We donÕt have a list of the names of all shuttlecraft and shuttlepods 
onboard the Enterprise. The main reason is that this is one of those things 
you want to leave somewhat nebulous so that writers of future episodes 
have some room to play around with. Names established to date include: 
Sakharov (named after the late Soviet physicist and peace advocate), El Baz 
(for planetary geologist Farouk El Baz), Onizuka (for the Challenger 
astronaut), Pike (for Christopher Pike, early captain of the first starship 
Enterprise), Feynman (for the Nobel laureate physicist who was MikeÕs hero), 
Hawking (for physicist Stephen Hawking), and Voltaire (for the eighteenth-
century French writer and philosopher). WeÕve also seen a shuttlepod 
Cousteau, from the starship Aries. Most of these names were selected or 
approved by Rick Berman. We made a big status graphic in the 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 we probably shouldnÕt mention. During the filming of the episode ÒIn 
Theory,Ó directed by Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart (who occasionally 
works as a spokesperson for Pontiac automobiles), some wag on the 
production crew relabeled the shuttlepod with the name Pontiac-1701D.  Æ