The Feynman was a Federation Type 7 shuttlecraft that was in service with Starfleet in the mid-24th century, attached to the USS Enterprise-D. It was shuttlecraft 05.
In 2367, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge and Lieutenant Reginald Barclay piloted this shuttle to investigate a Cytherian probe disrupting the operation of the Argus Array. The probe sent a beam to the shuttle which knocked Barclay unconscious and later caused his IQ to increase exponentially. (TNG: "The Nth Degree")
In 2369, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and Lieutenant Worf flew the Feynman to a trading outpost near the border of the Cardassian Union in order to secure passage to Celtris III aboard DaiMon Solok's Ferengi vessel. (TNG: "Chain Of Command, Part I")
| Type 7 shuttlecraft |
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| Ansel Adams • Clarke • Copernicus • Cousteau • D'Alison • Decartes • Einstein • Feynman • Galileo • Hawking • Indiana Jones • JF Kennedy • Kotoi • McAuliffe • Sakharov • Tereshkova • Von Braun • Shuttlecraft 13 • NCC-70367 • 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 |
Appendices
Background information
The Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 269 stated the shuttlecraft "was named for Dr. Richard Feynman (1918-1988), noted Nobel physicist and bongo player." In the third edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (p. 153), the authors noted that "the name was misspelled as Feyman on the shuttle's exterior because of a mistake made in the art department."
It was also mispronounced in the episode as FAIN-man, when the correct pronunciation was FINE-man.
Its interior was represented by that of a Type 6 shuttlecraft in "Chain of Command, Part I". The fate of the Feynman was not known, as both Crusher and Worf were retrieved by Will Riker in another shuttlecraft. According to a deleted scene from "Chain Of Command, Part II", the Feynman was recovered by the Enterprise. This shuttle was seen in a shuttlebay. It had the exterior shell of a Type 6 shuttlecraft and the name was spelled as "Feyman". [1]
The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd ed., p. 160 identified the shuttle used in the episode TNG: "The Nth Degree" as the Feynman.
External link
- Feynman (NCC-1701-D/05) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works