Evasive Maneuvers are patterns of movements used by starship commanders to avoid weapons fire and other hostile actions. There are many predetermined maneuvers so that a commander can give a short command to enact sometimes complex movements.

List of evasive maneuvers[]

Corkscrew

• Used in 2274 aboard the shuttlecraft Copernicus. (TOS eBook: The More Things Change)
• Used in 2276 by the USS Enterprise to evade Romulan cruisers. (TOS - Rihannsu novel: The Empty Chair)
• Used in 2278 by the ATS Shras. (TOS novel: Death Count)
• Used in 2280 to avoid a Kauld starship. (TOS - New Earth novel: The Flaming Arrow)
• Used in 2293 by ChR Shardarr and IKS BaHwil'. (TOS novel: Sarek)

Corkscrew down starboard

Used in 2278 by IKV Hakkarl. (TOS novel: Rules of Engagement)

Crazy Ivan

Suggested by Brad Boimler in 2380 aboard the USS Cerritos. (LD episode: "Veritas")

Evasive maneuvers 84, 88

LD episode: "Veritas"

Evasive maneuver sigma-delta-one

Used by the USS Enterprise in 2254 while battling the Marrat brigand in defense of Starbase 13. (EV comic: "The Fires of Pharos")

L-4

In 2153, Jonathan Archer thought this "death-defying loop" maneuver was comparably dangerous to attempting a circus high-wire act without a net. (ENT novelization: The Expanse)

Maneuver epsilon theta 3

Used by the USS Enterprise-D in 2370 in a battle with a hybrid drone ship in the Bandor system. (TNG comic: "Strategy")

Pattern beta 140

VOY episode: "Ex Post Facto"

Pattern delta

TNG episodes: "Darmok", "Conundrum"; DS9 episodes: "Emissary", "What You Leave Behind"

Pattern delta four

VOY episode: "Maneuvers"

Pattern delta five

DS9 episode: "The Search"

Pattern Picard delta omega

TNG - X-Men novel: Planet X

Pattern gamma

TNG episode: "Yesterday's Enterprise"

Pattern gamma six

DS9 episode: "The Way of the Warrior"

Pattern Kirk epsilon

TNG movie: Nemesis

Pattern omega

DS9 episode: "Sacrifice of Angels"

Pattern omega two

VOY episode: "Maneuvers"

Pattern omega three

VOY episode: "Maneuvers"

Pattern Pike 45

EV comic: "The Fallen, Part Two"

Pattern Sulu alpha

LD episode: "Terminal Provocations"

Pattern theta

DS9 episode: "Tears of the Prophets"

Sequence 010

TNG episode: "The Mind's Eye"

Picard alpha

TNG comic: "The Dying of the Light"

Picard epsilon

TNG comic: "A Handful of Dust"

Picard gamma

TNG comic: "The Dying of the Light"

Picard omicron

TNG comic: "Ceremony of Innocence"

Sulu-gamma

DTI novel: Forgotten History

External Link[]

Evasive maneuvers article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.