Delta Flyer
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In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Delta Flyer is a shuttle-class spaceship attached to USS Voyager.
The Delta Flyer was originally the brainchild of Lieutenant Tom Paris in the episode "Extreme Risk" (though in the previous episode, "Drone", Seven of Nine suggested to Tom that he should build a new shuttlecraft after hearing him complain about the deficiencies of Class 2 shuttles). Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres contributed her engineering skills and Seven of Nine her expertise in Borg weaponry to the ship's design. Finding Voyager's complement of shuttles inadequate for the retrieval of a multispatial probe from the dangerous atmosphere of a gas giant, Paris convinced Captain Kathryn Janeway to build the Flyer.
The Delta Flyer features an ultra-aerodynamic tetraburnium alloy hull, retractable warp nacelles, parametallic hull plating, unimatrix shielding, and a Borg-inspired weapon system. At Paris' insistence, the pilot's station features (fully functional) buttons, levers, gauges and other anachronistic elements instead of the standard Starfleet touchscreen.
In 2376, the Delta Flyer was outfitted with a Borg transwarp coil in order to travel to Unimatrix 1 to free Captain Janeway, Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, and Lieutenant Torres from the Borg. The Delta Flyer was destroyed in the encounter, but was rebuilt in 2377.
External links
- Daystrom Institute Technical Library's entry on the Delta Flyer (http://ditl.org/hedship.php?feddeltaflyer)