Star Trek: Defiant #2

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On April 10, 1995, this episode and "Fascination" were released on VHS in the United Kingdom. On August 3, 1999, this pair of episodes were released on LaserDisc in the United States. [6] Guest stars Shannon Cochran and Michael Canavan would later marry each other after meeting on set. [2] Naming the newly conceived vessel was one of the first tasks Ron Moore had to do, as he began work on the script for "The Search, Part I". " They'd graciously left [naming the craft] to me," he remarked. Moore originally wanted to call the Defiant the USS Valiant (based on either the SS Valiant or the USS Valiant from Star Trek: The Original Series). The producers didn't allow him to use that name for the new ship, as the USS Voyager's name also begins with a "V". It was Moore who instead selected the name Defiant (inspired by the USS Defiant from TOS: " The Tholian Web"). ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 158)) This was three years before Moore was able to name a ship Valiant; the USS Valiant appears in the sixth season episode " Valiant".

In the opening titles sequence for DS9 Seasons 4 to 7, the Defiant was depicted using CGI, which allowed the visual effects artists to concentrate on filming the model without having to worry about accidentally showing the model mount, as they would have to have done if they had been using a practical studio model for the sequence. " VisionArt did a wonderful job of matching the lighting where the ship comes out of the shadows behind one of the pylons," Dan Curry enthused. " And using CGI allowed me to do a couple of moves with the Defiant that we couldn't have done with a model." ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 335))The registry number NCC-1764 was originally conceived by Jein in his influential " The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article, published in the April 1973 issue 27 of the T-Negative fanzine. It was subsequently adopted by Bjo Trimble in her Star Trek Concordance, FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, and ultimately propagated by Michael Okuda's in his subsequent reference book writings, most notably his Star Trek encyclopedias ( Star Trek Encyclopedia (1st ed., p. 72), and beyond). Jein's until-then conjectural ship's registry was elevated to canon for the "In a Mirror, Darkly" episodes in 2005, reaffirmed one year later when the remastered version of the Original Series started its release and where Okuda, then visual effects producer for the project, made use of the opportunity to retcon the registry again onto the ship in the remastered version of "The Tholian Web", after its earlier retcon in "In a Mirror, Darkly" in concordance with the books previously written by Okuda.

The USS Defiant then rendezvoused with the remnants of a Terran assault fleet still engaged with rebel forces. Two Andorian battle cruisers, one Vulcan D'kyr-type cruiser, and one Tellarite cruiser disabled the Terran ship ISS Avenger NX-09. Boasting 23rd-century technology from its native universe that outclassed the 22nd-century capabilities of the opposing force, Defiant easily destroyed all the rebel ships except one Andorian cruiser, which Archer intentionally allowed to escape. bartender; break-i The moment when Sisko decloaks the Defiant spacecraft for the first time in "The Search" was rated by Geek.com in 2015 as one of the top 35 moments in Star Trek; they said it marked a "great start" to the third season of Deep Space Nine. [7] The addition of the 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. [8] Speaking from the perspective of Jadzia Dax, Terry Farrell once said, laughing, " I love the Defiant because I fly it." ( The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine issue 14, p. 10)When Gary Holland originally devised a story that eventually served as the basis for " Children of Time", he imagined the Defiant crash landing on a planet where the ship's crew met their ancestors. The story was rewritten, with the vessel referred to as having instead crash landed in the past, on a planet named Gaia. ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (p. 452)) Initial drawings described the class as the Valiant-class. Indeed, Drexler even constructed an initial dedication plaque for the Defiant that referred to it as the " Valiant-class," before a new plaque was recreated that simply stated, "the first ship of her class." The plaque was later given to Rob Bonchune. [7] Bruce Branit also once referred to the class as "the Valiant-class." ( Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 64) The Defiant eventually turned out to be the primary setting of " The Sound of Her Voice" too, that episode having originally been set (at least mainly) aboard Deep Space 9. ( Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 69)

It's not the mission you're thinking about, is it? Or even the colonists in the zone. This is about you, isn't it? You and that other Will Riker out there. The man with your face, your name, your career. You are looking for a way to set yourself apart. Some way to be different." In the Star Trek: SCE novellas Interphase, Book One and Interphase, Book Two, the crew of the USS da Vinci ( β) rescue the damaged starship Defiant from interphase and the Tholians in the year 2376; the novellas were written before "In A Mirror, Darkly" was produced.

You be careful – Quark's dabo wheel has been a little stingy lately, and one of his dabo girls is dating my son…" - Thomas Riker and Sisko Scenes 45-46 – These scenes feature rewritten dialogue of Sisko, Dukat, Tamal, and Riker as the script and episode versions differ.