Manual steering column
The manual steering column was a helm control option aboard some spacecraft that resembled a joystick.
It was capable of providing fine piloting control in situations where the normal helm controls were not precise or rapid enough.
NX class starships employed manual steering columns for performing exacting maneuvers.
In 2154, Ensign Travis Mayweather used a manual-control joystick on Shuttlepod 1, which he referred to as "a stick and rudder system", during a covert visit to Vulcan.
The Sovereign Class USS Enterprise-E had a manual steering column that allowed the conn to manually control helm functions if the need arose.
The Delta Flyer II used two manual steering columns in its helm configuration, which completely replaced the old LCARS controls that had been used on the original Delta Flyer.
Manual Steering Columns are the standard flight control on Star Fleet starfighters, and though rarely-used, are installed in the Helm station on most Star Fleet vessels.
