- Also see: Maneuver (disambiguation) for related usages of the term.
Evasive maneuvers (also known as evasive action, defensive pattern) are a sequence of defensive movements employed by starship commanders to evade enemy weapons fire, or capture. These movements were specified by predefined or on the spot course changes. Although each race uses different terminology for their evasive maneuvers, the tactics remain the same.
An example of this is the Starfleet maneuver "pattern delta" which is to simply a maneuver of rocking the ship hard from port to starboard. Evasive "pattern delta 5" is used keep attacking ships off balance. (DS9: "Shattered Mirror", "The Search, Part I")
In contrast to evasive patterns, offensive movements such as attack patterns or tactical patterns are instances where a starship commander intends to engage the enemy in a confrontation, rather than evade. These patterns are known as standard maneuvers.
In 2369 while confronted with a Miradorn Theta-class raider in the Chamra Vortex, Odo ordered evasive maneuvers for his runabout USS Ganges. (DS9: "Vortex")
Evasive maneuver patterns
- Pattern beta two
- Pattern beta four
- Pattern beta six
- VOY: "Flesh and Blood", "The Void", "Endgame"
- Pattern beta 140 (dual attack mode)
- VOY: "Ex Post Facto"
- Pattern gamma
- Pattern gamma four
- Pattern gamma six
- Pattern delta
- TNG: "Darmok", "Conundrum"; DS9: "Emissary", "Shattered Mirror", "What You Leave Behind"; VOY: "Year of Hell, Part II"
- Pattern delta four
- Pattern delta five
- DS9: "The Search, Part I", (Star Trek)
- Pattern theta
- Pattern theta one
- Pattern theta two
- VOY: "Initiations"
- Pattern omega
- VOY: "Caretaker"; DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels"
- Pattern omega one
- VOY: "Initiations"
- Pattern omega two
- Pattern omega three
- Pattern omega six
- Pattern Kirk epsilon
- Pattern Riker alpha
- Pattern Riker beta
Evasive maneuver sequences
- Sequence Beta 93
- Sequence Delta / Delta sequence
- TNG: "The Wounded", "Darmok", "Conundrum"
- Sequence 010