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AT: "xx" In an alternate timeline, SC-4 was the designation of a Starfleet Command shuttlecraft used by Admiral Kathryn Janeway in her plan to alter history. Equipping the shuttle with a chrono deflector, Janeway generated a temporal rift to the year 2378 in the Delta Quadrant, where she successfully infiltrated the Borg Unicomplex and delivered a neurolytic pathogen to cripple the Collective. This allowed Voyager to use a Borg transwarp conduit to return to the Alpha Quadrant sixteen years before they would have without Admiral Janeway's intervention.

The shuttle was equipped with several advanced technologies, including a stealth generator, an ablative armor generator, transphasic torpedoes, and a neural interface and synaptic transceiver. (VOY: "Endgame")

According to a production sketch of this shuttle by Rick Sternbach and dated 02-01, the SC-4 was an uprated Type-18H shuttle. This type of shuttle was more streamlined than the Type-12 shuttle, had nanotech molecular armor plating, hot-ready filament phasers, and conformal defense shield grid (embedded).
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