Type 8 Class Shuttle

The Type 8 shuttlecraft was introduced around 2371. They were part of the Intrepid-class vessel's standard shuttlecraft complement, and although the Class 2 shuttle was generally preferred, the Type 8 remained in operation through the late 24th and early 25th centuries.

Aesthetically, the main body of the Type 8 was based roughly on the older Type 6 shuttlecraft in appearance and the interior was virtually identical. The revised differences included smaller port and starboard windows, a ridge line (spine) running along the top of the shuttle, the upper half of the cabin (fore and aft) overlapped the bottom half of the hull, and the warp nacelles were more compact and refined, mounted on pylons that detached the nacelles from the main body of the shuttle from above the nacelle.