Maquis raider The Maquis raider was a type of small and maneuverable starship commonly utilized by the Maquis as a raider craft in their fight against the Cardassian s . These ships had a runabout - size bridge which held four stations , with larger crew facilities in the aft sections . Some of these ship s operated with impulse engine s originally built around 2332 . ( ) History . In 2371 , Chakotay ' s Maquis cell was operating in a similar raider , the " Val Jean " , when they were pursued by the Cardassian warship " Vetar " under the command of Gul Evek . The raider was an old craft ; still using its thirty - nine - year - old rebuilt engine , it was no match for the much larger vessel and took refuge in the Badlands . While there , it was scanned by a tetryon beam and catapulted to the Delta Quadrant by an entity known as the . The ship was later destroyed when , in order to protect the likewise marooned , it rammed and obliterated a vessel operated by the Kazon - Ogla . The Maquis were transported aboard " Voyager " and forced to join the Starfleet crew for the trip home . ( ) In 2372 , Kasidy Yates ' freighter , the " Xhosa " , rendezvoused with a Maquis raider inside the Badlands . ( ) And in 2373 , several ships of this type participated in Maquis offensives against the , the , and Quatal Prime . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Judging by the computer displays on Chakotay ' s raider , the raiders were originally Federation ships from the early 24th century . The name for this ship type comes from a computer graphic Teero Anaydis was looking at in . According to ( p . 112 ) , a poster created for the set in " Repression " used the name " " Ju ' day " - class " , for " Star Trek " archivist Penny Juday , while the apocryphal " Star Trek Customizable Card Game " names this ship type as the " " Condor " - class " . Although they shared the same basic design , the raider is somewhat larger than the Maquis fighter , with an altered cockpit and different detailing , since the interior set was represented by a redress of runabout cockpit rather than a redress of the " Nenebek " shuttle interior . The Maquis raider was also used as the secondary hull of the Starfleet starship . That ship type also consisted of parts from the , making the raider - segment of the ship much larger in scale than the ships used by the Maquis . While not canon ically established , a shot in " Caretaker " , where the " Val Jean " pulls up alongside the towards the Caretaker ' s array , discerns that the length of the raider is twenty percent the length of " Voyager " , which , given that ship ' s accepted length of 343 meters , translates into about sixty - eight meters . That was the stated intent of the visual effects supervisor for the episode , David Stipes ; " " And the Maquis ship is one - fifth the size of " Voyager " , and that ( model ) is nearly two feet long . So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot it ! " " ( ) The " " ( issue 28 ) has cited the length of the raider as sixty - eight - point - five meters , about twice the size of its fighter progenitor . For further information on the studio model that served as both the fighter and the raider , please see : Maquis raider model . The " Star Trek Customizable Card Game " gives the name " " Guingouin " " to one of the Maquis raiders visible in the episode .