Unlike the other Star Trek TV shows, it took place on a space station instead of a starship, so as not to have two series with starships at the same time ( the starship USS Defiant was introduced in season 3, but the station remained the primary setting for the show ).

In First Contact Worf is initially commanding USS Defiant before he is beamed aboard the Enterprise, while in Insurrection Picard jokes that Worf was late for his bridge shift due to being accustomed to life aboard Deep Space 9.

An early screenplay draft called for the Defiant to be destroyed, but Deep Space Nine executive producer Ira Steven Behr objected to the destruction of his show's ship and so the idea was dropped.

According to a computer bio screen, barely visible in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", and taken from the memory banks of the USS Defiant, Sato was born in Kyoto, Japan.

The USS Defiant, introduced in the third season of Deep Space Nine, was said to use ablative armor in addition to shields ; this technology also appeared in the alternate time line of the early 25th century shown in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale " Endgame ", where it withstood repeated assaults by Borg weaponry and tractor beams.

The following year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in another drama, The Defiant Ones ( 1958 ).

Archer led an away team to take control of the Defiant while the Enterprise was destroyed by the Tholians.

He and his team, plus survivors from the Enterprise, discovered the Defiant was not only from another dimension, but the future and that the alternate dimension never had a Terran Empire.

Afterward, Sisko took a position at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars, overseeing the development of new ships, including the USS Defiant, which was created specifically to contend with the Borg threat.

To continue the theme of paranoia about shapeshifters and the Dominion, " The Adversary " was instead scripted to set up a hunt for a Founder aboard the Defiant, incorporating some narrative elements at first intended to commence Season Four, while offering a more self-contained plot and using existing sets to reduce production costs.

The Defiant was put into service in 1939 with the intention to be used against bombers despite the bombers ' numerous gun positions.

The Boulton Paul Defiant " turret fighter " was originally conceived ( F. 11 / 37 and. F. 9 / 35 specifications for a " two-seat day and night fighter ... which gave birth to the Defiant ") to defend Great Britain against massed formations of unescorted enemy bombers.

With untenable losses in day operations, the Defiant was transferred to night fighting and there the type achieved some success.

The Defiant Mk II variant was fitted with the AI Mk IV airborne interception radar and a Merlin XX engine.

These were " The Fool Of The Year "/" The Poorest Boy In Town " ( Liberty 55448 ), which was released on April 13, 1962 and " Damn The Defiant "/" Lonesome Waters " ( Liberty 55489 ), which was released on July 30, 1962.

Neither of these singles was a hit, but " Damn The Defiant ", which was a Johnny Horton-style naval saga, was Johnny Burnette ’ s first self-penned A-side for Liberty as well as his last single for the label.

Kramer also notes that the film was the third part of a " trilogy of what have been called by some ' controversial pictures ,'" of which the first two were The Defiant Ones and On the Beach.

For a brief time it was considered to retain Valiant as the name of the class: but dialog in " The Search " and the ship's dedication plaque firmly establish the Defiant as the pathfinder.

Following the Borg invasion, the United Federation of Planets approved a project committed to enhancing Starfleet's offensive and defensive military capabilities ; the Defiant was the end result of that project.

According to his statement in the episode " Defiant ", Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) was in charge of the shipyard where the Defiant was built and helped design it during his assignment to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.

Supplied by the Romulan Star Empire, the cloak is initially operated by a Romulan officer serving aboard the Defiant.

The surviving crew, initially led by Archer and later " Empress " Hoshi Sato, subsequently took over the USS Defiant, a United Federation of Planets Starfleet vessel that was transported to the Mirror Universe in the Star Trek ( TOS ) episode " The Tholian Web ".

Although it was designed to be fast and highly maneuverable with powerful weaponry, the Defiant was ' overgunned and overpowered ' for a vessel of its size.

Inside, the Defiant is relatively spartan by Starfleet standards of the time: the ship is not designed to carry family members, has no science labs or holodecks, and has a limited infirmary.

* Rutan Defiant, an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan

An overpowered prototype originally designed to combat the Borg, the Defiant has been brought out of the warehouse and fitted with a Romulan cloaking device.

After Terran rebels take over Terek Nor, Worf tries to recapture the station but is defeated by the rebels who have a new ship based on the design of the Defiant.

The Enterprise arrives in time to save the crew of the USS Defiant which is being commanded by Lieutenant Commander Worf.

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After hours of bloody fighting, Dominion ships were outflanked by the arrival of a large Klingon fleet, which won the running battle and allowed the Defiant to break through to Deep Space Nine.

The Orb of Time has an effect on physical matter, as shown by its interactions with the Starship Defiant in the episode " Trials and Tribble-ations "( DS9 ).

In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Starship Down ", the USS Defiant enters the atmosphere of a Class J gas giant to rescue the crew of a Karemman ship attacked by the Jem ' Hadar.

Yedrin Dax, portrayed by Gary Frank, is a host of the Dax symbiont in an alternate timeline that is created when the USS Defiant travels two hundred years back in time in the Children of Time DS9 season 5 episode.

The Defiant returns to the station, only to find it surrounded by a fleet of Klingon battleships, led by both General Martok and Gowron himself.

The following year, Kramer directed The Defiant Ones ( 1958 ), the story of two escaped convicts in the Deep South, one black, played by Sidney Poitier, and one white, Tony Curtis.

In the DS9 episode " Shattered Mirror ", a Mirror Universe version of the Defiant is seen, constructed by the Terran Rebellion.

Mirror-T ' Pol was inspired by reading the historical logs of our universe's Defiant, which revealed a universe where Humans, Vulcans, and other aliens lived as equals in a benevolent Federation.

The Tholians captured the Defiant and attempted to steal its technology before it was commandeered by agents of the Terran Empire.

In an alternate timeline (" The Visitor "), Benjamin Sisko is thrust into an odd sub-space dimension after being struck by an errant energy bolt in the USS Defiant engine room.

Tucker successfully foils a plot by the mirror Phlox to sabotage key systems aboard Defiant.