Type 18 shuttlepod



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 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. 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.