Maquis raider

Maquis raider

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The Maquis raider was a type of small and maneuverable starship commonly utilized by the Maquis as a raider craft in their fight against the Cardassians.

These ships had a runabout-size bridge which held four stations, with larger crew facilities in the aft sections. Some of these ships operated with impulse engines originally built around 2332. (VOY: "Caretaker")

In 2371, Chakotay's Maquis cell fled Gul Evek's ship in a similar raider, the Val Jean. The raider was an old craft, still using its 39 year-old rebuilt engine, it was no match for the Template:ShipClass vessel and took refuge in the Badlands. While there, it was scanned by a tetryon beam and catapulted to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker entity. The ship was later destroyed after it rammed and destroyed a Kazon-Ogla vessel in order to protect the USS Voyager. The Maquis were transported aboard Voyager and forced to join the Starfleet crew for the trip home. (VOY: "Caretaker")

In 2372, Kasidy Yates's freighter, the Xhosa, rendezvoused with a Maquis raider inside the Badlands. And in 2373, several ships of this type participated in the Maquis offensives against the USS Malinche, the USS Defiant, and Quatal Prime. (DS9: "For the Cause", "For the Uniform")

Ships of the class

A graphic of the raider

• Val Jean

Appendices

Appearances

• VOY:
  • "Caretaker"
  • "Repression" (model)
• DS9:
  • "For the Cause"
  • "For the Uniform"

Background information

File:Val jean.jpg

Teero's computer display with the vessel type

• Judging by the computer displays on Chakotay's raider, the raiders were originally Federation ships from the early 24th century.
• The name for this ship type comes from a computer graphic Teero Anaydis was looking at in "Repression". According to Star Trek: The Magazine (Volume 2, Issue 4, p. 112) a poster created for the set in "Repression" used the name Ju'day-class, for Star Trek archivist Penny Juday, while the apocryphal Star Trek Customizable Card Game names this ship type as the Condor-class.
• For information on the studio model, please see here.
• Although they shared the same basic design, the raider is somewhat larger than the Maquis fighter, with an altered cockpit and different detailing, since the interior set was represented by a redress of Template:ShipClass runabout cockpit rather than a redress of the Nenebek shuttle interior.

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