A travel pod was a small Federation shuttlepod predominately used during the 23rd century by facilities like the San Francisco Fleet Yards to transfer personnel to drydocks or spaceships without having to use transporters. These vessels had a flight crew that could include one pilot and up to seven passengers.
Physical arrangement 
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The craft had passenger seating along the inside walls.
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Background information Edit
Travel pods were identified by name in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
At least two travel pods that were numbered differently from those seen in the film have appeared in Paramount-licensed works. In early concept paintings that production illustrator Michael Minor created for The Motion Picture, a travel pod numbered "4" can be seen. (The Art of Star Trek, pp. 15-153, 168-169) The Star Trek Encyclopedia (1st ed., p. 350) had a diagram of a travel pod labeled 06.
In the book Ships of the Line (pp. 74-75), the travel pod was classified as a Mark II-B pod.
For information on the studio model, see: Travel pod model
External link Edit
- Federation travel pod at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
