USS Defiant is the name of several starships in the Star Trek media franchise, most notably a vessel featured in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .
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10 Facts About USS Defiant
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Additionally, the USS Defiant was intended to solve the problem of cramped runabout sets.
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USS Defiant was initially designed by art illustrator Jim Martin, with contributions from visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel and modelmaker Tony Meininger.
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An early screenplay for Star Trek: First Contact called for the USS Defiant to be destroyed, but Behr objected and the idea was dropped.
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Benjamin Sisko helped design the USS Defiant, which was conceived as a prototype vessel to counter the Borg.
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Unlike most Starfleet ships, the USS Defiant is built for combat rather than science and exploration.
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The USS Defiant remains attached to Deep Space Nine under Sisko's command for the remainder of the series, carrying the crew on missions beyond the space station.
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USS Defiant appears in numerous spin-off books, comics, and video games.
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USS Defiant is noted as a powerful spacecraft vessel of the Star Trek science fiction universe in the late 24th century.
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The addition of the USS Defiant helped the show dig deeper into stories set in the Gamma Quadrant, as well as the long war-saga arc of the show's later seasons.
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