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14.2 SHUTTLEBAYS14.2.1 Location of shuttlebaysShuttlebay2Shuttlebay 3Main ShuttlebayEmergency egress doorsemitters located in each shuttlebay and on the ship's exterior,just outside each set of space doors. These tractor beams arecomputer controlled under the direction of the Flight DeckOfficer, permitting the safe maneuvering of shuttle vehicleswithin the bays and in the 350-meter approach zone.limited, so it is unwise to depend upon the availability ofreplicated spare parts. This is another reason that the shipmust maintain a significant stock of spare parts in inventory atall times.Maintenance facilities include replacement parts sufficientfor twelve months of normal starship operations. Thesenormally include two complete replacement spaceframes,which can be used for refurbishment of severely damagedships.Note that replicator usage can allow fabrication of nearlyany critical missing parts, but large-scale replication is notconsidered energy-efficient except in emergency situations.However, in such situations, power usage is usually strictlyWe don't have a list of the names of all shuttlecraft and shuttlepods onboard the Enterprise. The main reason is that this isone of those things you want to leave somewhat nebulous so that writers of future episodes have some room to play aroundwith. Names established to date include: Sakharov (named after the late Soviet physicist and peace advocate), El Baz (forplanetary geologist Farouk El Baz), Onizuka (for the Challenger astronaut), Pike (for Christopher Pike, early captain of the firststarship Enterprise,), Feynman (for the Nobel laureate physicist who was Mike's hero), Hawking (for physicist StephenHawking), and Voltaire (for the eighteenth-century French writer and philosopher). We've also seen a shuttiepod CousXeau,from the starship Aries. Most of these names were selected or approved by Rick Berman. We made a big status graphic inthe shuttlebay control booth in which an unreadable display suggests that we might have shuttles with names like Sam Freedle(our unit production manager during the second season), Indiana Jones (after the noted archaeologist), and a few others weprobably shouldn't mention. During the filming of the episode "In Theory," directed by Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart (whooccasionally works as a spokesperson for Pontiac automobiles), some wag on the production crew relabeled the shuttiepodwith the name Pontiac-1701D.