Wheelchair A wheelchair was a device used to permit locomotion in a humanoid who was unable to use his or her legs due to accident , disease , or natural causes . It was also used by people who could walk , but had a limited ability to do so . It could be wheel ed or be supported by analogous anti - gravity generators . In Detroit of the year 2004 , Lawrence Strode used a wheelchair . It was taken by – when he abducted Strode – to a makeshift infirmary in an abandoned factory formerly run by the American Wrecking Company , along with Strode himself , who Loomis rendered unconscious . The wheelchair ' s arrival was secretly watched by time travelers Jonathan Archer and T ' Pol . The same wheelchair was subsequently used by Loomis to wheel an apparently unconscious Archer into the makeshift infirmary . ( ) The inventor of the transporter , Emory Erickson , used a wheelchair after being paralyzed in a transporter experiment which had resulted in an accident . ( ) The had at least one wheelchair . " This was used in the alternate reality to transport the heavily pregnant from sickbay to Medical shuttle 37 during evacuation from the " Narada " ' s attack . " ( ) " Twenty - five years later , Admiral used a wheelchair due to injuries suffered during his captivity on board the " Narada " . " ( ) After he was injured in a training accident , Fleet Captain Christopher Pike became a wheelchair user , unable to walk or speak . The wheelchair provided movement as well as simple communication via a series of lights on the front of the device . Pike was given the illusion of leaving the wheelchair when his former colleague Spock brought him to Talos IV aboard the in 2268 . ( ) Admiral Mark Jameson had to use a wheelchair due to the debilitating effects of Iverson ' s Disease . He left the wheelchair after taking a rejuvenation treatment on the planet Cerberus II , which cured the disease and caused him to become appreciably younger . However , the treatment proved much too dangerous for Human s . ( ) Captain Jean - Luc Picard in his Academy days used to have a teacher who had been a wheelchair user since birth . ( ) Melora Pazlar used what she referred to as a " trolley car " to move around in areas of high gravity due to her being an Elaysian , which prevented her from a full range of movement while in high gravity areas . She sent the specifications of the wheelchair to Julian Bashir before her arrival on Deep Space 9 in 2370 . A low - technology version with wheels had to be used because Cardassian artificial gravity technology was not compatible with a standard Federation anti - grav unit . Upon viewing the device , Jadzia Dax exclaimed that she had not seen one in three hundred years . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The use of a wheelchair prop in the " The Menagerie " two - parter was meant to help camouflage the fact that a replacement actor was going to be playing Christopher Pike , instead of Jeffrey Hunter . ( " " , p . 38 ) When Gene Roddenberry initially interviewed Sean Kenney about taking the part , Roddenberry stated , " " All questions posed to you will be answered by you with a button , ' one beep ' for yes and ' two beeps ' for no , on a specially rigged light system , out of sight of the camera . " " ( " Captain Pike Found Alive ! " , " Chapter Two : Ground Zero " ) The prop consisted of an actual wheelchair which was motorized and outfitted with an outer plastic shell . Kenney himself maneuvered the wheelchair and operated the light . ( " " , p . 40 ) Admiral Jameson ' s chair , as seen in , cost US $ 10 , 000 to make and often malfunctioned during filming . ( " " , p . 43 ) The wheelchair seen in was initially to have utilized anti - grav technology . The chair from " Too Short a Season " was to be pulled out of storage and remodeled . However , the chair had originally been designed with the larger set of the in mind and it was quickly realized that it would not be practical in the relatively small " Deep Space Nine " corridor sets . As a result , a simplified 21st century wheelchair was used instead . ( " " , p . 108 ) The design of Melora ' s chair was greatly influenced by writer Evan Carlos Somers ' personal experiences of navigating the studio offices . As Somers explained , " " So Bashir has to replicate a much simpler wheelchair for her and she encounters all the problems that I did whenever I went down to the DS9 set to snoop around . " " ( " " , p . 93 ) Set Decorator Laura Richarz purchased the chair , which was revamped by Property Master Joe Longo . Longo later remembered how the production crew decided to keep the wheelchair as simple as possible , recalling that he " " added a control panel and some wheel covers to block out the spokes in the wheels , and changed the joystick . Basically we tried to keep it as simple as possible , because of our experience on ' Too Short a Season ' . We had made a big albatross of a moving chair for that , and it was bad . But this one worked great ; the actress drove it everywhere . " " ( " " , p . 93 )