Delta Flyer The Delta Flyer was a specially designed Starfleet shuttlecraft constructed by the crew of the in the Delta Quadrant in 2375 . The vessel was designed to handle environments that would be too hazardous for a standard shuttlecraft and to be slightly larger than the average shuttle , the crew having acknowledged that standard shuttles were of little use in the increasingly hostile and unexplored Delta Quadrant . The vessel was a blend of Starfleet and Borg technology , designed in collaboration between B ' Elanna Torres , Tom Paris , Tuvok , Harry Kim , and Seven of Nine . It featured a warp - streamlined tetraburnium alloy hull , retractable warp nacelle s , parametallic hull plating , unimatrix shield ing , and a Borg - inspired weapon system , including photonic missile s , most of which were Paris ' conceptions . For aesthetic reasons , Paris designed some of the flight controls to resemble those from the holodeck simulation of Captain Proton ; when Tuvok complained , Paris explained that he wanted to feel the ship and that he was tired of tapping panels . But to Paris ' disappointment , the addition of dynametric tailfins was denied by Tuvok . Instead of having the usual two pilot stations , it had several command stations . ( ) Knowledge of this craft was known to Tuvok as early as 2371 , but kept secret due to the Temporal Prime Directive . ( ) " Delta Flyer " - first mission . The idea to design a larger , more efficient shuttle than the cramped Class 2 shuttle was first given to the " Delta Flyer " s designer , Lieutenant junior grade Tom Paris , by the former Borg drone Seven of Nine in 2375 . ( ) Captain Janeway later authorized the craft ' s construction , which was led by Paris , in order to retrieve a multispatial probe that was lost in the atmosphere of a gas giant and in danger of being stolen by the Malon . The Malon began work on a shuttlecraft also , and finished theirs before the " Flyer " was complete . When the Malon sent out their shuttle , the " Flyer " was deployed early , despite a flaw in the vessel ' s structural integrity . The " Flyer " was successful in retrieving the probe , but a hull breach started to occur . B ' Elanna Torres designed a makeshift device that deployed a temporary force field , successfully containing the breach . ( ) " Delta Flyer " - 2375 missions . The " Delta Flyer " s second mission was to infiltrate a Species 8472 terrasphere . Paris , Kim , and Chakotay took the " Flyer " out to investigate the terrasphere . When the undercover Chakotay was revealed , " Voyager " rendezvoused with the " Delta Flyer " . ( ) The " Delta Flyer " encountered near - destruction in its third mission when it got caught in an ion storm and crash land ed three kilometer s under rock on a class M planet . Life support began to fail and Paris , Samantha Wildman , and Tuvok did not believe they could be rescued . The " Voyager " crew was able to dig through the rock and locate the " Delta Flyer " . The crew and the " Flyer " were beamed aboard . ( ) In early 2375 , " Voyager " was equipped with a quantum slipstream drive and used it in an attempt to return to the Alpha Quadrant . The " Flyer " , piloted by Chakotay and Kim , rode the slipstream ahead of " Voyager " in order to chart the slipstream and send appropriate phase corrections to " Voyager " . Unfortunately , the drive proved unstable and nearly caused " Voyager " to lose structural integrity . Fortunately , a Harry Kim from an alternate timeline where the ship had been destroyed , was able to transmit a phase correction directly to Seven of Nine ' s Borg implants which shut the drive down . Use of the drive was then abandoned until it could be better understood . " In the previously mentioned alternate timeline , the " Delta Flyer " remained in the slipstream on course to the Federation while " Voyager " crash - landed on a class L planet . Fifteen years later , Chakotay , Kim , and Tessa Omond stole the " Delta Flyer " from a shipyard and used it to locate the remains of " Voyager " . They retrieved Seven of Nine ' s corpse and The Doctor from the buried ship . By analyzing Seven ' s cranial implant they intended to determine when it had shut down and thus when " Voyager " was destroyed , allowing them to transmit their message accordingly . The Doctor was the only person who could determine the necessary temporal coordinates for their mission . They used a temporal transmitter to transmit the proper phase corrections to Seven via the implant , which would allow " Voyager " to remain safe in the slipstream . Unfortunately , Kim ' s corrections did not work - but with time running out , The Doctor convinced him to send another message , this time with corrections which would collapse the slipstream . Just as he transmitted the drive shutdown sequence , the " Delta Flyer " was destroyed by a warp core breach induced by attacks from the . " ( ) A few months later , the " Delta Flyer " was used to go underwater on The Waters of the Monean s . The " Flyer " was able to take large amounts of stress , entering great depths of water . It was even able to reach the core of the ocean which was quite deep underwater . This core was actually a large containment field generator . ( ) During a mission where " Voyager " crew stole a Borg transwarp coil , Seven of Nine was captured by the Borg . The coil was installed on board the " Delta Flyer " , for which it was used to proceed to the unicomplex to retrieve Seven . When Kathryn Janeway beamed into the complex , she was stuck there with Seven when the Borg Queen activated a dispersal field . Seven was able to disable the Queen ' s interface to the collective and the field was deactivated . With Janeway and Seven retrieved , the " Flyer " proceeded back to transwarp and returned to " Voyager " , pursued by the Queen ' s diamond ; they were briefly forced to transfer power from life support to the shields during the pursuit to give themselves the necessary shield strength to reach the exit point before they were captured . ( ) " Delta Flyer " - 2376 - 77 missions . When " Voyager " encountered a graviton ellipse , the " Delta Flyer " was sent in to locate the " Ares IV " command module , which was lost in the ellipse in 2032 . The crew of Tom Paris , Chakotay , and Seven of Nine examined several artifacts trapped in the ellipse before finding the command module . While the " Flyer " attempted to tractor the module out of the ellipse , the ellipse was hit by a dark matter asteroid . The " Delta Flyer " was severely damaged and Chakotay was injured . Aboard " Voyager " , B ' Elanna Torres devised a method to use an ion distributor from the " Ares IV " to repair vital components of the " Flyer " . Seven beamed to the " Ares IV " module where she located the distributor and downloaded the sensor data and logs of the " Ares IV " commander , John Kelly . She returned to the " Flyer " with the distributor and Kelly ' s body . The distributor was connected to the " Flyer " power systems and the shuttle was able to escape before the ellipse returned to subspace . ( ) During a period of shore leave on " Voyager " , Janeway took the " Flyer " to a nearby planet in the Norcadian star system . When Seven and Tuvok were kidnapped by Penk , " Voyager " engaged in battle with his vessel . Penk was able to disable " Voyager " , but Janeway arrived in the " Flyer " and was able to disable Penk ' s signal antenna , forcing Penk to lower power to his ship ' s force fields . This allowed Seven and Tuvok , along with several other competitors held hostage aboard the ship , to be rescued . Janeway and the " Flyer " returned to " Voyager " . ( ) Chakotay , Neelix , Harry Kim , and Tom Paris returned from a mission aboard the " Delta Flyer " and were abducted by a damaged Borg cube run by adolescent Borg . The " Flyer " was locked in a Borg hangar while the " Voyager " crew were attempting to negotiate for the return of the shuttle and its crew . Before the Borg cube was destroyed due to a feedback pulse after the Borg attempted to remove " Voyager " s deflector dish , the " Delta Flyer " escaped the ship . ( ) Later that year , Janeway decided to take the " Flyer " on an astronomical survey , crewed by " Voyager " crewmembers who were not working to the best of their abilities and who had never been on an away mission . The mission became dire when the " Flyer " was attacked , disabling its warp drive . Janeway plotted a course for a nearby planet and ordered the crewmen to abandon the " Flyer " . They refused to leave her , although one crewmember , Mortimer Harren , abandoned the " Flyer " aboard a escape pod and used it to distract the dark matter object . Harren inadvertently discovered how to deter the object using phaser s , which the " Delta Flyer " used to escape . Soon after Harren was returned to the " Flyer " , an explosion occurred , disabling it . " Voyager " picked up the distress signal and retrieved the damaged shuttle . ( ) The " Delta Flyer " was impersonated by a vessel piloted by several con artist s attempting to use the reputations of the " Voyager " crew for criminal purposes . In order to track their hiding spot , " Voyager " captured one of the criminals , Dala , and allowed her to escape aboard the " Delta Flyer " . Tom Paris and The Doctor stowed away in the aft compartment , apprehended Dala , and retook the " Flyer " after she flew it to the criminals ' hiding spot . ( ) While on an exploration mission , the " Delta Flyer " crashed on a planet with a pre - warp society . Harry Kim was able to evacuate , but B ' Elanna Torres remained aboard and survived the impact . A poet on the planet named Kelis found the " Flyer " and figured out how to access its database , using " Voyager " s experiences in the Delta Quadrant as a basis for his plays . Torres attempted to repair the " Flyer " with Kelis ' help , but the ship was damaged beyond her means . Kim eventually located the " Flyer " and brought an emergency transmitter from the escape pod , which was used to send a distress signal to " Voyager " . The " Flyer " was transported aboard and required major repairs . ( ) " When Kes travelled back in time to the first year of " Voyager " s journey , the tachyon particles caused by her presence in the past resulted in Tuvok experiencing ' flash - forwards ' of events that wouldn ' t happen on " Voyager " for several years , with the first example of these being when he suggested that the " Delta Flyer " be used to navigate a region of space filled with subspace vacuole s due to its advanced sensors over four years before it would even be constructed ( ) . " In early 2377 , Janeway , Tuvok , and Torres flew the " Delta Flyer " to a Borg tactical cube , with the goal of infiltrating the vessel and assisting the drones of Unimatrix Zero . While approaching the cube , the Borg Queen located the " Flyer " . The away team beamed onto the cube just as the " Flyer " was destroyed . ( ) The destroyed " Flyer " was replaced by the " Delta Flyer II " , of similar design and specification , albeit with fewer " Captain Proton " - inspired embellishments . ( ) Appendices . Background information . From the , " " The " Delta Flyer " was designed by series production designer Richard James and senior illustrator Rick Sternbach . " " Two schematic lots from production designer Richard James of the " Delta Flyer " s interior were sold off on the It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction on eBay .