Riker Maneuver
The "Riker Maneuver" was the name informally given by Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge to a tactic used by Commander William T. Riker, in acting command of the , to combat two Son'a battle cruisers in 2375.  Following La Forge's suggestion that history would assign that name to the maneuver, Riker replied, "If it works..." 

Attempting to elude the ships in the area of space known as "the Briar Patch," Riker ordered the Enterprises ramscoops utilized to collect highly-unstable metreon gas. Upon filling the storage cells to maximum capacity, Riker activated the ship's manual steering column to perform precision maneuvering, and ordered the ramscoops released. 

Riker then piloted the Enterprise in close proximity to the Son'a ships, leaving a cloud of metreon gas between them and the Enterprise. Subsequent to one of the pursuing vessels firing at the Enterprise, the gas ignited, destroying one of the ships and severely damaging and disabling the other. ()

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See also 
Picard Maneuver
Pike Maneuver

Background information 
La Forge's comment may have been merely jovial. The maneuver is similar to a previously depicted incident in  in which the Enterprise crew vented hydrogen into space to be ignited by another ship. However, in that case, it was not with the express purpose of damaging or destroying another ship in combat, and therefore would not have been classified as a "maneuver".

The movie script alludes to the joystick used by Riker as a computer gamester's dream.

Riker previously had two self-named maneuvers, "Riker Alpha" and "Riker Beta," shown in .

Fans commonly refer to the unusual way Riker sits down in chairs (throwing one leg over the seat's back) by this name.

Apocrypha 
The Riker Maneuver is an ability available to certain playable variants of the  in Star Trek Online, through the use of metreon gas canisters specifically carried aboard the ship for this purpose.

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