Delta Flyer
The Delta Flyer was a shuttlecraft constructed by the crew of the USS Voyager in the Delta Quadrant in 2375.
The vessel was designed to handle environments that would be too hazardous for a standard shuttlecraft.
Construction
The vessel was a blend of Starfleet and Borg technology. It was equipped with 8 phaser arrays, photonic missiles, photon torpedoes, deflector shields, and parametallic hull plating.
Instead of having the usual two pilot stations, the Delta Flyer had several command stations.
Uses
Authorization for the craft's construction was given in order to retrieve a multi-spatial probe that was lost in the atmosphere of a gas giant. The Flyer was able to take large amounts of stress, and saw continued use, as it was able to go underwater on The Waters of the Moneans. It was even able to reach the core of the ocean in question. When Voyager encountered a graviton ellipse in subspace, the Delta Flyer was sent in to investigate.
The Delta Flyer encountered near-destruction in its third mission when it got caught in an ion storm and crash landed three kilometers under rock on a class M planet. In early 2375, Voyager was equipped with a quantum slipstream drive and used it in an attempt to return to the Alpha Quadrant. The Flyer, piloted by Chakotay and Kim, rode the slipstream ahead of Voyager in order to chart the slipstream and send appropriate phase corrections to Voyager. Unfortunately, the drive proved unstable and nearly caused Voyager to lose structural integrity. Use of the drive was then abandoned until it could be better understood.
Destruction
In early 2376, the Flyer was sent to intercept a Borg tactical cube. While approaching the cube, the Borg Queen located the Flyer, and destroyed it. The away team was able to beam onto the cube just as the Flyer was destroyed. The destroyed Flyer was later replaced by a craft of the same name and of similar design and specification.
