The type-18 shuttlepod was a type of Federation Starfleet warp-capable shuttlecrafts.
Service history
In 2371, when the prototype USS Defiant was sent into the Gamma Quadrant, she was equipped with at least one of these shuttlepods. Kira Nerys and Odo used the Shuttle 01 to escape a Jem'Hadar attack. Odo piloted the shuttle to the Founders' homeworld in the Omarion Nebula. In a simulation run by the Vorta, Sisko and Bashir believed they had escaped the battle in a similar craft. (DS9: "The Search, Part I", "The Search, Part II")
In the same year, The subspace field coils of the warp drive of Shuttle 01 were used to create a subspace bubble around the Sword of Stars comet fragments, as they passed through the Bajoran wormhole. (DS9: "Destiny")
List of Type-18 shuttles
- USS Defiant
- Shuttle 01
Appendices
Appearances
Background
Studio model of Shuttle 01
The designation "Type-18" was derived from both the Star Trek Encyclopedia and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual.
According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, (page 137) the Defiant carried four of these shuttlepods. In addition to the crew of 2 the shuttles could carry up to four passengers. They were armed with phaser weapons, and could be modified to carry other weapon systems. The pods were limited to impulse travel only, but could travel short distances at warp speeds when released from the mothership while it was at warp.
- This would contradict the fact that "Destiny" establishes these ships to have warp drive.
According to the Star Trek Fact Files, the warp nacelles were truncated on both sides of the ship, towards the rear of the cockpit. The shuttles were equipped with sensors and subspace communications arrays. There were only two shuttlepods on the Defiant, and only the Template:ShipClass vessels were equipped with this design of auxiliary craft.
The interior set of the shuttlepod was previously used in Star Trek: The Next Generation to portray the type-15 shuttlepod interior and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for the cockpit of the Federation attack fighters in "The Maquis, Part II".