Type 6 shuttlecraft The Type 6 shuttlecraft was a short - range Starfleet auxiliary vehicle carried aboard Federation starship s and space station s during the 24th century . ( ) Service history . The Type 6 shuttlecraft was introduced sometime prior to 2364 . ( ) They were part of the standard shuttlecraft inventory aboard , ( ) , ( ) and starships . ( ; ) Space stations such as Relay Station 47 also supported Type 6 shuttlecraft , as did facilities on Earth . ( ; ) Technical data . For propulsion , the Type 6 was equipped with two 1 , 250 millicochrane warp nacelle s and microfusion thruster s . The craft was powered by a fusion reactor core and a starboard and port power supply . It was furthermore equipped with an RCS thruster quad and an atmospheric ramscoop for atmospheric flight . A flight avionics unit aided the pilot with flying the craft . There was no standard armament , but the shuttlecraft could be equipped with two Type 4 phaser emitters for special purposes . The shuttle also featured a forward navigational deflector , a forward sensor array , a forward emitter array , a primary emitter , and a graviton polarity source generator . ( ) A transporter assembly was also not standard , but the shuttle could be fitted with a portable array . The control systems were intuitive , and a non - Federation pilot could quickly learn to fly the craft . ( ) Type 6 shuttles were easily configurable for testing of a variety of technologies . ( ) Entry to the shuttle was through a large hatch in the rear of the vessel . The hatch could be opened via a control pad next to the impulse engine s . There were benches for passenger seating in the aft section , and ample room for cargo . A separate systems display was also found in the aft area , as were storage bins . ( ) By 2374 , deflector shield s , phaser array s , and transporter arrays were standard equipment on board Type 6 shuttles . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The Type 6 shuttle is a modification of one of the full - size " Galileo " - type shuttles built for . The changes were designed by Rick Sternbach , and mostly involved shortening the length of the shuttle and adding new warp engines and windows . The distinctive front end of the shuttle as well as the aft hatch and impulse engines were retained . A new miniature was built under the supervision of Greg Jein . The designation was established in dialogue in . The listed Richard James , Nilo Rodis , Herman Zimmerman , and Andy Neskoromny as additional designers of this shuttle Type . This was the last complete full sized Starfleet shuttlecraft built for a " Star Trek " series , replacing the inaccurate Type 7 shuttlecraft exterior created for and supplementing the tiny Type 15 shuttlepod built for . The special feature " Departmental Briefing Year Six - Profile : Dan Curry " of the TNG Season 6 DVD depicts a studio model of a Type 6 shuttlecraft labeled with the name " " Curry " " ( versus " " Curie " " ) , named after Dan Curry . It is unclear if this studio model was ever used in any on - screen sequence . On " The Next Generation " , reuse of stock shots of the Type 7 were often incorrectly paired with the interior and sometimes exterior of the Type 6 . A similar phenomenon happened on , where the Type 6 interior was shared with the Type 8 shuttlecraft introduced in , although the situation display to the left of the pilot always showed a diagram of the Type 8 . The Type 6 was even rendered as a computer - generated model , but after the introduction of the Class 2 shuttle and later the " Delta Flyer " , both the Type 6 and Type 8 fell into disuse . The full - sized shuttle exterior was eventually recycled to become " " for .