The Curie was a Federation Type 6 shuttlecraft that was in service with Starfleet in the mid-24th century, attached to the USS Enterprise-D. It was shuttlecraft 03.
Lieutenant Worf piloted the Curie to a bat'leth tournament on Forcas III in early 2370. While on board the shuttle, he passed through a quantum fissure which caused him to begin shifting between different quantum realities. The Curie was sent to an alternate Enterprise and reconfigured to emit an inverse warp field. Worf took the shuttle through the fissure once more, sealing the fissure and sending him back to the point in time where he first encountered the anomaly. (TNG: "Parallels")
Later that year, the Curie was piloted by Joret Dal, a Federation operative inside the Cardassian military, and his "prisoner" Ensign Sito Jaxa into Cardassian space. The shuttle had been intentionally damaged during an earlier hull resiliency evaluation to make it appear as if it had fled an attack while engaging in evasive maneuvers. It was equipped with a Federation escape pod, which Sito attempted her escape in from the shuttle and was subsequently destroyed by a Cardassian patrol ship. The shuttle was captured by the Cardassians. (TNG: "Lower Decks")
The Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 172 stated this shuttlecraft was "named for physicist Marie Sklodowska Curie."
In the script for "Parallels", the Curie was originally named the Borges, after Jorge Luis Borges, whose 1941 short story The Garden of Forking Paths was a forerunner to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. This earlier name was retained in several places in the script. [1]
| Type 6 shuttlecraft |
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| Berman • Curie • Fermi • Galileo • Goddard • Hypatia • Justman • Magellan • Piller • Sacajawea • Verne Unnamed • Shuttlecraft 15 • Honshu shuttlecraft |
| 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[]
- Curie (NCC-1701-D/03) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works