A hovercraft was a type of vehicle in use on Earth.
When Benjamin Sisko was about four years old, his biological mother, Sarah Sisko, who had left him and his family, died in a hovercraft accident in Australia. Joseph Sisko never told his son this until 2375. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")
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Background information
The Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 276 described a vehicle first mentioned in DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." called a floater as a small hovercraft.
A deleted scene from Star Trek has Sarek riding in a vehicle that is described both as a hovercraft and a "hoverspeeder" in order to fetch Amanda Grayson when Nero attacked Vulcan.
External links
- Hovercraft at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Hovercraft at Wikipedia