooby Doo music and sound effects and whala...you have DS9.

[@cdarting91]

13:06 Docking hatches were actually on the side of the deflector array section.

[@douglasmellows8215]

I first read about the Defiant in the Shatnerverse book The Return! Always thought it was cool!

[@crazyracey]

Great video mate.. some good laughs to be had 👍

[@InfectedChris]

The Tholian Web is one of my absolute favorite episodes of allll time.

[@lynngreen7978]

Was the bridge set redressed for ENT?

[@ThermionicValve]

I got a portable CD player in a shape of the USS Defiant. It takes 4 AA batteries, 2 to power the CD and 2 to operate the sound effects and lights. The sound effects include phaser firing, going into warp, photon torpedo firing & beeps when I close the lid.

[@johnmcmanus9907]

The actual docking interface is on the two clamps you see holding the nose of the ship so the Defiants airlock is on the side of the forward section behind the deflector there are actually 3 airlocks on that type of docking interface on the station one on each clamp and one in the center. it's so it can accommodate ships with different airlock locations

[@shanners079]

Excellent, love your videos... love it!!!!

[@bostonrailfan2427]

The destruction makes sense now that Picard is out, it also gives Nog a proper reason for having a ship named after him in Discovery and his character not appearing on Picard due to his actor’s death

[@dmprdctns]

...and thanks so much for growing out the whiskers... So much better.

[@lookoutherecomestom1874]

I've always wondered about phaser arrays on the Defiant---not phaser cannons, you understand: beam emitters. It's got to get a few, right? I mean, it needs aft weapons, doesn't it?

[@stardude2006]

The USS Defiant was Star Trek’s version of the Millennium Falcon and both were kick ass ships ! 👽💚

[@nevinhernandez448]

What we left behind was great and bittersweet because Aaron Eisenberg passed away shortly before the release. But it would make sense for Nog to stay in Star fleet to become a captain to request command of the Defiant. If you have a chance watch the documentary its a great one for DS9 fans.

[@SEVENTHSIGHN]

The USS Defiant AKA Siskos Pimp Hand.

[@tanman99]

I’m glad you mentioned it being kind of funny they just docked through its deflector dish. That and the fact that the quantum torpedoes just shot out of nowhere out of its “shoulder pads” where the two things that I found odd about the defiant.

[@jenniferwilliams9612]

I cannot help but wonder, when Adam remembered the registry number of the TOS Defiant, was that a baseball swing, for “knocking it out of the park?” Or is that a reference to something else (like cricket, with which I am not familiar, because I live in the States, and cricket is not popular here)? Is Adam a baseball fan?

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

I agree, "Equinox" was a great Voyager double episode. S05E26 and S06E01 I would like to point out that some people have amazing sounding voices, perfect for the role of Audio Books.....The Captain of the Equinox has such a voice....I think if he did an Audio Book, it would sound fantastic.

[@trollinthedungeon89]

Mind doing Enterprise E or Sovereign class?

[@desmonddesjarlais2697]

Never saw much of DS9. Still... Kinda fun to learn about.

[@joermnyc]

#1 is like Clue/Cluedo, “It was Mr. Green in the... kitchen... with the photon torpedo.”

[@nerfherder4284]

In the opening credits the computer rendering for the Defiant was choppy compared to the original space station shot in the first couple seasons it showed up.

[@jasonjimerson7046]

I always assumed that there was an access port within the deflector array itself that would allow it to dock with DS9 or any other station. And why would it be there? The Defiant is a small ship... I would be difficult to spread out the various individual parts of the ship without compacting them of combining them together.

[@udfan07]

Speaking of ideas for future videos you should do a countdown of the best two part episodes of the Star Trek franchise

[@lynngreen7978]

That runabout design looks spot like a Y-wing. And the Peregrine/Condor used by the Maquis.

[@KaygeeAllah]

The Defiant is my absolute favorite ship across all sci-fi, not just Star Trek.