Object

Starfleet Personnel Shuttles (Evacuation Transports)

A cluster of short-range Starfleet personnel shuttles: compact, metal-skinned craft sized to ferry dozens in multiple sorties. They sit configured for rapid embarkation, docking collars primed and access ramps ready, intended to receive and transport colonists from Tau Cygna V. Crew members treat them as the official evacuation vector — checked, stamped for manifest, and counted against a three-week deployment timetable that the bridge staff reference with mounting impatience.

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Purpose

Short-range personnel transport configured to evacuate colonists and convey Starfleet personnel between a planet and Starfleet vessels or facilities.

Significance

Their scheduled arrival defines the crisis timeline: a three-week wait for these transports converts diplomatic delay into moral peril, compelling Picard to order a high-risk interception to save thousands rather than rely on slow evacuation relief.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E2 · The Ensigns of Command

Picard Chooses Risk: Intercept the Sheliak Ship

Starfleet personnel shuttles are referenced indirectly as the intended evacuation asset that would be used to remove colonists — but they are part of the delayed relief that cannot arrive for three weeks, making immediate interception necessary.

Before: Available in Starfleet doctrine and planned convoys but not on scene; logically scheduled for later arrival.

After: Still unavailable; their delayed status remains a driver of Picard's decision to intercept now.

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