Star Trek: Inside the USS Defiant Deck 1-5

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    The Defiant is a prototype warship stationed at Deep Space 9 that was in part designed by Commander Benjamin Sisko himself. It's the first ship built by Starfleet specifically for war, in light of a devastating defeat by the Borg. The Defiant is equipped with a Romulan cloaking device and ablative armor that can rapidly dissipate impact from energy weapon fire. After many missions, the Defiant was destroyed in 2375 during the Second Battle of Chin’toka in the DS9 episode “The Changing Face of Evil.”
    Like all battleships, It had very few comforts and no provision for families, nor was it furnished for diplomatic missions.
    It was, as its designers intended, a heavily armored, stripped-down vessel created as a "first strike vehicle for deployment in war. #startrek
    Blueprint of the USS Defiant
    www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars...
    3D model and Textures by Alex Klemm
    www.alex3d.at/
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    0:00 Introduction
    1:06 Size Comparison
    1:37 Exterior
    5:40 Deck 1
    7:52 Deck 2
    10:19 Deck 3
    12:28 Deck 4
    13:36 Deck 5
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Komentáře • 931

  • @drumkommandr9779
    @drumkommandr9779 Před 2 lety +103

    You have just made most of the Space Engineers community happier than I can say.

    • @linz8291
      @linz8291 Před měsícem +1

      Wow...let's encouraging space engineers community to establish starfleets academy on the Venus, Mars, cloud cities, and motherships. Then when more people have choose to live in the space settlements, we have more space engineers community.

  • @martinjrgensen8234
    @martinjrgensen8234 Před 2 lety +51

    I love this ship. Love that when pushed to build a pure warship, starfleets engineers said “hold my beer” and built an absolute beast of a ship

    • @dmacbass
      @dmacbass Před 8 měsíci

      Probably the ultimate FAFO ship in the quadrant's history.

    • @Felamine
      @Felamine Před dnem

      I always felt as though the Federation borrowed from the Romulans with this design. A lot of it reminds me of the Romulan Bird of Prey from TOS.

  • @privatename5788
    @privatename5788 Před rokem +44

    I'm a big fan of the bedrooms inside the detachable warhead. Starfleet design at its finest.

    • @jonathanbair523
      @jonathanbair523 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Yes if I can't get a officer's room on deck one, I want a room there on deck 3 in the warhead... LOL

    • @Zucca101
      @Zucca101 Před 6 měsíci

      The brig, no doubt.
      Don't fuck up lieutenant, or your ass will be sleeping inside a bomb the size of a house.

    • @christhompson203
      @christhompson203 Před 2 měsíci

      What bedroom are you talking about??

    • @Kasrk1n
      @Kasrk1n Před 3 dny

      @@christhompson203 11:30

  • @RivellaLight
    @RivellaLight Před 2 lety +245

    Imho the detachable warhead is a design error on the showrunners part. It's never mentioned in-show and makes no sense at all since the ship would lose its main deflector (and as far as is known there is no secondary deflector). If it's meant as some last-ditch effort to cause massive damage, why not just warp the ship into an opponent? The crew would need to get off the ship regardless. It makes more sense that it's some interchangeable part of the ship to accommodate certain tactical mission profiles, like the mission-pod of a Nebula class.

    • @saltMagic
      @saltMagic Před 2 lety +19

      Yeah... they should have made it a jamming array or deep sensor array.... Although I understand why as It was designed to go against the borg and the last ditch attempt to save Humanity was a thing.

    • @ludbud57
      @ludbud57 Před 2 lety +17

      True, but I think vessels of this era would be able to go low warp speeds for a while without a deflector; relying on shields.

    • @kyle857
      @kyle857 Před 2 lety +4

      @@ludbud57 correct

    • @squall458reviews
      @squall458reviews Před 2 lety +32

      Warp the ship into an opponent? You must be from Star Wars :P

    • @Dies1r4e
      @Dies1r4e Před 2 lety +33

      there....there are -crew bunks- on the freaking "warhead" who gets THAT lucky room assignment!

  • @os-walker
    @os-walker Před rokem +13

    The Defiant shuttlecraft was named after Roger B. Chaffee, who lost his life in Apollo 1 accident.

  • @shawnstephenson9312
    @shawnstephenson9312 Před 2 lety +14

    Watching DS9 over agin (6x) so I loved this a lot. Thanks

  • @julius-stark
    @julius-stark Před 2 lety +68

    Love the Defiant, still my favorite Trek ship just because of how far above her weight she punches. Would love to see a breakdown for the Rocinante from The Expanse.

    • @mattrobson3603
      @mattrobson3603 Před 2 lety +10

      Really goes to show how technically advanced the Federation is compared to other powers in the Alpha quadrant. It's not like the Defiant punches above her weight - it's just that until now we've never seen a Starfleet vessel that was actually dedicated to punching. Compared to, say, a Klingon Bird of Prey (a small-midsized spartan warship from a so-called warrior race), the Defiant would absolutely rock the nuts of anything even close to its size.
      And I'm pretty sure that Spacedock has a similar breakdown of the Rocinante.

    • @logicplague2077
      @logicplague2077 Před 2 lety +4

      +1 for the Roci!

    • @perkygrubb
      @perkygrubb Před rokem +2

      +2 for the Roci

    • @thecanterburyjambon1368
      @thecanterburyjambon1368 Před rokem

      +3, especially from a guy that talks like he a Beltalowda.

    • @patriotsedge6730
      @patriotsedge6730 Před 11 měsíci

      +4 for the Roci! Post installment of rail guns of course. :)

  • @galactus414
    @galactus414 Před 2 lety +6

    The interior of the defiant has always interested me. one thing that wasn't really clear was where the path from the main vessel to the detachable warhead was. For boarding it and accessing the docking ports.

  • @danandtab7463
    @danandtab7463 Před 2 lety +23

    this is the video I didn't know I wanted. The Defiant was quite a curiosity back when the show aired. They depicted it was really, really small in both dialogue and depiction, such as the tiny crew quarters and hallways, and yet in the first episode Odo and Kira take off in a shuttle and I'm like, wait what? They have room for that? The comparison with the 1701 Enterprise sizewise is interesting. It seems to be just as big as her saucer section. Anyway great modeling as always!

    • @cmj0929
      @cmj0929 Před 2 lety +1

      To be fair that was a shuttlepod that kinda comes out of a dropbay so it’s not a full on shuttle

    • @randomlee4308
      @randomlee4308 Před 2 lety +1

      This ^^ I thought the Defiant was TINY! The size of a small house maybe. I had no idea it even had decks.

    • @danandtab7463
      @danandtab7463 Před 2 lety

      @@cmj0929 it's true, but in that first episode we're not shown the mechanics of how the shuttle works, so I was like "shuttle goes where?" lol

    • @KevinGerhart1701
      @KevinGerhart1701 Před 2 lety

      I thought the same thing back when DS9 first aired. We were not shown a visual on how the shuttle launched, so I was confused.

  • @eXcommunicate1979
    @eXcommunicate1979 Před 2 lety +4

    I'm glad you placed the impulse engines properly. Everyone else always follows the incorrect DS9 technical manual.

  • @billbaggins7355
    @billbaggins7355 Před 2 dny

    My absolute favorite ship of all time. Thanks for the video!

  • @KC_Smooth
    @KC_Smooth Před 2 lety +77

    Wow, I was surprised to see how large the Defiant actually is when next to the original Enterprise.

    • @martinjrgensen8234
      @martinjrgensen8234 Před 2 lety +5

      The original Enterprise is also tiny

    • @jamesmeppler6375
      @jamesmeppler6375 Před 2 lety +15

      This isn't to scale, it's one of those bad ones too, you guys never looked this up did you, this is called the great dumbing down.
      ...Enterprise D is over 2,103 ft long while the enterprise A is only 947, yet looks like it's more than half the size of the enterprise D in this image.
      Uss Defiant is only 560 feet and looks like it's 1/3 the length of the D. The defiant can only fit 150 people in extreme situations, it's made for 50. Yet the defiant looks like it's almost 2/3 size of the saucer section which can hold the whole Enterprise D crew of 1,000+
      That alone should tell you that it's not accurate size scale

    • @chrissonofpear1384
      @chrissonofpear1384 Před rokem +2

      @@jamesmeppler6375 In fact, the deck plans suggest the Defiant is only about 360 to 397 feet, in comparison.
      Along with the side cutaway.

    • @starkfels-diespielefestung2680
      @starkfels-diespielefestung2680 Před rokem +7

      @@jamesmeppler6375
      To be fair, there is no one definite size of the Defiant. Its size changes constantly in different shots.

    • @jamesmeppler6375
      @jamesmeppler6375 Před rokem

      @@starkfels-diespielefestung2680 you may be right visually but that's all about perspective. Like how the sun's 400x further away then the moon is, while being 400x larger so it appears to be the same size in the sky
      But this is one thing I love about star trek. Is all the fanboy books, they been making blueprints for almost every star trek ship.
      It also begs, NX defiant or the defiant A (uss sao Paulo)

  • @MikefromTexas1
    @MikefromTexas1 Před rokem +3

    Thank you!
    I watched like 8 vids talking about the Defiant, it's history, behind the scenes stuff, but this is the BEST and only vid that actually went deck-by-deck on what this ship was like!

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před rokem +1

      Glad it helped and thanks for watching!

    • @thomaswakefield6889
      @thomaswakefield6889 Před dnem

      yea and most of the information this person gave in this video is factually incorrect

  • @captainsinclair7954
    @captainsinclair7954 Před 2 lety +4

    Halfscreen: The detachable warhead includes a FORWARD TORPEDO LAUNCHER
    Me: “I have SEVERAL questions.”

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +1

      There are many questionable design on the USS Defiant.

    • @HolyMith
      @HolyMith Před 2 dny

      Star trek noob here, why is that weird?

  • @andrewcoulthard-clark
    @andrewcoulthard-clark Před 2 lety +23

    One of the deciding factors in the ships design was that Roddenberry insisting that the nacelles had to face each other and nothing could be between them. This was apparently a concept the producers hated, so when Gene passed we saw more designs like this.

    • @adamlytle2615
      @adamlytle2615 Před 2 lety +7

      But the funny thing about that as far as the Defiant goes, they do have a portion at the bottom of the ship where there is no hull between them. IMO that would have been a good place to put some glowing blue grills.

    • @stevenscott2136
      @stevenscott2136 Před 2 lety +3

      Clearly, they found a way around that technical limitation. Probably reversed the polarity on something. 😁

    • @pwnmeisterage
      @pwnmeisterage Před 2 lety +3

      Roddenberry evidently had no problem with the iconic Klingon Bird of Prey. Even though it has a pair of hunched warpdrive "shoulders" packed closely together. No unobstructed open space or line of sight between them, just a big chunk of solid hull.

    • @dennisdean7366
      @dennisdean7366 Před rokem +1

      Gene Roddenberry didn't make it an official standing design rule.

    • @Heckleburger
      @Heckleburger Před rokem +1

      In reality though based on the Defiant's intended purpose you'd want an armored nacelle. That is at least what I took from this. Like other starships which leave them out in the open and vulnerable the Defiant packs them close and covers the outside with armor.

  • @WhiteScarsEmo
    @WhiteScarsEmo Před 2 lety +7

    Beautiful. Just beautiful. You should be proud of your work, sir.
    I remember when DS9 was first coming out, there were a lot of magazine articles (Like from Starlog and Omni) that touched upon how it was “darker” and “morally-complex” compared to TNG. How everyone had shades to grey to it. From the design and origins of the DS9 station to the back-stories, like the Bajorians and The Occupation. The Defiant, to me, was just an extension to that.

  • @jtcowboy5518
    @jtcowboy5518 Před 2 lety +20

    I love what you've done with these detailed interiors of star ships! I've been fascinated with Star Wars and Star Trek ships and buildings and wonder how they are put together. I'd love to see one done for Bespin cloud city.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +4

      I think you are the first person who has mentioned the Bespin Cloud City.

    • @jtcowboy5518
      @jtcowboy5518 Před rokem +3

      @@Halfscreen That place is visually and conceptually very fascinating, but the pivotal point of the story took place there also.

  • @baystated
    @baystated Před 2 lety +42

    OHBOY! I've been waiting for this one! I was surprised by the compartments that got the inward-facing windows in the dorsal hull, deck 4 and 5. Water tanks with a view i guess. The notion of the forward section as a detachable warhead was always weird. I know it was on the official schematics but I don't remember it ever being in the plot. And how many times on the show they docked the ship at DS9 docking ports through it: extra weird. But I loved your model and breakdown. THANK YOU!

    • @JV-pu8kx
      @JV-pu8kx Před 2 lety +2

      The Captain's Yacht was on the plans, but we never see one in use until ST Insurection. We also never got to see how big a Galaxy class main shuttle bay is. As for docking and entering/exiting via the nose, there is a telescoping docking port. Some things are to be left up to the imagination!

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +12

      Thanks. I always thought the detachable warhead was a strange design, especially with the cockpit and crew quarters inside.

    • @WozWozEre
      @WozWozEre Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah those internal facing windows on the lower decks make no sense when combined with this internal configuration. That's a LOT of windows with literally no purpose.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +3

      @@WozWozEre This is probably based on the 3D model I downloaded.

    • @WozWozEre
      @WozWozEre Před 2 lety +2

      @@Halfscreen I see. Thanks for the awesome videos 👍

  • @ReaperX7
    @ReaperX7 Před 2 lety +6

    The Defiant was a real marvel. It's interesting that in many ways, the warhead was also like a mini-attack vessel all it's own as well, almost being multifunctional.

  • @mollofamerika
    @mollofamerika Před 2 lety +3

    One of the best ship breakdown vids I've ever seen! Your animation style really brings it to life - I've probably watched 10 Defiant analysis vids, and this was the first time I felt like I really understood the scale. Thanks for not just reading the same specs, but actually SHOWING them

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks! Having done architectural rending back in the day, I have a better understanding of scale though it's not 100% accurate.

  • @AaronSmith-kr5yf
    @AaronSmith-kr5yf Před 2 lety +20

    Awesome video. Always thought the inspiration for the Defiant interior was a submarine. Minimal room given to crew and comfort, most of the space was taken up by weapons, engines, and equipment.

    • @nutz7352
      @nutz7352 Před 5 měsíci

      They're all submarines.

  • @spacemanspiff3052
    @spacemanspiff3052 Před 2 lety +4

    Nice post! You unlocked the mystery of the USS Defiant’s layout. Thank you!!!

  • @rhysespeace
    @rhysespeace Před 8 měsíci +2

    Starfleet: We need an A-10
    Sisco: Hold my Raktajino

  • @niagarawarrior9623
    @niagarawarrior9623 Před 2 lety +31

    i just wanted to take a moment and thank you for taking the time to put this all together,
    i thoroughly enjoy your deck layout videos, and researched explanations.
    I also appreciate that you specifically pointed out the bow of the Defiant was a giant warhead.
    far too many videos about the Defiant say that's the bridge

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +3

      No problem. I learned a lot about the Defiant when I created the interior. I'm more than glad to share my knowledge with other.

    • @raymondammay
      @raymondammay Před 2 lety +1

      @@Halfscreen will you do any videos on Babylon 5 ships?

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +3

      @@raymondammay Not sure yet since I really don't know much about Babylon 5.

    • @raymondammay
      @raymondammay Před 2 lety +1

      @@Halfscreen Awesome videos though! Especially the one’s about the ship schematics.

    • @dailydiarynitalldark9395
      @dailydiarynitalldark9395 Před rokem

      Pm my

  • @ronin7997
    @ronin7997 Před 2 lety +3

    Fantastic walkthrough of my favorite Star Trek vessel. I always wondered about the facilities of Decks 4 and 5, as they were rarely referenced on DS9. Thanks for the amazing schematics and ship breakdown.

  • @television2343
    @television2343 Před 2 lety +7

    Nice layout, nice execution, and all around a comfortable viewing experience. You are doing great, man

  • @emanny1986
    @emanny1986 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Imagine how much detail Ol' Trek put into things we as the audience never even got to see, it is just outstanding. Reminds me of one of Steve Job's principles I read about in his bio: he would get into arguments with his engineers over the amount of attention to quality applied to even the screws in the motherboard of his computers, and they would say to him, "Steve, no one is even going to be able to open up this laptop to see that!"

  • @danielnelson85
    @danielnelson85 Před 2 lety +3

    Terrific work on this. The Defiant was a study in understatement and practicality, truly a first for Starfleet!

  • @emkkahn
    @emkkahn Před 2 lety +4

    Wow. The Defiant is way larger than I always thought it was...
    Great video!

    • @leagreenall5972
      @leagreenall5972 Před 2 lety +1

      His figures are wrong. The Defiant is actually 68.5m long according to the 'Official Star Trek Fact Files' and is plainly seen as 1/10 the size of the USS Enterprise-E's 685m length in Star Trek: First Contact.

    • @adamlytle2615
      @adamlytle2615 Před 2 lety +2

      @@leagreenall5972 @emkkahn The size as shown on screen was always inconsistent, but very rarely was it ever shown to be anything like 68 meters, and at that size, none of the MSDs shown would make any sense. One reasonable extrapolation based on number of decks (by all accounts 4, not the 5 shown here) it is probably somewhere between 110 and 122 meters long.

    • @leagreenall5972
      @leagreenall5972 Před 2 lety

      @@adamlytle2615 And yet the Official Star Trek fact files show the defiant to be 68.5m, which is in complete keeping with what we see in Star Trek First Contact where the defiant is not even close to being 1/4 of the length of the E, but 1/10th... obvious from 2:50-254
      czcams.com/video/D7KCb-O20Fg/video.html

  • @TrentonBennett
    @TrentonBennett Před 2 lety +26

    Great job on this. I really wish we had been shown the Defiant landing on a planet. I guess they didn't want to take that show case away from Voyager.
    I know that front piece of the Defiant was supposed to be a detachable last ditch warhead but one thing that annoyed me is when it docked at the station the warhead part some how acted for the docking port too. Even though where the docking port would have been we saw a phaser beam come out of it in the episode "Starship Down".
    My heart sunk when you showed clips from "The Changing Face Of Evil" and the destruction of the Defiant. My heart sunk back then too when it first aired back then. The music though is awesome.

    • @ihl8608
      @ihl8608 Před 2 lety

      Yes just like Voyager

    • @rccraig7580
      @rccraig7580 Před rokem +1

      Yeah I was going to mention that whole detachable warhead / navigational deflector /docking port all in one design feature. Given the Defiant's configuration not having a secondary hull like other ships is that why they placed it there in the front? because anywhere else on the ship would probably result in an awkward docking position. IDK

  • @elblanco5
    @elblanco5 Před 7 měsíci +1

    The number of questions you just answered here is...a lot. Great video as usual!

  • @tokencon
    @tokencon Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent and detailed illustration of the defiant!

  • @DouglasEdward84
    @DouglasEdward84 Před 2 lety +4

    Another delightful video, cheers Halfscreen.

  • @charlessisnett9968
    @charlessisnett9968 Před 2 lety +6

    that was awesome, thanks for creating this. I did not know about the detachable warhead or the landing struts

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety

      Glad it was helpful!

    • @fbi805
      @fbi805 Před 2 lety +1

      the defiant does not have a detachable warhead in the front. the nose of the defiant carries the deflector systems. no star trek cannon information on the Defiant Escort class cruiser claims to have a detachable warhead and this was verified by the original designer of the final version of the show version of the Defiant

    • @fbi805
      @fbi805 Před 2 lety +3

      also if you actually watched the show the supposedly detachable warhead was used to dock the Defiant to the Deep Space 9 station, which means the crew boarded the Defiant from the nose section of the ship.

    • @talyn3932
      @talyn3932 Před 2 lety +1

      @@fbi805 Yeah, this is a very recent idea I've only seen from CZcams. I think it was probably based off a technical manual or something, but it's a very dumb idea. A commenter a few comments up suggested a mission specific pod, and honestly, that makes so much more sense. Detaching your deflector along with a third of your crew quarters and a main launcher is just an all around bad idea.

  • @cocoloco1215
    @cocoloco1215 Před rokem +1

    Great video didn't know about the 2 small shuttle bays on deck 4 that makes this ship even better

  • @simonbeech6073
    @simonbeech6073 Před 2 lety

    Best one yet. I like the scale you used and the rational of the shuttle bays especially.

  • @MatthewCaunsfield
    @MatthewCaunsfield Před 2 lety +16

    Your CGI seems to improve with every vid and you've really done justice to this "tough little ship", it looks gorgeous! 👍

  • @tbrosz
    @tbrosz Před rokem +5

    Some very nice work! I do wonder about all those windows on the lower decks that seem to open out from machinery rooms.

  • @artbrutgamesmith6176
    @artbrutgamesmith6176 Před rokem +2

    I watch this every time CZcams suggests it 😂 love it.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před rokem +1

      Oddly enough, i think i found a second schematics the other day, which maybe more correct than this one.

  • @BrandonTahedl
    @BrandonTahedl Před 2 lety +1

    Great job! Loved the information and detailed analysis.

  • @colinewen8536
    @colinewen8536 Před rokem +3

    The Defiant was a very heavily armoured, highly manoeuvrable weapons system. She was built to fight and win, be it close up & personal or from far away. She could easily take down a capital ship without breaking too much of a sweat.

  • @dondvj22
    @dondvj22 Před 2 lety +3

    Great video, I've seen these plans before and it was great to see them in 3d. The only thing I would correct is while many tech manuals place Defiant at ~171 meters, her scale with these plans puts her closer to ~125 meters. And the LCARS that appears in the show designed by Doug Drexler considered the ship to be ~ 125 meters.

  • @JaredJanhsen
    @JaredJanhsen Před 2 lety +2

    DS9 is my favorite Trek, and I love the 3D Model and your guided tour. Great work.

  • @lord_haven1114
    @lord_haven1114 Před 5 měsíci +1

    “Sir I suggest we use the last resort warhead on the cube!”
    Word: “ramming speed!”

  • @Blackrook32
    @Blackrook32 Před 2 lety +3

    Excellent work! I know some fans say the Defiant Class was not capable of landing planetside. I for one always thought she could. Also, thanks for the details tour of the Defiant. Decks 4 and 5 were always a mystery to me. Along with the shuttlebay; Now, that has been clear up.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +1

      Glad you enjoyed it. The DS 9 technical manual mentioned it can land

  • @Peaceforall20111
    @Peaceforall20111 Před rokem +2

    I never knew the top of engineering is in same deck as the. Bridge. This really helps give me a good visual of the relationship of the rooms to each other more than I have ever.
    Thank you

  • @rtd4451
    @rtd4451 Před rokem +1

    Great Intro of Uss Defiant. Have a great evening

  • @leonardmccoy9178
    @leonardmccoy9178 Před 2 lety +3

    Once again I'd like to thank Christopher walken for another great video

  • @SUPAK979
    @SUPAK979 Před 2 lety +7

    You sir are a gentleman and a scholar for this...excellent vid the detail, wow, never saw the Defiant class broke down like this...THANKS...ps never knew she could land lol

  • @coreyrmackenzie
    @coreyrmackenzie Před 10 měsíci +2

    such detail. thank you for sharing. so exciting to watch.

  • @AdmiralJamesTKirk
    @AdmiralJamesTKirk Před 2 lety

    Please keep these coming!

  • @Seanathan26
    @Seanathan26 Před rokem +3

    Great job man! Love your videos! Only feedback I have is I think *some* of the crew quarters were near the interior windows while the others were where you had them (no windows). Also, There has been some back and forth about the front being detachable, but regardless of that, the front was where they docked to DS9. So there had to be a direct port to get out of the front of the ship onto DS9.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před rokem

      Thanks for watching. I basically follow the schematic, so some of the 3D model doesn't exactly line up wit the series, especially with the docking port, which wasn't on the schematic.

  • @MrSheckstr
    @MrSheckstr Před 2 lety +3

    So the “detachable warhead”:
    In my theory the defiant class was designed to be a single mission type vessel , with a mission specific module being installed into the the nose of the vessel , but because the defiants were rushed into production as tactical vessels that forward section was early on universally used to expand the ships tactical ability. A scout version of this vessel packed that nose with sensors, a engineering vessel saw it armed with a tractor beam , a hospital ship saw it as a detachable ambulance ship, etc etc etc and that is why it has a cockpit and cabins. It’s was originally designed as an auxiliary craft but was redesigned the way it was, but with some systems still there for its original intent never having been removed

    • @DrOneOneOne
      @DrOneOneOne Před 2 lety +1

      The Defiant was originally designed to combat the Borg Collective (the design team's motto was "Assimilate This !"), with the warhead being designed as a single one-shot, massively powerful, last-ditch-attempt weapon, since using it would also destroy the main deflector dish and effectively strand the ship in interstellar space. With the waning of the Borg threat, the warhead was never mentioned in the series, ever, and presumably it was repurposed into something else on the ship.

    • @NextToToddliness
      @NextToToddliness Před 2 lety +2

      Actually, it was designed that way because the production reused a shuttle craft concept and scaled it up to a small vessel. The "detachable warhead" was the cockpit.

    • @MrSheckstr
      @MrSheckstr Před 2 lety

      Well all I can say is anything that “wastes space” by putting bunk beds in it, has to serve a purpose greater than just being a “detachable warhead”

  • @toon_cosplay_guy7930
    @toon_cosplay_guy7930 Před rokem +1

    wow such a great deep dive

  • @DouglasJohnson.
    @DouglasJohnson. Před 2 lety +2

    These are so great. Really appreciate all the work you put into these.

  • @kenshindoman9757
    @kenshindoman9757 Před 2 lety +6

    Always loved the Defiant. Would REALLY love the Defiant to be equipped with borg armour like Voyager was, and the phased cloak like the Pegasus.

    • @briananthony4044
      @briananthony4044 Před 2 lety

      An Iso Kinetic cannon wouldn't go amiss either.

    • @martinrowley6901
      @martinrowley6901 Před 2 lety +1

      And spore drive :)

    • @sharpe227
      @sharpe227 Před 8 měsíci

      @@martinrowley6901 might as well ass a chameleon circuit and turbo lasers

  • @todds9746
    @todds9746 Před 2 lety +42

    Just curious if you plan on creating people that are in Starfleet uniforms when showing inside the ship? I see right now you use just 20th century dressed people. Your videos are great and thanks!!!

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +14

      For some reason, I having tough time find 3D model of people with Starfleet uniforms.

    • @johnharrison6745
      @johnharrison6745 Před 2 lety +2

      I was hoping for NU|)ES. 😉😁

    • @gabelogan5877
      @gabelogan5877 Před 2 lety

      Actually That's just Starfleet officers wearing their civilian clothing.

    • @stevenscott2136
      @stevenscott2136 Před 2 lety +1

      @@gabelogan5877 Fleet people do seem oddly obsessed with old Earth culture (Shakespeare, Westerns, hard-boiled detectives, etc), so a 20th-century fashion revival is quite plausible.

  • @longWriter
    @longWriter Před 2 lety +2

    LOVED this; thanks for putting it together!
    For some reason, I'm obsessed with the conventional phaser strips that the Defiant must've had. I mean, we've seen it fire phasers from somewhere behind the bridge... Most schematics I can find online make no mention of conventional phasers strips, though one said that the darker strip that ran along the spine of the ship behind the bridge was a phaser strip, and it also said that a darker strip along the dorsal side of the forward warhead was also a phaser strip---and there were phaser strips running across the ventral of the warp nacelles, as well.
    The way this video goes, it kind of looks like the Defiant's only aft weapon emplacements were its aft torpedo launchers.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +1

      No problem.

    • @chrissonofpear1384
      @chrissonofpear1384 Před rokem +1

      I'd guess that was an old style 'phaser turret' just atop the bridge, myself, @longWriter . Whilst the main quantum torpedo tubes are actually in the triangular cutouts called 'phaser bays' or 'targeting sensors' elsewhere.

  • @PHDiaz-vv7yo
    @PHDiaz-vv7yo Před 2 lety

    Tough Little Ship
    Awesome stuff.
    Already commented previously on my wish list in other vids

  • @user-wc6ls8yk7f
    @user-wc6ls8yk7f Před 2 lety +3

    Hope on your next revise Defiant you’ll include the ship entry on the navigational deflector where the crew access from DS9. I often wonder how they enter the ship through there.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety

      It wasn't on the schematic for some reason.

    • @user-wc6ls8yk7f
      @user-wc6ls8yk7f Před 2 lety

      @@Halfscreen true enough. Its really a head scratcher though

  • @DeltaEcho303
    @DeltaEcho303 Před 2 lety +4

    Imagine having one of the berths on the forward warhead. Would be similar to crew sleeping in between the ICBMs on an Ohio-class sub.

  • @steveraceuk
    @steveraceuk Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for doing this. Love the Defiant.

  • @LightOfReason7
    @LightOfReason7 Před rokem +1

    I had no idea it was this big, thank you for making this video

  • @elrondmcbong467
    @elrondmcbong467 Před 2 lety +11

    I can't get rid of the feeling, that the detachable warhead is more intended as a auxiliary craft like a captains yacht or so, maybe a scout vessel or a resuply vessel. I find it strange, that a warhead has crew quarters, a cockpit and a torpedo launcher, especially for a federation vessel.

    • @Allegheny500
      @Allegheny500 Před 2 lety +2

      I had the same feeling but It seems to be duel purpose, used as either a lifeboat or shuttle or as a remote controlled missile of last resort. Strange though that its sister ships did not make use of this feature before the crews abandoned ship in battle.

    • @mikecranapple8878
      @mikecranapple8878 Před 2 lety +3

      I seriously doubt the author knows the definition of "warhead."

    • @wepntech
      @wepntech Před 2 lety +1

      Mike Cranapple maybe... it's believable.

  • @carlingas666
    @carlingas666 Před 2 lety +8

    Question: the defiant when docked to ds9, its clamped to the station from the nose/ detachable warhead. If it’s attached from the war head, I didn’t see a walk way that leads to an airlock that the crew would either exit to the station or enter the defiant. I always assumed there was an air lock located on the top part of the nose of the defiant. It wasn’t shown to confirm my theory.

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +2

      Sometimes, the schematic and shows don't always line up. This has happened on many occasions.

    • @tomaskops7119
      @tomaskops7119 Před 2 lety

      ONe another airlock ( and docking ramp in case of planetary landing) is on bottom, so without "nose" it can dock on one of pylons and use this

    • @chrissonofpear1384
      @chrissonofpear1384 Před rokem +3

      @@tomaskops7119 The Ds9 Tech Manual does have deckplans for the Defiant, meanwhile, and they do show two docking tunnels, on I believe deck 3.

  • @phukhue289
    @phukhue289 Před 2 lety +1

    As always, amazing work!

  • @jonathanraven5939
    @jonathanraven5939 Před rokem +1

    Absolutely fascinating

  • @NextToToddliness
    @NextToToddliness Před 2 lety +3

    I never really liked the Defiant, despite everyone loving it, because it looked like a scaled up shuttle craft. Then come a few years later, and I found out they just reused a concept for a shuttle craft and scaled it up. It still feels like Trek, so I can't 100% fault it for that.
    Despite my feelings on the vessel, this was a great, in-depth video!

  • @dk6419
    @dk6419 Před 2 lety +6

    Excellent video on one of my all time favorite ships. But the defiant was not a battleship it has always been described as a destroyer or escort. It is the first federation pure built warship.

    • @Cerus98
      @Cerus98 Před 2 lety

      It’s a battleship not a destroyer. Battleships are heavily armed and designed to take a beating. Destroyers protect the battleships.

    • @dk6419
      @dk6419 Před 2 lety

      @@Cerus98 wrong if you've read information and seen any episodes of ds9 it's designated as a destroyer or escort not a battleship. The closest ship in that time of a the feder a ton that would be considered a battleship or ship of the line would be the sovereign class.

    • @Cerus98
      @Cerus98 Před 2 lety

      @@dk6419 - At no time was it ever called any such thing.
      Sisko said it was “officially” an escort but unofficially it is a warship designed to fight and defeat the borg. This is because the federation didn’t like warships and didn’t want to be thought less of.
      He went on to say that it was the first of a new class of ship for their new battle fleet. But plans were scrapped when the borg threat became less urgent.
      Starfleet and their ships are an advancement of the navy but in space. Destroyers don’t go around taking on powerful threats and they’re not designed to take a beating. The Defiant was designed to do both.

    • @dk6419
      @dk6419 Před 2 lety

      @@Cerus98 warship doesn't equate battleship there are destroyers, cruisers, heavy cruisers, escorts, frigates.
      And destroyers not taking on battleships and heavy cruisers ever hear of the Samuel b Roberts or the Johnson. Look them up two "tin can" destroyers going up against battleships and heavy cruisers of the Japanese navy.

    • @Cerus98
      @Cerus98 Před 2 lety

      @@dk6419 - What does equate battleship is their function and design. Battleships are heavily armed and armored. They’re designed to take a beating and dish it out against powerful opponents. They’re the front man in a fight.
      Is that not what the Defiant is seen doing on screen repeatedly?
      A destroyer protects the battleships by taking on the smaller targets and threats the battleship cannot defend against. That is not what the defiant was seen doing.
      It really doesn’t matter what some manual or novel says. All that matters is what the ship is capable of and what it was used for.
      Do you recall early on that the Dominions weapons went right through the Defiants shields? It wasn’t destroyed because in addition to is shields, it is heavily armored. It took many a beating and had some of the most powerful weapons in the fleet. By its very nature it’s a battleship.
      I believe you’re letting it’s size dictate your belief in this discussion. It’s only smaller because it doesn’t carry families and it’s not designed for comfort and exploration. And it’s not that much smaller than the Enterprise D even with the difference in mission design.

  • @starsiegeplayer
    @starsiegeplayer Před 2 lety +1

    Another fantastic video, Halfscreen.

  • @tfcabral
    @tfcabral Před 2 lety +2

    Superb vid, as usual. Thanks for what you do!

  • @DarinRWagner
    @DarinRWagner Před 2 lety +3

    As usual, there's an awful lot of conjecture in these deck plans. But well done!

  • @eddieblanco230
    @eddieblanco230 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video. The most detailed information about this ship found anywhere. Thanks

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety +1

      My pleasure and thanks for watching Eddie!

    • @eddieblanco230
      @eddieblanco230 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Halfscreen thank you for the good work on all your videos they are full of information and interesting to watch.

  • @gallifreyarchives4434
    @gallifreyarchives4434 Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks so much for making these. My friends and I use these videos to build our Minecraft recreations of Star Trek ships

    • @Halfscreen
      @Halfscreen  Před 2 lety

      That's awesome! I guess one creation spawn another!

  • @rdotkey
    @rdotkey Před 2 lety +1

    Nice job given the material you had to work with. Appreciation. I am now a subscriber!

  • @tardiscommand1812
    @tardiscommand1812 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Amazing work

  • @billtalbert6165
    @billtalbert6165 Před 2 lety +1

    Great job absolutely love this.

  • @matthewsmoot1981
    @matthewsmoot1981 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the great video!

  • @ginsugray5469
    @ginsugray5469 Před měsícem +1

    I think you forgot the docking tube in the front nose-cone. At the bottom of the inverted triangle on the deflector plate. It's how staff and crew entered when docked at DS9.

  • @maggieo
    @maggieo Před 2 lety

    Finally! The Defiant makes sense!!! Tough little ship!

  • @eliteweather6646
    @eliteweather6646 Před rokem +1

    This is an awesome video The defiant was a tough little ship

  • @marc0523
    @marc0523 Před rokem

    The space in the 3D model was so much greater than the drawings.
    I get the impression this is one of the ships which changed size often during the show.

    • @cptsteele91
      @cptsteele91 Před 11 měsíci

      Yeah I'm pretty sure quite a few people who worked on the show said the scale of the defiant tended to primarily depend on the context of the scene it was being featured in at that time

  • @williamcostantini7227
    @williamcostantini7227 Před 2 lety +1

    Well done!!! Loved it!

  • @Driver0378
    @Driver0378 Před 2 lety +1

    One of the coolest and most badass ships. I even enjoy exploring this one on minetrek. Great videos! Keep it up! 😊

  • @MackerelCat
    @MackerelCat Před rokem +1

    Nice video thanks!

  • @ricksadler797
    @ricksadler797 Před rokem +1

    Awesome video thank you 😊

  • @sraan3x
    @sraan3x Před 2 lety +1

    This my favorite ship, thanks for doing this video, it was great.

  • @jasonalpha
    @jasonalpha Před 2 lety +1

    Great video. Thanks

  • @tratzum
    @tratzum Před 2 lety +1

    Very cool. Very briefly I considered using this video to create the defiant in Space Engineers.

  • @KryptonianChaos1
    @KryptonianChaos1 Před 2 lety +1

    Dude, I love this channel so much

  • @TheG21145
    @TheG21145 Před 2 lety

    This is AMAZING !!

  • @stryker214
    @stryker214 Před 2 lety

    The 3rd deck diagram with some crew quarters in the warhead section made me think of WWII submarines, where some of the racks and/or hammocks were in the torpedo rooms

  • @dmacbass
    @dmacbass Před 8 měsíci +4

    I absolutely love this ship. ❤

  • @tomarnold7284
    @tomarnold7284 Před 2 lety +1

    I had no idea the Defiant was so big. It felt like a bigger shuttle on TV because the space looked so jammed up, and they rarely show people doing anything else in the ship except on mission. You see people living in other starships that gives you a sense there are more sections we never get to see, they didn't do that on the Defiant, or at least I ever seen it.

  • @ReneRA-cs5ic
    @ReneRA-cs5ic Před 2 lety

    masterpiece.thanks

  • @michaelaldredge-greenwell1692

    Thank you so much for bringing us this amazing video of such an awesome, beautiful, & powerful ship! Plus, She’s kind of cute & adorable

  • @markmicco1005
    @markmicco1005 Před rokem +1

    Great Video!!!

  • @nidgesolly17
    @nidgesolly17 Před 2 lety +1

    Great stuff as usual x

  • @jonathanevans3500
    @jonathanevans3500 Před rokem +1

    this is amazing

  • @eikmaster8947
    @eikmaster8947 Před rokem

    Thanks man, would love to see the Akira Class as well with all their Fighter Bays :)