The second shuttlecraft Copernicus
Harry Mudd stealing the first Shuttle 12
The Copernicus, NCC-1701⁄12 was the name of two Federation shuttlecraft aboard the USS Enterprise in 2269.
When the Enterprise was studying a Class M planet orbitting a binary sun, Harry Mudd hijacked the Shuttle 12 with Nurse Christine Chapel as a hostage. He planned to ditch her on the landing site and get as far away as possible on the planet surface. Unfortunately for him and for the shuttle, a native rock creature crushed the vehicle with its foot. (TAS: "Mudd's Passion")
Later that year the Enterprise had a replacement shuttle of different design. It was used by Spock, Sulu and Uhura to transfer a Slaver stasis box, discovered on the planet Kzin to Starbase 25.
En route, they detected a second Slaver stasis box in Beta Lyrae. Upon setting down on an ice bound planet in the Beta Lyrae system, they were taken hostage by the Kzinti. The Kzinti, who possessed an empty stasis box, had used it to lure the Copernicus to Beta Lyrae to steal the first stasis box. (TAS: "The Slaver Weapon")
Background
Named after 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
The NCC-1701⁄4 was of the same design as the first Shuttle 12. At least the second Shuttle 12 seemed to have warp capability. Both ships were propably named Copernicus, even though the first was only referred to as a "shuttlecraft". There was no name on the hull of either shuttles.
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