To stand in for the runabout, DS9's producers turned to the Executive Shuttle, designed by John Goodson and built by Industrial Light & Magic for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Ever wondered what powers a Runabout? How generations of Cardassian and then Federation engineers helped keep Terok Nor, née Deep Space Nine’s titular space station, running on seemingly ...

Little in the way of resources—Deep Space Nine didn’t have a ship at this point, so our heroes just have their runabout shuttle, and what camping gear they bought with them—and facing an ...

On the night the last episode of Deep Space Nine aired, I carried my IBM K6-233 tower out to the living room, ran a 3.5mm cable from the audio-out port on our VCR into the line-in port on my sound ...

Another little tidbit from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual provides information about DS9's runabout pads, interchangeably referred to as landing pads throughout the series and ...