Overpowered and over gunned for a ship of its size, Defiant experienced serious problems with her structural integrity during warp flight and weapons operation. The Defiant continued to outfit in Spacedock for several months, but serious faults in the design surfaced. In the event the Borg vessel was destroyed in Earth orbit by the USS Enterprise-D shortly after the Defiant left Spacedock to face it. The Defiant was still not completed, but her crew nevertheless prepared to launch the ship in a desperate attempt to inflict some kind of damage on the attacking vessel. In mid 2367 a Borg attack was launched on the Federation. Aft of the nacelles is the aft torpedo tube, and the ships armament is completed by a turret type phaser array aft of the bridge. The nacelles supporting equipment are contained within a fifth deck which hangs below the normal four this deck is divided into three levels of crawl way spaces. Each nacelle housing includes four warp coils and two of the ships pulse phaser cannon. Aft of this the nacelles are fitted directly to the main hull, flanking the bridge. Flanking the deflector housing are a pair of torpedo tubes capable of firing both Quantum and photon torpedoes. The navigational deflector is located in a prominent housing on the ships bow, which also contains a probe launcher. The single computer core is split between decks two and three. Deck four houses the ships replication storage tanks and systems, the antimatter fuel pods and the small shuttle bay. The third deck includes the transporter room and ships storage and cargo bays and the deuterium fuel tanks. Deck two features main engineering, a simple medical bay, more crew quarters and the ships communal mess hall. The upper deck contains the bridge, engineering support spaces and some crew quarters. The central body is a three deck block with the a single deck bridge mounted on the top for four decks in all. In place of the usual graceful structures, Defiant was a compact, boxy, almost ugly design. The vessel which emerged from the design office was unlike anything ever contemplated by the Federation before. A secondary aim of the project was to develop new technologies for implementation in the Sovereign project and possibly into existing starship designs. The design and construction teams were briefed to produce a small, tough, simple to build vessel packing the maximum possible level of firepower. The design incorporated several new weapons concepts, including the Quantum torpedo and phaser pulse cannon. Notes The Defiant class was initiated in 2365 as a crash programme to develop a starship capable of fighting and defeating the Borg. Heavy Duranium / Tritanium Double hull plus 20 cm Ablative armour. 5 have been lost in all.Ĥ x Class I rapid fire phaser pulse cannon ġ x Type X phaser bank, total output 70,000 TeraWattsģ x Pulse fire quantum torpedo tube ġ x Probe/photon launcher equivalent to standard photon torpedo tube with 120 roundsĪuto modulated shield system, total capacity 2,376,000 TeraJoules
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