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Evasive maneuvers, evasive action, or evasive pattern – also occasionally known as an evasive course, defensive pattern, escape pattern, evasion maneuvers, or evasion tactics – were 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 used different terminology for their evasive maneuvers, the tactics remained the same.
In 2254, Una asked Captain Christopher Pike if they should make evasive maneuvers when something came closer to the USS Enterprise on a collision course with the speed of light. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I")
Commander Spock used a spiral evasive course to break free from the constraint of the globular force field surrounding the USS Enterprise. (TAS: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth")
When the USS Enterprise-D was attacked by a Cardassian starship, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ordered a "delta-sequence" evasive maneuver. (TNG: "The Wounded")
An example of this was the Starfleet maneuver "pattern delta" which was to simply a maneuver of rocking the ship hard from port to starboard. Evasive "pattern delta 5" was used to 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 were instances in which a starship commander intended to engage the enemy in a confrontation, rather than evade. These patterns were known as standard maneuvers.
In addition, there were other types of maneuvers that were named for the person who executed them the first time, such as "The Picard Maneuver", which was named for Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "The Battle")
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")
The Red Squad was killed by a Jem'Hadar battleship before they could implement evasive maneuvers aboard the USS Valiant. (DS9: "Valiant")
Evasive maneuver patterns[]
- Escape maneuver one (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
- Evasive maneuver 84 (LD: "Veritas")
- Evasive maneuver 88 (LD: "Veritas")
- Evasive pattern Sulu-Alpha (LD: "Terminal Provocations")
- Pattern beta two (VOY: "Persistence of Vision")
- Pattern beta four (VOY: "Workforce")
- Pattern beta four five (DIS: "Despite Yourself")
- Pattern beta six (VOY: "Flesh and Blood", "The Void", "Endgame")
- Pattern beta nine (DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "Project Daedalus")
- Pattern beta 140 (dual attack mode) (VOY: "Ex Post Facto")
- Pattern gamma (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")
- Pattern gamma four (VOY: "The Swarm"; DIS: "Project Daedalus")
- Pattern gamma six (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
- Pattern delta (TNG: "Darmok", "Conundrum"; DS9: "Emissary", "Shattered Mirror", "What You Leave Behind"; VOY: "Year of Hell, Part II")
- Pattern delta four (VOY: "Caretaker", "Maneuvers", "Coda")
- Pattern delta five (DS9: "The Search, Part I", Star Trek)
- Pattern delta-six (VOY: "Flashback")
- Pattern delta seven (DIS: "Project Daedalus")
- Pattern lambda ten (DIS: "Into the Forest I Go", "Project Daedalus")
- Pattern theta (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
- Pattern theta one (VOY: "Prototype")
- Pattern theta two (VOY: "Initiations")
- Pattern pi alpha two (DIS: "Project Daedalus")
- Pattern omega (VOY: "Caretaker"; DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels"; PRO: "Ouroboros, Part I")
- Pattern omega one (VOY: "Initiations"; DIS: "Project Daedalus")
- Pattern omega two (VOY: "Maneuvers")
- Pattern omega three (VOY: "Maneuvers")
- Pattern omega six (VOY: "Prototype")
- Pattern Kirk Epsilon (Star Trek Nemesis)
- Pattern Riker alpha (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
- Pattern Riker beta (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
- The Picard Maneuver (TNG: "The Battle")
- Seven-Alpha (DIS: "Battle at the Binary Stars")
- Escape pattern April Omega Three (SNW: "Children of the Comet")
- Ortegas gamma one (SNW: "Children of the Comet")
- Slippery Dipsy-Doodle (PRO: "Supernova, Part 1")
Evasive maneuver sequences[]
Evasive maneuver sequences were simply a series or array of maneuvers which fit a particular circumstance, but then were left to the helmsman to execute the individual maneuvers themselves with discretion.
- Sequence Beta 93 (VOY: "Learning Curve")
- Sequence Delta / Delta sequence / Delta Evasion Plan (TNG: "The Wounded", "Darmok", "Conundrum")
- Lambda Sequence (VOY: "Basics, Part I")
- Sequence 010 (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")
- Gamma Sequence (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")