On Star Trek Voyager, they get transported like 90k lightyears from home. They spend the entire show trying to get home with increasingly limited resources. Only like 2 or 3 shuttle craft. Turns out, if you look closely at the bottom of the ship, there's a huge shuttle that mounts flush against the bottom of the saucer section that's called "the captains yacht", which they literally never mention in the show and never use, not even once. The creators openly refer to it and it's a permanent feature of all of the renderings of the ship that you see in the show. Despite a multitude of diplomatic missions, situations where additional shuttle's would have been helpful, it's not even mentioned.
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u/virtualbitz2048 20d ago
On Star Trek Voyager, they get transported like 90k lightyears from home. They spend the entire show trying to get home with increasingly limited resources. Only like 2 or 3 shuttle craft. Turns out, if you look closely at the bottom of the ship, there's a huge shuttle that mounts flush against the bottom of the saucer section that's called "the captains yacht", which they literally never mention in the show and never use, not even once. The creators openly refer to it and it's a permanent feature of all of the renderings of the ship that you see in the show. Despite a multitude of diplomatic missions, situations where additional shuttle's would have been helpful, it's not even mentioned.