Nimitz type escape pod
The Nimitz-type escape pod was a type of emergency evacuation craft carried aboard , , and  Federation starships in the mid-23rd century. (; )

During the Battle of the Binary Stars of 2256, the crew of , which had been critically damaged by a Klingon cleave ship, evacuated in several escape pods just before the ship self-destructed. After the battle, the crew of the  abandoned ship using escape pods of this type, embedded along the saucer section of the dorsal hull. ()

The crew of , sans Edward Larkin, evacuated in a single escape pod after the starship was overwhelmed by genetically-engineered tribbles. ()

Escape pod classes