The Voltaire was a Federation Type 15 shuttlepod that was in service with Starfleet in the mid-24th century, attached to the USS Enterprise-D. It was shuttlepod 03.
In 2367, Captain Jean-Luc Picard piloted the Voltaire through the Mar Oscura Nebula, ahead of the Enterprise. The smaller shuttlepod was able to chart the pockets of dark matter and feed course corrections to the Enterprise, which could then avoid them. The shuttle's starboard impulse nacelle was damaged by dark matter during the flight, and further systems failures caused the shuttle to break up just as the Enterprise escaped the nebula and Picard was beamed to safety. (TNG: "In Theory")
The Voltaire was named for the French philosopher and writer Voltaire. (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., p. 548)
In some effects shots, the name on the shuttle changed to Pontiac, an in-joke by the effects crew referencing Patrick Stewart's other job at the time: as voice-over in advertisements for Pontiac automobiles.
| Type 15 shuttlepods |
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| Armstrong • Campbell • Chris Pike • Cochrane • Cousteau • Curie • El-Baz • Feynman • Heinlein • Ley • Lindberg • Onizuka • Pike • PT Farnsworth • Sam Freedle • Voltaire • Shuttlepod 01 • Unnamed |
| Shuttles of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) |
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| Shuttlecraft: Shuttlecraft 01 • Shuttlecraft 02 • Shuttlecraft 03 (Copernicus, Justman, Curie, Hypatia) • Shuttlecraft 04 • Shuttlecraft 05 (Clarke, Feynman) • Shuttlecraft 06 • Shuttlecraft 07 (Galileo (Type 6), Galileo (Type 7) • Shuttlecraft 08 • Shuttlecraft 10 • Shuttlecraft 11 • Shuttlecraft 13 • Shuttlecraft 15 (JF Kennedy, Magellan, Goddard, Hawking) • Shuttlecraft 16 • Shuttlecraft 20 • Shuttlecraft 21 • Berman • Hawking (2367) • Piller |
| Shuttlepods: Shuttlepod 01 • Shuttlepod 02 • Shuttlepod 03 • Shuttlepod 05 (El-Baz, Onizuka) • Shuttlepod 07 • Shuttlepod 08 • Shuttlepod 09 (Lindberg, Ley) • Shuttlepod 10 • Shuttlepod 12 (Sam Freedle, Pike) • Shuttlepod 14 • Shuttlepod 15 • Shuttlepod 18 • Shuttlepod 19 • Campbell |
| Captain's yacht: Calypso Unknown: Unnamed |
External link[]
- Voltaire at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works