War Without End!
In the last episode in Season Five 'Call to Arms'
we saw the Dominion attack an take the station. The loss of the station was
necessary for the Klingon/Federation alliance to mobile and take the war accross the
Cardassian shipyards. The final seen was off the Defiant and Mortog's Bird of
Prey join a huge armada heading towards the station.
Although offically
classified as an escort vessel, unofficially it is a warship "Nothing more
nothing less". It has no families, science labs or comforts of any type.It
was originally designed and built to defend against the Borg threat, but
was put into drydock after that threat subdued and became less urgent.