Defiant Class

• 40

• 5

• Impulse Drive
• Warp Drive

• Phasers
• Phaser Cannons
• Photon Torpedoes
• Quantum Torpedoes

• Ablative Armor
• Deflector Shields

• Warp 9.98

• Officially an escort vessel, conceived as Starfleet's first warship
• Intended to defend the United Federation of Planets against the Borg
• Put in storage due to design problems & decreased urgency of the Borg threat
• 2371: Prototype pulled out of storage when the Dominion threat emerged;
• Design issues were fixed by Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien

• Federation

• 24th - 25th Centuries

• Escort
• Warship

• USS Anaximander
• USS Defiant (NX-74205)
• USS Sao Paulo (NCC-75633)
• USS Valiant (NCC-74210)