Drilling rig

A drilling rig or drill rig was a mechanical device that was used to drill deep holes into the ground.
 was equipped with a portable drilling rig. In 2151, Malcolm Reed and Travis Mayweather used the device to take a core sample from Archer's Comet which was rich in eisillium. The drill hit a layer of magnesite which broke the drill bit, but the away team was able to replace the bit and successfully take a core sample. ()
During the Enterprises visit to the deuterium mining planet run by Tessic in 2152, made acquaintance with a young boy named Q'ell who rationalized to Tucker if he could "drive the crawler that we use to move our drill rigs," then Tucker could teach him how to fly . ()
In the alternate reality, a drilling rig was the primary weapon of Nero's ship, the Narada, which was actually a mining vessel. Nero used the drilling rig to drill down to the core of , then dropped a "red matter" bomb down the hole. The red matter created a singularity at the center of the planet which would consume it. He tried the same thing against Earth, but the drilling rig was destroyed by after he commandeered the , before it reached Earth's core. ()
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