Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

The backstory behind the Defiant is kinda funny if you think about it.

Way back around the "Battle" of Wolf 359, Commander Sisko helped design a starship specifically intended to fight the Borg. No holodeck or other luxuries, just a ton of weapons. Because the Borg threat decreased, the project lost relevance for a few years.

A few years later, while helping his son with his homework, Sisko first encountered agents from the Dominion, a threat that's just as if not, more deadly than the Borg. After the Dominion showed how dangerous they were by kamikazing a ship that's the same class as the Enterprise-D, the anti-Borg ship was dusted off.

Not only did Starfleet still try to pass this ship off as a simple escort vessel with a ton of guns and torpedo launchers, they managed to make a deal with the Romulans and get a cloaking device through a loophole in a peace treaty. How does Sisko introduce this groundbreaking ship to his crew? By sneaking up to Deep Space Nine while cloaked and scaring the shit out of everyone.

Eventually, total war breaks out between the Federation and Dominion, and rather than the shiny new Enterprise-E, the tiny "escort" ship is the vessel that sees the most action until it's destroyed by the Breen... and is replaced by a nearly identical ship also called the Defiant.
I love the Defiant so much that my non-greentext fanfiction stories are on a Defiant-class ship. It is the best ship in the franchise.
 
Putting a Romulan cloak on the Defiant is such a flex. Hey, we made an angry brick that can punch through Borg Cubes and now it's invisible.View attachment 7547844

It’s like when the Excalibur in Babylon 5 gets a Minbari cannon or when the sky pirates in Skies of Arcadia jack a next-gen doomsday ship with a Gigas weapon.
Or when the Tau'ri got plasma beam weapons from the Asgard to equip to their ships.
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That's what happens when you anger The Sisko.
First name, Don't Fuck With.
SFDebris used to roast Picard for crying into his pinot noir while Sisko was out here radicalizing himself into a Warhammer tech-priest on Mars.
I suppose there are worse things one could do while grieving. Imagine if Sisko chose to name the ship the Jennifer in honor of his late wife.

"Hey, Borg! Remember when you killed my wife? Don't worry if you forgot her name, because this Jennifer's gonna blow you all to kingdom come!"
 
"Hey, Borg! Remember when you killed my wife? Don't worry if you forgot her name, because this Jennifer's gonna blow you all to kingdom come!"
You know somewhere in France there's a smoldering pile of berets and baguettes, and Picard’s like, "Ah well... guess I’ll name the next flagship the U.S.S. My Bad for Forgetting Rene."

Why didn’t he name anything after them? No “Rene-class warbird,” no “Robert Phaser Cannon.” Nothing!

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You know somewhere in France there's a smoldering pile of berets and baguettes, and Picard’s like, "Ah well... guess I’ll name the next flagship the U.S.S. My Bad for Forgetting Rene."

Why didn’t he name anything after them? No “Rene-class warbird,” no “Robert Phaser Cannon.” Nothing!

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You just know if Jake had been killed during DS9 for whatever reason, The Sisko would dedicate the rest of his life to avenge his son. He'd probably build a death star or some other WMD to see it done.
 
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