USS Defiant (NCC-1764)

The USS Defiant (NCC-1764) was a Constitution class Federation starship in service in the 23rd century.The Defiant was pivotal in destroying an alien rebellion that the Terran Empire was fighting snice the 2150's.

History
Built as part of a fleet of Constitution class starships launched by the Federation in the 23rd Century, the Defiant was lost sometime in 2268 after it fell prey to a false-distress call transmitted from Tholian space. The Defiant was caught in an interphasic rift created by the Tholians, during which the crew went insane from "sensory distortions" and killed themselves. The USS Enterprise was sent three weeks later to rescue the Defiant, but it barely escaped with its own crew intact and the Defiant was declared "lost."

Mirror Universe
When the Defiant disappeared, it reappeared in the 22nd Century of the mirror universe. It was then captured by the Tholians who used slave-labor to strip the ship down and take what information they could in order to use it against the Terran Empire. Their plans were foiled when Jonathan Archer led the ISS Enterprise (NX-01) to Tholian space to take the Defiant as their own. Though the Tholians destroyed the ISS Enterprise (NX-01), they were destroyed by the Defiant, which was liberated by Archer and the survivors of Enterprise.

Some time later, the Defiant engaged the non-Terran rebels in battle, obliterating them in open combat. Later, it destroyed the ISS Avenger to eradicate the Empire of all traitorous thoughts. But Archer died of poisoning shortly thereafter, while the Defiant was en route to Earth. When it arrived, Hoshi Sato, communications officer of the ISS Enterprise (NX-01), declared herself empress and used the Defiant as leverage to finalize her claim.

Shortly thereafter, she led the Terran fleet to Romulus, where the Defiant obliterated the planet and most of its inhabitants who didn't kill themselves.

The whereabouts of the Defiant after that are unknown.


 * See "Defying the Emperor" for a full account on how the Defiant's whereabouts.

Recovery by Starfleet
In 2380, the Defiant came out of the mirror universe and out of interphase around the planet Bajor. After returning the Defiant to Starbase 306, Captain Typhuss James Kira finds logs from 22nd Century, Admiral Kathryn Janeway starts Project Defiant to find more logs in the starship's database. Captain Typhuss James Kira was assigned to extracting all the logs and deleting them afterwards. Since it hadn't been altered much by the Terran Empire, there was no need to refurbish it. Instead, Admiral Nechayev insisted that the ship be decommissioned and destroyed, being that it was a now obsolete design and, even if the Terrans were able to enter their universe, they would be no threat to them.