The USS Defiant (NX-74205) was a prototype. Commander Benjamin Sisko pulled the anti-Borg project out of mothballs in order to show the Gamma Quadrant-based Dominion that Starfleet could tough. The Defiant was designed to be maneuverable and powerful. As a result, the Defiant did not have many of the amenities taken for granted on other Federation starships: no holodecks, no recreation areas, and a very tiny infirmary.

In this painting, the Defiant returns to the Alpha Quadrant–and to Deep Space Nine–through the Bajoran Wormhole. The Defiant was probably on a routine patrol. One of the things that I noticed when re-watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine recently was that there were still numerous exploration missions into the Gamma Quadrant even after the threat of the Dominion became known.

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