Sulu shuttle stunt

The Sulus Shuttle Stunt is a maneouvre that can only be pulled off by a small craft in free-fall decent over a planetary body. It involves using braking thrusters to so a craft as much as possible. At the right moment in the decent, the craft's antigravs need to be overcharged and activated, greatly reducing the velocity of the craft's decent at the last moment before impact. It has not been known which Sulu this manouvre was named after, however Elias Vaughn presumed either Hikaru or Demora would have had the skill and resilience to try to execute it the first time.

Nine out of Ten experience pilots who attempt this will still fail to pull it off.

During a shuttle mission to prevent an energy emitter on a Gamma Quadrant planet from wiping out all life on Vahni from being destroyed, the Chaffee lost all power and entered a freefall decent, Ensign Pyrnn Tenmei managed to successfully pull off the Sulu Shuttle Stunt and save the lives of the shuttle crew, including Elias Vaughn and Thirishar ch'Thane {n:ds9:twilight}