The first Defiant had a cloaking device from the Romulans because of the Dominion in the Delta Quadrant and later to use in the Alpha Quadrant as the Dominion threat grew. I think the Romulans chilled out a bit and were fine with the Defiant cloaking whenever so long as it was only the one ship with a cloak. The second Defiant came along just as the war ends. With the war over and the Dominion withdrawing, there's no real reason to install a cloak.
A bridge crew, one mission: fight the Borg. The Defiant-A or even Voyager with its Borg upgrades honestly makes more sense. Additionally, neither ship survived a crash landing like the Ent-D saucer. What would be an in-story justification to pick the Ent-D over Defiant-A or Voyager? Perhaps just more familiar with it?
It's whatever the script writer says. In Generations, the Ent-D saucer was not salvageable until PIC S3 said never mind, salvaged because the writers said so. With Voyager, the ship was only retired for PR reasons. The Defiant-A maybe have been retired for the same reason.
As stated in the show it was not on the network, so the Fleet would not see them coming, or be compromised by whatever the Changelings or Borg were doing.
Wouldn't that apply to all of the museum ships though? Why would they be networked?
Depending on what software is meant to to do newer ships may sync automatically.
It's sloppy dialogue. The Ent-D saucer went down in 2371, the Defiant was already finished and just tucked away, and Voyager was launched in 2371. They all share the same technology.
It's what's on screen. How much dialogue shall we dismiss?
I didn't say we should ignore it, I said it's sloppy. It's like how the Ent-E is 24, 26, or 29 decks depending on who you ask. The Defiant is 4 or 5 decks depending on who you ask too.
Only if drones beam aboard.
IIRC, the Enterprise E's CGI model was modified in Nemesis to include 29 decks, suggesting a refit since the days when it had 24 or 26. Granted, that doesn't explain how deck 29 at the very bottom of the ship can have a bottomless pit in it.
Thing is, the Enterprise D was also unarmed. Geordi said they had to wait until the drones were finished arming it before they could take off.
So kill that line? My point was, there were options to easily address a reasonable question.
No, it wasn't. That's just fanon. The model is the same as it was in First Contact and Insurrection. The only modifications to the Ent-E for Nemesis was added weapons and the warp nacelles were swept back a bit, I think, and that's it. If they added several decks, this would require a redesign of the engineering hull to accommodate, which cannot be seen on screen.
It reminds me a lot of Steven Moffat's work on Doctor Who in that regard. What little plot logic exists is there to propel the emotional moments, hopefully at such speed that the story will outrun its narrative lapses.
